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The North Lakes Academy baseball team only won one game in 2016. The Huskies will look to increase that number as they contend with their first season in the Twin Cities Athletic Conference – though, unlike with some other sports, that move will give the Huskies a schedule that will be largely unchanged from years past, featuring familiar opponents like Liberty Classical, Nova Classical, and PACT Charter.
“We’re looking to improve this year,” first-year head coach Forrest Florczak said. “We have a couple of guys returning who are looking pretty solid, and some young guys coming up who are looking sharper and sharper every day.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
Senior pitcher and infielder Jeremy Knutson, who has committed to play college ball for Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, will be the key player on this year’s team.
“He’s been hitting it hard in the offseason, putting more velocity on his fastball,” Florczak

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When head coach Chelsie Thielen started the North Lakes track program five years ago, there were only six athletes on the team. The school had a dearth of equipment and had to practice when and where it could.
“I forgot to bring the shots to the first meet, if that’s any indication,” Thielen said.broadstreet.zone(48036);
This year, the roster lists 22 athletes.
There is still no track on the North Lakes campus. The Huskies practice off-campus on a cinder track – a surface that was considered obsolete for high-level use by the late 1960s. The program pays to utilize the track at Chisago Lakes a few days out of the season.
“We have high aspirations of getting high jump and long jump pits,” assistant coach Tom Lutes said. “There’s a lot of things we’d like to have if we allow ourselves to dream a little bit. In the meantime, we’ve become very

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Forest Lake synchronized swimming coach Laura Davison has been involved with the team for 20 of its 24 years. Davison was a swimmer on the team when it was inaugurated in 1994, and apart from a four-year layoff for college, she has been an athlete or coach ever since.
In that time, the Rangers have developed into one of the state’s best programs and become a fixture at the state meet: A year ago, the Rangers placed third overall.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“We’ve been consistently in the top three in the state behind Wayzata and Stillwater,” Davison said.
The Rangers have already contested three figure meets, where swimmers perform individual maneuvers for judges and score points toward a team total. The Rangers defeated Columbia Heights and Osseo-Maple Grove, and took a one-point loss to Stillwater.
“We lost, but if you look at the top 20 places, we took 12,” Davison said.
With the figure portion of the

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