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Jun. 6—Ethan Stendel and Colin Hansen have never gone head-to-head in a high school football game.
It would be quite a matchup if it could happen, but with Hansen’s Byron Bears playing in Class 4A and Stendel’s Caledonia Warriors in Class 2A, and the teams playing in different districts during the regular season, that meeting seems an impossibility.
It looks like Hansen and Stendel will settle for the next-best option: They’ll be teammates in college. And not just any college. They’re going the Division I route and staying in-state, close to home.
Within 75 minutes of one another late Wednesday night, June 5, Hansen and Stendel announced their commitments to play for the University of Minnesota and head coach PJ Fleck.
“After a great camp and a conversation with @Coach_Fleck I’m exited to announce that I have received an offer from @GopherFootball , and after that’s said I’m excited to announce my commitment to the University of Minnesota!!!” Stendel wrote on X (formerly Twitter) at 10:18 p.m.
At 11:33 p.m., Hansen posted the following on the same social media platform: “After a PHENOMENAL camp, I’m excited to say that I’ve received an offer and COMMITTED to @GopherFootball !! Thanks to all of the gophers staff for believing in me!! RTB!!!!”
Fleck and the Gophers are getting two of the best football players and athletes in southeastern Minnesota.
Hansen is a 6-foot-7, 235-pound beast of a lineman who’ll be a senior this fall. He excelled on both sides of the ball last fall for a Byron team that went 10-2 overall, won a Section 1, Class 4A championship and advanced to the state semifinals, where it suffered a narrow 7-0 loss to eventual state runner-up Rocori.
Hansen was part of an offensive line last season, along with North Dakota State University commit Zach Vanderpool, that paved the way for one of the area’s and…
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Author : Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.
Publish date : 2024-06-06 17:16:00
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