Crim: Family’s passion for basketball is ‘awesome’ experience for Hamilton native Kurt Meister

By Don Crim, Senior Columnist | March 13, 2023
The Meister family — from left to right, Lincoln, Angie, Laynie, Lilly and Kurt — are bound by basketball with the three kids following in the footsteps of their parents as student-athletes. | Submitted photo

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A case could be made that the Meisters are Rochester’s first family of basketball. Kurt and Angie Meister’s oldest child, Lincoln, is a 6-foot-10 junior forward on the Minnesota-Duluth men’s basketball team. The Bulldogs won 23 games during the regular season and qualified for the NCAA Division II national tournament for the…

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50 After 50: New coach, new style lead to repeat of postseason success for No. 33 Cardinals

By David Adam, MRN Editor | January 21, 2022
Front row from left, Megan Sergesketter, Rebekah Renard, Amy Shroff, Vicky Markley, Laura McMillen, Kelly Johnson, Becky Leenerts, Julie Meredith. Middle row, Ryan Wright, Sara Guedesse, Heather Reneau, Liz Abraham, Alex Beagles, Darren Monroe, Jason Helenthal, Nathan Bousselot, Shanna Baker, Kim Lowe, Darrell Beeler. Back row, Coach Shannon Stewart, Coach Pete Hopf, official scorer Bill “Red” Rogers, Chris Noe, Jeff Dougherty, Todd Brownlee, Kurt Meister, Jerome Lee, Scott Lippe, Charlie Casley, Mark Ruark, Coach Clay Vass, Coach Steve Sergesketter. | Photo courtesy of Kurt Meister

The Illinois High School Association created a second class for boys basketball for the 1971-72 school year. The 2020-21 season would have been the 50th year of the boys basketball small-school tournament. Muddy River Sports is celebrating 50 years of small-school boys basketball by ranking the 50 best teams in Adams, Brown, Pike and Hancock…

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