Minnetonka opens the 2020 football season at home on Friday, Oct. 9 versus Eden Prairie. The Skippers have lost 18 consecutive games to the Eagles, including the 2017 state championship contest.
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.
Stepping out of my truck and into the cool fresh air of a late evening, it felt so good to be outside in nature, especially after being trapped inside my house for these many weeks. To the west, the sun was setting, and I figured I had about 10 minutes before all the fun began.
The Eden Prairie High School football factory had churned out 11 big-school state championships since 1996, yet only two of its players' names were called in an NFL draft prior to last year, Jay Foreman in 1999 and Carter Bykowski in 2013.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will cancel its 2020 egg take operations for walleye, northern pike, muskellunge and steelhead because the work cannot be done safely under COVID-19 social distancing guidelines.
Sadly, it’s officially official. There will be no high school spring sports in Minnesota this year.
It's official. There will be no spring sports for high schools across the state.
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.
May 16 was supposed to be a day of baseball, and a day of raising awareness about teens in crisis.
Eden Prairie High School athletes nailed their winter sports seasons. The Eagles’ boys hockey team finished Class AA runner-up, the Eden Prairie girls basketball team returned to the state tournament for the first time since 2014, Eden Prairie’s boys swim and dive team finished in the top-5 …
As soon as the ice goes out on Lake Minnetonka, anglers target crappies.
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.
If you ask someone in the know about Eden Prairie High School athletics, they’ll give you a name.
For three first-year Eden Prairie High School spring sports coaches, the coronavirus pandemic is enough to make you sick.
Environmental scientist Jordan Wein guesses that there could be as many as 100,000 goldfish in Carver County's Grace Chain of Lakes.
I'm not a professional wildlife photographer, but I play one at work.
In last week’s Eden Prairie News, Eden Prairie High School’s single greatest athletic moment was expanded into five greatest moments. Like anything, and everything, Eden Prairie’s five of a kind were open to debate.
Liesl Paulsen first appeared in an Eden Prairie News story about Eden Prairie High School's girls cross-country team in October of 2015.
All dogs are therapy dogs. The majority of them are just freelancing.
Eden Prairie’s Rachel Withers placed fourth in the 2020 USA Archery JOAD Indoor National Championships and 12th at the 2020 USA Archery Indoor Nationals. In the process, she set a new Minnesota state record and placed in the top-30 scores of all females nationwide, including professionals.
Minnesota High School League Media Specialist John Millea posed the following question on Twitter: What's the single finest moment in your school's athletic history?
Tam Meuwissen has been known as "Five Feet of Fury" throughout her athletic career. An appropriate nickname for the Chanhassen native who played three sports in high school, three sports in college, and now skates down ice, and is a member of the USA Women's National Bandy Team.
Spring sports are on hold once again due the evolving coronavirus pandemic.
Dan Rubischko, head softball coach at Eden Prairie High School, had the hotel manger at the Florida hotel his team stayed at during last year's spring training trip tentatively reserve this year's dates when they checked out.
If you were to argue that wood ducks are the most beautiful ducks on earth, you wouldn't be wrong.
Not even a global pandemic can slow down the National Football League.
Do you like Easter egg hunts? Lucky at finding four-leaf clovers? Think you can locate a needle in haystack?
Walleye angling on Mille Lacs Lake will be catch-and-release only for this year’s open water season, with the exception of the month of July, when walleye fishing will be closed.
Four years ago, Kevin Froemming was the superintendent of the Crow River Golf Course and was having a problem with the effectiveness of how the holes on the green were being cut.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, in accordance with guidance from state health officials, is postponing, adjusting and canceling a variety of public events, including open houses, safety education training, naturalist programs and other meetings.
Acting on advice from the Centers for Disease Control (canceling events for gatherings of 250 or more people), the Let's Go Fishing Eden Prairie chapter cut bait and postponed last Saturday's fish fry fundraiser, the organization's biggest fundraiser of the year.
No. 2-seeded Farmington shot lights out in the first half of last Wednesday’s state quarterfinal game against unseeded Eden Prairie, sinking eight of its 12 three-point attempts.
Like a pass in transition, the events of last week happened quickly.
Championships in girls and boys basketball won't be awarded in the Minnesota State High School League in 2020.
Shakopee and Eden Prairie will not play for a section championship tonight.
COVID-19 concerns have flipped the electricity switch that comes with a section-championship basketball game to off.
The Minnesota State High School League, relying on information from the Minnesota Department of Health, will limit the number of people at tournaments beginning Friday, March 13, 2020.
No. 2-seeded Farmington shot lights out in the first half of Wednesday’s state quarterfinal game against unseeded Eden Prairie, sinking eight of 12 three-point attempts.
The Eden Prairie chapter of Let’s Go Fishing is holding its annual fish fry fundraiser on Saturday, March 14, from 4 - 7 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, located at 16516 Luther Way in Eden Prairie.
Last week, the Twin Cities served as hosts for the U.S. Nationals Hardball Doubles Championships.
Jake Casey had been prepping for Thursday’s Xcel Energy Center skate for nearly eight months.
Before the season started, the Eden Prairie High School boys hockey team had circled Saturday, March 7, on its calendar.
In Saturday’s Section 2-4A semifinal, No. 1-seeded Eden Prairie scored 99 points on No. 4-seeded Prior Lake.
The No. 2-seeded Eden Prairie High School girls basketball team opened Friday’s Section 2-4A championship game at No. 1-seeded Chaska with a 14-3 run.
Before the season started, the Eden Prairie High School boys hockey team had Saturday, March 7, circled on its calendar.
Friday’s big-school state semifinal between No. 2-seeded Blake and No. 3-seeded Eden Prairie featured goalies named Aksel and Axel.
All eyes are on St. Paul for the 76th annual Minnesota State High School League Boys Hockey Tournament March 4-7. Top seeds are Andover in Class AA and Warroad in Class A.
The No. 2-seeded Eden Prairie High School girls basketball team opened Friday’s Section 2-4A championship at No. 1-seeded Chaska with a 14-3 run.
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Senior Kai Stansberry caught the pass in front of the team benches, raced in all alone and then deftly fired the puck between the Lakeville South goalie’s pads.
