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Homer’s hockey queen

Hockey in Alaska fishing outpost wouldn’t be the same without high-energy, results-driven work of Shelly Laukitis In a stroke of fortune for the isolated Alaskan fishing outpost of Homer, Shelly Laukitis and Kevin Bell Arena arrived in town at nearly the same time, and the two quickly became inseparable. First, Laukitis set about learning to […]

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This Star true to his school

Joseph LaBate remains close with his high school buddies as he works to stick with the Vancouver Canucks .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Former Academy of Holy Angels standout […]

No fear attitude propels Driscoll

Former standout high school and college gymnast Kristin Driscoll now makes an impact as coach, account manager. U.S. gymnastics hero Aly Raisman had her parents – and much of the country – squirming in their seats with each leap, vault and dismount at last summer’s Rio Olympics. Kristin Driscoll never could get her mother to […]

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Natural born puck stopper

Amy Anderson has been a goaltending mainstay since she was 5 It’s minutes before game time and the Snow Owls – a D-League men’s hockey team of SportsEngine employees – fire their practice shots at an empty net. Amy Anderson, the team’s goalie and best player, still hasn’t taken the ice and won’t until moments before […]

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Life is a ‘kick’ for Hanson

All-or-nothing mentality for SportsEngine sales manager led to brief career as yo-yo pro On a slow day at work, 20-year-old Ryan Hanson was killing time – as he often did – by making a mental list of things he was bad at and wanted to improve on. His thoughts drifted to growing up during the height of […]

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Bandy’s growth is put on ice

Sports’ rapid rise in popularity hits roadblock in the shrinking number of regulation rinks During the meat-grinder months of Minnesota winter, when icicles reach from gutters to the ground and clusters of ice fishing houses form small cities on the frozen lakes, there are few people wishing for more ice. Chris Middlebrook is one of […]

Bringing tennis to the masses

Former Wimbledon entrant Laura Kassirer introduces sport to thousands of kids Hours before a flight to Buenos Aires, former professional tennis player Laura Kassirer flipped open a passport that had been rushed to her overnight. Kassirer was startled when she saw a man’s face staring back at her. With a stranger’s passport in her hand, the […]

Ninja-like Erickson has no limits

No task is too big, no goal out of reach for Sport Ngin’s Alec Erickson On the football field, Special Olympics athlete Alec Erickson is described as a ninja. He is quiet and calculated with a tendency to come out of nowhere to catch a pass that wasn’t even intended for him. These qualities were […]

Barbie-free childhood was big hit

As a young superstar Krista Olson insisted on spending all of her free time playing hockey If a seven-year-old Krista Olson (formerly Johnson) had received a Barbie as a holiday gift, she most likely would have brought it to the hockey rink in her suburban Minneapolis neighborhood and slapped it into an open net. Luckily […]

Becoming scholars in a Flash

Colorado Flash Baseball’s Scholarship Program encourages kids to look ahead to their college futures Fourteen-year-old Josh Hojnowski hasn’t taken the ACT, played an inning of varsity baseball or even applied to college, but he already has a $1,000 scholarship waiting for him when he graduates from high school in 2019. However, if he maintains his […]

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