Eden Prairie Sports

It’s a good bet that not everyone saw Thursday’s heavy rains, or Friday’s snow, coming. After all, it was Oct. 10.

When you’ve been an athletic trainer for 50 years, there’s going to be a moment, or moments, that stand out.

Prior to last Tuesday's Section 2AA quarterfinal, the Eden Prairie High School girls soccer team and Prior Lake had met three times since 2014.

When faced with snow flurries and near-freezing temperatures, high school football teams will often take to the ground. And if a team’s offensive line dominates, it will stay there.

The Eden Prairie High School girls and boys soccer teams, each seeded No. 4, won Section 2AA quarterfinal matches on Tuesday.

Minnesota’s climate is becoming warmer and wetter, and the Department of Natural Resources is taking action to identify climate-related changes, understand the impacts of these changes on the state’s natural resources and recreation, mitigate the impacts as much as possible, and adapt to tho…

Dan Eigen, of Eden Prairie, is known throughout the fishing community as “Walleye Dan.”

With two matches and one tournament remaining before the start of the all-important Section 2AAA Tournament, the Eden Prairie High School volleyball team has some homework to do.

Turnovers turn games.

In baseball, analytics is more than just numbers.

The story wasn’t that the Eden Prairie High School boys and girls cross-country teams finished second at last Tuesday’s Victoria Lions Invitational, the story was the course itself.

During the third week of September, the Eden Prairie High School girls tennis team fell 6-1 to Shakopee.

Turnovers turn games.

There is a reason to come and watch the Eden Prairie High School DECA Chapter’s Powderpuff girls flag football Inclusion Revolution, 375 reasons actually.

Like Eden Prairie coach Kelly Boston said, “The best teams in the state live in the Lake Conference and on Thursday, one came to visit.”

Lighting led to the postponement of last Tuesday’s Eden Prairie vs. Saint Michael-Albertville boys soccer game.

The No. 2-ranked Edina girls soccer team's 12-1-1 overall record has but two blemishes.

The goal 14-year-old Teddy Townsend scored off the faceoff with less than two seconds remaining in a March PWAA regional playoff game knotted arch-rival Wayzata at 2-2.

“You shouldn’t have to use a fake punt to generate offense,” said Eden Prairie coach Mike Grant, following Friday’s 17-7 loss to No. 3-ranked Wayzata.

“You shouldn’t have to use a fake punt to generate offense,” said Eden Prairie coach Mike Grant, following Friday’s 17-7 loss to No. 3-ranked Wayzata.

Back on Sept. 5, the Eden Prairie High School boys soccer team fell 3-2 to No. 1-ranked Edina.

Eight of Class 3A’s top-9 volleyball teams competed in last weekend’s Apple Valley Invitational.

The first line in last year’s article about the Eden Prairie cross-country team’s Milaca Mega Meet experience read “Saturday was a beautiful day.”

If the coach of a No. 2-ranked football team predicts a one-score win over a 1-2 team during the middle of a practice, do those words make a sound?

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is reminding lake property owners to carefully check boats and trailers, docks and lifts, and all other water-related equipment for invasive species when removing equipment for seasonal storage.

As part of efforts to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources bans the feeding of deer and the use of attractants in certain parts of the state to prevent the concentrations of wild deer in areas with a higher risk for disease.

Last Friday, the Eden Prairie High School girls tennis team won a close match, beating Saint Michael-Albertville 4-3.

Got one.

Eden Prairie’s Bob Krowech started competitive weight lifting when a friend said he couldn’t.

Presale tickets for Friday's Eden Prairie vs. Shakopee high school football game at the Minnesota Vikings' Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center Stadium will be available for purchase Tuesday and Wednesday at the Eden Prairie High School Activities Office.

While Eden Prairie’s 19-0 win over Minnetonka on Friday wasn’t always pretty, it was pretty good.

Before the start of the school year, the Chaska/Chanhassen/Eden Prairie Mountain Bike Team kicked off its season with a race in Austin, Minnesota.

The top of the Eden Prairie High School boys cross-country team ran to second-, third- and fourth-place overall finishes at Thursday’s Bauman-Rovn Invitational (Hopkins Invite).

Lake Conference teams finished one (Minnetonka, 830 points), two (Wayzata, 453.5) and three (Eden Prairie, 424) at Saturday’s Minnetonka Invitational.

Rob St. Clair has been coaching soccer for years, but had never seen a goal like it.

With the Eden Prairie defense doing defensive things, coach Mike Grant burned his final timeout with 36 seconds remaining in the first half.

After having played quarterback for the Minnesota Vixen women’s professional tackle football team for three years, Kiersten Hansen walked away, but didn’t officially retire.

With the Eden Prairie defense doing defensive things, Coach Mike Grant burned his final timeout with just 36 seconds remaining in the first half of Friday's game against Woodbury.

If Eden Prairie girls tennis coach Alex Horoshak played the analytics game, she would have loaded her doubles teams in an attempt to beat Prior Lake.

Defensive lineman Trent Jones recovered a fumble in midair and rumbled 52 yards the other way for six points, Fred Zach scored three first-half touchdowns, backup kicker Jackson Burke nailed his first-ever varsity punt and coach Mike Grant counted his 300th Eden Prairie win (Grant had record…