Hot Mic with Dom Izzo: North Dakota’s youth sports movement

Summer season is recruiting season and I have been reminded a number of instances over the previous couple of weeks.

The longer term is shiny in North Dakota.

Neglect this 12 months’s upcoming seniors, the place Sheyenne’s Karter Menz has already dedicated to play soccer at Minnesota, let’s look past him.

There are two gamers who simply accomplished their sophomore years of highschool, Riley Sunram of Kindred and Nate Tastad of Rolette that every have scholarship presents to play for the Bison. NDSU has by no means supplied sophomores within the Division 1 period earlier than these two.

Shanley’s Tommy Simon is the subsequent large factor in baseball within the state. Simon is among the key items of the Fargo Submit 2 group that hasn’t misplaced a convention recreation. Simon has already dedicated to play baseball within the Huge Ten for Nebraska.

Basketball is overflowing proper now. Minot’s Maggie Fricke simply received the Class A event MVP as an eighth grader. Who is aware of the place her profession is heading. And Fargo North’s Jeremiah Sem and Carter Zeller have tantalizing expertise, they’ve school coaches combating to get to the entrance of the road.

If you happen to had been questioning what sort of affect a Carson Wentz, Lauren Ware or Amy Olson would have on the youth of North Dakota, that is it. And it seems the expertise is not stopping any time quickly.