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The winners: All-Minnesota Sports Awards athletes, coaches, teams of the year
By Ron Haggstrom, Jim Paulsen, Cassidy Hettesheimer and Nick Williams, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/25/2025, 8:00pm CDT
Awarded by the Minnesota Star Tribune, the honors recognize outstanding accomplishments from the 2024-2025 high school sports season.
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The winners: All-Minnesota Sports Awards athletes, coaches, teams of the year
By Ron Haggstrom, Jim Paulsen, Cassidy Hettesheimer and Nick Williams, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/25/2025, 8:00pm CDT
Awarded by the Minnesota Star Tribune, the honors recognize outstanding accomplishments from the 2024-2025 high school sports season.
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2025 All-Minnesota Sports Awards Difference-Maker winners: Krista Flemming and Jenny Kilkelly
By Jim Paulsen, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/25/2025, 7:30pm CDT
Without the dedication and drive of Shakopee volleyball supporters Krista Flemming and Jenny Kilkelly, the MSHSL’s sanctioning of boys volleyball may never have happened.
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2025 All-Minnesota Sports Awards Courage in Competition winner: Park of Cottage Grove’s Hollen Thompson
By Jake Epstein, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/25/2025, 7:00pm CDT
Born without the lower half of her left arm, Hollen Thompson developed into one of Minnesota’s best lacrosse players.
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2025 All-Minnesota Sports Awards Student First winner: Edina High’s Jiarui Xue
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/25/2025, 6:00pm CDT
Jiarui Xue, who will swim for Princeton in college, achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.971 and is a four-time member of the USA Swimming Scholastic All-America team.
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All-Minnesota 2025

Meet the 2025 Star Tribune All-Minnesota high school softball team
By Jim Paulsen, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/03/2025, 8:00am CDT
The Star Tribune chose 25 athletes, and because it’s softball, more than half of them are pitchers.
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All-Minnesota Softball Player of the Year: Carter Raymond of Randolph
By Jim Paulsen, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/03/2025, 7:30am CDT
The Randolph senior pitcher and future Gopher is the seventh pitcher in state history to go over 1,000 career strikeout
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State tournament coverage

United South Central overcomes Badger/Greenbush-Middle River for Class 1A softball championship
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/06/2025, 10:30pm CDT
Mariah Anderson struck out another 19, running her tournament total to 52 in three shutouts.
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St. Cloud Cathedral endures a tense start, defeats Hawley for Class 2A softball state title
By Jim Paulsen, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/06/2025, 9:00pm CDT
The first three batters reached base without a hit, and then pitcher Keira Alexander gained control of matters.
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Class 1A championship: Mariah Anderson strikes out 19, seals title for United South Central
By Star Tribune staff 06/06/2025, 4:30pm CDT
View the score and stats for this game on the MN Softball Hub.
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Class 2A championship: St. Cloud Cathedral uses big third inning to put away Hawley
By Star Tribune staff 06/06/2025, 4:15pm CDT
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Champlin Park turns a big moment into the Class 4A softball championship, defeating Bloomington Jefferson
By Jim Paulsen, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/06/2025, 4:00pm CDT
Champlin Park left fielder Hannah Husom inspired the Rebels with a play in the field, and moments later they scored the runs that settled it.
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Rocori rolls past Byron in Class 3A for its first state title in 11 trips
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/06/2025, 3:45pm CDT
Pitcher Jessica Boos completed a stretch of 28 state tournament innings and contributed offense, too.
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Class 3A championship: Rocori rolls past Byron to earn first state title
By Star Tribune staff 06/06/2025, 10:45am CDT
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Best in Class 2024-25

Best in Class: The standout student-athletes in Minnesota’s 2026 graduating class
By Ron Haggstrom, Jim Paulsen, Cassidy Hettesheimer and Jake Epstein, the Minnesota Star Tribune 05/29/2025, 11:45am CDT
The all-sport list includes Maddyn Greenway at Providence Academy, Mason West at Edina and Jayden Moore at Hopkins
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Best in Class: The standout student-athletes in Minnesota’s 2027 graduating class
By Ron Haggstrom, Jim Paulsen, Cassidy Hettesheimer and Jake Epstein, the Minnesota Star Tribune 05/28/2025, 11:45am CDT
The all-sport list includes basketball player Ty Schlagel from Cretin-Derham Hall, Simley wrestler Charli Raymond, and swimmer Adalynn Biegler from Monticello.
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Best in Class: The standout student-athletes in Minnesota’s 2028 graduating class
By Ron Haggstrom, Jim Paulsen, Cassidy Hettesheimer and Jake Epstein, the Minnesota Star Tribune 05/27/2025, 10:45am CDT
The all-sport list includes basketball players Chloe Johnson and Ari Peterson, football and basketball player Tre Moore and wrestler Lincoln Robideau.
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Star Tribune All-Minnesota Sports Awards

Nominate now: Help us chose winners for the All-Minnesota Sports Awards
By Chris Carr, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/30/2025, 12:30pm CDT
Our high school sports year-end celebration is coming up, and three special honors need nominations. Here’s how you can help.
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Star Tribune All-Minnesota Sports Awards coming June 24 to Vikings headquarters
By Chris Carr, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/29/2025, 9:00pm CDT
Winners of 10 special high school sports honors will be celebrated at our year-end AMSA event.
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Athletes of the Week

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dawson-Boyd’s Lindsey Lund leaves high school as a state champion again and one of our Prep Athletes of the Week
By Joel Rippel, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/16/2025, 4:00pm CDT
Other athletes recognized this week include Cooper Anderson (Edina); Nina Slingsby (Holy Angels); Josh Schmidt (Chaska); Alex Rhode (Heritage Christian); Laila Moses (DeLaSalle); Emerson Mattox (Prior Lake) and Hardhik Kommalapati (Eden Prairie).
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2025 Leaders

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Meet the 2025 Star Tribune All-Minnesota high school softball team
By Jim Paulsen, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/03/2025, 8:00am CDT
The Star Tribune chose 25 athletes, and because it’s softball, more than half of them are pitchers.
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All-Minnesota Softball Player of the Year: Carter Raymond of Randolph
By Jim Paulsen, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/03/2025, 7:30am CDT
The Randolph senior pitcher and future Gopher is the seventh pitcher in state history to go over 1,000 career strikeout
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Minnesota Top 25

Minnesota Top 25, Week 8: The Star Tribune’s statewide high school softball ranking
By Jim Paulsen, the Minnesota Star Tribune 05/29/2025, 11:30am CDT
Quietly, Bloomington Jefferson, with standouts at pitcher in Brooke Borwege, at catcher in Remi Rudquist and in the outfield in Olivia Oerther, has risen to No. 4.
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Rankings provided by the Minnesota High School Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association.

Livestreams, video on demand and highlights

VIDEO ON DEMAND: Forest Lake softball vs. Centennial in Star Tribune livestream
By NSPN.TV 05/15/2025, 9:30am CDT
Watch on startribune.com: Wisconsin commit Karianne Drury leads the No. 1-ranked Rangers against Northern State commit Riley O’Connell and the No. 6 Cougars in a Class 4A showdown.
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VIDEO ON DEMAND: Champlin Park softball vs. Brainerd in Star Tribune livestream
By NSPN.TV 05/09/2025, 9:15am CDT
Watch on startribune.com: Wisconsin commit Ava Parent leads Class 4A’s No. 4-ranked Rebels against St. Thomas commit Mya Tautges and the Warriors.
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Baseball

The Cubs’ Michael Busch is the rare Simley product gaining fame without wrestling
By Patrick Reusse, the Minnesota Star Tribune 07/09/2025, 4:00pm CDT
Will Short, coach of Simley’s powerhouse wrestling program, is over it: “We couldn’t be more proud of Michael.”
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Cretin-Derham Hall defeats Minnetonka 3-2 to win Class 4A baseball state title
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/14/2025, 11:45pm CDT
The Raiders won their 12th baseball state championship, the most of any program in in Minnesota, but it was their first since 2007.
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Baseball state tournament: How championships were decided in Class 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A
By Ron Haggstrom, Jim Paulsen and Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/14/2025, 10:30pm CDT
Eight teams across Minnesota competed at Target Field Saturday to claim state championships.
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Lacrosse

All-Minnesota Player of the Year in girls lacrosse: Abby Grove of Prior Lake
By Jake Epstein, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/19/2025, 8:00am CDT
Abby Grove was positioned to choose between lacrosse and hockey for her collegiate pursuit. She chose lax and Rutgers.
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All-Minnesota Player of the Year in boys lacrosse: Cooper Anderson of Edina
By Jake Epstein, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/19/2025, 7:30am CDT
Cooper Anderson, who led the Hornets to a state title this season after a long drought, is headed to Providence and its high level of competition.
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Edina beats Stillwater 9-7 to secure program’s first boys lacrosse state championship
By Jake Epstein, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/14/2025, 10:30pm CDT
Senior Cooper Anderson battled through injury to score three goals for the Hornets.
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Track

All-Minnesota Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year: St. Michael-Albertville’s Gabby Keefer
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/20/2025, 9:45am CDT
The University of South Florida commit led the Class 3A girls’ field in scoring, with 40 points for St. Michael-Albertville across four events at the state meet.
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All-Minnesota Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year: Rochester Century’s Joshua Kyei-Baffour
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/20/2025, 8:45am CDT
The North Dakota State commit set a new Minnesota record in the 110-meter hurdles.
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Carter Reckelberg turns jumping and sprinting into a mission — and a state championship for Becker
By Patrick Reusse, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/13/2025, 10:00am CDT
Carter Reckelberg won the long jump and finished second in the 100 and on a relay, and when it mattered most he was fastest in the 200, giving Becker the Class 2A track and field title.
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Golf

All-Minnesota Girls Golf Player of the Year: Orono’s Ava Hanneman
By Heather Rule, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/19/2025, 8:00am CDT
The senior and Furman University commit won the Class 3A individual girls golf state championship this season.
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All-Minnesota Boys Golf Player of the Year: Sam Udovich of Cretin-Derham Hall
By Heather Rule, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/19/2025, 7:30am CDT
The Class 3A boys golf state individual and team champion will next play at Texas Christian University.
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Ava Hanneman of Orono is Class 3A girls golf medalist; Cretin-Derham Hall’s Sam Udovich wins boys title
By Ron Haggstrom and Heather Rule, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/11/2025, 10:00pm CDT
Cretin-Derham Hall also won the boys team championship. Minnetonka won its first girls team title, by 19 strokes.
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Tennis

All-Minnesota Boys Tennis Player of the Year: Soren Swenson of Mounds View
By Heather Rule, for The Minnesota Star Tribune 06/17/2025, 7:45am CDT
Mounds View sophomore Soren Swenson won the Class 2A singles title and dropped just one match – in the team state tournament – all season.
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Mounds View’s Soren Swenson wins Class 2A boys tennis singles title; St. Paul Academy sweeps in 1A
By Jake Epstein and Heather Rule, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/06/2025, 4:15pm CDT
Soren Swenson wore the same headband his brother Bjorn wore as a state champion. SPA freshman Winston Arvidson won the title that barely eluded him as an eighth-grader.
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Wayzata, St. Paul Academy add to streaks at boys tennis state tournament
By Heather Rule and Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 06/04/2025, 11:00pm CDT
Wayzata won its third Class 2A title in a row, and St. Paul Academy took its fourth consecutive Class 1A championship.
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