SPORTS FEEVER – Written by Chris Fee (chrisjfee@yahoo.com)
UMC Baseball received a verbal commitment from Roseau’s Aaron Wensloff. YES Coach Steve Gust is trying to get every Wensloff in Roseau!!! All joking aside, he is getting a player that will fit perfectly with his program. A kid that is skilled in all facets of the game, is a hard worker, loves baseball, and is another local kid that should do great things at UMC.
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We have posted the Crookston Pirate Winter Sports team’s schedules on our site. Click on the link below to go to the page. The schedules, of course, are likely to change more than once for several reasons, including winter storms.
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We have the latest Minnesota State High School fall sports polls with football, volleyball, soccer all updated. Tennis hasn’t been updated for several weeks so we sent an email and will hopefully have something new on Thursday.
CLICK HERE to see the latest polls.
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For the District 9 North 9-man football statistics CLICK HERE.
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For the Northwest District 11-man football statistics CLICK HERE.
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The Minnesota Wild today announced it will host Girls’ Hockey Weekend, presented by Red Baron® pizza and in conjunction with Minnesota Hockey and the WCHA, Dec. 17-18 at Xcel Energy Center.
The Wild will dedicate several elements of its game to celebrating girls’ and women’s hockey when it hosts the Ottawa Senators at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18. Girls’ and women’s hockey players will participate in various in-game and intermission activities including the “Let’s Play Hockey!” call. Proceeds from the “Split the Pot Raffle” on Dec. 18 will benefit the Women’s Hockey Association of Minnesota (WHAM).
The Wild will host dryland training sessions and on-ice clinics for 6U 8U, 10U and 12 U girls’ hockey players on Dec. 17 at Xcel Energy Center. Minnesota Hockey personnel and WCHA players will help lead the clinics.
Registration for the girls’ hockey clinics will open at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at https://www.nhl.com/wild/community/girls-hockey-weekend. In addition to the on-ice and dryland training sessions, the registration fee of $89 includes a Wild-branded jersey, a post-clinic pizza party with Red Baron® pizza and a ticket to the Wild game on Sunday, Dec. 18 against the Ottawa Senators. Participants in the girls’ hockey clinics will also receive an exclusive ticket offer for additional ticket purchases for the game on Dec. 18.
The 6U and 8U on-ice clinics will be held on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 11:00 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. (60 girls in each session). These will be followed by the 10U and 12U on- and off-ice sessions. The 10U girls (50 girls) will be on the ice from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. followed by a dryland training session from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. The 12U girls (50 girls) will have a dryland training session from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. followed by an on-ice session from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
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Crookston Park and Rec fall and winter activity registration are now open. To see what the city has to offer, click here.
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How are former Crookston Pirates athletes doing in college or elsewhere?
****LET ME KNOW OF OTHERS TO ADD TO THE LIST. Email me at chrisjfee@yahoo.com
Jacey Larson is a freshman playing hockey at Dakota College at Bottineau
Olivia Huck is a freshman playing soccer at Minnesota State Moorhead.
Brooks Butt is a freshman playing football at the University of Jamestown.
Aleah Bienek is a freshman playing hockey at Trine University in Indiana.
Elise Tangquist is the Assistant Girls Volleyball and Assistant Girls Golf Coach this year at Heritage Christian Academy in Maple Grove.
Emma Borowicz is a sophomore running track at Minnesota State Mankato.
Kaleb Thingelstad is a sophomore playing golf at North Central University in the Twin Cities.
Joslynn Leach is a sophomore playing golf at Concordia College in Moorhead. The Cobbers wrapped up the Fall season.
Brady Butt is a Junior playing football at the University of Jamestown.
Rachel Hefta is a Senior playing volleyball at Hastings College in Nebraska.
Ty Hamre is playing football at Bemidji State University.
Paul Bittner is playing professional hockey in Norway.
Kate MacGregor is senior swimming at Minnesota State Moorhead.
Aleece Durbin is a Junior on the University of North Dakota Women’s Track and Field team.
Nick Garmen is a junior playing tennis at the University of Minnesota Morris.
Elizabeth Erdman is a coach for the Moorhead Red Dragon swim team.
Crookston School District Coaches –
Emily Meyer is the Pirate head girls hockey coach and softball assistant coach.
Lacia Hanson is the Junior High softball coach.
Jeremy Lubinski is a Pirate 8th Grade Football coach.
Amy Boll is the head Pirate Girls Track head coach
Sarah Reese is the Pirate Head Girls Soccer coach
Cody Brekken is the Crookston Community Pool Supervisor
Marley Melbye is the Head Girls Swimming coach
Brock Hanson is a Pirate Baseball volunteer assistant coach.
Ben Halos is a Pirate Baseball assistant coach.
Alex LaFrance is a Pirate Baseball volunteer assistant coach.
Jeff Perreault is the Pirate Girls Golf head coach
Wes Hanson is the Pirate Wrestling Head Coach and assistant boys golf coach
Kevin Weber is a Pirate Boys Basketball volunteer assistant coach
Connor Morgan is the Pirate Boys Hockey assistant coach
Sam Melbye is the Pirate Boys J.V. Hockey coach
Chris Dufault is a youth wrestling Coach
Colton Weiland is an assistant wrestling coach
Non-Crookston High School coaching –
Collin Reynolds is the head baseball coach for the University of Colorado Buffalo Club Baseball team.
Trent Stahlecker is a School Security Specialist & he works for the Brevard Public Schools, Florida
Cody Weiland is an assistant wrestling coach at Proctor/Hermantown
Josh Edlund is the head football coach and phy ed teacher at Flandreau, South Dakota.
Allison Lindsey Axness is Assistant Varsity Volleyball Coach in Champlin Park
Jeff Olson is Head Wrestling coach and Head Baseball coach at Delano.
Jake Olson is an Assistant Football Coach and Head Boys Tennis coach at Delano.
Katy Westrom is Head Girls Tennis Coach and Head Boys Tennis coach at Monticello High School.
Matt Harris is an Assistant Principal/Athletic Director at Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Marty Bratrud is the Superintendent and High School Principal at Westhope High School.
Gordie Haug is an assistant football coach at the University of Wyoming.
Mike Hastings is the Minnesota State Mankato Men’s head Hockey coach.
Mike Biermaier is the Athletic Director at Grand Forks Schools.
Stephanie (Lindsay) Perreault works with the North Dakota State stats crew for Bison football and volleyball and basketball in the winter. Stephanie’s husband, Ryan, is the assistant director for the Bison media relations
Jason Bushie is the hockey athletic trainer at Colorado College
Chris Myrold is the Director and Fitness at Mission Ranch and Fitness in Camel, California.
Kyle Buchmeier is a Tennis Pro at the Reed-Sweatt Family Tennis Center in Minneapolis
Ben Andringa is serving our country with the Army and is deployed to Iraq for nine months.
Jarrett Butenhoff is serving our country with the U.S. Navy.
Joshua Butenhoff is serving our country on a Submarine with the Pacific Fleet with the US Navy.
Peter Cournia is a 2002 Crookston High School Graduate and a grad of West Point and currently serving in the U.S. Army.
Erik Ellingson is serving our country with the U.S. Air Force at Minot.
Philip Kujawa, class of 2004, from Crookston High School. He is an Army recruiter in Rochester.
Rob Sobolik is the General Manager of the Fargodome
That’s it for this week. Thanks for the comments, and if you have anything to add or share, please e-mail chrisjfee@yahoo.com or call. Thanks for reading and listening to KROX RADIO and kroxam.com.
