The Star Tribune’s All-Metro honor for high school sports excellence dates back to the mid-1980s. For 40 years, we have selected All-Metro Players of the Year and named All-Metro First and Second Teams in several sports. Future Miami Hurricane and Dallas Cowboy Steve Walsh of Cretin Durham Hall was named our first All-Metro Player of the Year in football in 1984. Early basketball winners were future Gophers stars Kevin Lynch (Bloomington-Jefferson, 1987) and Shannon Lovrien (St. Paul Harding). , 1990 and 1991). The All-Metro name served us well. And now the time for a new era has come.
This year, the Star Tribune is further investing in community coverage across Minnesota, and our high school reporting team is making a similar new commitment to cover student-athletes and teams across the state. The movements match. Readers can watch Star Tribune journalists select 25 players in each team sport from across the state to form these teams, starting today with the Minnesota women’s and men’s All-Minnesota Soccer Teams. It will be. As we continue to name our Player of the Year, this young man or woman could live in Ely, Edina, Edgerton, Eagan, or somewhere in between.
We hope you like this all-Minnesota change. You’ll probably like even more the other changes that are in the works or coming soon. They include:
If you have any questions about our new approach, please email chris.carr@startribune.com. You can also contact our prep coverage team at any time by emailing preps@startribune.com.
Congratulations to the first batch of student-athletes on the All-Minnesota team today. You earned that name. It’s new, but it fits perfectly.
