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DSU senior Jennifer Hartman will cap an outstanding 2-sport career this weekend at NAIA track and field championships

Jennifer Hartman has left a unique legacy in four years at Dickinson State. Though never a NAIA All-America selection — at least not yet — Hartman has made a name for herself as a two-sport standout, scholar-athlete, school-record holder and, probably most of all, one of the happiest people ever to grace Wienbergen Hall.

• Jennifer Hartman

Gawryluk earns first Street Stocks feature win in Southwest Speedway opener

Monte Gawryluk is a savvy buyer and Josh Olheiser is shaking his head about the sale he made.

• Olheiser and Gawryluk

Bronte adds 6 transfers to Hawks

The excitement for the 2012 volleyball season is clear in Maura Bronte’s voice.

Dickinson’s Cole Lewis eyeing a Southwest Speedway championship in the Pure Stocks

Chad Jahner is all but certain he isn’t going to repeat as the Southwest Speedway’s season champion in the Pure Stocks class. He’s calling his cousin, Cole Lewis, the favorite.

• Cole Lewis

Record round: Trinity sets school record with 297 to win Region 5 tourney

SOUTH HEART — Dickinson Trinity had been waiting all season for Connor Friske to do what he did Tuesday.

• Lance Pender

Dickinson splits with Minot Ryan

There were two sides to the Dickinson High softball team on Tuesday afternoon.

• Kelsey Lafond

Honeyman sets top mark in triple jump

Abby Honeyman wanted to reach 36 feet in the triple jump by the end of the season.

• Taylor Boster

Chris Carlson, one of Dickinson area’s greatest athletes, dies at age 41

Chris Carlson simultaneously led a blessed and troubled life.

• Chris Carlson
• Carlson

Many Blue Hawks hit their marks, despite wind, at final regular-season meet

Thursday started out as a beautiful day for a track and field meet. Then, as it does in southwest North Dakota, the wind picked up.

• Willis, Hartman named DSU seniors athletes of the year
• Brady Sundheim
• Marissa Stanton

Dickinson State inks local basketball players Northrop, Wolf

Ty Orton has a feeling about the two players he signed Thursday.

• Nick Wolf and Dylan Northrop

Columns

Monke: New age minimum would help NBA

For as much grief as he gets, National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern is onto something with his latest proposal to increase the league’s minimum age limit to 20.

Monke: Get used to Carroll, and the rest of the Frontier

Get ready, folks. What you see today at Badlands Activities Center is just a preview of what could be in store for the Dickinson State football team when it officially joins the Frontier Conference next season.

Coaches say 2 schools, 1 man set foundation for success in New England

Today, New England has a population of 555. In the past four decades, the small southwestern North Dakota town has produced almost as many successful coaches.

Kyle Carlson to join father in Hall of Fame

Kyle Carlson estimates he has been to 30 North Dakota state track and field meets in his life.

Column: Hanstad will be remembered for his game, character

BISMARCK — Joe Hanstad went to hug his father, Bryan, after Dickinson High’s loss to Minot High in a West Region boys basketball tournament state-qualifying game.

• Joe Hanstad

Column: Pittsley played with heart

Brock Pittsley’s emotions overflowed into a stream of tears the moment the final buzzer sounded on Monday afternoon’s Region 7 tournament game against Heart River.

• Brock Pittsley

Monke: Postponements making scheduling difficult

There hasn’t been a true blizzard in southwest North Dakota this winter, but that doesn’t mean high school activities directors and coaches haven’t been scrambling to reschedule numerous postponed games.

Monke column: Hausauer hoping to ride back to NFR

Two years after making his first and only appearance at the National Finals Rodeo, Dusty Hausauer is working to find his way back.

Championships tell story of Dickinson High’s decade

If an athletic department’s success is measured by the amount of state championships it wins, then Dickinson High had its best decade in school history.

The ’00s were a great decade to be a Trinity Titan

When it comes to Dickinson Trinity athletics this decade, the proof is in the pudding.