Matthew Greenwood was at the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club as a tournament marshal. The Chaska resident made his claim to be back at the course in 2028, purchasing a Ryder Cup 2028 sweatshirt at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship last year.
Torben Urdahl pitched in big games for Eden Prairie in a section championship high school season. He helped the Eden Prairie American Legion baseball team to the state tournament later that summer.
Dawson Wills was part of four consecutive Metro West Conference boys golf titles as a member of Chaska High School. He earned all-league honors three times, honorable mention his first season.
Elko Speedway was supposed to open its season with some big fireworks.
Just when you thought the 2020 amateur baseball season couldn’t get any weirder — starting six weeks later than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic — how about the Cologne Hollanders having to postpone three games after a visiting player tested positive to the virus.
At first glance, the southeast corner of Audubon Road and Pioneer Trail in Chaska appears to be all rolling hills and meadows, filled with wildflowers and prairie grass.
There will be more than just fireworks on the Fourth of July.
Derek Jutting and Shane Wein had previous experience handling firearms out in the woods hunting. But neither knew exactly what they were getting into when they joined the Chaska Chan Clay Target Team.
NOTE: On Friday, June 19, 2020, the Minnesota Department of Health strongly recommends the following timelines for all ages:
Kelly Larson can’t get her doors open fast enough.
Amateur baseball continues its slow start into the 2020 season with a slate of exhibition games as teams, players and leagues wait for Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to allow for medium-risk sports such as baseball to be in action between teams.
All signs point to youth sports starting up in the coming weeks, but those close to the issue say while associations start preparing for practices and games, they're forgetting about one thing: referees.
The crack of the bat. The spikes making contact with the base. Chatter outside of the playing field fence. The argument between balls and strikes between the batter and umpire.
The Metro West Conference Executive Committee voted June 10 to add three new members -- New Prague, Orono and Waconia -- for the 2021-22 school year.
The excitement that comes with a college commitment, Gunnar Broin was on cloud nine in his sophomore golf season in 2018. The Chanhassen native capped the high school season for Minnetonka placing 12th in state.
Charlie Dardis stood in the front row of the student section each Friday, cheering the Chaska Football team all the way to U.S. Bank Stadium for the school's first state championship.
Ticket takers closed up shop a few innings into the Section 2-3A Baseball championship June 3, 2015. By last count there were more than 1,000 paid admissions at Chaska's Athletic Park.
Megan Senden was loading up the car, ready to head to the cabin on May 21. A day that would have been the second round of play in the section tournament for Chaska Softball.
Gabi Barreiro, then 15 years old, remembers the words clearly still two years later. "You have cancer."
Lilly Halvorson was familiar with classmate Judea Montoya, but it wasn't until their sophomore season on the track in 2018 that she discovered she was going to have a training partner in her.
Tears filled the eyes of Chanhassen senior softball players on March 15, the day the NCAA announced the cancellation of spring collegiate athletics across the country.
Brandon Antl, former men's assistant coach at Macalester College, has been named the new head girls basketball coach at Holy Family Catholic in Victoria.
As underclassmen, the Class of 2019 logged major minutes as Chaska boys lacrosse was faced with smaller class sizes on the field ahead of them.
Fans of baseball flocked to Robert G. Fritz Memorial Field on May 16 in Cologne. There was no game. A matinee with the Hollanders and Carver postponed indefinitely. There were burgers and cheese curds, atop the hill at The Shack.
When basketball fans around the state hear the name Hutton, Hamline University in St. Paul is where they think.
One of Chanhassen High School's original varsity head coaches, Nate Pelowski, announced he is stepping down from the boys basketball position.
The Class of 2020 for the most part entered the girls lacrosse program at the same time as Chaska head coach Lauren Koloski in 2017. Many of the nine seniors have been a part of the varsity team for three-plus seasons.
For Zach Williams, the 2020 season was one he was certainly waiting for. A superstar top singles player, a do-everything kind of player and two other seniors that came on stronger each year.
It was May 9. The skies were blue, the wind howled through Bluff Creek Golf Club as construction trucks worked out on Highway 101.
Early in April, Minnesota golfers weren't sure when or even if they would get to play golf this summer.
Athletes train for the opportunity to represent their team, sometimes for hours each day. It's that dedication that drives improvement, that drives success.
Jack Johnson was elevated to the Chaska varsity boys golf team late in his eighth grade season. A year later, he was at Augusta National, home of the Masters, a 2017 finalist in the Drive, Chip & Putt competition. No sweat after the first career highlight, right?
High school and college baseball has already been cancelled, and now there will be no American Legion ball.
On par with countless events around the state and world, canceling the 2020 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship didn’t necessarily come as a shock to area golfers.
Dan Beckering had spent too much time in his school and home office. He needed to get out. The Head of School at Southwest Christian High School in Chaska needed to connect with students in person.
The coronavirus pandemic has taken a harsh toll on small businesses across the nation, and that includes the many youth sports organizations.
Boys volleyball as a varsity sport in the Minnesota State High School League is in a holding pattern right now, postponing its proposed first season until 2022.
Budget cuts on the way, Sean Donnelly knew the swimming and diving program at the University of North Dakota was going to be one of them. So when the team was asked to meet with administration, the Chaska High School graduate was not surprised.
Kaia Grobe was running with the masses across the TCF Bank Stadium turf as Minnesota upset Penn State in football last fall. Her video camera focused on the students celebrating the victory.
The 72nd U.S. Girls’ Junior, which was scheduled for July 13-18 on the Blue Course at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Eisenhower Golf Club in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the 73rd U.S. Junior Amateur, which was scheduled to be played July 20-25 at Hazeltine National Golf Club and Chaska Town Co…
With five members of the state girls golf championship team returning for Chanhassen, including state runner-up Courtney Wedin, and three other seniors, Tricia Hemann, Emily Renner and Courtney Dunkelberger, the Storm were the favorites to repeat at Bunker Hills in June.
The Minnesota Golf Association has cancelled or rescheduled all events through May 31 including Member Days, Senior Tour, and men’s, women’s and junior competitions.
After careful consideration, Special Olympics Minnesota has made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Summer Games, one of the organization’s biggest events of the year.
Jon DuToit was sitting around with some cousins a few months ago. State championships at Chaska High School came up.
Eastern Carver County Schools want to know how distance learning is going at your household, District 112 families.
If you had asked Cody Seal at the beginning of the 2013 high school golf season whether he thought he had a chance to win a state title, his answer would have been ...
Max Lakosky, Zechariah Rathe and Hunter Holcomb would do anything right now to be on the field, among nearly 20 varsity regulars returning for the Chanhassen boys lacrosse team.
May 16 was supposed to be a day of baseball, and a day of raising awareness about teens in crisis.
Southwest Christian High School will have two new head coaches in the gymnasium next winter.
