Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Gus Bradley, a native of Zumbrota, and his staff will coach in the Senior Bowl.
The Senior Bowl is an All-Star football game for college seniors. It will be played on Jan. 24 in Mobile, Ala.
Bradley and his staff will be coaching in the game for the second straight year. They'll guide the South squad. Members of the Tennessee Titans coaching staff will coach the North team.
Bradley directed the South team to a 20-10 victory last year and used the opportunity to get an up-close look at several draft prospects.
"It's a great opportunity to get to know the players on a personal level and watch them compete on and off the field for an entire week," Bradley told the Associated Press. "It proved to be a valuable asset in our pre-draft process last year."
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Bradley just completed his second year as Jacksonville's head coach. The rebuilding Jaguars were 3-13 in 2014 after going 4-12 in 2013.
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Marcus Sherelsof Rochester had another solid season as the punt return specialist for the Minnesota Vikings.
Sherels just completed his fifth season with the team and the fourth as the Vikings' primary punt returner. Sherels, a John Marshall grad, averaged 11.0 yards on 27 punt returns this season with a long of 35 yards. It was his second-best season in terms of average per return. A year ago he set a Minnesota single-season record by averaging 15.2 yards a return.
He also averaged 2.7 yards on four kickoffs returns during the Vikings' 7-9 2014 season. His longest return was 46 yards. He added eight tackles, all on special teams, and forced one fumble.
Sherels, who has appeared in 65 NFL games, is now averaging 10.5 yards on 114 punt returns in his career with two touchdowns. He has 1,196 total yards on punt returns and 977 on kickoffs. The 27-year-old is averaging 27.1 yards on 36 career kickoff returns.
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Caledonia's Karl Klugjust completed his fourth season with the Tennessee Titans in the NFL.
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The 6-foot-3, 280-pound Klug is a backup nose tackle. He had 23 tackles during the season, including 18 solo tackles, with two sacks.
He also fielded a pair of squib kicks on kickoffs and averaged 16.0 yards on the two returns.
Klug, 26, has 14.5 career sacks, one of which he forced a fumble and recovered for a touchdown. The Titans struggled in 2014 and finished the season 2-14.
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Rochester's Olivia Muyreshas been named National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Continental Tire Division III All-North Region. Muyres, a senior at Augsburg College, was named to the first team. She was a second-team All-North Region pick a year ago.
Earlier Muyres had been named first-team all-conference in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. She was also named the league's Player of the Year.
Muyres finished her senior season with 15 goals and 10 assists (second-most among MIAC players) for 40 points. Her 15 goals and 40 points were the second-most in a single season in school history, behind her school records of 19 goals and 47 points last season.
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Mayo senior Lacey Ruggeberghas signed a letter of intent and has earned a scholarship to compete for the Robert Morris University bowling team. Robert Morris is an NAIA school for bowling.
Ruggeberg, 18, has competed in the sport for the past 11 years. She bowls in a youth bowling league and recently competed for a coed team at Mayo. Later this month she will begin playing on Mayo's girls team.
Ruggeberg currently has a 161 average this season.
She plans on studying culinary arts at Robert Morris and has hopes of owning a bakery one day.
