Swinney will join his older brother, offensive lineman Bastian, at the University of California, Berkley. He would first like to take care of unfinished business with the Hornets. They would like to take that final step after finishing as the state tournament runner-up a year ago.
“Beating Eden Prairie was a step in the right direction,” Swinney said. “This team has something special.”
Annika Swenson of Lakeville North
Lakeville North • girls volleyball
The senior hitter and her top-ranked Panthers (9-0) are playing at a high level, beating Class 4A No. 2 Champlin Park for a second time to win the Minnesota Southwest Challenge in Marshall. The Panthers have defeated four other ranked teams this season. Swenson, a 5-11 team captain bound for Concordia (St. Paul), has 105 kills on 228 attempts for a hitting percentage of .360. “Annika has been a steady and dynamic attacker,” Lakeville North coach Jackie Richter said. “Her exceptional work ethic, power and explosiveness is hard to defend.”
Marshall • boys cross country
Coming off an injury and feeling under the weather, Deutz turned in a school record-setting performance. The junior won the Augustana Twilight meet with a time of 15 minutes, 14.99 seconds over a 5K course in Sioux Falls, S.D. It bested the time of 15:16.50 set by Yahya Iman in the state meet in 2003. “If you would have asked me prior to the race how it would go, I would not have imagined this outcome,” Marshall coach Brian Leibfried said. “Sam was unable to race in our first meet due to an injury and on top of that he was a bit sick just before the start of this race, so we were not quite sure how things would play out for him. Sam’s race shattered the expectations.”