I have been rather busy on the home front, but a concerted effort on the sports front has paid dividends. I am excited that recruiting efforts for the girls' golf team paid off with a commitment from a fourth student! This becomes official tomorrow with the opening day of girls' golf practice. It is also terribly exciting to see the two golf simulators that are now in full use at the Lucky Shots Bowling Alley in Brooten. This is an outstanding asset to our community! The high school golf teams will be able to utilize them as part of their preseason training.
That's all I've got right now. We had a great day of Easter on Sunday. I hope you did too.
Not surprisingly...due to the snow we got last week, the fastpitch and track and field teams will not begin their seasons tomorrow. The track and field teams have had one indoor scrimmage, which was a couple weeks ago if I remember correctly. I hope in another week, we'll finally be talking about outdoor spring sports competitions!
Tuesday night update:
The spring sports got back into the swing of things today now that we're on the back side of Easter. The fastpitch squads practiced indoors and outdoors at the elementary school. They have a robust number of 41 girls in their grades 7-12 ranks. In grades 7-11, they have 38 players, which is truly outstanding. This marks the largest number of girls in the fastpitch program since 2012. Awesome! Three senior players are on the varsity team: Brooklyn Fischer, Anna Jaeger and Faith Radermacher. On the other end of the program, the junior high team is composed solely of seventh graders. Their team has 15 players, which is also really terrific. One player remains out due to a knee injury, so their number should include 16 players next spring when they're in eighth grade. The seventh graders are coached by B-B-E Class of 2021 graduate Josie Knutson. Her dad, Brian, is a dear friend of mine. We grew up on Norway Lake Township dairy farms separated by just a mile "as the crow flies".
I hope to catch up with baseball and track and field later this week. First, I have another newspaper to publish!
