Huskies in the news

Visitors to practice are nothing out of the ordinary for college basketball teams. But the St. Cloud State men’s team had a rather unique one 50 years ago this week.

It had already been a pretty memorable season for Sartell/Sauk Rapids girls hockey assistant coach Alex Nelson ’14, even before the Storm’N Sabres qualified for the program’s first state tournament with a 2-0 win over Roseau in the Section 8-2A final Friday night in Detroit Lakes.

They come from countries ravaged for decades by war. They’ve been displaced for months or years in a refugee camp in a foreign land. They are whisked away to far corners of the earth, often without their entire family.

Being inside St. Cloud State University’s 3D printing lab is like getting a glimpse of the future.

A new patrol deputy with the Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office is looking to incorporate her outgoing personality and friendly nature into her new position. Whitney Paulson, 22, will patrol county roads, conduct traffic stops and respond to calls for services.

Like salmon returning to their spawning ground, lovers of trivia are returning to St. Cloud this weekend for the annual trivia weekend on KVSC, the St. Cloud State University radio station.

Teresa Bohnen ’81 ’84, president of the St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce, will serve a one-year term as vice president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Executives (MCCE). She will take over as MCCE chair in January 2017.

Elizabeth Valencia-Borgert, organizer and community outreach director for the Center for Continuing Studies, is helping lead the Latino Health Fair Feb. 7 in Melrose.

Retired athletic media relations chief Anne Abicht ’06 earns another award for her pioneering work in women’s intercollegiate athletics.

Paintings on acrylic paper and wood are giving new life to unnoticed and old books. Meet Holly DeGrote ’03, grant-winning and exhibiting artist from Sheldon, Iowa.

St. Cloud has made a national list for one of the top 10 hockey towns to live in.

Emmanuel Oppong ’13, director of social action for the Zeta Nu Sigma chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, is helping gather water and donations for people in Flint, Michigan.

Jessica (Schott) Bitz ’03 is the new second-in-command at Falcon National Bank. As market president she is in line to succeed John Herges ’72 ’77, president and chief executive.

Kate Pound, geology professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Hydrologic Sciences, is searching the bottom of Lake Victoria, east of Alexandria, for evidence of a mass bison kills. Earth science major Jen Wyers, Minnetonka, is using the suspected bison kill-site as her senior research project.

No. 3 men’s Huskies Hockey (22-5-1) won the North Star College Cup in St. Paul, defeating Minnesota State Mankato Saturday and Bemidji State Sunday. Frosh forward Mikey Eyssimont (Littleton, Colorado) was named MVP at the annual tournament of Minnesota’s NCAA Division I hockey schools.

Three-time All-American Clint Poster and No. 2 Huskies Wrestling will compete against Southwest Minnesota State in a doubleheader of high school and college wrestling Feb. 5 in Pierz. Poster is an entrepreneurship major from Pierz.

Stephen Philion, sociology professor, contributed to a MPR News story about challenges Muslims face praying in the workplace.

Let’s show Minnesota that St. Cloud State is the best university in the state!

Haji Yusuf ’09 was shopping at a grocery store here when he saw a white woman accuse the East African immigrants in the checkout lane of belonging to an Islamic terrorist group. “Get out of our country! I don’t want you here!” he recalled her saying.

The first time Charlie Lindgren played goalie as a kid, he said he let in 13 goals. Things have gotten better for Lindgren between the pipes. He is allowing fewer than two goals per game and is 19-5-1 in his junior season at St. Cloud State.

With a new trail hugging the riverbank through downtown St. Cloud, I’m hoping to make 2016 the “Year of the Mississippi.” My top goal is to renew a past passion for riding along the Beaver Island Trail, which overlooks many of the islands south of St. Cloud State University.

St. Cloud State University students and the campus publication received five awards Thursday in the newspaper association’s college contest.

Four local Somali residents took part in a community discussion about living in Minnesota as a Muslim, challenges they face and what the next steps are to bring together community.

On Saturday, the convention center will simultaneously host the high school event and the largest VEX U regional qualifier in the country. Seven regional teams are set to join two each from SCTCC and St. Cloud State University in trying to earn tickets to the world championship, which is a prize for younger teams, too.

GREAT is collaborating with St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids-Rice school districts and St. Cloud State University on an exhibit/virtual tour/educational talk at the university to further explore Frank’s story, which has been in print for almost 70 years.