DODGE CENTER, Minn. — This sports star for all seasons, he’d prefer not to be told how good he is.
Above all, Pierce Petersohn fears complacency. His mission is to keep his accomplishments and people’s reverence from going to his head.
Petersohn understands that it’s been his willingness to grind (along with plenty of natural talent) that’s gotten him to this point. He’s among the state’s top athletes in three sports — football, basketball and track and field.
It’s what allowed him to zoom from the state’s 106th-ranked football player one year ago to his current standing of No. 2. He’s gone from a 3-star football prospect less than one year ago to an elite 4-star recruit.
In basketball, it’s what allowed the swift, smooth, mobile and high leaping 6-foot-5, 195-pounder to average 28 points and 13 rebounds this past season, and to slam home 85 dunks, including seven in one game.
Triton senior Pierce Petersohn makes his way over the high jump bar at a practice on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at Triton High School in Dodge Center.
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And in track and field, it’s what has him as a serious candidate to win two state titles in June. Petersohn, who’s been slowed by a hip flexor injury this spring, high jumped an incredible 6-feet-10 last year and has gone 6-6 this season. In the 400-meter dash, he ran a 49.93-second race in April, and the season is…
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Publish date : 2025-05-03 17:17:00
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