Eric Larson is the choice as Lourdes hires him to replace Steve Strickland as its activities director/assistant principal. Larson wil continue as the school's head boys basketball coach.
Rylee Nelson, an incoming senior at Zumbrota-Mazeppa, has accepted a volleyball scholarship offer from Seton Hall University, which plays in the Big East Conference and is located in New Jersey.
Delaney Fleming learned to love hockey while growing up in Rochester. She helped Lourdes to a pair of Class A state tournaments before transferring to Shattuck St. Mary's as a sophomore. Friday, she announced her decision to play Division I college hockey at Ohio State University, beginning in the 2023-24 season.
This spring, the Hayfield softball team had a saying: “Mission Mankato,” which exemplified the team’s desire to make it to the state tournament hosted there. That didn’t happen, but the team did make a different state tournament in the same town, just a few months later.
Steve Strickland resigned from his position as Lourdes activities director nearly two months ago. To so many Eagles coaches, he was a priceless worker and Lourdes advocate.
The Prep Bowl was held the weekend before Thanksgiving at the ends of the 2014 and 2015 seasons, when the title games were held outdoors on the University of Minnesota campus.
Due to the Minnesota Vikings playing a nationally televised evening game on Thanksgiving, the annual Prep Bowl -- Minnesota's high school football championship games -- will be pushed back a week, to Friday, Dec. 2, and Saturday, Dec. 3, at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
Treyton Thesing of Dover-Eyota and Brady Grupa of La Crescent-Hokah teamed up to win the MLF High School Fishing Open on the Mississippi River near La Crosse last weekend.
The annual one-day celebration of hockey in the state will be coming to one of the northernmost communities in the state in early 2024, as officials from the Minnesota Wild announced the awarding of Hockey Day Minnesota to Hockeytown USA.
The Rochester A's dropped their third game in pool play at the American Legion state tournament in Burnsville on Friday to finish play with a 1-2 record.
