Huskies in the news

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.”

A relatively little-known case — despite critical acclaim for Fedo’s book — is about to get more exposure. St. Cloud State University’s KVSC 88.1 FM will air a docudrama Sunday called “Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings.” Fedo wrote the script for the hourlong program.

On Saturday, like a certain cereal-seeking rabbit, St. Cloud State University students will try to prove some things aren’t just for kids. The school will host a robotics competition, a VEX U regional qualifier, starting at 10 a.m. It will bring college teams from around Minnesota and a few other Midwest states to Halenbeck Hall ...

… Four years earlier, a St. Cloud State University study reported that 97 percent of voters of color found using a ranked ballot simple — compared to a still-impressive 94 percent of white voters.

St. Cloud State has overcome an uneven start to the season to surge back into the meat of the Pairwise and the league standings.

Fashion shows aren’t stereotypically the place to find diverse body shapes and positive body images. The Delta Phi Epsilon sorority at St. Cloud State University aims to change that.

This is part of an assignment for SW 642-Advanced Policy Practice course students who were challenged to write and publish their policy advocacy themes concerning burning issues affecting our community and state.

Spring break starts for St. Cloud State University students Quentin Super and Ryan Brandenburg on March 6, and they’ve got big plans. But theirs don’t involve Florida, or Mexico, or anyplace with a beach or warm weather. They’re going on a four-day bike ride. From St. Cloud to Winnipeg, Manitoba, 396 miles away — to ...

Two federal government agencies have again recognized St. Cloud State University for its information assurance programs.