Athletes of the Week
A look at the top athletes in the metro area from recent high school sporting events.
Nurjei Weems of DeLaSalle leads the Star Tribune's Metro Athletes of the Week
Also recognized: Peyton Blandin (Farmingon basketball), Lamar Grayson (Richfield basketball) and Gabe Myren (Spring Lake Park basketball).
Waconia's Audrey Swanson leads Metro Athletes of the Week for March 2-7
Also recognized: Drake Dobbs (Eden Prairie basketball), Remington Keopple (Hill-Murray hockey), Kerwin Walton (Hopkins basketball), Sydney Stensgard (Simley basketball), Colin Hagstrom (Mahtomedi hockey) and Evan Kim (Mounds View basketball).
Wrestler Reid Ballantyne of Stillwater leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Feb. 24-29
Also recognized: Derrick Cardinal (Forest Lake wrestling), Soren Dunn (Eden Prairie swimming), P.J. Hayes (Waconia basketball), Lauren Jensen (Lakeville North basketball), Anna Olson (Monticello basketball), and Annika Stewart (Wayzata basketball)
Guard John Henry of Eden Prairie leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Feb. 17-22
Also recognized: Bella Frattalone (Mahtomedi gymnastics), Gabby Krause (Andover hockey), Hunter Lyden (Stillwater wrestling), James Ohm (Armstrong wrestling), Ryan Wallin (Blaine hockey) and Hayden Zheng (St. Louis Park swimming).
Skier Luke Conway of Minneapolis Washburn leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Feb. 10-15
Also recognized: Dawson Garcia (Prior Lake basketball), Kirby Gilbertson (Maple Grove adapted hockey), Molly Moening (St. Paul Highland Park Nordic skiing), Sophia Palmquist (Eagan Alpine skiing), Luke Pepin (Rockford basketball), and Grace Treanor (Wayzata gymnastics).
Nordic skier Victor Sparks of Minneapolis Southwest leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Feb. 3-8
Also recognized: Maggie Czinano (Watertown-Mayer basketball), Payton Mielke (Elk River basketball), Joe Miller (Blake hockey), Jenna Ruiz (Eagan hockey), Jayden Seifert (Farmington hockey) and Frankie Vascellaro (Holy Angels basketball).
Davon Townley of Minneapolis North leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Jan. 27-Feb. 1
Also recognized: Sedona Blair (Holy Family hockey), Hailey Hohenecker (Providence Academy basketball), Gunnar Paulson (Delano hockey), Joey Thompson (Totino-Grace wrestling), Marco Troje (East Ridge hockey) and Drew White (St. Paul Washington Tech basketball)
Wayzata goaltender Garret Bonello leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Jan. 20-25
Also recognized: Evan Bock (Chaska/Chanhassen swimming), Hailey Hansen (Blaine hockey), Mia Huberty (Big Lake basketball), Cole Johnson (St. Paul Highland Park Nordic skiing), Miah Monahan (Glencoe-Silver Lake basketball) and Annika Lee (Park Center gymnastics).
Coon Rapids heavyweight Gavin Layton leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Jan. 13-18
Also recognized: Lucie Bond (St. Paul United hockey), Will McBee (Watertown-Mayer basketball), Celia Midtbo (Minneapolis hockey), Brieja Parent (Forest Lake hockey), Juel Skrien (St. Croix Lutheran basketball), and Ivane Tensaie (Concordia Academy basketball).
Edina goalie Uma Corniea leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Jan. 6-11
Also recognized: Adam Berghult (Edina Alpine skiing), Adam Flammang (St. Michael-Albertville hockey), Ryan Samuelson (Jordan basketball), Ally Qualley (Breck hockey), Cordelia Sherwood (Orono Alpine skiing), and Matthew Willert (Buffalo basketball).
Shakopee wrestler Ben Lunn leads metro Athletes of the Week for Dec. 30-Jan. 4
Also recognized: Nadia Abid (Maple Grove gymnastics), Mallory Brake (Hastings basketball), Adelaide Burton (Blake hockey), Adrik Kraftson (Stillwater Nordic skiing), Jordan Parent (Forest Lake Nordic skiing) and Simeon Sharp (St. Paul Harding basketball).
Park Center's Adalia McKenzie leads metro Athletes of the Week for Dec. 16-21
Also recognized: Calvin Boone (St. Paul Highland Park Nordic skiing), Eli Miller (Lakeville South hockey), Natalie Mazurek (Eden Prairie basketball), Blake Remme (Spring Lake Park basketball), Abbie Thompson (Mounds View hockey) and Yim-Leej Yang (St. Paul Johnson wrestling).
Becca Green of Annandale leads Athletes of the Week for Dec. 9-14
Also recognized: Henry Abraham (Cambridge-Isanti basketball), Paxton Creese (Shakopee wrestling), Matthew Gleason (Cretin-Derham Hall hockey), Blake Lueck (Spring Lake Park hockey), Adalia McKenzie (Park Center basketball) and Abby Schulte (Maple Grove basketball).
Eastview's Steve Crowl leads Athletes of the Week for Dec. 2-7
Also recognized: Ben Carlson (East Ridge basketball), Noah Griswold (Holy Angels hockey), Mackenzie Kramer (St. Michael-Albertville basketball), Jamie Nelson (Andover hockey), Jimmy Snuggerud (Chaska hockey) and Libby Tuttle (Stillwater Nordic skiing).
Chaska's Stevo Klotz leads Athletes of the Week for Nov. 25-30
Also recognized: Dain Dainja (Park Center basketball), Ali Granovsky (Roseville hockey), Jade Hill (Minneapolis South basketball), Jenna Johnson (Wayzata basketball), Charlie Strobel (Hill-Murray hockey), and Christian Vasser (Wayzata football).
Dakota United soccer ace Samuel Gerten leads prep athletes of the week
All it took was a few words from Hawks coach Lorrie Buecksler to set Gerten, a sophomore forward, on a path to dominance.
Missouri-bound Sierra Smith of Armstrong leads Athletes of the Week for Nov. 11-16
Also recognized: Obi Evuleocha (Champlin Park football), Grace Hanson (Hutchinson swimming), Lacey Martin (Minnetonka hockey), Olivia Mobley (Breck hockey), Nic Snuggerud (Chaska football), and Christian Vasser (Wayzata football).
Carter Otto's memorable performance for Elk River leads Athletes of the Week for Nov. 4-9
Also recognized: Jojo Jorgenson (Minnetonka), Paige Loidholt (Armstrong/Cooper), Kate Long (Wayzata), Jaice Miller (Champlin Park), Tyler Schiller (Hutchinson), and Johnny Shabaz (Lakeville South).
Holy Angels' Noah Hermanson leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Oct. 28-Nov. 2
Also recognized: Kaleb Blaha (Fridley), Emma Fournier (Maple Grove), Kirby Gilbertson (Park Center), Oscar Smythe (Edina), Analee Weaver (Stillwater) and Brooke Weichbrodt (Concordia Academy).
Minneapolis Southwest running back TK Marshall leads Athletes of the Week for Oct. 7-12
Also recognized: Meriel Orham (St. Michael-Albertville), Cassie Sieling (Bloomington Jefferson), Nick Snauffer (Red Wing), Megan Reilly (Northfield), Kali Wolf (Waconia) and Melinda Zhang (Wayzata).
Eastview tennis champ Karin Young leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Oct. 21-26
Also recognized: Aidan Bouman (Buffalo), Anthony Gipson (Maple Grove), Khyah Harper (Centennial), Riaz Kelly (St. Paul Central), Arlina Shen (Blake) and Analee Weaver (Stillwater).
Nick Hand's three interceptions for Totino-Grace leads metro Athletes of the Week for Oct. 14-19
Also recognized: Zoe Adkins (Maple Grove), Ali Hinze (Osseo), Abby Kapeller (Minnetonka), Terrance Kamara (Minneapolis North), Bilal Kone (Apple Valley), and Delaney Schurhamer (Woodbury).
Eden Prairie runner Liesl Paulsen's steely resolve leads Athletes of the Week for Sept. 30-Oct. 5
Also recognized: David Bigaouette (Shakopee), Emma Heimerl (Simley), Sarah Luong (Benilde-St. Margaret's, T.K. Marshall (St. Paul Highland Park), Jimmy McGuire (Minneapolis Southwest) and Joey Moberg (St. Paul Johnson)
Four-TD game helps Champlin Park's Shawn Shipman lead Athletes of the Week for Sept. 23-28
Also recognized: Sophia Andersen (New Prague), Ben Dahl (Rogers), Deandre Hill (Big Lake), Sadie Sroga (Woodbury), Paige Thibault (Watertown-Mayer) and Megan Wetter (Monticello).
Cretin-Derham Hall's Paige Peltier tops Athletes of the Week for Sept. 16-21
Also recognized: Claudia Chang (Edina), Andy Christopherson (St. Francis), Josh Fobbe (Becker), Mickies Kiros (St. Paul Central), Anna Koepke (Coon Rapids) and Steevenson Lamarre (Totino-Grace).
Eagan volleyball's Christine Jurgens leads Athletes of the Week for Sept. 9-14
Also recognized: Porter Ball (Holy Angels), Laura Bredensteiner (Maple Grove), Russell Corrigan (Hutchinson), Jordan Doe (Coon Rapids), Max Otto (Delano) and Oliver Paleen (St. Paul Highland Park).
Elk River's Joe Nordstrom tops Athletes of the Week for Sept. 2-7
Also recognized: Nicole Copeland (Edina), Kira Falkert (Concordia Academy), Sami Hilley (Champlin Park), Jacob Keller (Monticello), Jonathan Kieren (St. Anthony) and Boston Merila (St. Michael-Albertville).
Farmington football's Alex Berreth leads off Athletes of the Week for Aug. 26-31
Also recognized: Abdulaziz Ahmed (St. Paul Como Park), Halle Bemmels (Le Sueur-Henderson), Sophia Boman (Edina), Miguel Ibarra Bucio (Rockford), Simeon Dossen (Brooklyn Center) and Maddy Hornyak (Lakeville North)
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Prep athletes of the week: East Ridge pitcher parlays consistency into state title
Ryan Thelen threw a complete game in the Class 4A baseball final, helping beat New Prague for the title.
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Prep athletes of the week: Move pays off big for Northfield softball pitcher
Brynn Hostettler, a hard-thowing righthander, pitched the Raiders to the Class 3A championship in the first state tournament appearance in team history.
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Prep athletes of the week: State tournament-ready cast is on a roll
Orono's John Kasner, a senior, won the Class 2A, Section 2 singles championship.
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Prep athletes of the week: Record-tying Minnetonka golfer laments missed 6-footer on 18
Once the putts started dropping, Gunnar Broin shot a 9-under-par 63 at Pioneer Creek G.C. in Maple Plain, tying the high school state record.
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Prep athletes of the week: Hopkins sprinter blazes to state record
On Thursday, Joe Fahnbulleh blazed to a state-record time of 10.23 seconds in the 100 meters at the Class 3A, Section 7 True Team meet.
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Prep athletes of the week: Pumped-up Woodbury pitcher starts with two gems
Adam Mazur also excelled at the plate, going 6-for-8 with three RBI during his back-to-back standout pitching performances.
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Prep athletes of the week: Relentless Redhawk to the rescue for 2A champion Minnehaha Academy
Minnehaha Academy senior point guard Taytum Rhoades played the game of her life, finishing with 29 points, five assists and four steals in the Class 2A girls' basketball title game.
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Prep athletes of the week: Edina's Peter Colby now part of hockey state tournament lore
He sealed the Hornets' 13th state championship by scoring twice in a 3-2 victory, including the overtime winner.
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Prep athletes of the week: Totino-Grace wrestling's tough-luck Jake Svihel breaks through
After three consecutive runner-up finishes in the wrestling state meet, Svihel won his first individual championship.
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Prep athletes of the week: Perfection, then all-around focus for Champlin Park's Chaney Neu
In her second event of the meet, she set the University of Minnesota Maturi Pavilion abuzz when she was awarded a perfect 10.0 on the vault.
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Prep athletes of the week: Back-to-back Nordic champ wins with classic strength
Wayzata's Mara McCollor made up for lost time in the classic race to win a second consecutive Nordic skiing state title.
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Prep athletes of the week: Lakeville North junior heats up in hockey sections
Sydney Antonakis scored a career-high four goals and had two assists in a 13-2 thumping of Rochester Century, then added three assists and an empty-net goal in a 5-2 win over Dodge County.
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Prep athletes of the week: Lakeville South shooting guard gets hot when it counts
Reid Patterson's hot hand was the difference. He made five three-pointers en route to a career-high 39 points in a 69-66 victory over rival Lakeville North.
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Prep athletes of the week: Prior Lake's undefeated Sund doubles down on state title pursuit
A look at this week's top athletes from around the metro.
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Prep athletes of the week: Chaska's Mike Koster helps get hockey Hawks back on track
The Gophers recruit is bringing life to the Chaska program.
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Prep athletes of the week: Forest Lake goalie Ally Goehner leads her pumped teammates to big win
Ally Goehner had back-to-back shutouts, including a 1-0 victory over Andover.
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Prep athletes of the week: Copeland's second Class 2A tennis title doesn't come easily
After straight-set victories in the first two rounds, Nicole Copeland outdueled Zoe Adkins of Maple Grove in three sets in the semifinals, then came back to defeat Edina teammate and close friend Andrea Jansson 6-1, 6-4 in the final.
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Prep athletes of the week: Strong leg, even stronger will drive Mahtomedi soccer's Sydney Panek
Sydney Panek's goal with 16 seconds remaining lifted the Zephyrs over Hill-Murray and into the girls' soccer state tournament.
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Prep athletes of the week: Lakeville North's Nelson finds winning focus after mistake
Lakeville North's Raja Nelson took an early unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against Prior Lake on Friday, then played spectacularly on offense and defense.
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Prep athletes of the week: Edina attacker battles through re-injury to find scoring success
Cattelin pulled a hamstring during club soccer over the summer and spent six weeks rehabbing it before reinjuring it in Edina's second game of the season.
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Prep athletes of the week: Chaska girls' soccer defender delivers with 3-for-3 free kick spree
"That just doesn't happen,'' Smalley, a senior defender, said of her trio of goals -- her first of the season -- that lifted the Hawks to a 4-3 victory over Chanhassen.
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Prep athletes of the week: Spectrum's Marberg tops 5,000 career yards
Marberg is only the 15th player in state history to rush for more than 5,000 yards.
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Prep athletes of the week: Strong defense helps Breck goalie run shutout streak to five games
Hudson Haecker, whose defense keeps shots on goal to a minimum, recorded two shutouts last week to run his stingy streak to five consecutive games without allowing a goal.
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Prep athletes of the week: Hard work pays off for Maple Grove's Evan Hull
After he rushed for 387 yards and four touchdowns in Maple Grove's season-opening 34-7 victory over Osseo, it's safe to say Evan Hull's summer spent working out and preparing for the season has already paid dividends.
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Prep athletes of the week: Heritage Christian's Halvorsen delivers Target Field first
Halvorsen became the first high school player to hit two home runs at Target Field since state title games were first held at the Twins ballpark in 2010.
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