4 goals, 7 assists in last 10 games
After scoring just one goal in her first 18 games, former Tiger Erin Johnson, the second leading scorer in school history, has racked up four goals and seven assists in her last 10 outings for Bemidji State University. Johnson, a senior forward for the Beavers, picked up her fifth goal of the season last Saturday in a 5-3 loss to sixth-ranked Minnesota-Duluth.
Erin McNamara, a teammate of Johnson's on Farmington's 2007 Class A state tournament runner-up team that lost to Blake 2-1 in the title game, recorded 26 saves for St. Olaf College in it's 1-1 tie with Bethel last weekend...A third member of the 2007 state tournament team, Kelli Johnson, ranks as the sixth leading scorer for Wisconsin-Eau Claire with two goals and eight assists as a defender.
Cody Eich
First-team All-American
The awards just keep coming for former Tiger football and track standout
Cody Eich. Last week Eich, a starting strong safety for the University of Minnesota-Duluth NCAA Division II national football champions, received word that he and teammate Jim Kunz had been named to the Don Hansen all-American first team for Division II players. Eich, a junior who won all-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conferene honors last fall, had a career-high 76 tackles and a team-high four interceptions for the Bulldogs who claimed their second national crown in three years.
Ex-Tiger Abby Kenealy had 11 points, four rebounds and two blocked shots to help Southwest Minnesota State University to a 63-59 win over Upper Iowa last weekend...2009 FHS female Athlete of the Year Kirstee Rotty scored 11 points and had six rebounds for St. Olaf College in its recent 60-58 loss to Gustavus Adolphus College...When Tiger senior Jordan Bridges, who has helped Farmington (14-2) to its best start in school history, reports for basketball duty at Jamestown College next winter she will join another ex-Tiger at the North Dakota school. David Steege, the center on Farmington's 2009 Missota Conference championship team, is a 6-9 sophomore forward for the Jimmies men's team.
Another member of the 2009 Missota Conference champions, Jake Lippert, is a sophomore on the University of St. Thomas men's team that leads the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference standings...Kyle Winkelman of the FHS class of 2010 has played in five games as a back-up point guard this season for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Trey Davis
2nd in shot put at Iowa State Invite
2007 FHS male Athlete of the Year Trey Davis, a thrower for the University of Minnesota's men's track and field team, finished second in the shot put to help the Gophers to the team title at last weekend's Iowa State Invitational in Ames, Iowa...Younger brother Trevor Davis, a javelin thrower for Hamline University, is helping coach the Farmington eighth grade school and traveling basketball teams while waiting for the spring track season.
Former Tiger track standout Michael Bendix, a junior at Minnesota State University-Moorhead, high-jumped 6-8 to finish second at the Bison Indoor Invitational held earlier this month at North Dakota State University in Fargo...Jackie Beckett, a state-meet runner for the Tigers during her high school days, placed fifth in the 800-meter run for Minnesota State University, Mankato at the Minnesota Open indoor meet held at the U of M two weeks ago....Former Missota Conference shot put champion Mallory Skoff took sixth in the women's weight throw for Minnesota-Duluth at the University of Wisconsin-Superior Blizzard Open two weeks ago...
Former Tiger swimmer Kristin Peters finished fifth in both the 100 and 200 freestyle to help UW-Eau Claire to a dual meet win over UW-Whiteater last weekend.
