The Minnewaska Area wrestling team recently announced its season-ending awards.  The Lakers finished 16-9 overall this season, including a 2-3 mark in the WCC. The Lakers were seeded eighth in the 10-team Section 5A Team Tourney and Minnewaska beat Ortonville in the opening round before falling to top-seeded KMS in the quarterfinals. BBE went on to earn… Read More

Two members of the Minnewaska Area boys basketball team were recently named to the All-Conference boys basketball team for 2022-23. Senior Hunter Kloos earned All-Conference for the Lakers this season, while senior PJ Johnson was selected to the honorable mention team. Kloos led the Lakers in scoring with 339 points, averaging 14.1 points per game, and also… Read More

The Minnewaska Area girls basketball team had three players earn All-WCC honors this winter.  Sophomores Megan Thorfinnson and Sydney Dahl earned All-Conference for the Lakers this season, while senior Brooke Kolstoe was named to the honorable mention team. The Lakers finished 12-13 overall this winter and were also 6-6 in the WCC to place fourth of… Read More

Pending approval by the school board, Zach Traphagen is set to be hired as the new head boys basketball coach at Minnewaska Area High School.  He would replace Hunter Salathe, who recently resigned from the position. Traphagen is currently a health and physical education instructor at Minnewaska Area High School and head boys track and field coach…. Read More

Mikael Moe, Kashton Hormann and Wyatt Hill, members of the Minnewaska youth wrestling program, competed in Rochester at the MN/USA State Tournament, Friday, March 17. They all had won a qualifier event earlier this season to earn the berth at the state tourney. •  Mikael Moe wrestled in the 6 and under 52-57 pound bracket and won… Read More

The Minnewaska Area JV boys basketball team finished the 2022-23 season with a 16-9 record.  The team was coached by Nick Danielson.  “Except for a bad loss to Morris and a couple of lopsided wins against Benson, most of the other games were close and competitive, with several of them coming down to the final… Read More

High school milestone numbers have changed over time . . . By John Fragodt, Sports Reporter First of all, let me say that Antoine Davis and his Detroit Mercy team were not invited to play in the College Basketball Invitational Tournament.  That means Pete Maravich still owns the college scoring record.  Thanks goodness! But, I promised I’d talk… Read More

The Minnewaska Area boys basketball team, which went 1-25 this year, will lose four seniors to graduation from this year’s team; Paul Johnson, Jr., James Ward, Noah Palmer and Hunter Kloos.  However, the team could return as many as 10 other players that hit the scoring column this season. Earning All-Conference for the team this year… Read More

The Minnewaska Area Dance teams announced their final team awards during the season-ending banquet, which also included highlights from the 2022-23 season. The Jazz team earned its second-straight trip to the State Dance Meet this winter, placing 10th in the Class A competition.  The High Kick team was fourth at the Section 4A Tourney to miss… Read More

The Minnewaska Area C-squad boys basketball team finished the 2022-23 season with a 9-14 overall record.  According to head coach Brian Walker, the team played its best basketball at the end of the season, going 7-7 over its last 14 games after starting out the season 2-7. “These players have a bright future ahead of them… Read More