Like most everything these days, things are bit different for high school athletes. The Maple Grove High School swimming and diving team is experiencing that first-hand during a COVID-19 fall season. While there are inconveniences, the Crimson are adjusting and are simply happy to be competing. Student athletes were forced to sweat out their season’s

Please help us congratulate Nadia Abid who was named MGSH’s 2020 Athena Award Winner! The Athena Award is given to an outstanding female athlete from each Minnesota high school. The award is based on excellence in individual sports and accomplishments in team sports.  The main criteria for the Athena Award is athletic accomplishments, with other achievements being

Congratulations to the Maple Grove Girls Swim & Dive Team and the girls that participated at the State Tournament.  Here are the results from our swimmers:

Section meets are usually the time for a swimmer or diver to make a splash. The Maple Grove girls swim and dive team did so this week at the Section 8AA Championships.  The Lakers returned 34 out of a possible 44 swims for the championship final on Saturday afternoon.  All three relays and all divers

The Crimson girls swimming and diving team ventured to the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota Saturday Oct. 19th to compete in the coach’s association sponsored True Team State Meet.  At this meet the top 12th performing section meet teams from across the state came together to stake

The Crimson faced a crossover conference test on Tuesday Oct. 15th versus Andover.  Andover provided some tough races, but the girls continued to show their prowess with team depth and versatility.    The meet started off with the traditional 200 Medley Relay.  On this night the team dabbled with some different combinations in relay personnel,

The Maple Grove Crimson girls cruised to a True Team Section victory Saturday night.  On a night with many individual successes, the team depth shined its brightest.  True Team competition is based on the idea that every team member’s performance counts toward the team’s score in competition. First place will be worth as many points

The Crimson faced their toughest test thus far this season on Thursday night, traveling to the hostile Northdale pool to face the Blaine Bengals.  Blaine, like our girls, came into the meet undefeated in conference competition.  This portion of the season tends to provide many tests to swimmers and divers alike and this night would

The Maple Grove girls swimming and diving team wrapped up another regular season dual meet victory on Thursday Sept. 25th over Anoka at Fred Moore Middle School. The Crimson won 10 of the 12 events on the evening to outscore the Tornadoes by a 100-80 count. The girls started the meet by finishing with a

The Girls Swimming and Diving team continued to roll through the competition this week with capturing the Bronze Division title at the Maroon and Gold Invite.  Depth proved to be a great asset for the Crimson in this meet.  The meet took place at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 21st. 15 teams from across