The Minnesota Girls and Women in Sports Day awards ceremony will be held at noon Wednesday at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.
Among those being presented awards are Allys Swanson of St. Catherine (Marie Berg Award for excellence in education), Greg Kleven of Sun Newspapers (Kwame McDonald Media Award), Mallory Weggemann of U.S. Paralympic Swimming (Wilma Rudolph Award for courage and inspiration) and Special Merit Awards to Ken Miller of North Country Region Volleyball, Diane Scovill of Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Carrie Tollefson of USA Olympic Track and Field and Deb Weinreis of Minnesota Recreation and Park Association. LPGA Hall of Fame member Patty Berg, a Minneapolis native, will be posthumously honored with the Minnesota Legacy Award.
Breaking Barriers Awards will be presented to 12 people.
The ceremony, which is open to the public, begins at noon. For more information visit, www.ngwsd-mn.com.
Thrills on slopes
The Minnesota State High School Snowboarding and Freeskiing Association's championships will be held this weekend at two venues.
The schedule: halfpipe at 10:30 a.m. and slalom/giant slalom at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Buck Hill in Burnsville and slopestyle at 9:30 a.m. and rail jam at 11 a.m. Sunday at Hyland Hills in Bloomington.
About 100 competitors are expected.
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• Tucker Hibbert of Pelican Rapids, Minn., finished fourth in the Snocross event at the X Games in Aspen, Colo. He had won the event nine times in the past 10 years.
