Totino-Grace Football Team Rallying Around Classmate With Cancer
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Starting next week, Friday nights will be about football for many high schools across the state. But this week, a metro high school is rallying around one of their own in an...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 4, Previewing ‘The Big 4′
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Another huge week in high school football is set to kick off in Minnesota Friday night with several top teams facing each other. We’re now at the midpoint of the season for most...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 5, Previewing ‘The Big 4′
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s hard to believe we are halfway through the high school football season in Minnesota. We are four weeks in, and there’s four weeks left to go before we get into the playoff...
View ArticleHigh School Sports Rally: Sept. 26, 2014
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It was the mid-term exam in high school football Friday night. And in some cases, conference titles were on the line. If you weren’t able to make it any of the great high school...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 6, Previewing ‘The Big 4′
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s yet another huge week in high school football in Minnesota as we are in Week 6. There are three games to go for most teams before we enter the postseason, which means every...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Section Championships, Previewing ‘The Big 4′
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s one of the best weeks of the Minnesota high school football landscape. Not only is it the playoffs with the season on the line, but state tournament bids are at stake. Every...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Previewing The Prep Bowl At TCF Bank Stadium
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s state championship week in high school football, what every kid who ever puts on pads and a helmet dreams about. It’s also a bittersweet time for coaches and players because...
View ArticleEden Prairie Beats Totino-Grace 28-27 In Class 6A
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Will Rains ran for a 75-yard touchdown with 2:46 to play and Eden Prairie rallied to win its fourth straight Class 6A title with a 28-27 victory over Totino-Grace Friday night. It’s...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Minnesota Transitions Event Highlights Weekend Match-Ups
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The football season is over and the trophies for seven state champions are now resting quietly in their school’s cases. We’re now transitioning to winter, which means a move to...
View ArticleTotino Student Who Died Of Cancer Honored With ‘Spirit Of Sport’ Award
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150313232132550AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Totino Grace student who captured the spirit of her high school football team has been given an award after...
View ArticleHigh School Launches Anti-Bullying ‘We Don’t Say’ Program
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150429183745987AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Some Twin Cities students are speaking up about bullying by staying silent. Totino-Grace High School in...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Previewing Last Year’s 6A State Football Field
We’re approaching the end of July and the Minnesota State Fair isn’t even here yet, but there’s already plenty of football talk happening. The Vikings have started training camp, the Gophers are about...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 1, Previewing ‘The Big 4’
High school football is back. There isn’t a much better concept for football fans than watching their favorite prep teams under the lights on Friday nights. Except this week, it all starts on Saturday...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 4, Previewing ‘The Big 4’
School just got started for everyone across Minnesota, but the high school football season is already well underway. After this week’s action, the season will be half over. It’s Week 4 in prep football...
View ArticlePrep Blog: State Quarterfinals, Previewing ‘The Big 4’
You know we’re in the heart of the fall season when it’s the end of October and we’ve already seen our first snow fall. It wasn’t significant Wednesday, but at least a few flakes fell around most of...
View ArticleFamily: Isanti Man, 20, Suffers Spine Injury Playing Hockey For Chicago Team
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — An Isanti man suffered a “serious spinal injury” while playing hockey for a Chicago team Sunday, according to his family. On CaringBridge, the family of 20-year-old Matt Olson says...
View ArticleTotino-Grace Honors Student Severely Injured In Hockey Game
FRIDLEY, Minn. (WCCO) — Totino-Grace High School is showing support for a local hockey player who was severely injured in a game a few weeks ago. Matt Olson played hockey for the Totino-Grace Eagles...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 7, Previewing ‘The Big 4’
There are just two weeks left in the regular season for high school football, and things are heating up as teams pursue district championships and home playoff games. It’s a crucial last two weeks for...
View ArticleTotino-Grace Seeking Title In First State Softball Tournament Since 2011
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The weather looks great all week long for three state high school tournaments. State boys tennis, state track and field for boys and girls and girls softball all take place this...
View ArticleUnbeaten Owatonna To Face Tough Totino-Grace
OWATONNA, Minn. (WCCO) – High-powered and highly-rated Totino-Grace will take on Owatonna this Saturday. The Huskies come in unbeaten. They’ve changed some things because of something in Oregon. But...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Recapping The Prep Bowl Winners
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s hard to believe that the high school football season has come to an end. Seven football teams celebrated championship seasons between the Friday and Saturday’s Prep Bowl games...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Top Weekend Match-Ups
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Conference play is just a different animal in sports, no matter what level we’re talking about. But especially in high school, more and more conferences seem to balance out in...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Boys Hockey Section Final Friday
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The field for one of the most highly anticipated state tournaments will be set before the weekend is over. The boys State Hockey Tournament is always one of the most-watched and...
View ArticleGood Question: Do Private Schools Have An Advantage In H.S. Sports?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — On a night that a private school shut-out a public school 12-0 in the state Class A boys hockey tournament, it’s no surprise an old debate in Minnesota high school sports would...
View ArticleMN Private Schools At Odds With Anti-Bullying Bill
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — Some Minnesota Catholic schools are now urging parents not to support an anti-bullying bill at the State Capitol, concerned over the bill’s apparent lack of input from private...
View ArticleTotino-Grace President Resigns After Announcing Same-Sex Relationship
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) — William Hudson has voluntarily resigned as the president of Totino-Grace High School after informing the school that he is in a committed same-sex relationship, the school...
View Article17-Year-Old Battles Cancer, Gets A Wish & Pays It Forward
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Aimee Jo Ashford was diagnosed with ovarian cancer earlier this year, and credits her friends in the show choir for getting her through her battle. So when a wish-granting charity...
View ArticlePrep Blog: A Northwest Suburban Conference Football Preview
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – We’re in the heart of the summer, which means most high school kids are working full-time jobs or taking family vacations. A few of the state’s best football players have the sport...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 2, Previewing ‘The Big 4’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s another big week in high school football across the Twin Cities as now every team has a game under their belt and tangible film to look at. Now we’re in Week 2. Some teams are...
View ArticleFired Totino-Grace Teacher: ‘I’m Not Ashamed Of Having Said I’m Gay’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A former Catholic school teacher and campus minister opened up Wednesday night after losing her job at a school she still loves. Kristen Ostendorf still has strong feelings for...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 5 Top Performances
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Just when we thought the prep football landscape was starting to take shape this season, we were thrown a few curve balls last week. There are just a few weeks left in the regular...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 6, Previewing ‘The Big 4’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – There is yet another huge Friday night on our hands in high school football across Minnesota as we’re turning the corner on the regular season. It’s hard to believe that just three...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Week 8, Previewing ‘The Big 4’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s hard to believe the final week of the regular season is here, but that means it won’t be long before some players are handing over their pads after season-ending losses. This...
View ArticleICYMI: High School Sports Rally: Oct. 25, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It’s that time of year. Playoff season. The game now is win or go home. And Friday night, Minnesota teams tasted both victory and defeat. For our featured game, we sent David McCoy...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Top State Quarterfinal Football Match-Ups
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – There are 56 high school football teams still playing in Minnesota, and all of them will be in action between Thursday and Saturday night as the state playoffs get underway at...
View ArticleHigh School Sports Rally: Nov. 8, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The state football tournament is well underway, but one of the biggest stories of the day had to do with Minnesota basketball talent. Reid Travis, a five-star recruit out of...
View ArticlePrep Blog: State Semifinals, Previewing ‘The Big 4’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s state semifinals weekend in high school football, which means last week’s 56-team state tournament field has been cut in half. There are 28 teams left in the state that still...
View ArticleHeath Officials: 75 People Likely Got Norovirus At H.S. Football Banquet
A celebration of a successful high school football season ended with dozens of players sick. The Health Department says at least 75 people who went to the Totino-Grace High School team banquet likely...
View ArticlePrep Blog: Edina, East Grand Forks Are State Hockey Favorites
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – When the puck drops Wednesday morning at Xcel Energy Center, it’ll mark one of the most exciting and entertaining weeks of state tournament action. Between two classes, 16 of the...
View ArticleBack To School: Thousands Of Minnesota Students Return Back To The Classrooms
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It’s a day that this past spring, may have seemed far off — but thousands of students walked back into their schools Monday. WCCO was there to see how one high school did on day...
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