2025-2026 Boys Basketball Preview Boys basketball starts with some section changes. Defending 1A champion Goodhue and 1A runner-up Rushford-Peterson have each moved up a Class to AA. Red Wing moved down to AA. The section thus has 17 teams, the Wildcats, Trojans, Wingers, Caledonia, Cannon Falls, Chatfield, Cotter/Hope Lutheran, Dover-Eyota, La Crescent/Hokah, Pine Island, … [Read more...]
2025-2026 Wrestling Preview
The wrestling season starts with all five Journal-covered programs returning state entrants. Girls wrestling continues to grow, as the post-season individual tournament will now be eight section tournaments versus combining two sections for a super-section. Section One’s finals will be in Rochester. The state wrestling meet thus expands to a four-day affair. Team action starts … [Read more...]
Hot Shots (12/1)
Girls basketball got rolling with Rushford-Peterson and Houston starting well. The Trojans got two free throws from Alannah Skalet with 16.8 seconds left that proved the different in topping Z-M 56-54. R-P then beat John Marshall 66-39, both games at the Dover-Eyota Tourney. The Trojans (0-0, 2-0) had three and four girls in double figures in the two games. They hit 11 of … [Read more...]
Falcons Get Six All-Mid-South Green Football Selections
Fillmore Central (5-0, 10-1) topped Lewiston-Altura (4-1, 6-4), Southland (3-2, 5-5), United South Central (2-3, 5-5), NRHEG (1-4, 2-7), and Hayfield (0-5, 1-8) to grab the Mid-South-Green sub-district title, FC’s fourth straight sub-district title. The Section 1A champ Falcons’ All-District group is headed by a pair of individual award honorees. Kane Larson (6’1” 190 Sr. … [Read more...]
Girls Basketball (12/01)
Southeast-Central Yellow Cast Headed by Chatfield/Caledonia Standouts Triton (5-1, 7-3) and Chatfield (5-1, 6-3) shared the Southeast Central ‘Yellow’ sub-district in football with Caledonia (4-2, 9-3) posting the most wins and winning Section 1AA. Rochester-Lourdes (3-3, 7-4), Dover-Eyota (2-4, 4-5), Rushford-Peterson (1-5, 3-6), and St. Charles (1-5, 2-7) rounded out the … [Read more...]
Volleyball (11/24)
Standout Chatfield, FC, and Caledonia Players Head All-TRC Volleyball List The top four teams in the Three Rivers Conference in volleyball were Caledonia (10-0, 26-6), Fillmore Central (9-1, 27-7), Chatfield (8-2, 27-8), and Rushford-Peterson (7-3, 18-6) while Winona-Cotter (6-4, 25-8), Lewiston-Altura (5-5, 15-13), Dover-Eyota (4-6, 19-11), Wabasha-Kellogg (3-7, 9-16), … [Read more...]
All-TRC Girls Soccer
The Three Rivers Conference released its girls All-league soccer list. Caledonia/Spring Grove/Houston (0-9-1, 3-12-1) gets one pick, two-time selection, senior Loisah Gay. The striker/wing was also All-TRC as a sophomore before missing her entire junior season with injury. Gay scored seven of the Warriors’ 21 goals plus one assist. Receiving honorable mention for a fourth year … [Read more...]
Caledonia School Board Listens to Presentation About Potential Building Projects
Caledonia Public School’s board members met Monday, November 17 at Caledonia Elementary School in room #162. The board held a short informational meeting at 5 p.m., about the flexible learning year renewal starting 2026-2027. Board member Peterson then called the regular school board meeting to order at 5:38 p.m. All board members were present as well as both principals and … [Read more...]
Football (11/17)
Football: Cougar Dream Season Ends In No-Second Agony Dreams sometimes end agonizingly. After a fairytale season and the school’s first state berth in football since 1981, #3 in 9-Man Mabel-Canton (South 3-seed, 11-0) bowed out in the state quarterfinals at Buffalo High School. Versus #5 Hillcrest Lutheran Academy (South 2-seed, 10-0), it did not just come down to the last … [Read more...]
Caledonia Welcomes Four New Teachers
Four new teachers joined the staff at Caledonia Public Schools this year. They are Nicole Meyer, Maria Inglefield, Kailee Olerud, and Liza Bruce. Meet Nicole Meyer Nicole Meyer grew up in Winona and graduated from Winona Senior High School in 2020. After high school she attended Winona State University. She started her teaching career at Dover Eyota High School as a … [Read more...]