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New London-Spicer girls' coach Dreier hits a grand milestone

A victory Friday made Mike Dreier the first girls' basketball coach in Minnesota to reach 1,000 victories and the second overall.

By Kevin Bertels

January 29, 2022 at 6:16AM
New London-Spicer head coach Mike Dreier, center, cracks a smile during the final timeout before his team defeated Watertown-Mayer on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. The Wildcats won 60-36 to give Dreier his 1,000th victory.
A celebration built around coach Mike Dreier as he neared his 1,000th victory Friday. (Mike Moore, West Central Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Kevin Bertels

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Kevin Bertels has led the Minnesota Star Tribune’s high school sports coverage since fall 2021. Before that, he spent 23 years as the newspaper’s night Sports section coordinator, placing him in charge of the Sports copy desk.

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