The Minnesota State High School League board of directors on Monday delayed the start of its summer coaching waiver period – the time during which high school coaches can work with their athletes – until Monday, June 15.
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Eastview High School track and cross country star A.J. Green last week was named one of the St. Paul Downtown Lions Club Amateur Athletes of the Year for 2020.
Although there’s been no word yet on whether high school sports can resume in the fall, there almost certainly will be a push toward something approaching normalcy.
Youth soccer is the latest sport to ask Gov. Tim Walz for permission to return to the field.
Gov. Tim Walz said Monday a decision about the remainder of the 2019-20 school year could come later this week. But it might not be welcome news for spring sports athletes, coaches and fans.
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The only two head coaches in Eastview High School boys hockey history announced their retirements last month.
Two South Suburban Conference hockey players returned to their teams last week with something to show off – gold medals from the 2020 International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Women’s World Championships.
Several local athletes have roles on college teams that will play for national championships this weekend.
Five South Suburban Conference basketball teams will play in the boys version of the Breakdown Tip Off Classic on Saturday at Hopkins High School.
Dakota United and Burnsville/Farmington/Lakeville are back for another shot at adapted soccer glory.
Trent Peterson of Eagan received the Minnesota Golf Association Men’s Player of the Year award at the MGA annual awards dinner Oct. 28 at Brackett’s Crossing Country Club in Lakeville.
The forecast for Friday afternoon calls for cool, windy and possibly wet weather, but it would need to be a lot worse than that to keep the South Suburban Conference’s cross country runners from competing.
The postseason has started for one Minnesota high school sport at girls tennis section team playoffs started this week.
Lakeville South High School senior Lander Wells won three bronze medals at the Youth Pan American Championships weightlifting meet last month in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Apple Valley High School will hold a presale Friday, Sept. 20, for tickets for its homecoming football game Sept. 27 at TCO Performance Center in Eagan.
There’s a new wrinkle to one of the oldest events in Minnesota high school sports.
Eagan High School girls hockey record-setter Natalie Darwitz and former Farmington and Lakeville school administration Byron Olson are part of the 2019 induction class for the Minnesota State High School League Hall of Fame.
If you’re itching to see high school events, you won’t have much longer to wait.
It’s back to work for high school athletes Monday – although to be realistic, they rarely stop working.
It’s official: Tyus Jones is moving on.
Rosemount native Payton Otterdahl finished eighth in the men’s shot put at the Prefontaine Classic on Sunday in Palo Alto, California. The two-time NCAA Division I throwing champion from North Dakota State University was making his professional track and field debut.
A large number of local runners competed in last weekend’s Grandma’s Marathon, including several who celebrated their recent graduation from Lakeville North High School by doing the race along the north shore of Lake Superior.
Eastview’s A.J. Green maintained his winning streak in the 800 meters with a victory in an elite national meet last weekend in Seattle, Washington.
Jake Taylor, a Lakeville North High School boys hockey assistant coach since 2013, is the Panthers’ new head coach.
Megan Plaschko of Eagan and Bryce Benhart of Lakeville North were named 2019 St. Paul Downtown Lions Club Athletes of the Year at a banquet Tuesday afternoon.
Athletes from six South Suburban Conference teams will toe the starting line at the Class 3A True Team track and field finals Friday at Stillwater High School.
Tracy Cassano, Burnsville High School’s girls hockey coach for the last six years, last week was named to the same position at Minnetonka High School.
A hat trick in your first professional game. Followed by the game-winning shootout goal. In Montreal, perhaps the most hockey-centric city in the world.
Limited spring high school sports action is taking place this week, but the schedule will accelerate next week, starting with Opening Day for South Suburban Conference baseball and softball Monday, April 8.
Two wrestlers who earned a combined 10 state individual titles while wrestling for Apple Valley High School finished in the top three at the NCAA Division I championships last weekend in Pittsburgh.
A number of local high school hockey players will compete in the Ted Brill Great 8 Festival this weekend at Doug Woog Arena in South St. Paul.
Shakopee will be the only South Suburban Conference school competing for a state team wrestling championship next week.
Lakeville North High School student Regan Smith, who turns 17 next week, has risen to the top of the world swimming rankings in two events.
Stillwater, the team that thwarted Lakeville North’s attempt for back-to-back state Class AA gymnastics championships, will go into Saturday’s Panther Invitational at Lakeville North as the favorite.
Lakeville native Ryan Poehling is tearing it up at the IIHF World Junior Championships.
Players who starred at South Suburban Conference high schools have helped lead their college football teams deep into the postseason, and now are up for major individual awards.
Rosemount’s boys and Farmington’s girls will defend their team championships in the South Suburban Conference cross country meet Friday afternoon at Eagan High School.
Sydney Dwyer is making a quick transition from the field to the dugout.
To be clear, the Eagle Invitational doesn’t decide the state large-school volleyball champion. But it almost always identifies teams that will make a run at it.
Several teams that appeared in the state Class AA cross country preseason rankings will test themselves at the 17th annual Irish Invitational on Friday at Rosemount High School.
The Hamline University women’s hockey team has a home game Dec. 11, after which head coach Natalie Darwitz will have to run – because she will be inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame the next day.
The sound of whistles across Minnesota on Monday will signal the beginning of high school fall sports practices.
The road to the state American Legion baseball tournament takes local teams through two Sub-State tourneys this week in Burnsville and Eagan.
Noah Rasinski is the latest local golfer to make his way to the University of Minnesota after starting out at another college.
J.T. Brown, who led Rosemount High School to a section championship game in 2008 and helped Minnesota-Duluth win an NCAA championship in 2011, is one of the latest Minnesota natives to get a chance to pull on a Minnesota Wild jersey.
Lakeville North earned dual South Suburban Conference golf championships, with the Panthers winning the final league tournaments of the season this week.
Winter is slowly loosening its grip on Minnesota, which means it shouldn’t be long before high school sports finally can get rolling. But teams won’t have the luxury of easing into the season.
With bad weather causing backups in baseball and softball schedules, the Minnesota State High School League on Wednesday approved rule changes governing doubleheaders and umpire assignments.
Lakeville South High School hockey alumni will be opponents in the NCAA Frozen Four this week at Xcel Energy Center.
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