Minnesota Scene: Gophers Tristan Duran and Vitali Kan named to U.S. gymnnastics team for World University Games

Tristan Duran and Vitali Kan of the Gophers men's gymnastics team were selected Thursday to represent Team USA at the 2017 World University Games from Aug. 19-30 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Duran and Kan each earned All-America honors at the NCAA Championships earlier this month, Duran on parallel bars and high bar, Kan on vault.

Former St. Olaf men's hockey coach Sean Goldsworthy was named the boys' hockey coach at Minnetonka High School, his alma mater.

Goldsworthy, the son of former Minnesota North Star standout Bill Goldsworthy, coached the Oles from 1997-2016.

Rick Uttech, the coach of the Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Truman/Martin Luther girls' basketball team which played in the Class 1A state tournament in March, announced his retirement Wednesday after 39 seasons.

Uttech began his coaching career at East Chain (before it merged with Granada-Huntley) in 1978. He had 552 career wins.

• Seven Lynx games will be on ESPN2, according to its updated WNBA television schedule. That means 19 of 34 Lynx games will be on TV; Fox Sports North earlier announced it will broadcast 12 games.

• The Gophers women's tennis team lost 4-3 to Nebraska in its first match of the Big Ten tournament in Urbana, Ill. With the match tied 3-3, Maja Vujic of the Gophers lost 1-6, 6-4, 6-1 to P.Del Cueto Castillo of the Cornhuskers.

• Minnesota State Mankato's Coley Ries was named the National Fastpitch Coaches Association's pitcher of the week. She went 3-0 last week with a 0.00 ERA and 44 strikeouts.

• The Gophers' Emie Peronnin, who finished third in the Big Ten women's golf tournament, was chosen to compete in the NCAA regional from May 8-10 at Columbus, Ohio.