Prep Athletes of the Week: Dawson-Boyd’s Lindsey Lund leaves high school as a state champion again
The senior won the Class 1A girls golf title by five strokes, helping her school to an outright victory after it finished tied for first in 2024.

By Joel Rippel
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Lindsey Lund
Dawson-Boyd • golf
The senior closed out her high school career with her second consecutive Class 1A individual state championship, which led the Blackjacks to win their second consecutive state team title.
At Pebble Creek Golf Club in Becker, Lund had a one-stroke lead after the a first-round 78, before shooting a second-round 74 to finish with a 36-hole total of 152 and a five-stroke victory. The Blackjacks, who led by 10 strokes after the first round, finished with a team score of 669, 16 strokes better than runner-up Park Christian.
The Blackjacks were co-champions last year with Fillmore Central. It was the first state title in program history.
Lund will golf collegiately at Winona State.
Cooper Anderson
Edina • Lacrosse
The senior midfielder scored nine goals in three matches to help the Hornets win their first state title. Anderson, who scored 44 goals in 18 matches this season, had three goals in the Hornets’ 9-7 victory over Stillwater in Saturday night’s championship match.
Hardhik Kommalapati
Eden Prairie • Volleyball
The senior was instrumental for the Eagles, who claimed Minnesota’s first official boys volleyball state championship. The Eagles rallied from a 2-0 set deficit to defeat Rogers 3-2 in the final as Kommalapati had 19 kills. He led the Eagles (27-2) with 277 kills this season.
Emerson Mattox
Prior Lake • Lacrosse
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The senior helped the Lakers cap an unbeaten season with a state championship. She had four goals in the Lakers’ quarterfinal victory over Chisago Lakes and followed that with three goals and six assists in a semifinal victory over Lakeville South, sending the Lakers into the championship match, where they defeated Stillwater 13-8.
Laila Moses
DeLaSalle • Track and field
After setting a Class 2A record in the 100-meter hurdles (14.44 seconds) at the preliminaries of the state meet, Moses, a sophomore, broke that record to win the event in the finals at 14.28. She also finished third in the high jump and fifth in the 300 hurdles.
Alex Rhode
Heritage Christian • Golf
The junior shot a 36-hole total 146 at Pebble Creek to win the boys Class 1A individual state title. Rhode, who finished in a tie for 22nd at the state meet a year ago, shot back-to-back rounds of 73 in Becker to win by two strokes.
Josh Schmidt
Chaska • Track and field
The junior set a state record in the pole vault, winning the Class 3A state title with a mark of 16 feet, 6 inches. Schmidt, who was the runner-up in the event last year at 15-3, broke the state record by 5 inches, helping Chaska finish fifth overall in 3A.
Nina Slingsby
Holy Angels • Clay target
The junior shot an 89 to help the Richfield/Holy Angels team take first place in Class 1A with a score of 455 in the Clay Target League Trapshooting Championship in Alexandria last week. During the regular season, she earned all-conference honors as her team took first place in Class 1A, Conference 11.
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