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Minnesota is home to the best of the best in college sports
Minnesota could not have as many 5-star recruits in quite a few highschool sports activities as bigger states like California, Florida and Texas, however nobody can query the high-end expertise coming from the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
In actual fact, the argument may be made that the most effective of the most effective in school sports activities in the present day are from Minnesota.
- Greatest wrestler? Gable Steveson
- Greatest girls’s basketball participant? Paige Bueckers
- Greatest males’s basketball participant? Chet Holmgren
- Greatest monitor & area athlete? Joseph Fahnbulleh
- Greatest girls’s swimmer? Regan Smith
- Greatest baseball participant? Drew Gilbert
- Greatest gymnast? Sunisa Lee
There is likely to be extra, however these seven standouts are all from Minnesota and amongst, if not the, most dominant athletes of their respective sport.
Gable Steveson – Apple Valley / Minnesota
Steveson gained 4 state championships at Apple Valley and is the three-time reigning Massive Ten champion and two-time nationwide heavyweight champ with the Gophers. Had it not been for COVID wiping out the top of his sophomore season, he would possibly very properly be the three-time defending nationwide champ. Throw in his gold medal on the Tokyo Olympics and it’s extremely clear that he is the most effective wrestler, not solely in school, however in the whole world.
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Paige Bueckers – Hopkins / UConn
Bueckers was the No. 1 recruit within the nation after main Hopkins to a state championship as a senior. She dominated as a freshman on the College of Connecticut and was named the AP Participant of the 12 months. An harm restricted her as a sophomore, however she nonetheless led UConn to the Remaining 4 earlier than dropping to South Carolina within the nationwide championship recreation in Minneapolis.
Chet Holmgren – Minnehaha Academy / Gonzaga
After successful three straight state championships with Minneapolis-based Minnehaha Academy, Holmgren was the No. 1 recruit within the nation and instantly helped information Gonzaga to the No. 1 seed within the NCAA match. The Zags fell early within the NCAA tourney, however he is now projected to be a top-three decide within the NBA Draft.
Joseph Fahnbulleh – Hopkins / Florida
At simply 19 years previous he completed fifth on the Tokyo Olympics within the 200m dash, and he is contemporary off successful the nationwide championship in each the 100m and 200m sprints as a famous person on the College of Florida. He gained the 200m state championship in Minnesota in 2018 and 2019, and he nonetheless owns the state report within the 200.
Sunisa Lee – South St. Paul / Auburn
After successful gold within the girls’s all-around on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Lee dominated as a freshman at Auburn, the place she captured eight All-America honors and the nationwide championship on the beam.
Drew Gilbert – Stillwater / Tennessee
Gilbert was a left-handed beginning pitcher who threw 95 mph and led Stillwater to a state championship in 2018, when he struck out 15 batters within the title recreation. He is gone on to construct an unbelievable profession at Tennessee, although his season ended Sunday one recreation shy of reaching the Faculty World Sequence. Gilbert hit .362 with 11 homers, 21 doubles, 4 triples and 70 RBIs in 58 video games this season. He is projected by most to be a first-round decide on this summer time’s MLB Draft. D1Baseball.com ranked Gilbert the Twentieth-best school prospect on this yr’s draft.
Regan Smith – Lakeville North / Stanford
Good luck discovering a greater school swimmer than Smith, who gained the NCAA title as a freshman within the 200 backstroke and the 800 freestyle medley. Not a foul follow-up to her 2021 Tokyo Olympics the place she gained the silver within the 200m fly, silver within the 4x100m medley relay and the bronze within the 100m backstroke. The 20-year-old owns the world report within the 200m backstroke, setting it in 2019 when she was 18.
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How to watch the Minnesota (MSHSL) high school football state tournament semifinals
The 2024 Minnesota high school football semifinals are here, and they will take place on Thursday, November 14 to Saturday, Noovember 16.
High School on SI will have scores, schedules and coverage throughout the 2024 MSHSL football playoffs.
How to watch the 2024 MSHSL football state tournament semifinals
You can watch every 2024 MSHSL semifinal game with a subscription to NSPN.tv.
You can also stay on High School on SI’s Minnesota football page to find live score updates of games throughout the semifinals.
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Wife of murdered Minnesota pastor hired 3 men to kill husband after affair: police
The investigation into the violent death of a Minnesota pastor in Angola has taken another shocking twist, with police now saying that the pastor’s wife was having an affair with the couple’s security guard, and she then offered the guard and two others $50,000 to slay her spouse.
Beau Shroyer, 44, a former pastor of Lakes Area Vineyard Church, was found stabbed to death in the African country on Oct. 25. Days later it was revealed that his wife Jackie had been arrested in connection with his death, although the exact circumstances of the nature of his death were scant.
Now police in Angola say they have arrested two of the alleged hitmen, while a third is on the run, according to the Angola Press Agency, a public news agency in Angola. The couple and their five children moved to Angola in 2021 to become missionaries.
WIFE OF PASTOR KILLED ON AFRICAN MISSION ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH DEATH: ‘GIANT SHOCK’
According to the report, the Angolan Criminal Investigation Service says that Jackie was having an affair with Bernadino Elias, 24, who worked at the family’s home as a security guard, and she was upset that the family’s mission was ending and didn’t want to leave.
In a sinister plot, she paid the trio, all of whom had prior criminal records, $50,000 to slay her husband, according to the report.
The diabolical scheme involved the three men hiring a car and pretending the vehicle was having trouble in a remote area in the town of Thienjo, Palanca.
They called Beau, who arrived in his jeep, and the three suspects then stabbed him to death, per the report.
Police released an image of Elias with his alleged accomplice, Isalino Kayoo, 23, outside a police station.
They were pictured standing in front of the blue rental car and Beau’s white SUV. A picture from inside Beau’s white SUV shows a bloodstained front seat and binoculars.
Police say they recovered an American-made knife that had been gifted to Elias at the scene. The knife was displayed on a table along with cash and a cell phone.
Manuel Halaiwa, the CIS Superintendent of Criminal Investigation, says that the motives for the crime were “strong suspicions of a romantic relationship between the person who ordered the crime and her accomplice, the guard and the couple’s residence,” per The Angola Press Agency.
MINNESOTA MISSIONARY, A FATHER OF 5, KILLED IN ‘ACT OF VIOLENCE’ IN ANGOLA
The State Department confirmed Beau’s death to Fox News Digital but was unable to provide further details due to privacy considerations.
“We extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased,” a State Department spokesperson said.
Beau previously described the area that the family moved to as a “remote bush village” with no electricity, sewer or water systems. In a Facebook post on the day before his death, Shroyer wrote that the Nyneka people they were serving “are among the most marginalized people groups in Angola,” after he came across a young person called “Mauricio” who was walking to school nearly two hours before class started.
Shroyer worked for the Detroit Lakes Police Department in 2013 before becoming a real estate agent in the area.
In a previous press release, Lakes Area Vineyard Church Lead Pastor Troy Easton said that the religious community was in shock to hear about Beau’s death and Jackie’s subsequent arrest,
He said that the missionaries there — SIM USA and SIM Angola — were caring for the couple’s five children. It is unclear if the children are still in Africa.
David Dorman, who worked with Beau Shroyer in real estate for years before Shroyer decided to leave for Africa, tells Fox News Digital that Beau was “a wonderful person.
“Not sure I’ve ever met a more selfless human,” Dorman told Fox News Digital. “The courage it took to take this leap to begin with was something I’ve admired for years. He loved people and genuinely cared about those less privileged. It’s been a giant shock to the core to see this unfold this way.”
Dorman said Beau’s passion to help those less well-off was prevalent even in the real estate industry, where the pair worked on several complex and difficult transactions together.
“Beau was special. Beau went the extra mile for clients… He was a true partner and loved what he did. His attitude was infectious and I genuinely loved working with him,” said Dorman, who added he would often drive for three hours to meet Beau for closings and have a meal together afterward.
“He was one of the true ‘good guys’ in real estate. This is far less common than you might think. I’ve been doing this for 13 years and he stood out for all the right reasons. A true servant in a sea of snakes. 100% a client advocate. The lengths I watched him go to for his clients was something of legend. No one went the extra mile more than him.”
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Beau would give regular email updates about their mission, highlighting the ups and downs, some of which Dorman shared with Fox News Digital.
“We are currently living in a house in the missionary complex in Lubango. It’s a big change from living in the middle of the neighborhood Senhora Do Monte,” an email update from April reads. He said the family at the time was “settled in and loving it,” and also mentioned they were returning to Detroit Lakes last summer.
A video online shows the couple speaking of their mission at one of those gatherings. They then returned to Angola before the Oct. 25 incident unfolded.
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