More than 50 local players selected for Minnesota Hockey High Performance festivals

Five Dodge County players, one from Rochester and one from Austin will play at this weekend's HP15s Spring Festival: forward Lily Dehnavifar from Rochester; forward Sawyer Loucks from Austin; and defenders Maisy Fulton and Briley Stanich, goalie Rylee Tiefenbach, and forwards Maren Hodgman and Kaylee Mortland of Dodge County.

The top 120 players from this weekend's HP14s Spring Festival in Duluth will be invited to the Minnesota Hockey HP Development Camp at St. Olaf College, June 15-19. Local players in the HP14s Spring Festival are: Rochester's Kendall Hill, Madeline Pittelkow, Riley Raseman, Ainsley Sather, Violet Smith, and Charlotte Wiesner; Austin's Aubrey Green; and Dodge County's Maysen Fordham, Parker Fordham, Paycen Hodgman and Taytum Wernecke.

* Three local high school seniors competed for the Sections 1&3 team at last weekend's Ted Brill Great 8 Tournament, which puts a spotlight on players whose high school eligibility is up, as well as older players who will be seniors next fall.

Lourdes senior defenseman Owen Barclay had two assists across four games at the tournament held at Doug Woog Arena in South St. Paul last weekend. Lourdes senior forward Owen Hoehn — the Eagles leading scorer in 2025-26 — had a goal and an assist in the tournament, and Dodge County's Gabe Coshenet, who had a 64-point season for the Wildcats, had three assists in four games.

* In the Boys High Performance 16 Spring Festival (for the state's top players with 2010 birth dates), Winona's Andrew Killian, Red Wing's Brody Peterson, and Rochester native Ace Laack — who played this past season for the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Power AAA program — respresented southeastern Minnesota. Laack had one goal over three Festival games and was invited to the next phase of the HP16 program, this weekend's Minnesota Hockey Final 68 Festival. Select players from that tournament will be invited to the USA Hockey 16s National Development Camp in Amherst, N.Y., from June 25-July 1.

* The Boys HP14 and HP15 Spring Festivals are scheduled for this weekend in Duluth and Plymouth, respectively.

Local players in the HP15 Festival include Parker Ashton, Warren Hangge, Cameron Masters and Griffyn Young of Rochester; Nolan Steele of Dodge County and David Duarte from Austin. Steele has one year of varsity experience under his belt, and it was a tremendous rookie season for the Wildcats' young star, who had 19 goals and 29 assists, for 48 points, for the Section 1-1A champions. The top 102 players from the HP15 Spring Festival will be invited to the Minnesota Hockey HP15 Development Camp at the University of St. Thomas, June 9-14.

Nine local players will compete in the HP14 Festival: Winona's Benjamin Monson; Austin's Beckett McLaren, Kale Overocker and Hudson Schaefer; and Rochester's Tristan Bradley, Edward Gagnon, Ayden Haney, Anthony Palomino Ward and Benjamin Saj. The top 128 players from the Spring Festival will be invited to the Minnesota Hockey HP14 Development Camp at St. Thomas, June 15-19. From that camp, two Select teams of 20 players each will be chosen to compete as Team Minnesota 14U at the USHL Fall Classic in Pittsburgh in September.