There wasn’t much hockey talk at the Althaus dinner table leading up to the Tech/Apollo hockey game on Tuesday. The fact that parents Jeff and Karen were both going to be at the National Hockey Center for the game was a given.
Location: GreyStone Nordic Ski Trails located near the St. Cloud Correctional Facility.
Race Course: Consisted of a beautiful rolling course through the woods with some very challenging uphills and fast descents.
Course length consisted of a length of 3.1 kilometers. All categories of skiers navigated this terrain for two laps except the Junior High School racers of which did one lap.
The High School Football season begins Friday for the majority of the area schools. Every year is different and every team is different but tradition and tradition of success remains. After looking at the schedules and knowing what each team has back I like the prospects of St. Cloud Tech in 2012. I expect the Tigers to finish the regular season with with record of 7-1 and be the #1 seed in their newly formed section.
St. Cloud Tech has hired Joel Heitkamp as their new head boys hockey coach. Heitkamp replaces Neil Andruschak who resigned after 3 seasons with a record of 41-35-4. Andruschak teaches at Little Falls and has been traveling to St. Cloud to coach Tech.
St. Cloud Tech recent graduate Kevin Heysse will play basketball at St. John's University starting in 2012-2013. Heysse is a 6'6 forward who was a solid rebounder, shot blocker and 3-point shooter at Tech. He was a all conference performer in the Central Lakes Conference for 2 seasons and started for Tech for the past 3 years. Tech was 15-12 in 2011-2012.