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Minnesota high school softball star, who made varsity as a 12-year-old, also is top student and tireless community volunteer

“When you go and you see these kids and you watch them one week and they can’t even stand up and the next week there is joy and the excitement, it’s awesome,” Murray said. Inclusion program provides boys and girls with a place to try hockey It was a productive hockey season for Pittsburgh I.C.E. […]

Opportunities to try the sport can be rare in inner-city Detroit

Kaposia Pro Shop's Phil Loprinzi adds winter offerings for disc golf fanatics

The players on Swinging Richards try to play in four to five tournaments per year, all south of the Mason-Dixon Line. South Carolina Swinging Richards were in new territory for national championships Ryan Lovette is a true Southerner. Born in Florence, Alabama, and currently living in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the farthest north Lovette had […]

The opportunity to bring her family to PyeongChang in 2018 motivated Greubel Poser to continue competing

“So I’m really proud of not just overcoming that part of my life, but also doing it in the public. It sends a strong message that it is possible.” The wonderful thing about the inspiring — shall we call it Olympian? — story of Mirai Nagasu is that it’s not over. Not even close. Nagasu […]

Maddie Rooney started playing hockey when she was five and switched to being a goalie during her second year of Squirts after finally convincing her dad to let her put the pads on. Maddie Rooney is the first female goaltender from Minnesota to participate in the olympics.  For the first time since 1998, when women’s […]

It is also just as important that if your team wins that celebrating is completely acceptable, but to also be a gracious winner. Sportsmanship is defined as “conduct (such as fairness, respect for one’s opponent, and graciousness in winning or losing) becoming to one participating in a sport.”  It also is a word thrown around a […]