Huskies in the news

Sam Price has been waiting a long time for this. The former St. Cloud State women’s basketball standout recently signed a professional contract with Thessaloniki (Greece) of the Greek A2 League.

This week’s hints of rising interest rates shouldn’t alarm consumers, even though lower rates are good for stocks, businesses and home loans. “For consumers, the rate of borrowing will stay low, and may even stay relatively flat,” said St. Cloud State University economics professor King Banaian.

St. Cloud State Professor Tomasz Piotr (Peter) Przytula joined Zagajewski for the Thursday panel at St. Cloud State University. Originally from Poland, Przytula said interacting with Zagajewski was wonderful.

St. Cloud State University social work students handled registration and helped people figure out where they could find help. They also manned a few booths Project Homeless Connect on Thursday.

Congratulations to the St. Cloud State University wrestling team on winning the NCAA Division II national championship Saturday in St. Louis. It is the first time St. Cloud State has won a national championship in any sport, any division. But this victory wasn’t a fluke.

The school honored the team with a short celebration and program Tuesday afternoon at the Atwood Center. Around 300 people came to watch a video of the championship run and hear from the team’s head coach, Steve Costanzo, and the Huskies’ six All-Americans.

The St. Cloud State University Wrestling Team celebrated not only their first, but the University’s first National Championship in school history. SCSU Athletic Director Heather Weems was at the Wrestling Championships, and says it was great to watch the team’s hard work pay off.

Eden Prairie sisters Alicia and Jessica Shuman have taken a big-sister-little-sister coaching dynamic to college. Alicia, the big sister, cheered for the Eden Prairie High School hockey team before cheering four years for Division I St. Cloud State University.

Tim Prescott won the 125-pound national title for St. Cloud State on Saturday night in St. Louis, Missouri. The Huskies team won its first championship the same night. It was the first national team championship the school has ever won.

The Huskies claimed the NCAA Division II crown, while the Auggies added a 12th national title in Division III. The Gophers will try to make it a sweep this weekend.

The St. Cloud State wrestling team accomplished a first for the school Saturday night. The program won the school’s first national championship in any sport by claiming the Division II national wrestling championship at Chaifetz Arena.

Dave Harris has been named the new dean of the Herberger Business School at St. Cloud State University. Harris will start June 22.

St. Cloud State University student Britton Mikkelson found out about the trip on the social media site Tumblr and took a train from Minnesota to St. Louis in order to join in.

At St. Cloud State, more than 900 students came in for counseling in the 2013-14 school year, a 50 percent increase from 10 years earlier. The number of total sessions doubled over the same time frame.

St. Cloud State University is trying to help young people prepare for interviews, among other problems.

Thy Yang moved to St. Cloud about seven months ago to become St. Cloud State University’s associate vice president for International Studies. She oversees a program that has 1,100 international students from more than 90 countries and 300 St. Cloud State students who are studying abroad.

Each fall, spring and summer semester, a new group of excited American students lands in Alnwick to experience the UK at its best. All of the students are from Minnesota and most are studying mass communications at St. Cloud State University.

The St. Cloud State wrestling team qualified six wrestlers for the Division II National Championships on Sunday afternoon at the Super Region 3 meet at the Taylor Center on the campus of Minnesota State-Mankato.

St. Cloud State men’s basketball coach Matt Reimer had a lot on his shoulders in trying to replace Kevin Schlagel this season. Reimer worked under Schlagel for 17 seasons as his top assistant and had to create his own blueprint for guiding the program.

The hotel company owned by entrepreneur and one-time congressional candidate Jim Graves has been chosen to build a new hotel at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

A Minneapolis resident and St. Cloud State University graduate, Jillian Rae will play Thursday at the Loon’s Nest in downtown St. Cloud.

Student Jessie Wade has started a campaign called #CoverItUp to get young women to think before they post.

Parker Schulz shrugged, looking out from underneath his freshly autographed orange hat. He had spent the past 30 minutes bowling with St. Cloud State University baseball players, high-fiving and smiling almost the whole time.

A St. Cloud-area health movement is asking businesses to put wellness on the front burner for the next six years. That pitch came Thursday at the Workplace Well-Being Summit, sponsored by the Greater St. Cloud Development Corp., CentraCare Health and St. Cloud State University.

His love of mushing stems from his love of huskies. “I was a senior at St. Cloud State when I picked up my first husky, which was a Samoyed,” he said. “Most of my first huskies were rescues.”