Unexpected snow affects spring sports
Jameson Stahl and Lilly Sample
April 22, 2018
Filed under Sports
Spring is the time of year when the temperature begins to rise, snow starts melting, and patches of grass become visible again. The warmer weather means the spring sports season is beginning, and teams hit the fields to practice. Minnesota, known for its outrageous winters, is seeming to have one that ...
Boys, girls track look to follow up last year’s run
Jameson Stahl, Online Editor
April 7, 2018
Filed under Featured Videos, Sports, Spring Sports
Track and field season is about to jump off the gun, and this year's group of Ponies are looking to bolt ahead. The girls and boys team were successful last year, and are looking to back that up. Long distance running is the team's strength, while events in the field lack the depth the runners have. &n...
With core intact, softball looking to make run
Abby Begin, Read and Watch Field Reporter
April 4, 2018
Filed under Sports, Spring Sports
With many returning starters and a new coach, the softball team is ready to embark on a season; one with high expectations. After coming up just short last year, they're hungry for one goal this season: state. ...
Minnesota female athletes inspire future generations
Logan Huber, Distribution Reporter
March 25, 2018
Filed under Sports
Many students have important people in their lives who they like to call role models. Whether it is in sports, academics, music or just in life in general, these are people others look up to and inspire them. Many students have been inspired and affected by the athletes of the United States in t...
Best friends take state, college baseball scouts by storm
Will Gleason, Photography Editor
March 19, 2018
Filed under Sports, Spring Sports
The chances that any given baseball player makes it to the Division 1 level is 2.8 percent. Two students have overcome those odds and are committed to Division 1 schools to further both their academic and baseball careers. Junior Will Frisch is committed to Texas Christian University in Fort Worth T...
Boys tennis ready for run to state tournament
Aubrey Kelley, Photography Editor
March 18, 2018
Filed under Sports, Spring Sports
The boys tennis team is waiting in anticipation to finally practice alongside their coach and teammates for the first time in months. Throughout the winter, the boys have been individually practicing in facilities across the metro area. They are looking forward to playing together within their own facil...
CHAMPS: Gymnastics posts school record score to win state title
Hunter Hippel, Online Editor-in-Chief
March 7, 2018
Filed under Showcase, Sports, Winter Sports
If the Stillwater gymnastics team was going to have its best performance of the season, then the 2018 Class 2A State Tournament was the time to do it. The Ponies posted a team score of 150.25, their highest total not only of the season, but in school history. That was good enough to take the State...
Boys hockey hopes to add banner during youth movement
Jack Seipel, Social Media Editor
March 2, 2018
Filed under Showcase, Sports, Winter Sports
The varsity boys hockey team has created waves across the state of hockey this season. Their relentlessness and willingness to win is evident, despite being undersized and inexperienced. Starting out the 2017-2018 season on a six game winning streak has shown that the Ponies’ winning mentality has not disappe...
Pratt, Scalia carry girls basketball team
Hunter Hippel, Online Editor-in-Chief
March 1, 2018
Filed under Sports, Winter Sports
As she dribbles the ball up the court, junior Sara Scalia scans the defense. She's looking at the match ups and the positioning of her teammates. Then she checks her own. What she does next is unpredictable. Scalia could dump the ball off to her teammate on the wing and cut towards the...
Pony Powerhouse: Wrestlers succeeding once again
Ben Recksiedler, Distribution Reporter
March 1, 2018
Filed under Sports, Winter Sports
The Stillwater boys wrestling team has become one of the powerhouses in the state of Minnesota for the past couple of years. Last season the wrestling team made it all the way to the state tournament, and all of the wrestlers are working very hard to try and replicate last year’s success....
McAllister leads new adapted hockey team
Andrew Phan, Photography Editor
February 28, 2018
Filed under Sports, Winter Sports
New to the Ponies athletic department is the adapted hockey team, a squad of students with special needs who competed in floor hockey competitors versus other schools. The team is still gaining recognition and momentum, but that has not slowed them down at all....
Gymnastics sets eyes on state tournament
Madison Weispfenning, Editorial Cartoonist
February 19, 2018
Filed under Sports, Winter Sports
The gymnastics team has been one of Minnesota's best this year, currently ranked No.1 in the state. Led by coaches Dusty Dennis and Traci Swenson, experience is everywhere, from the coaching staff to the team itself....