Where they are today

These 13 north-metro high school football standouts were teammates on the undefeated 2011 Brooklyn Park Saints, an eighth-grade team:

Osseo (6A, 5-3)

Damario Armstrong (Row 3, first from right, No. 2)

Dazzon Easterling (Row 3, third from left, No. 9)

Prince Kruah (Row 1, first from left, No. 22)

Champlin Park (6A, 4-4)

Riley Altonan (Row 2, fourth from left, No. 46)

Roy Nyangaresi (Row 2, fourth from right, No. 33)

Cooper (5A, 6-2)

Phillip Howard (Row 3, fifth from left, No. 7)

Dkhari Whitfield (Row 2, third from right, No. 96)

Park Center (5A, 6-2)

Ty'Shonan Brooks (Row 4, first from left, No. 1)

Amani Hooker (Row 3, second from right, No. 5)

Malcom Lawson (Row 4, second from left, No. 69)

Elijah McClure (Row 3, fourth from left, No. 88)

Ben Stewart (Row 3, fourth from right, No. 66)

Josh Wleh (Row 1, third from left, No. 57)