Kevin Bertels

Dakota United overcame eerily familiar late-game circumstances in the state final to take the breakthrough victory.

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.

Mark "Dolo" Harris is back at Henry, where, one of his 16 nominators said, "the effort Dolo puts in to help these kids is inspiring."

Lance Klersy 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.

Stillwater won 12 of the 15 events at the state meet and improved on a record that shows the Ponies in the top two for all 49 years a champ has been crowned.

The start of fall practice pulls together the St. Paul Academy squads that swept the Class 1A state titles in 2023.

The two teams will play the state's lone Zero Week game, getting a start ahead of the others.

Thirteen athletes with ties to Minnesota are scheduled to compete in the Paris Paralympics, and a dozen of them have been to the Games before.

After Bloomington Kennedy completes its 60th season this winter, a co-op with Bloomington Jefferson will begin in 2025-26.

Maple Grove will leave the Northwest Suburban Conference and join the Lake, home to four of the seven biggest schools in Minnesota.