Cassie Banick is fearless. The senior wants the ball with the game on the line. She wants to take the shot with time running down. The two-year starter for the Pierz Pioneers didn't need any late-game heroics to lead Pierz to a 74-29 victory over Trinity School Dec. 28 during the Pierz holiday tourn...

  Several days a week, for about 10 years, Katy Etterman's parents would drive her to Sauk Rapids to train at North Crest Gymnastics Club. During that time, Etterman developed into a Level 10 gymnast, the highest level a club competitor can attain. In the last few years Etterman also developed ...

Jana Anderson has never had trouble scoring points. The Crosby-Ironton senior displayed her penchant for points in three wins last week to help the Rangers to a 5-1 start. Anderson dropped 19 points on Cass Lake-Bena Dec. 11 in C-I's 70-31 victory. She also grabbed eight rebounds. The four-year vars...

While it sounds more like a kitchen utensil, the spladle is why Jordan Chouanard is a Big Bear champion. Chouanard captured the 145-pound Big Bear title Dec. 18 at Cass Lake by using the move to pin Brainerd's Mack Glasby in 2:32 of the championship match. It's the junior's first title at the Big Be...

Dalton Stevens came into the season needing three wins to reach 100 for his career. It didn't take long for the Aitkin Gobbler to reach that milestone. In the Gobblers' season-opening triangular Dec. 4 at Ashland, Wis., Stevens went 2-0 with two quick pins. Then, on Dec. 7, in an 80-0 domination of ...

Blame Tatum Sheley for the burnt nylon smell wafting from the Pine River-Backus gym in the early morning hours. That's where the sophomore forward for the PR-B Tigers spends the beginning of her day working on her perimeter shooting....

Mack Glasby hopes that standing on the podium at the end of a wrestling tournament becomes a habit this season. In the season's first two tournaments, Glasby was on the podium both times, winning the 145-pound title in the Dick Maher Invitational at Blue Earth and finishing second at the Paul Bunyan...

Clint Poster hopes his varsity career ends as it began. The senior for the Pierz Pioneers opened his final high school season by winning his first three matches by pin at the Foley Quadrangular Dec. 4. He's hoping to stay unbeaten like he did as an eighth-grader (37-0) on his way to the 103-pound st...

Rachelle LeBlanc had to relearn how to attack the vault runway without anything in her hands. The Little Falls Flyers freshman gymnast was a state pole vaulter last season, an experience she called one of the best in her young athletic career. But before that, LeBlanc made a name for herself as a gy...