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Education & Sports A group of disc golfers throw at a basket during the Polaris Park Tournament in June of 2017 at Polaris Park in Minot.
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A sport anyone can enjoy Minot Disc Golf provides another reason to get outside and be active
The Minot Disc Golf group is one that has been around longer than many realize, but has recently been revitalized and reorBy ganized for the area. There ASHTON GERARD have been flyers recent Staff Writer founder Vince Azzarello agerard @minot has found that date back dailynews.com to 1999.
Since then, disc golf in Minot has come and gone, but Azzarello took a special interest in joining a disc golf group almost three years ago. Seeing there were no active groups in Minot, he took it upon himself to recreate the disc golf brand. “A friend of mine and I decided that we wanted to get it started back up again,” Azzarello said. “We didn’t know the most about disc golf but we went up to Polaris Park a lot and played a lot of disc golf.” After deciding to start the group, Azzarello sent out a survey via social media asking about the satisfaction of disc golf in Minot, the condition of Polaris Park and how often people travel to play disc golf. See DISC — Page 3
Undergraduate research in MSU Biology Minot State University uses the logo “Be Seen, Be Heard” and that philosophy has carried over to the opportunities that its students receive for hands-on experience in their fields of interest. In the biology department, students often have the opportunity to work in the lab with their instructors, to participate in research or present at science conferences. Students such as biology major Sydney Houlton, who works as a lab assistant to assistant biology professor Zeni Shabani, say that the experience will be of great help in their future careers, whether they go on to graduate school or to medical school or work in another field. Shabani is studying genetic risks for methamphetamine use, in partnership with Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Ore. “We work with a mouse model system,” said Shabani, who has a few students working with him in the lab each semester. It is the job of students like Houlton to assist in the lab protocols, to help gather and analyze data, to aid in designing experiments and to maintain the lab. Houlton has been working with Shabani for the past four years and
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has been published in a peer-reviewed journal with other researchers. They also present at a conference held at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Student research at Minot State is funded in part through the North Dakota IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Institutional Development Award. “It has been a fantastic opportunity for me to gain work experience,” said Houlton. Shabani said that a gene present on the tenth chromosome in a mouse harbors some of the same genetic risk factors for meth as a gene that is also present in humans. The studies that are conducted on the lab mice might eventually help researchers to develop a medicinal drug that can be used in treatment of humans who are addicted to methamphetamine and prone to relapse back into use of the drugs. Since many addicts are prone to relapse, a drug that helps them to stay clean would have tremendous See MSU — Page 3
Sydney Houlton, a biology major at Minot State who works with assistant biology professor Zeni Shabani, shows off a lab mouse that is used in Shabaniʼs research into genes that make people more susceptible to meth addiction. Andrea Johnson/MDN
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BOTTINEAU – Photography students at Dakota College at Bottineau don’t just learn how to take photographs, they learn how to build a business. “One of the problems we have in our field is photography is an art, but it’s also a trade,” said Clint Saunders, the head of the Photography Career and Technical Education Program. Students who enroll in traditional photography programs at other colleges will likely take phoBy tography classes and beANDREA come well-versed in the fundamentals of phoJOHNSON tography by the time Staff Writer they graduate, but will ajohnson be ill-equipped to market themselves or to @minot earn a living in the trade. dailynews.com That is not the case for students at Dakota College at Bottineau, who are working at the same time they take classes. “We run the program like a professional studio,” said Saunders. Students are the campus photographers, meeting the needs of the college for different types of photography at the same time as they are working on other projects in portrait photography, product photography, documentary photography and other areas. Students come in every day and get their assignments and learn what it is like to be a professional photographer. “All the employers want two years of experience,” said Saunders. “They literally get their two years of experience while getting a degree.” The photography studio makes its own money and will fund a study abroad photo tour in Ireland next fall, which will also serve as the college’s outdoor photography class. Students have the option of getting either a two-year associate’s degree or a certificate in photography. Saunders, who has more than 20 years of experience as a professional photographer and still runs his own photography studio in Casper, Wyo., originally developed the photography program at Dakota College at Bottineau in 2013. He had been commuting back and forth between the college and his home in Wyoming when he was first teaching. That was derailed when Saunders was injured in a car accident a few years ago and Submitted Photo had a long physical recovery. He had to quit Photography students get on the job experience at Dakota College at Bottineau the job. But the college asked him if he would develop an online version of the pho- He also said his students benefit from his exSome of Saunders’ other former students stone class, students also design a business tography program and afterwards asked if he perience as a working photographer who is are also working in the field. One student is logo, create a brand for a company, a pricwould consider coming back and develop- still in the field. working for a photography studio in Fargo; ing strategy for their work and create a webing a hybrid program. Saunders teaches “On campus we have a studio manager one is running her own photography studio; site. many of the classes via live video lectures who really makes this all work,” said Saun- one is a freelance photographer focusing on The program increases the students’ confrom his basement in his home. fidence in their skill and in the quality of rodeo photography. ders. “In my classroom, we have a large screen As part of a capstone class at the end of their work and their employability. Studio manager Leslie Ostreim, who is TV and wide angle camera,” he said. “It’s from Rolette, was hired last year. She also their studies, his photography students “I’m very happy with the results we’re just like I’m in the classroom.” works as Saunders’ teaching assistant and as choose a focus. “For that semester all they getting so far,” said Saunders. Saunders is on campus in person one the main campus photographer. She is a do is create work in that genre,” said SaunSaunders’ next goal is to find more inweek a month and during that week he does graduate of the photography program at ders. “So they can leave with a really strong ternships for his photography students to a lot of hands-on activities with the students. Dakota College at Bottineau. portfolio in their genre.” As part of that cap- give them more work experience.
Graduating with two years of experience under their belts
Jim Hill eighth-graders learn about civil engineering
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ABOVE: Jim Hill Middle School students Alex Randash and Micah Brown built a tower out of dried spaghetti noodles and marshmallows during a career exploration activity in February. Civil engineers from Ackerman-Estvold talked with the class about their careers and the towers were built as an engineering exercise.
RIGHT: Jim Hill Middle School student Otto Robinson builds a tower out of dried spaghetti noodles and marshmallows.
Eighth-graders at Jim Hill Middle School constructed towers using some unorthodox materials – dried spaghetti noodles and marshmallows – when civil engineers from Ackerman Estvold spoke to their classes recently. Emma Keller and Nathan Amick told the students that they began planning their own careers from an early age. Both worked as interns for AckermanEstvold when they were high school By students. During the summers, the ANDREA high school interns were inspecJOHNSON tors, helping to make sure that buildings on a construction site Staff Writer were built to specification. They ajohnson continued interning at the firm @minot through college and were hired after graduation. dailynews.com They work under supervision and will eventually be able to take a test to become professional licensed engineers. Keller said she always enjoyed building, from the time she was a child. “I liked Lincoln logs, I liked Legos,” she told the eighth-graders. Keller and Amick said they also found that English and communication skills are important for their chosen careers. They must communicate with clients and others they work with regularly via email. There are assorted careers available in engineering, in the mechanical, electrical, biomedical, and nuclear engineering fields, among others. The skin tight suits worn by athletes at this year’s Winter Olympics were designed by engineers, Keller told the students. But Keller explained that the civil engineers at Ackerman-Estvold are responsible for the design of the pipes that take sewage to the street and to the plant to treat it, the necessary but sometimes unglamorous workaday projects that kids see all around them. “We design your roads,” said Amick. Keller and Amick said some of the projects the firm has worked on include the new Erik Ramstad Middle School, the underpass by the Minot Public Library, a roundabout and the new Sonic Restaurant. Students, who are just beginning to consider career options, seemed interested in the possibilities. To help them think like engineers, Keller and Amick handed out the spaghetti and the marshmallows and challenged the teams of kids to try to build the highest tower. “Stability and stickiness” were the secrets to a tower that stood on its own, one winning team said.
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Biology majors Adedayo Adelete and Brody Burnette work in the lab with biology professor Chris Keller.
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societal consequences, said Shabani. Biology majors Brody Burnette and Adedayo Adelete both work as lab assistants to biology professor Chris Keller, who studies the mechanisms of growth and development control in plants. Keller is particularly interested in how auxins, a class of plant hormones, affect the growth of a mutated version of the plant “arabidopsisthaliana,” a plant which Keller calls the “fruit fly of plant biology.” Lab students like Burnette and Adelete oversee the differences in growth in the dark and light between mutated plants and normal versions grown in the wild. Keller said the experience of working in
research as undergraduates trains students to generate their own experiments, to troubleshoot when problems arise and to think critically when problems arise. Adelete said that he has also learned patience when it comes to research, since there will be failures with research and the experiment might not produce the expected results. Both Burnette, who hails from Binscarth, Man., and Adelete, who is from Abuja, Nigeria, said the experience has been valuable, both in what they learn and on resumes. Both men plan to attend medical school. Medical schools and graduate programs are currently highly interested in candidates who can cite research experience at the undergraduate level, of which Minot State provides an abundance.
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Chris Keller, biology professor at Minot State, says undergraduate research is an important part of education at Minot State.
Once he received around 150 to 200 responses on the surveys, Azzarello decided that Minot Disc Golf needed to be official... again. One of the main goals of the group was to get a new disc golf course in Minot. Once the surveys came back, Azzarello decided a league should be formed to go along with a new course. While the league is alive and well, things may not be so bright as far as a new course is concerned. Polaris Park serves the group fine, and it has been for the past three years, but the problem is the holes. Right now, Polaris is only a 9-hole course, with regulation courses being 18-holes. The thought for the new course would be a sprawling 18-hole course good for tournament use in Minot. The group has worked closely with the Minot Park District to map out a new course to be built near Maysa Arena, off of Burdick Expressway. The site, however, is the site of a former landfill and has raised some concerns from the Environmental Protection Agency. “The EPA two years ago went and investigated the ground and did a study to see if we could dig into that site,” Azzarello explained. As of March 17 of this year, the Minot Disc Golf group as well as the Minot Park District have yet to hear back from the EPA. Azzarello credited Ron Merritt and Jarrod Olson of the Minot Park District for their hard work trying to make the new disc golf course a reality. It’s something Azzarello says the park district and the city itself is looking forward to. In the meantime, the city and the park district have been working to fix up Polaris Park for the disc golfers to use for now. “We have brand new baskets now that were just put in last year and so there is construction going on there to improve that course,” Azzarello said. “But what we really need is a new course.” Disc golf in Minot is something that has been steadily growing over the past few years.
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Disc golfer Josh Kimball throws a disc at Polaris Park in Minot.
“The first year, we had between five and 10 people show up. The next year, we had 15 to 20,” Azzarello said. Currently, on a weekly basis, once it’s nice enough to be outside for prolonged periods of time, the Minot Disc Golf league can see anywhere from 20 to 30 people show up to play. Right now the group hosts about two tournaments a year, drawing fellow disc golfers from Devils Lake, Bismarck, and Rugby. These tournaments are more to promote the sport, while there are other, more serious tournaments across the state. “I can see that it’s growing,” Azzarello said. “I can see there’s a lot of interest in building a new course.” In western North Dakota alone, Azzarello says there are about 30 courses from Devils Lake west, with the newest additions coming from Rugby and Burlington in the past two years. “The great thing about North Dakotans is, anything that will get them outside during the warm months, they’re out there,” Azzarello said. Disc golf being a nice, casual sport is one that can draw a wide variety of people together. Of course, the sport can be taken seriously or can be used as an excuse to take a walk with a few stops here and there to throw a disc. The disc golfers in Minot are an “eclectic” group according to Azzarello. The sport is for kids,
teens and adults alike and a wide variety of people can be seen out on the course in Minot on any given day. One misconception about disc golf is that they are Frisbees, which is almost an insult to the sport itself. The discs come in three different styles: a driver, a mid-range and a putter. Depending on where you are at in the hole determines which disc to use. Normally, you will begin with the driver, switch the mid-range and use the putter to make it in the basket for the hole. From there, the rules of disc golf are very similar to golf, just throwing discs instead of hitting balls. Every hole the disc golfer starts at the tee and throws until they make it into the basket. Each hole has it par, or the number of throws it would take a regular disc golfer to make the basket. Starting out, Azzarello recommends having at least a driver and a putter, but many places sell a “beginners” threeset pack to get started. On a normal league night, many of the regular disc golfers are open to sharing their discs with first time golfers so they can get a feel for the sport. Disc golf is something people shouldn’t be intimidated by and can be a sport that anyone can enjoy. For more information about disc golf in Minot, visit Minot Disc Golf on Facebook to learn more and stay upto-date on the latest disc golf activity and league nights.
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REJUVENATING CORBETT FIELD Vibrant green artificial turf peeked through a white blanket of snow. It was Darrell Handelsman’s first glimpse at the new turf, and a welcomed sign in late March that the baseball season in Minot remains on the horizon. Before the first pitch can be thrown, a considerable facelift is in progress to inject new life into historic Corbett Field. The renovated ballpark will offer the perfect setting for Minot’s newest baseball team this summer, the Souris Valley Sabre Dogs. “We are excited to be in such a historic facility,” Sabre Dogs general manager Handelsman said. “It’s got a lot of character and charm to it. All the effort and work the park district and city has put into it just makes it really special. The scoreboard is great and, obviously with this new playing surface, you are not going to find a better surface in the entire state. “So, we feel like we have been entrusted with a civic jewel here at Corbett Field and we want to make sure we take care of it.” The collegiate wood bat summer baseball team in the eight-team Expedition League is a month away from the franchise’s first game. With Opening Day on May 25 creeping closer, the excitement to get underway is escalating. Players and coaches alike are getting ready to make Minot their home this summer. “I think I drove through Minot to get to Canada one time, but other than that the closest town I’ve been in is Bismarck,” Sabre Dogs head
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MAIN: Snow-covered Corbett Field in late March 2018. ABOVE: Souris Valley Sabre Dogs general manager Darrell Handelsman sits in the dugout at Corbett Field in Minot.
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coach Corey Thompson said over the phone while in Alabama. The hometowns of the 26 players currently on the roster are scattered across the country. The seemingly ever-expanding lineup card lists players from Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Arizona, Washington, New York, Louisiana, Texas, California and Iowa. It’s a diverse group of guys that Thompson and assistant coach Trey Chambers have assembled, as Handelsman willingly handed over all the recruiting responsibilities to his coaching staff. “Right now, it’s completely on me and my assistant coach, so if we lose it’s on us,” Thompson said about bringing in players. “It’s all about connections. I’ve only been coaching for five years in college baseball, but playing in college and playing with other coaches that were my teammates before (has helped). Then, recruiting the last two summers with the Waterloo Bucks in the Northwoods League and making those connections with various schools kind of led to a decent roster this summer for the Sabre Dogs.” Thompson, currently a pitching coach at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, envisions the first-year team being aggressive on the bases with plenty of speed and have the power in the middle of the lineup to drive in runs. That’s the modern-day formula for not only winning baseball, but for entertaining baseball as well. See CORBETT — Page 7
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Both big kids and little kids learned from a collaboration between Erik Ramstad and Lewis and Clark Elementary to increase enthusiasm for reading. “The project first started with fifth-graders at Lewis and Clark asking their kindergarten reading buddies to illustrate a creature they would like to read to when they are not together,” said Jessica Bentz, the family and consumer science teacher at Ramstad, in an email. “The illustrations then showed up in our classroom and ta-da, we now have have nearly 100 reading creatures created! This one project that is centered around literacy incorporated several content standards at all three grade levels.” The eighth-graders in the class went to Lewis and Clark to deliver the creatures to the kindergarteners in person on Feb. 22. Eighth-grader Peyton Bartsch said she and the other students in her class used both hand stitching and sewing ma-
chines to create the creatures and learned how to turn a flat 2-D drawing into a 3-D creature. “We had to make the papers larger and then we would cut them up so when we would sew it together it would be the same size,” she said. Bartsch said the kindergarteners were imaginative. “There were a lot of unique ones,” she said. Eighth-grader Kate Anthony said she would have liked one of the reading buddies when she was young. “I wasn’t the best reader,” she said. “I By feel like if I would ANDREA have had one of JOHNSON these creatures to Staff Writer read to, I ... (would have felt less selfajohnson conscious.)” @minot Anthony said dailynews.com the kids obviously liked their reading buddies. “When we gave them to them, they were so excited,” she said.
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“Everybody likes home runs, everybody likes strike outs and everybody likes speed,” Thompson said. “So, honestly, that’s what we are going after. But, more seriously, I’m a pitching guy so I really like athletic pitchers. I’m also very aggressive on the base paths and I will tell that to every opponent that we play that we are going to try and steal some bags. Our 2-3-4 hole, they are going to hit some home runs. But, other than that, everybody else is going to try and steal some bags.” Some of the impact players to watch this upcoming season include sluggers Hunter Holland and Jake Buser, 6-foot-4 righthanded pitcher Lake Robertson out of the bullpen and two sets of speedsters from separate colleges: Yakima Valley College’s (Washington) Cole McKenzie and Clay Ashworth, and Paris Junior College’s (Texas) Grant Gomez and Levi Dixon. Making the transition from being names on paper to recognizable faces is a priority. “We will stay around after every single game, win or lose, and we will sign autographs and take photos,” Thompson said. “Anything to pique the interests of the fans, we will do it.” While engaging the community and winning will help drive attendance to Corbett Field, defined success in season one (and in general) for Thompson is the development of his players. After all, this is a summer baseball league for collegiate athletes. This is also unfamiliar territory for nearly everybody involved. Many, like Thompson, haven’t stepped foot in Minot before — the obvious exception being the local Minot State University products Dylan Roach and Aaron Kern. So, just having an established ballpark like Corbett Field to call home lightens some of the struggles that comes with building a team from the ground up. Making history is a nice perk too. “I’m a big history buff, so to be in these World War II stadiums is great,” Handelsman said. “The neat thing is, as I go around and meet people in the community, almost everybody has a memory of an experience
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“We are excited to be in such a historic facility. It’s got a lot of character and charm to it. All the effort and work the park district and city has put into it just makes it really special. The scoreboard is great and, obviously with this new playing surface, you are not going to find a better surface in the entire state. — Darrell Handelsman Sabre Dogs general manager
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MSU broadcasting major plans future as play-by-play announcer Minot State University broadcasting major Leif Bakken was a seasoned veteran before he ever set foot on the MSU Campus. The senior from Lemmon, S.D., got his start in journalism at his local radio station when he was in high school, where he worked as a disc jockey, read the weather and did news reports. “I just kind of fell in love with it,” said Bakken, who has a job lined up as a farm broadcaster at Northern Ag Network in Billings, Mont., when he graduates. Bakken said he would like to continue as a playby-play sports broadcaster, the job he has held throughout his career at Minot State. According to MSU, Bakken completed his 300th live, online broadcast in February via the MSU Athletic Department’s Red Vision Productions during a softball game in February at the Herb Parker Air-Supported Dome. Bakken has announced different types of sports while at MSU, but he said his favorite sport to call is basketball. Two of the most memorable games he’s announced were play-off games, MSU vs. Upper Iowa State in the Women’s NSIC Basketball tournament in January. MSU won that game but lost a game to the University of Sioux Falls. “If someone listens to my voice, I try to keep neutral, but it’s clear I get excited for Minot State because that’s my team,” he said. Bakken has played baseball and also was an umpire for a youth league, so he is quite familiar with that sport as well. He has learned the rules about sports he was not as famil-
iar with, like volleyball and soccer. When he first came to Minot State, he told the university’s communications office, the athletic departBy ment was ANDREA looking for a play-byJOHNSON play anStaff Writer nouncer ajohnson for Red Vision Pro@minot ductions. No dailynews.com one was else was doing it when he first set out and it was a great fit. “It’s worked out great,” he told them. “Right away I talked with (former Athletic Director Rick Hedberg) and we discussed what the future was for the video boards and online. It seemed to snowball from there and get bigger as I went along.” According to MSU’s communications office, he started out in his first sea- ebrate the occasion. son calling the action for “I wasn’t expecting that volleyball games, then at all,” he told the commuwomen’s soccer, then nications office. “It’s a big men’s and women’s basket- milestone for me. Minot ball and wrestling in the State has really shaped me winter. He then began call- a lot as far as a broadcaster ing baseball and softball off goes. I never thought I campus. would be at this point. I “I was excited to get to have had the unique oppordo baseball because I tunity to be at a school that played that sport and feel I is just the right fit. I wouldknow it pretty well,” he told n’t get to do these things at the communications office. a big DI school - I wouldn’t “But getting things figured be able to get to have the reout for those games was a lationships with our new experience. One of the coaches, players, and adbig lessons for me in athlet- ministrators and the opposics is how we have to con- ing team’s coaches and stantly adapt. I was proud players like I do.” when we found out we Bakken has also helped were one of the only organize the KMSU Auc(Northern Sun Intercolle- tion, a fundraiser for the giate Conference) teams university’s broadcasting broadcasting those sports. department, and won the We were in an elite club in 2015 Eric Sevareid Award the NSIC and were ready to for his Student Market Sedo more, to keep adapting.” ries titled “Minot State DiAt his 300th game, the vision 2 Transition,” given softball team gave him a by the Midwest Broadcast sign and a game ball to cel- Journalists Association.
Leif Bakken, a Minot State University broadcasting major from Lemmon, S.D., recently called his 300th game. Andrea Johnson/MDN
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MAIN: Minot Stateʼs Tyler Rudolph puts up a shot during a menʼs college basketball game earlier this season at the MSU Dome. Alex Eisen/MDN
BELOW: Stanleyʼs Kaedyn Hanson takes a shot during the consolation round of the Class B boys basketball state tournament. Al Christianson/Special to the MDN
BOTTOM: Stanleyʼs Wyatt Hanson puts down a dunk during the Class B state tournament.
A family legacy Rudolph, Hanson cousins making mark on ND basketball By GARRICK HODGE Sports Editor
STANLEY – It was a tracareer points, but his basghodge dition they looked forward ketball career may not be @minot to every Christmas. over yet. As he works toThe trio of cousins, Tyler ward graduation this spring, dailynews.com Rudolph, Wyatt Hanson and Rudolph is exploring opporKaedyn Hanson, all finally got a tunities to play professional break from their respective basketball basketball, even if that means going seasons in mid-December. But Rudolph, a out of the country to pursue his lifelong Bismarck native, and the Hansons, Stanley dream. residents, weren’t going to pass up some “I definitely want to try to play profesinner-family competition. sionally, whatever level that is,” Rudolph “It’s hard to forget those Christmas fam- said. “I’m just working through the process ily basketball games,” Wyatt said. and talking to my parents about what the A few years ago, Rudolph, his younger best fit is. I’m still in the early process of findbrother Matt and the Hansons played on the ing out what’s best for me and where I’d be same team and challenged “the dads” and comfortable playing.” Wyatt’s little brother, Rhett. But, Father Time MSU coach Matt Murken has called is undefeated, as they say, so the dads aren’t Rudolph “one of the hardest workers” he’s as involved as in the “Hanson Family Clas- ever coached, and is confident he can have sic” as they used to be. success at the next level. “Nowadays, they can’t keep up with us,” “All I can tell you about him, when that Wyatt said with a laugh. opportunity rolls around in the fall, he’s The pick-up game teams now change going to be a lot better player than he is now, year-to-year, usually with some combination if that’s the route he decides to go,” Murken of Tyler and Kaedyn against Wyatt and Matt. said. “We’ve been a basketball family as long –––––––––––––– as I can remember,” Rudolph said. “Those While Rudolph’s college basketball career games will always start out friendly, but is over, Wyatt’s and Kaedyn’s are just beginmight get more intense as they go on. A lot of ning. times, we’d put Kaedyn and I together Wyatt, a 6-foot-4 forward, won the N.D. against Wyatt and my brother. Mr. Basketball award this season after aver“I tried to keep it as friendly as possible, aging 21.1 points, 6.7 rebounds and 4.6 asbut sometimes I just got really competitive sists for the Stanley Blue Jays. After leading and wanted to take the game over.” Stanley to its second straight state tourna–––––––––––––– ment appearance, Wyatt will play at MSU It might not have been entirely fair when Moorhead in the fall. Rudolph decided he really wanted to win the “I’m incredibly excited,” Wyatt said. “I family Christmas game, because he’s three think it’s just a fresh start with a new bunch years older than Matt and four years older of guys, and an opportunity to fit into a new than Wyatt. system.” Not to mention, he just finished an AllMeanwhile, Kaedyn Hanson finished his American season for the Minot State men’s high school career with 1,231 points, 862 rebasketball team. bounds and 152 blocks. He’ll be playing colThe 6-foot-6 forward completed his sen- legiately for the South Dakota School of ior year with a 58 percent shooting clip from Mines in the fall. the floor while averaging 21 points and 7.7 “It’s awesome to see these players rerebounds per game in the Beavers’ first 20- warded because of the hard work ethic enwin season in the Division II era. graved into them by their family,” Stanley Rudolph was the main attraction of going coach Kory Anderson said. “I’m grateful to to a MSU basketball game, and Wyatt, Kae- both sets of parents because they always aldyn and the trio’s grandparents – Eugene and lowed their kids to spend time in the gym. Carol Hanson – made it to the MSU Dome as “Kaedyn was a put your head down and often as their schedules allowed. go to work guy. You never questioned his at“It was amazing for the family to watch titude or work ethic on the court. Wyatt was him play in Minot. When he lived in Bis- the same way but had the ability to take over marck, it was harder to see him,” Wyatt said. games and his leadership was obviously re“I’ve talked to him a lot and have asked him ally important to us.” for a lot of advice. He’s a very good role model for me and does everything the right Garrick Hodge covers Minot State athletway.” ics, the Minot Minotauros and high school Rudolph departs the Beavers as the sports. Follow him on Twitter school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,987 @Garrick_Hodge
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and grow retirement funds. People Millennials can be known as the genin their early 20s and 30s need to eration that grew up on technology. Inbe thinking about their financial formation is instantly received and Staff Writer futures. given, waiting periods for deliveries and agerard As an example, a person with services has gotten shorter and shorter. @minot a starting salary of $25,000 a year Technology has advanced incredibly who starts investing regularly one over the past 40 years, and millennials dailynews.com percent of their pay in a retirement were growing up with the technology. As plan starting at 25-years-old — with technology matured and changed, so did milmatching, return on their investments and lennials. One thing that hasn’t changed is finances. Since normal pay increases — can expect to save $490,695 the beginning of currency, dealing with personal fi- by the time they are 65-years-old. If starting at 35-years-old, a person can expect to nances is something every person has had to deal with. While there are many opinions about what or save $293,960 by age 65 under the same conditions. who millennials are, one thing they should be think- As more time progresses without putting money away, the more money a person has lost for their fiing about is their financial futures. “Millennials tend to have many competing priori- nancial future. If a 401(k) has been started with an employer and ties,” said Steve Pinnow, an Ameriprise Legacy Financial Partners financial advisor. “They land their for whatever reason the person must leave the busifirst job, they’re having kids, getting married, buying ness, there are a few options the person has. “If you go to a new employer that has a 401(k) as a house, getting a car, and this can make it difficult to well, you can do a direct transfer, no tax,” VanDelinsave money.” Because of the pressures of living and having a cer- der said. “The other option is you can roll it to an IRA, tain lifestyle, saving might not be a top priority to no tax. And the last option is to take a distribution.” With the distribution, the person will receive a most millennials or most people in general, especially those on the younger end of the spectrum who are check addressed to them, however it will trigger the fresh out of college and entering the professional at- tax if the money was pretax. If the money is taken out before age of 59, there not only is the tax but also a mosphere. “Saving for the future is the last thing millennials penalty percentage. An IRA is an individual retirement account profeel they can tackle because they’re focused on a number of shorter-term financial goals,” fellow fi- vided by many financial institutions that provides tax advantages for retirement savings, but there is no nancial advisor Alan VanDelinder added. Both Pinnow and VanDelinder agreed the time to match because it is only money from the individual. Planning for the future is already a daunting task, be thinking about the financial future is yesterday. The best thing millennials have on their side is time. and finances is an enormous stressor, but both of “One thing that no investor or no advisor no mat- these are critical to being financially stable in the futer how good they are can give you back is time,” ture. “Wherever you’re at in life, get started. I would say VanDelinder said. “Time is the greatest asset when it sit down with somebody like us and get a financial comes to investing.” As millennials enter the professional world, many plan,” Pinnow said. “Find out and get your eyes open companies offer 401(k) retirement savings plans and to how much (life is) going to cost you down the often match the contribution up to a certain percent- road.” There are many financial factors people do not age of contribution. This is free money from the employer that many people, especially younger adults think about at a young age, things that will be comnot thinking of retirement, don’t take advantage of, peting for their money in the future like health costs, nursing home or assisted living costs, or just factoring but they should. A 401(k) is in the same realm as a 403(b), which is in inflation. “There are so many things people don’t even think offered by some nonprofits, hospitals or universities, and 457 plans, which are often offered to people in about, and that’s why we’re in the business,” Pinnow government positions. These plans are all known as explained. People like Pinnow and VanDelinder are around to make sure people’s eyes are open to these qualified plans. “Qualified plans are usually through a business factors. “The more time you have to work with, the betand it’s usually done by withholding money from your paycheck to invest,” VanDelinder said. With the ter,” VanDelinder said. For someone on the older end of the millennial matching, if the company matches to three percent and the participant is contributing less than three per- generation, VanDelinder recommends seeking out an cent of their paychecks, they are missing out on that advisor. While they can’t give back time, they can help maximize where you want to be and help craft free money from the employer. Pinnow said if people aren’t putting away the a financial plan that works best for each individual. One thing that helps people stay financially stable money that could be invested, it tends to get spent elsewhere. No matter what, that money will never is discipline. Discipline to not eat out, discipline to come back. Each year spent not investing or not put- not frivolously spend money and discipline to take ting money away is another year wasted in the fi- the financial future seriously. The one thing that millennials have on their side nancial world. As time goes on, it gets harder to grow investments is time, and it’s best not to waste it.
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“Saving for the future is the last thing millennials feel they can tackle because they’re focused on a number of shorter-term financial goals.” — Alan VanDelinder, financial advisor
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