Chart: Then and now with the 2011 Brooklyn Park Saints

October 13, 2015 at 5:09AM
The 2011 Brooklyn Park Saints eighth-grade team rolled to a 12-0 record during a championship season. "We weren't just beating teams, we were demolishing them," coach Johnny Fortune said. "These were special kids.''
The 2011 Brooklyn Park Saints went undefeated in eighth-grade football, and now many of its players are starring for four area high schools. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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)

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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)

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