The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers punched their Super Bowl tickets on Sunday. The Eden Prairie High School Pom Squad qualified for its Super Bowl, UDA National Dance Team Championships, at a qualifying camp in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, late last summer.
Since losing to the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round of the NFC playoffs, Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer has been talking about “getting over the hump.”
While last Tuesday’s win over Edina wasn’t the Eden Prairie High School gymnastics team’s best performance of the season, it was its best score.
In facing No. 3-ranked Saint Michael-Albertville and No. 9-ranked Wayzata in back-to-back weeks, the Eden Prairie High School wrestling team just ran the Lake Conference gauntlet.
In a glass is half-empty/half-full sort of way, bus driver Mike Sorenson and Eden Prairie senior basketball player Chris Nyland did both nothing and everything.
Caledonia Football won its fifth consecutive Class AA State Championship title on Nov. 29, 2019, at U.S. Bank Stadium. It was the 68th consecutive win for the Warriors, the nation's longest win streak.
Lee Smith, head coach of the No. 1-ranked Eden Prairie High School boys hockey team, remembers driving through Eden Prairie on his way back to Willmar in his youth.
Kyle Bratrud, 2011 Eden Prairie High School graduate, won a National Championship in the 15K Freestyle at the 2020 U.S. National Cross Country Skiing Championships in Houghton, Michigan, on Jan. 3. He finished second in the 30K Classic on Jan. 5. Bratrud is a four-time NCAA All-American, a f…
When the No. 1-ranked Eden Prairie High School boys basketball team defeated No. 5-ranked Hopkins at Hopkins last Thursday (82-68), it was the sixth time this year that the Eagles had counted a win over a top-5 team, or was it the seventh?
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“It’s the time of the year where you’d like to think you’re figuring stuff out,” said Jaime Grossman, head coach of the Eden Prairie High School girls hockey team. “We’re playing well and we’re beating a lot of quality teams.”
Had they been playing cards, the Eden Prairie High School dance team just drew three threes.
After the No. 1-ranked Eden Prairie High School boys basketball team defeated Wayzata 75-55 on Friday, a NorthstarHoops writer tweeted that Wayzata might be the best 2-10 team of all time.
Eden Prairie coach Lee Smith has always liked playing “up north” schools.
Strategic conservation efforts designed to foster stewardship of pheasants, ducks and their habitats are outlined in new Minnesota Department of Natural Resources action plans for these popular birds.
Ellen Wiese, head coach of the Eden Prairie High School girls basketball team, said that for the first time in a long time, she woke up happy on a Saturday morning.
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Ellen Wiese, head coach of the Eden Prairie High School girls basketball team, talked of the importance of playing well against Minnetonka and Edina.
While the Eden Prairie High School girls hockey team doesn’t typically net a lot of rebound goals, it just netted a welcome rebound week.
With an overall record of 9-2-1, the No. 3-ranked Eden Prairie High School boys hockey team isn’t a lock at Section 2AA’s No. 1 seed.
The Eden Prairie High School girls basketball team outscored DeLaSalle, No. 1 in Class 3A, 32-26 in the second half of last Friday’s game to force overtime.
The first race at Friday’s Eden Prairie vs. Breck/Blake boys swim meet was decided by 0.14 seconds.
On Friday, the No. 1-ranked Eden Prairie High School boys basketball team defeated No. 5-ranked Chaska 81-68.
Graduation subtracted 12 skiers from last year’s 33-member Eden Prairie High School girls and boys alpine ski team.
About eight years ago, the Loppet High School Invite at Theodore Wirth Park was established as an alternative to the Messabi East Nordic Invite at Giants Ridge.
Hunters hoping to bag a tom turkey with a firearm this spring will no longer be restricted to a single permit area. With the exception of three major wildlife management areas, a spring turkey license will provide the opportunity to hunt all permit areas in the state.
On Thursday, the Eden Prairie High School girls hockey team opened its TCO Mid-Winter Meltdown Tournament with a 10-2 win over Rosemount. Grace Kuipers and Carrie Byrnes counted hat tricks.
“I didn’t play one second,” said Eden Prairie coach Lee Smith, “and I’m mentally tired.”
On Friday, the previously unbeaten Shakopee Sabers were upset by the Chaska Hawks in the opening game of the Eden Prairie OSR Physical Therapy Holiday Tournament.
The Eden Prairie sports scene had many staring characters in 2019, both at the high school level and beyond. If you’re being fair, there were even younger stars, stars like 7-year-old Louis Missing, who during the summer, donned a tiger mascot head and cheered at all his older brother’s 11A …
An Eden Prairie resident is among the 20 people to be appointed to citizen oversight committees, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced in a Dec. 23 news release.
Eden Prairie’s Jackie Riess started racing motorcycles in 2001.
The Eden Prairie High School boys swim and dive team defeated Wayzata by two points during last year’s dual-meet season. Wayzata would then edge Eden Prairie by one point at last year’s state meet.
With its Holiday Tournament still to play, the No. 5-ranked Eden Prairie High School girls hockey team’s 2019 regular-season record stands at 7-4-1.
When the No. 1-ranked Eden Prairie High School boys basketball team meets Shakopee on Saturday, it will be the fourth time the Eagles have faced a top-4 team this season.
Tom Gruhlke, head coach of the Eden Prairie High School wrestling team, says his Eagles have been busy.
By blanking Edina 1-0 on Saturday, the Eden Prairie High School boys hockey team won the Edina Holiday Classic for the first time since 2016.
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Hopefully, you are surviving another holiday season and the snow blankets the woods and farms throughout most of the country. Winter is here and the white-tailed deer breeding season, called the rut, has come to an end for another year. However, the big white-tailed bucks are still wandering…
Consistency isn’t typical of a high school gymnastics team, at least not in the first couple weeks of the season.
Destinee Bursch, who transferred from Chaska to Eden Prairie over the summer, was greeted with a chorus of boos when she took to the floor at Chaska High School last Friday.
The Eden Prairie High School dance team nailed it.
Jaime Grossman, head coach of the Eden Prairie High School girls hockey team, was upset during Saturday’s Eden Prairie vs. Edina game and more upset after re-watching the game on Sunday.
The No. 1-ranked Eden Prairie High School boys basketball team must like taking tests.
And then there were three, err, four actually.
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Dave Nelson grabbed the Bay Bell, hoisting it up. Winning just once in seven previous meetings, a week four victory over Wayzata, on their home field, caused for a little more celebration.
The Eden Prairie High School girls basketball team climbed above the .500 mark on Tuesday, beating section foe Chanhassen 89-40.
The sport of Ultimate is like no other.
Since you can only make one first impression, the Eden Prairie High School wrestling team made it count on Thursday, winning two of its first three matches of the season.
