Tommy Ahneman, a center who transferred from Fargo to Cretin-Derham Hall, has narrowed his list to five colleges.

Top-ranked boys basketball recruit in Minnesota narrows list to five

Tommy Ahneman, a four-star recruit who transferred from Fargo to Cretin Derham-Hall, recently cut his college list to five schools, including the Gophers.

Former Elk River football coach McLean dies at 83

July 21
Terry McLean during his high school days at St. Michael Catholic in 1957.
Terry McLean was a member of the Minnesota High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

USA Hockey mines Minnesota to stock roster for under-17 tournament

July 16
Edina's Casey Vandertop, among the Minnesotans chosen to play in the Under-17 Five Nations Tournament, looks to pass during the Class 2A championship
Six boys from the state made the team for the Five Nations competition, as did three from out of state who play at Shattuck-St. Mary's.

Edina girls flag football team heads to NFL Championships

July 12
The under-18 Edina team will represent the Vikings at the tournament at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The Vikings are putting the spotlight on girls flag football by also hosting the first state high school championship in the sport Sunday.

Caitlin Clark's old AAU program has dominant Minnesota players now

July 5
Aaliyah Crump, Chloe Johnson, Ari Peterson and the Wilson sisters from Hill-Murray, Mya and Ashlee, are among the rising stars from Minnesota assembled on All Iowa Attack, Caitlin Clark's former AAU team.

Minnetonka girls basketball star Crump picks Texas for college

July 8
Aaliyah Crump, a 6-1 senior guard for Minnetonka and five-star prospect, picked Texas on Monday after winning a high school state title last season.

Minnehaha Academy boys basketball coach Lance Johnson retires

July 5
Lance Johnson led the Redhawks to five state championships and produced two top-five NBA draft picks in Jalen Suggs and Chet Holmgren.
Vikings
July 2
Blake Cashman agreed to the Vikings’ offer just hours into the NFL’s legal negotiating window.

How Cashman found his way home to the Vikings

Linebacker Blake Cashman, the former Eden Prairie and Gophers standout, has returned to Minnesota, where he used to root for the Vikings as kid. Now he'll be on the field in their uniform.
Wild
June 29
The stage and video screens at Sphere in Las Vegas, where the NHL draft was held Friday and Saturday.

Minnesota players chosen in the NHL draft

Two UMD recruits were first off the local board Saturday in Las Vegas.
High Schools
June 28
Jakob McCleary from Perham looks behind as he crosses the finish line to win the 2021 Class 1A boys cross-country state meet in Northfield.

Perham's Morris named boys cross-country national coach of year

Jeff Morris has guided Perham to 21 consecutive state cross-country meets, including this past year as the Class 2A runner-up.
Sports
June 28
Lynx assistant coach Ed Prohofsky poses with players, from left, Chandi Jones, Eshaya Murphy, Navond Moore, Tamika Raymond (moving Prohofsky's arms fr

Ed Prohofsky, state basketball coach for five decades from high schools to Timberwolves and Lynx, dead at 90

Ed Prohofsky's legacy includes helping Minnesota begin sanctioning adapted high school sports.
Wild
June 26
Max Plante, ranked 43rd among North American skaters, played for the U.S. National Development Team in 2023-24.

Here are the top-ranked Minnesotans eligible for NHL draft

NHL Central Scouting ranks players ahead of next weekend's draft in Las Vegas.
High Schools
June 25
St. Paul Central's Harlow Tong, left, receives the Student First Award from Sports Editor Chris Carr, center, and Jillian Botz of Frandsen Bank & Trus

Academics and athletics ran on parallel paths for Student First winner

Harlow Tong is headed from St. Paul Central to Harvard for education with a focus on the environment and for more sprinting. "I just want to see how much I can do," he said.
High Schools
June 25
The Maple Grove girls basketball team receives the Play of the Year Award at the seventh annual Star Tribune All-Metro Sports Awards celebration at Ta

Two seconds left, two points needed? Time for the Play of the Year.

Maple Grove won a girls basketball state quarterfinal with "Iowa," involving a sweet screen and a lob pass. It worked, that time.
High Schools
June 25
South High School boys basketball coach Joe Hyser, left, speaks with Star Tribune columnist La Velle E. Neal III after receiving his Boys Team Coach o

Boys Team Coach of the Year led a rise from the ashes

Joe Hyser, whose Minneapolis South team lost eight transfers a season prior, coached the 2023-34 Tigers to state for the first time in his long tenure.
High Schools
June 25
The members of Stillwater's synchronized swimming team pose with their trophy from the state championships.

Metro Team of the Year in synchronized swimming builds on history

Stillwater won the state championship for the fourth year in a row and improved on a record that shows the Ponies in the top two for all 49 years a champ has been crowned.
High Schools
June 25
Lance Klersy became a trapshooting state champion with a 100-for-100 performance.

A day of perfection produces the Clay Target Shooter of the Year

Lance Klersy of Monticello went 100-for-100 at the state championships, his second perfect score, two years after his first. "My last box, I could barely put my shells in my gun, I was shaking so much," he said.
High Schools
June 25
The Boys Team of the Year winners, members the Centennial High School football team, including quarterback Daylen Cummings, left, stand with Star Trib

The Boys Team of the Year features heavy hitting and no hype

Centennial won the Class 6A state championship, opening up the offense just a little but mostly sticking to the blue-collar behavior that suits coach Mike Diggins.
High Schools
June 25
Courage in Competition Award winner Caley Graber of Northfield High School stands onstage with Star Tribune columnist Laura Yuen at the seventh annual

Courage in Competition winner chased history instead of victory

Northfield's Caley Graber was already a state champ in girls wrestling and was set up to win more. She chose to wrestle in the boys division, where she didn't take state but reached heights never achieved before.
High Schools
June 25
Difference Maker Award winner Mark (Dolo) Harris, who voluntarily contributes daily to athletic programs at Patrick Henry, speaks after receiving his

Meet the 2024 Difference Maker, who aspires to inspire inner-city athletes

Mark "Dolo" Harris is a familiar face and voice at Henry, his alma mater, working to improve opportunities in north Minneapolis.
High Schools
June 25
Wayzata competes in the Class 3A jazz dance state tournament, where it finished first in late February.

The Dance Team of the Year came back for more. Lots more.

Wayzata hadn't won either division, jazz or high kick, since a sweep in 2019, until it won jazz in 2024 and finished second in high kick.
High Schools
June 24
Champlin Park volleyball player Carly Gilk posed for a photo by her mom, Shelley, when they arrived for the AMSA celebration at Target Field.

All-Metro Sports Awards: Here are the 2024 winners

The Star Tribune is recognizing the best of metro area high school athletes with its sixth annual All-Metro Sports Awards. Here are the 2024 winners.
High Schools
June 24
Chanhassen's Maxwell Woods (3) returns a kickoff for a touchdown in November. He scored 27 touchdowns in 2023.

From August into March, Male Athlete of the Year is unstoppable

Maxwell Woods led Chanhassen to a football state championship as a running back and defensive back and wasn't far from averaging a triple-double in basketball.
High Schools
June 24
Edina’s Izzy Engle, left, and teammates celebrated a goal, another step toward becoming the All-Metro Sports Award Girls Team of the Year.

Perfection will do when it comes to picking a Girls Team of the Year

Undefeated Edina girls soccer team made certain it won the state championship that eluded it the last time the stars aligned that way.
High Schools
June 24
Scott Jackson, who coached Wayzata's volleyball team to its fourth consecutive state title in the fall, is the All-Metro Sports Awards Girls Team Coac

Credentials pile high for Girls Team Coach of the Year

Scott Jackson's Wayzata volleyball teams have won every big-class state championship available since 2018, and in 2023 the squad went 34-0.
High Schools
June 24
Benilde-St. Margaret's Olivia Olson hefts the Class 3A basketball hardware after the Red Knights won the championship.

She'll stop you. You won't stop her. Meet the Female Athlete of the Year

Olivia Olson of Benilde-St. Margaret's got national attention, and a state title, with her basketball skills, and she played goalie on a soccer champion,
High Schools
June 24
The Dakota United CI softball team poses with the state championship trophy.

Adapted Sports Team of the Year shook off a bad memory

Dakota United overcame eerily familiar late-game circumstances in the state final to win its first state championship.

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