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New rules and regulations await returning shooters
By DAN SORUM
NRHEG Coach
With all the changes going on in the world of high school sports, it is comforting for some athletes to know that clay target shooting will still be offered.
The Minnesota State High School Clay Target League has made significant changes to how the season is run in order to accomodate schools and families in these uncertain times. For example, families and teams will not have to pay registration until the end of the season. That way, if an athlete does not actually compete or a team has to cancel their season ahead of time then they will not owe any money.
Clay target shooting is already a "physically distant" sport with shooters placed at stations more than 6 feet apart and only five athletes, a coach, and scorekeeper are on the field. Additionally, being an outdoor sport which does not involve excessive physical exertion means that a potential virus will not be easy to spread. Still, participants and coaches will wear masks on the trap field for that extra level of precaution. Spectators can physically distance or simply watch from their vehicles and there is no indoor interaction.
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NRHEG grad places in national tourney
STRONG SHOWING — Molly Hlebichuk, left, and Alexis Anderson, runners-up in the women’s B doubles division at the 68th National Handball Collegiate Tournament, proudly show their medals. (Submitted photo)
Alexis Anderson never expected to become a handball player.
But it’s safe to say she’s glad she did.
Anderson, a Minnesota State-Mankato University freshman and a 2019 graduate of NRHEG, competed in the 2020 National Handball Collegiate Tournament at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas on Feb. 19-23. Collegiate handball players representing 36 institutions from around the world participated in the five-day event.
Anderson, who participated in four sports at NRHEG, needed one more credit for her fall quarter at MSU and wanted to stay physically fit, so she decided to sign up for the handball course. Never having played handball, she was excited to try a new sport. When she attended the class, she found out she was the only girl. But that did not bother her. She was up for the challenge.
Anderson’s instructor and MSU’s handball coach, Dr. Michael Wells, saw her playing and was impressed with her skills and asked how long she had been playing handball. He was surprised to hear she had never touched a handball before. He encouraged her to join the MSU handball team and, with his continued persistence, he recruited her for the squad.
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By JACOB TASKER
NRHEG Senior
COVID-19 laid its arms on its first American victim in mid-December 2019. By mid-January, it seemed to be mentioned in every news item. In my economics class, we watch 10 minutes of news a day. By January, we were joking about all the hype we were seeing.
A little while later, we are all locked in our houses. The stores are closed. We students are taking part in a very hastily prepared, imperfect online schooling system. I can’t describe how frustrated I am. I have dedicated a lot of time my whole life preparing for my senior baseball season. Now this virus has canceled that season, taken it away from me with the snap of its figurative fingers. And I’m not the biggest victim: I will have other baseball seasons because I am able to go on to the “next level” and play college baseball. Many of my teammates have been robbed. I cannot help but feel for those whose last pitch, last at-bat, and last “play ball” has been taken away from them so abruptly. Of course life can’t be perfect, but this seems like a mighty big blow at a mighty bad time. It is highly unfortunate this had to happen during my senior year.