Thursday, September 13, 2018
It is hard to believe on Friday night, we will only have 4 and a half weeks left of the regular season for high school football. The Crookston Pirate Girls Soccer team is playing five games this week and that is 1/3 of their schedule!!!!! Craziness. I am thinking we will wait until after next weeks column to start breaking down Section Football, Volleyball and the rest of the sports.
I have had a very busy summer, I know you could care less, but I am now done training a new news Director (I was the news director most of the summer besides all my other duties) and we are working on a pretty big project that you will hopefully know more about next week or the week after…..God willing.
We will see what happens, but I am anxiously awaiting the announcement!
The column will start getting a little more detail as far as local sports news goes in the next couple of weeks. Although I have been able to get some pretty good news this week with limited time devoted to it.
This week I will take on my former Elementary Principal Ray Dusek in the first football picks of the year and I have Christian Brothers Ford Salesman and former KROX Salesman, Tom Helgeson picking next week! I also will have a longtime coach, a great fisherman and great guy Jim Lien picking against me after that. If you want to get it on this action….email me at chrisjfee@yahoo.com!!
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Frank Fee recently wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the Star Tribune last week. Frank wrote about how Joe Mauer is a great kid, role model and more. I was at a Minnesota Twins Radio Network function on Saturday night and I Andrew Halvorson (Twins Radio Network manager) say he loved the press release and Twins President Dave St. Peter said the same (he also shared on Twitter – which Frank has no idea what that is). Joe must have heard about the letter because he hit a Grand Slam on Tuesday and on Wednesday he is contemplating retirement!!!! I have included Frank’s letter below –
A message to Joe Mauer:
Joe, I hope I can call you Joe, as I’ve been watching you from afar since your Cretin-Derham Hall days.
I just want to thank you for being Joe Mauer all these years. Someone my children and now grandchildren have looked up to. That’s despite the media’s penchant to criticize you because you don’t hit enough home runs, are not a good interview and don’t get in trouble and give them something else to write about.
You were the All-American kid growing up in St. Paul. You have exceeded our expectations as a baseball player and, more importantly, as a human being. There is a reason that with all the great baseball players to come through the Twins organization during your career, you have been and still are the most popular Minnesota Twin. You and your wife’s contributions to different charitable organizations, with little fanfare, are to be commended, as well.
I know your much-talked-about contract is set to expire at the end of this season, and I know I can speak for many Twins fans in hoping the organization sees the wisdom of bringing you back. However that works out, don’t ever don another major league uniform, please! I remember when Harmon Killebrew came back to Minnesota in a Kansas City Royals uniform, and it was hard to watch.
As the Madden commercial back in the day once said, “Well played Mauer, well played!”
FRANK FEE, Crookston, Minn.
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UMC Men’s Basketball got a verbal commitment from Tyrese Shines, a 6’3 200 pound guard from Lyons Township High School in Lyons, Illinois. (near Chicago). Yes, the same Lyons Township High School that former NBA player Jeff Hornacek graduated from. Shines was an Illinois 3A/4A (Big School) All-State Honorable mention. He was all-conference and he is a good get for Coach Dan Weisse and his staff. A big strong guard that can shoot the three or drive and he plays solid defense Most of his scores come in the paint and by using his quick second jump in the paint and he is a solid rebounding combo guard. And from all online reports, he is a great teammate. He won me over by only having 81 tweets! That is a winner in my book, because it isn’t about him. Most of his re-tweets were of teammates or AAU teammates getting press or scholarship offers.
Shines was also being recruited by low/mid majors – Eastern Illinois, Western Illinois, and Kent State. Shines was on an official visit last weekend and it must have gone well because he verbally committed to play at UMC next year.
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Speaking of recruiting, I have heard the UMC Women’s Basketball program has already completed their 2019 recruiting class. I am thinking that is the earliest Coach Mike Roysland has completed a recruiting class!
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Crookston’s Paul Bittner is getting ready to try to make the Columbus Blue Jackets opening day roster. The press release from the Blue Jackets is below-
The Columbus Blue Jackets begin preparations for their 18th National Hockey League season with the opening of training camp, presented by OhioHealth, on Thursday, September 13. The Columbus Blue Jackets announced their full 2018 training camp roster
on Wednesday. The roster consists of 61 players (36 forwards, 19 defensemen, six goaltenders). Players will report for physicals at McConnell Spine, Sport and Joint Center beginning at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday with fitness testing to follow at Nationwide Arena. The team will conduct off-ice workouts and on-ice testing on Friday with the first practices scheduled for Saturday at Nationwide Arena and the OhioHealth Ice Haus
The team will conduct off-ice workouts and on-ice testing on Friday, September 14 at the OhioHealth Ice Haus with the first team on-ice practices and scrimmages slated for Saturday, September 15 in the Ice Haus and Nationwide Arena. Teams 1 and 4 will be on the ice between 9 a.m.-noon at the OhioHealth Ice Haus, while Teams 2 and 3 will skate in Nationwide Arena between 1-4 p.m. All practice sessions (both in the OhioHealth Ice Haus and Nationwide Arena) on Saturday, September 15 and Sunday, September 16 are open to the public. Starting Monday, September 17, only practices held in the OhioHealth Ice Haus (see full schedule below) will be open to the public. For the practices held at Nationwide Arena, fans can enter at McConnell Street, next to the Big Lots Box Office.
The players will be divided into four groups for practice sessions between September 14 and 18. The Jackets open their eight-game preseason schedule on Monday, September 17 when they host the Buffalo Sabres at Nationwide Arena. Game time is set for 7 p.m. Columbus will also host the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday, September 18, the St. Louis Blues on Sunday, September 23 and the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday, September 28. Columbus opens the regular season on the road at the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday, October 4.
FOR THE TRAINING CAMP ROSTER, CLICK HERE
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This week is the season premiere of the Sports Feever Football picks. I put an invite and we have received some interest and have our first few weeks covered. The first “victim” is a familiar face to most Crookston kids. Ray Dusek, a long-time elementary school principal and a big sports fan of Crookston High School, UMC and area teams. Mr. Dusek is like most teachers and administrators. You respect them sometimes fear them and never get to really know them when you are a student. Or you know them only as a teacher or administrator and after you graduate and “grow up” you start to realize they are pretty cool and great people. Mr. Dusek is one of those people, he is a great guy and I love chatting with him whenever I see him. I can honestly say I never thought I would get know him like I have and I am glad I have!!!
Mr. Dusek graduated from the Northwest School of Agriculture. He got his Bachelor’s Degree from Mayville State University. Ray married Terry Gaffney in Perham in 1963.
He taught 6th grade for four years in Crookston and was Elementary Principal for 33 years and Principal at Cathedral School for eight years. Terry and Ray have 4 children and 5 grandchildren. Jeff, Michelle, Brian, and Jennifer. Jeff is a medical research analyst in Minneapolis, Michelle works for Heifer International in Little Rock, Arkansas. Brian works for Zurick Insurance in the Chicago area and Jennifer, recently married, lives in Cooperstown, North Dakota.
Enough of the pleasantries….Now Mr. Dusek will finally get a chance to beat me….just not the way he was hoping for 30-plus years ago!!! The picks are below –
| Game | Chris | Ray |
| Hawley (1-1) at Crookston (1-1) | Hawley (Vetter or not….The Nuggets are the favorites for a reason) | Hawley |
| UMC (0-2) at Bemidji State (2-0) | BSU (The alma mater is very good again and haven’t been kind to my first college I attended) |
BSU |
| Polk County West (2-0) at Red Lake County (2-0) | Red Lake County (The decision was tough – Remick or Byklum so I flipped the peso and the guy on the coin looked like Coach Remick) |
PCW |
| Kittson County Central (1-1) at Warren-A-O (0-2) | KCC | KCC |
| Ada-Borup/NCW (2-1) at Fertile-Beltrami (2-0) | Ada-Borup/NCW (This was another 50/50) | AB/NCW |
| Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton (0-2) at Thief River Falls (0-2) | DGF (They have had two tough opponents and TRF has been handled twice) | TRF |
| Pequot Lakes (2-0) at Perham (1-1) | Perham (Will Beachy pass for 500 yards??) | Pequot Lakes |
| Miami-Ohio (0-2) at Gophers (2-0) | Gophers (Are they for real? Not yet, but with 60 freshman and redshirt freshman the future is bright) | Gophers |
| North Alabama (2-0) at NDSU (1-0) | NDSU (Never bet against the Bison at the Thunderdome – unless the lights go out) | NDSU |
| UND (1-1) at Sam Houston State (1-0) | Sam Houston (UND is better this year, but SHS is tough) | Sam Houston |
| Tie-breaker – Vikings (1-0) at Green Bay (1-0) | Green Bay (I like Aaron Rodgers (he is my favorite NFL player) and if he is on whatever pills they gave him last week, I like their chances – plus my scouting report (from Frankie McDonald – look him up…your welcome) on Cousins – he has a good game then a bad game.) | Vikings |
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Week 2 Highlights- If you have a 100 yard-plus rusher or passer – email it to me at chrisjfee@yahoo.com and we will get them on the feever!
Perham’s Jenson Beachy completed 36 of 59 passes for 456 yards/3TDs last Friday. The 456 yards are tied for 11th and the 36 completions are tied for 5th in Minnesota high school history.
Ada-Borup quarterback Jared Brainard completed 11 of 13 passes for 241 yards and four touchdowns last night in a win for the Cougars
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We have some exciting new from the UMC athletic department. The most exciting part of the news is that the University of Minnesota Crookston Athletic Department and Development Office is finalizing plans to put over $600,000 into Lysaker Gymnasium to redo the bleachers and bring them closer to the court and to put a video board in. The project will cost over $600,000 and I have heard from my “sources” that the UNIVERSITY, (the big poppa, the wizard behind the curtain that we always thought didn’t give a crap about Crookston) is giving the project $300,000 to help with the project. The Athletic Department/Development Office will have to raise the rest of the money. The reason why this is exciting news, is the fact the U of M is actually shelling out some cash to help UMC Athletics!!!! This gives me a little bit of hope that the main U and the regents maybe are seeing something needs to be done. I just hope it isn’t a band aid type of thinking.
They are still working on all the information for the fundraising campaign, but it is one that I might actually think about giving to, even after the U of M architects botched the design to limit our view out of the UMC baseball press box. Don’t get me started on the U of M architects from the Twin Cities!!!!
The other good news………
The Athletic Department and Development Office has announced a fundraising campaign to give the UMC Golf teams a practice facility, “locker room” with a golf simulator and they are starting a fundraising campaign to raise the $75,000 needed for the project.
BUILD A GOLF PRACTICE FACILITY
$75,000 to invest in leading-edge golf simulation technology, create an innovative space for Golden Eagle men’s and women’s golf teams, enhance team, alumni, and school pride, impact student athlete’s ability to develop skills and compete at their highest level. Support this project with a gift of any amount or one of the following options:
$500 to name a hole/pin on the putting green (only 6 holes available)
$1,000 to name a locker to be used by Golden Eagle Golf student athletes (not limited to one name per locker, however a gift of $2,000 will secure one name only)
$4,000 to name the swing analysis space
$5,000 to name the putting green space
$10,000 to name the hitting bay/golf simulator space
$25,000 to name the golf practice facility
Why this? Why now?
The time is now for the University of Minnesota Crookston to generate greater opportunities to be more competitive in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC). The NSIC is one of the premier conferences in NCAA Division II. It is a priority of our campus to move the needle by providing transformative places and spaces for the benefit of student-athletes, and create a point of pride for alumni, the campus, community, and region.
Give UMC a recruiting advantage over peer institutions (will be one of only three universities in the NSIC to have a leading indoor golf facility)
Provide space for two teams who do not currently have an adequate locker or practice facilities
Create a competitive edge for
Golden Eagle Golf teams
Ensure practice is possible for teams regardless of weather conditions
For more information contact:
Derek Martin Stephanie Helgeson Brandy Chaffee
Athletic Fundraising Director of Athletics Chief Development Officer
U of M Crookston U of M Crookston U of M Crookston
derekm@umn.edu helgeson@umn.edu brandy@umn.edu
218-281-8436 218-281-8422 218-281-8434
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Crookston will be one of the few Northwest Minnesota cities to host a Regional Youth 12U Girls Hockey tournament this winter. I have listed all the sites below –
Minnesota Hockey announced this week, the host sites for the 2019 Minnesota Hockey State and Region Tournaments. For the sixth consecutive year, The Drive to State is presented by Chevy, and will be highlighted by 14 State Tournaments hosted by seven communities, including two brand new facilities in Moorhead and Proctor. Region Tournaments will be played March 1 through 3, followed by State Tournaments being played March 15 through 17.
The 14 State Tournaments will be played at seven locations throughout Minnesota. The host sites will be Dakotah Ice Center in Prior Lake (Junior Gold A, Junior Gold B, Junior Gold 16), Cullen Hockey Center in Moorhead (Bantam AA, Bantam A), Plymouth Ice Center in Plymouth (Bantam B, Peewee B), St. Croix Valley Recreation Center in Stillwater (Peewee AA, Peewee A), Fogerty Arena in Blaine (19U, 15U A, 15U B), IRA Civic Center in Grand Rapids (12U A) and St. Luke’s Sports Center in Proctor (12U B). The 2019 Minnesota Hockey State Tournament locations are as follows:
Minnesota Hockey’s Region Tournaments will take place at 26 locations across Minnesota as teams look to qualify for State. The Metro League Playdowns to determine Junior Gold State participants will take place at the Schwan Super Rink in Blaine. The 15U B Region Tournaments will be added if needed later this season. The Minnesota Hockey Region Tournament locations are as follows:
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Minnesota Wild General Manager Paul Fenton announced today the team has invited 61 players to Wild training camp that starts on Friday, Sept. 14 at 9 a.m. at Xcel Energy Center. The following players from the Minnesota Wild team that finished third in the 2018 NHL Prospect Tournament in Traverse, City, Mich., have been invited to training camp:
Forwards: Connor Dewar, Gerry Fitzgerald, Damien Giroux, Jordan Greenway, Alex Khovanov, Ivan Lodnia, Mitch McLain, Darian Pilon, Drake Pilon, Mason Shaw and Dmitry Sokolov.
Defensemen: Louie Belpedio, Gustav Bouramman, Jacob Golden, Brennan Menell, Tate Olson and Josh Thrower.
Goaltenders: Dereck Baribeau and Kaapo Kahkonen.
The Wild also announced today that it has assigned forward Shawn Boudrias to Gatineau (QMJHL) and released forwards Sam Bitten, Mathieu Foget and Zeb Knutson, defensemen Marc-Oliver Duquette and Steven Johnson and goaltender Matthew Greenfield from their amateur tryouts. The 19 players added to the Wild training camp roster today join 42 players that were previously invited.
Minnesota Wild Training Camp Roster 9-12-18
The team will hold an open practice for fans at Xcel Energy Center on Saturday, Sept. 15, from 9 to 11 a.m. as part of the “Flood The Rink” events taking place that day. Fans can enter Xcel Energy Center through Gates 1 and 2 Preseason tickets are on sale now at the Xcel Energy Center Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations. Minnesota Wild regular season single-game tickets will go on sale at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15 at the Xcel Energy Center Box Office, and at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster (800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com). Minnesota opens the 2018-19 regular season at Colorado on Oct. 4 and hosts the Vegas Golden Knights in the home opener on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at Xcel Energy Center.
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The Crookston Pirate Booster Club is gearing up for its annual membership drive. PIRATE BOOSTERS exists to support Crookston High boys’ and girls’ athletic programs.
The PIRATE BOOSTERS provide financial assistance which allows student athletes to obtain equipment, uniforms, warm-ups and facilities enhancements. Your annual investment will help the athletic needs of the Crookston High School student athletes.
With your contribution of $100.00 or more, you will have your name placed on the PIRATE BOOSTERS sustaining membership board which is located in the CHS Commons. In addition, your name will be placed in all printed programs for CHS athletic events.
The Contribution levels are broken down as follows:
$100.00-$249.00 – Blue Club Member
$250.00-$499.00 – Gold Club Member and will receive recognition as an event sponsor during the 2018-2019 academic year.
$500.00-$999.00 – Pirate Club Member and will receive recognition as a multiple event sponsor during the academic year 2018-2019.
$1,000.00 or more – Captain’s Club Member and will receive special recognition throughout the entire 2018-2019 academic year.
Although giving levels have been established, any contribution to PIRATE BOOSTERS will be greatly appreciated.
As a part of your annual membership, you are assured CHS athletic team members will not solicit you or your business with smaller fundraisers. You will have a choice to approach a specific team if you desire to provide additional support. If you are interested in joining PIRATE BOOSTERS, please make your check payable to PIRATE BOOSTERS by April 30, 2018. You may bring your donation to Greg Garmen at Crookston High School or Charles Reynolds at Fitzgerald, Reynolds, Harbott, Knutson & Larson, PLLP. If you would prefer to have your donation picked up, please contact Greg Garmen or Charles Reynolds. You can send a check to Crookston Pirate Boosters – 402 Fisher Avenue, Crookston MN 56716.
The Crookston High School Athletic Department student athletes and coaches and the entire PIRATE BOOSTER CLUB appreciate your generous support.
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There has been a lot of interest from people after we posted this so we will post it again. If you have any info on Pirate sports records or want to help tracking them down read below!
Crookston High School, namely Ed Nelson, has been working on getting all the records for the Pirate Sports teams updated and it has been a process. Ed is looking for any records, stats, state participants, etc from the following sports.
Boys Tennis
Girls Tennis
Football
Girls Soccer
Volleyball
Baseball
If you have Crookston Times articles with information, yearbooks with team and/or individual records, scrapbooks, or anything with any information that you might think would be of interest to Ed email him at ednelson12@yahoo.com.
With that said we have links to the Crookston Pirate records pages for the following sports. If you see something that is incomplete, or maybe an updated record let Ed know at the above email address. I have listed the team and click on the team to see their records.
Here is an update on the various sports covered by the website as of December 1, 2016
Sports that are done and will not change without additional information:
Boys’ Basketball
Girls’ Basketball
Boys’ Golf
Girls’ Golf
Boys’ Soccer (Poor or no records were kept over the years.)
Girls’ Soccer
Boys’ Track & Field
Girls’ Track & Field
Wrestling
Softball
Swimming
Volleyball
Girls’ Hockey will be complete by the end of 2016 and join the above. I am currently looking for “Team: Game” and “Player: Game” records for the first 5 years of the program.
Sports being worked on:
Baseball (Justin Johnson is doing the research and has completed the last 16 years)
Boys’ & Girls’ Tennis (Mike Geffre has the information and is scanning everything. When he is done, the records will be posted.)
Sports not yet started:
Football (I will be starting Football this winter.)
Boys’ Hockey (Frank Fee has agreed to research the records.)
Fall Sports –
Boys Soccer Girls Swimming Girls Soccer Volleyball
Incomplete records Girls Tennis Football
Winter Sports –
Boys Basketball Girls Basketball Boys Hockey Girls Hockey Wrestling
Spring Sports-
Softball Boys Track Girls Track Boys Golf Girls Golf –
Incomplete records Boys Tennis Baseball
Sports that are no longer offered-
Boys Swimming Girls Cross Country Boys Cross Country
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JOKES (Do you have any good jokes – email them to chrisjfee@yahoo.com and I will put them in the feever
LAST RIDE ON MY HARLEY
While riding my Harley, I swerved to avoid hitting a deer, lost control and landed in a ditch, severely banging my head.
Dazed and confused I crawled out of the ditch to the edge of the road when a shiny new convertible pulled up with a very beautiful woman who asked, “Are you okay?”
As I looked up, I noticed she was wearing a low cut blouse with cleavage to die for…
“I’m okay I think,” I replied as I pulled myself up to the side of the car to get a closer look.
She said, “Get in and I’ll take you home so I can clean and bandage that nasty scrape on your head.”
“That’s nice of you,” I answered, “but I don’t think my wife will like me doing that!”
“Oh, come now, I’m a nurse,” she insisted. “I need to see if you have any more scrapes and then treat them properly.”Well, she was really pretty and very persuasive. Being sort of shaken and weak, I agreed, but repeated, “I’m sure my wife won’t like this.”
We arrived at her place which was just few miles away and, after a couple of cold beers and the bandaging, I thanked her and said, “I feel a lot better but I know my wife is going to be really upset so I’d better go now.”
“Don’t be silly!” she said with a smile. “Stay for a while. She won’t know anything. By the way, where is she?”
“Still in the ditch with the Harley, I guess.”
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I will start updating athletes and coaches next week. Let me know if you have anybody to list!
How are former Crookston Pirates athletes doing in college or elsewhere?
****LET ME KNOW OF OTHERS TO ADD TO THE LIST *****
Bobby Tiedemann, a Junior playing tennis at St. Mary’s in Winona.
Ally Tiedemann, a Freshman playing tennis at University of Minnesota Duluth.
Ben Trostad, a Freshman playing golf at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Ethan Magsam, a Freshman playing golf at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Cade Salentine, a Freshman playing football at the University of North Dakota.
Paul Bittner, has played for the Cleveland Monsters (AHL – minor league affiliate of Columbus) and is at Columbus’ training camp.
Marietta Geist, a Junior on the Carleton College Women’s Cross Country and Track and Field teams.
Luke Edlund, is a Senior linebacker on the Crown College football team.
Elise Tangquist, is a Sophomore golfer for the University of Northwestern in St. Paul. Northwestern will be off until the spring.
Isaac Westlake, a Junior playing golf for the Winona State Warriors.
Haley Roed, a Junior swimming at Minnesota State Moorhead.
Kate MacGregor, a Freshman swimming at Minnesota State Moorhead.
Merran Dingman, a Freshman swimming at Minnesota State Moorhead.
Brita Fagerlund, is a Sophomore on the University of Jamestown Jimmy Women’s Track team.
Bailey Folkers, is a freshman on the University of Wisconsin-Superior women’s basketball team
Mason Wang, is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire track team
Aaron Hollcraft, is a Senior playing basketball and baseball for the UMC Golden Eagles.
Amanda Trandem, is a Sophomore on the University of Minnesota Crookston Golden Eagle Softball team.
Bobby Tiedemann, is a Junior on the St. Mary’s University Men’s Tennis team in Winona.
Ryan Bittner, is a Senior playing hockey for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Brady Heppner, is a Junior playing hockey at St. Johns University in Collegeville.
Haley Roed, a Junior on the Minnesota State Moorhead Women’s Swim team.
Crookston School District Coaches –
Brody Davidson is an Assistant Pirate Football coach.
Tyler Brekken is a Pirate C team football coach and junior high Pirate Softball coach
Jeremy Lubinski is a Pirate 8th Grade Football coach.
Amy Boll is the head Pirate Girls Track head coach and assistant volleyball coach
Sarah Reese is the Pirate Head Girls Soccer coach
Shelly Erdmann is the Assistant Girls Soccer coach.
Cody Brekken is the Assistant Pirate Girls Tennis coach, Pirate Boys Tennis coach and Crookston Community Pool Supervisor
Marley Melbye is the Head Girls Swimming coach
Mitch Bakken is the head Pirate Baseball coach.
Justin Johnson is the Pirate Junior Varsity Baseball coach.
Brock Hanson is the 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
Wade Hanson is the 8th grade boys basketball coach
Travis Ross is the 7th grade boys basketball 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 an Assistant Wrestling Coach
Nate Merten is an Assistant Wrestling Coach
Non Crookston High School Coaches-
Josh Edlund, is an assistant 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 Assistant Baseball coach at Delano.
Jake Olson is an Assistant Football Coach and Head Boys Tennis coach at Delano.
Todd Kreibich, is the Coach and General Manager for the Minnesota Iron Rangers Junior Hockey team our of Hoyt Lakes.
Carmen (Kreibich) Johnson, is Head Volleyball coach at Little Falls High School.
Katy Westrom, is Head Girls Tennis Coach and Head Boys Tennis coach at Monticello High School.
Matt Harris, is a Director of Athletics at the British International School of Houston.
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 Thief River Falls High School
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 a Tennis Pro on Nevis Island in the West Indies
Kyle Buchmeier is a Tennis Pro at the Reed-Sweatt Family Tennis Center in Minneapolis
Erika Wheelhouse is serving in the Peace Corp in the Philippines.
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.
Alan Mart, 2009 Crookston High School graduate, is currently serving his country for the US Army as a Cavalry Scout in Afghanistan.
Peter Cournia is a 2002 Crookston High School Graduate and also a grad of West Point and is currently is 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 Central is stationed at Hohnfels in Germany for the next 2 or 3 years.
Scott Riopelle is head of Crookston Parks and Recreation
Rob Sobolik is the General Manager of the Fargodome
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