DAKOTAH LINDWURM: PASSIONATE HOCKEY PLAYER BECOMES GRANDMA’S MARATHON CHAMPION

Beginning to play hockey in 2nd grade, Dakotah Marie Lindwurm (nee Bullen) has long had Jim Craig, goalie on the 1980 Miracle on Ice Olympic hockey team, as a favorite athlete. “Hockey was my heart and soul and my Olympic dream beginning,” says the 5’ 1” and 105-pound native of St. Francis, Minnesota. “Everything revolved

REPORTS ON A FEW SPORTING COMPETITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN HOSTED

RUNNING: Melissa Gacek won the master’s division in the Army 10-Miler and a Minnesota quartet comprised of Sasha Hovind, Colette Celichowski (Minnetonka), Andrea Haus (coach at Hamline University), and Gacek won the women’s team championship. WRESTLING: Patrick Smith (Chanhassen/Chaska) was runner-up at 77kg at the US Senior Greco-Roman Wrestling Nationals in November as Alec Ortiz