Growing up with an older brother can be difficult when it comes to competition. But growing up playing sports with all boys is another beast. For Calie Peterson, both of those things are true.

The 14-year-old has been playing on a travel hockey team since she was 6 years old. Many nights and summers are filled with travel and hockey with not much time for leisure in between, including, for most of that time, being the only girl skating up and down the ice.

Its fun, but it can get tiring at times, Calie said. Sometimes I just want to be home in my own bed, but I like it.

The Petersons passion for hockey came from Calies mother, Stacy, who grew up a hockey fan, and then played in a mens recreation league until Calies older brother, Ethan, was born.

I used to go to all the Lancer games really. Then I tried hockey one year and played on the Metro Classic Hockey League when I was 20. I learned there and then I got pregnant with my son, so I didnt get to play anymore, Stacy said. So then I was like, My kids are going to play hockey.

And thats exactly how it played out. Calie would accompany her mother to Moylan Iceplex for Ethans practices. While Calie would watch Ethan intently on the ice, Stacy, eventually, decided to put Calie on the other ice rink.

I thought I might as well put her in the Learn-to-Skate summer program on the other ice rink, Stacy said.

She was there anyways with me. She picked it up a lot quicker.

From there, Calies passion started to take off. After the Learn-to-Skate program, Calie completed the Initiation Program that year too. Shortly after, Ethan took his younger sister under his wing.

We would shoot pucks in the basement, and we would play PIG but hockey style. It was our own little game and he would always beat me, but I would always call for a rematch, Calie said. He would work on stick handling and faceoffs with me because I was center. He taught me how to skate and we used to roller blade around the driveway to just get a feel for the skates.

At the age of six, Calie played on the U8 Mites boys travel team that played up a level in the U10 Squirt Selection division. At such a young age, kids at school wouldnt believe Calie played hockey, or they just didnt know the sport.

They would be like, Whats hockey? or something like that, Calie said.

While mixing in basketball and softball, Calie played hockey with the boys travel programs up until the U14 leagues, where body checking is allowed.

While on the boys teams, Calie was a key team player by notching the most assists on her teams as well as several Player of the Game awards at numerous tournaments. She used her small stature and blazing speed to her advantage against boys teams especially teams that liked to be physical on the ice.

She was always faster than the boys. They couldnt keep up with her. She was kind of a natural, Stacy said. Ethan had to work at it. She just didnt care. She would push the boys around and push them over. When she played with the boys, they protected her and, sometimes, she protected them. She was always just one of the boys.

The main reason for playing eight years with boys was the limited amount of options when Calie started playing hockey.

Here in Omaha, it has taken a while to take off. We started her in boys because there was so much more there, Stacy said. I mean, the girls, you were 14 years old, but all lumped in with six, seven and eight year olds because didnt have enough girls to make a team.

Now, it practically doubled, at least, in the last three years. Thats why we were so hesitant about moving her to girls until she could make that top level team.

Last season is when the Petersons decided to make a change and move to girls hockey. As a seventh grader, Calie made the Tier II Omaha Lady Junior Lancer U19 team the top girls team in Omaha.

While starting at center, the 5-foot-1 center finished with 20 goals and over 15 assists in her first season.

It was definitely different. I never did like playing with girls my age because they werent as advanced, Calie said. The speed kind of stayed the same by playing with older girls, but the boys are different.

Between the two, Calie misses the play on the ice with the boys, but loves the comradery of the girls team.

I like (playing with the boys) a lot more. Its a lot more fun, Calie said. The girls are more of a family, but the boys are always trying to compete against each other. The girls pick each other up more.

Calie continued that high level of play into this season. During the Colorado Cup Tournament, she was awarded Playmaker of the Game. Then at the Chicago Girls Winter Classic, Calie finished the tournament ranked 17th of 529 girls in total points for all divisions.

In April, Calie attended the USA Hockey Central District Player Development Camp tryouts and then she was later selected to the week-long USA Hockey Central District Player Development Camp. Both camps were in Wisconsin.

In July, she competed in the 2019 Cornhusker State Games and State Games of America on boys teams winning two Gold medals and one Silver medal. At the Cornhusker State Games, Calie tallied three goals and three assists over the weekend to win the Gold medal, while it was her first experience with body checking.

The bench went crazy. The kid was small too, Calie said. He was probably a little smaller than me, but I wanted to do it again. (My brother) was always a hitter. He would rather hit than play the puck.

Once again, she was also the only female competing. Her performance led to her being awarded the 2019 Cornhusker State Games Youth Female Athlete of the Year on Nov. 7th. Winning the award automatically nominated her for the National Youth Female Athlete of the Year for the State Games of America.

I didnt realize it was that big of a deal, Calie said.

From there, Calie was selected as one of the top 68 girls in the country to attend the STX 68 in Chicago in August which is a four-day Premier Major Bantam Camp that tests strength, conditioning and on-ice skills.

With the top 68 boys and top 68 girls selected from all over the United States, Calies team finished undefeated during the combine, while, personally, she tied for seventh place in total points scored. Furthermore, her biggest accomplishment was being ranked first overall out of the 68 girls for the on-ice testing and was named the fastest skater in the 30-meter backwards skate.

While going to camps or playing in games is the way to showcase yourself to friends, family, coaches or scouts, its the work thats put in when nobody is around that separates many athletes. After attending camps in April, Calie spent the entire 10 weeks of summer working out on and off the ice at Moylan Iceplex with NXT Level Hockey Academy for four hours a day and five days a week.

When I went to the Central Districts Hockey Camp and the STX 68 Camp, the whole time they talked about college, Peterson said. And I know if I want to play at the college level then I have to start the little things early otherwise its not going to be an option.

Shes never complained once about getting up at 6 a.m. for other things because shes had to do it for hockey and it makes her more structured, Stacy added.

The friendships shes made has trumped about any kind of sport. While some current teammates travel from Des Moines to Omaha for practice or other cities for games, Calie has traveled to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado and St. Louis to name a few for camps and tournaments.

Shes developed relationships with other players from about any place in the United States and even Canada. Wherever her future takes her, theres a good chance a person she knows will be within distance.

Many East Coast prep schools have inquired about Calie, but the Petersons would prefer her closer to home. Calie wants to move up to the AAA division for her next step, but the two closest teams are in Sioux Falls or Chicago.

This season, she has totaled over 30 goals and more than 20 assists in only 22 games to help the Lady Junior Lancers be ranked 10th in the nation. Its another milestone for Calie to add to her long list of awards and accomplishments. Even if she doesnt know how long the list really is.

Shes never shown me all of them!, Calie said.

Weve got to keep her humble, Stacy added. She knows but she doesnt think about it.

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Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson discuss the real-life inspirations and sheer scale of Martin Scorseses crime epic.

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Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, the drama premiered at the New York Film Festival and before being made available to watch on Netflix. It has already won best film at the AFI Awards, National Board of Review Awards and New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and has been nominated for five Golden Globes.

Both Powell and Peterson previously worked with Scorsese on The Wolf Of Wall Street and The Departed.

Powell has also secured Oscar nominations for her work on Gangs Of New York and Hugo; won the Academy Award for her costume design on Shakespeare In Love and Scorseses The Aviator; and picked up an Oscar for her work on The Young Victoria, on which Scorsese was a producer. She has also won three Baftas for Velvet Goldmine, The Young Victoria and more recently The Favourite.

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Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray faced off this weekend, with Murray and the Cardinals getting the better of Mayfield and the Browns in a 38-24 win. But 14 other Sooners also played Sunday.

Here's a look at the Sooners in the NFL, Week 15:

Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon had 25 carries for 136 yards and added three catches for 20 yards in a 34-13 loss to the New England Patriots.

Washington running back Adrian Peterson had 16 carries for 66 yards and one touchdown, and he added three catches for 25 yards in a 37-27 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. With Petersons touchdown today, he tied Walter Payton for fourth-most rushing touchdowns in NFL history at 110.

New York Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard caught nine passes for 111 yards in a 36-20 win over the Miami Dolphins.

Houston Texans wide receiver Kenny Stills caught three passes for 35 yards and two touchdowns in a 24-21 win over the Tennessee Titans.

Other notable Sooner performances in Week 15:

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray completed 19-of-25 passes for 219 yards, one touchdown and one interception, as well as adding eight rushes for 56 yards in a 38-24 win over the Cleveland Browns.

Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield completed 30-of-43 passes for 247 yards, two touchdowns and one interception, as well as adding two rushes for 11 yards in a 38-24 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Dede Westbrook caught two passes for 14 yards and rushed once for 7 yards in a 20-16 win over the Oakland Raiders.

Carolina Panthers' Daryl Williams started at left guard in a 30-24 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

Philadelphia Eagles' Lane Johnson started at right tackle in a 37-27 win over Washington.

Los Angeles Rams' Bobby Evans started at right tackle in a 44-21 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.

Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy had three total tackles and one solo tackle in 30-24 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Jordan Evans had one tackle in a 34-13 loss to the New England Patriots.

Cleveland Browns kicker Austin Seibert hit 1-of-2 field goals along with three extra points in a 38-24 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

Washington punter Tress Way punted four times for 196 yards, placing two inside the 20-yard line, in a 37-27 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas A pet store located in the Post Oak Mall in College Station has officially closed its doors. The store was at the center of viral social media posts after former customers claimed it was housing animals in unsanitary and unsafe conditions. One former customer, Riley Peterson, told KAGS News she felt the store was responsible for the death of her puppy, and a Brazos County Judge agreed.

"It was some way to get some kind of justice and show other people that it is possible to do something," Peterson said. In a story we first brought you in June of 2019, Peterson and her boyfriend, Wesley Goldwater, bought a puppy they named Kona from the Puppy Station in April of 2019.

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We pretty much just flooded her with love right at the beginning, Wesley told us in June. "She was just so sweet. She was the sweetest thing in the world. By May, the couple had to put Kona down after she became so sick, she couldn't walk. Later, their vet told them Kona had intestinal parasites and distemper.

When Peterson shared her story to her social media pages, she was flooded with stories from other customers of the Puppy Station and was even given video by a person who claimed to be a former employee, who took video of the conditions inside the store. Those videos have been viewed more than 40,000 times.

Then came a Facebook group called 'Shut Down Puppy Station Now' and it was through that group that Peterson met people who talked with her about filing a lawsuit against the business.

I sent demand letters. Waited for the trial," Peterson said. "We did a lot of research on laws and on all my receipts and all the stuff that weve done over the course of eight months." Peterson said they did it all without a lawyer, something she is proud she was able to do on her own, with the help of people from her Facebook group.

The lawsuit judgement came in November of this year, but Peterson said it wasn't about the money. "It was about getting justice for Kona," she said. Puppy Station has been closed as of December 14 and former employees posted on Peterson's Facebook group the owner told them it would not be reopening. It is unknown at this time if Peterson's lawsuit has any connection to the closing of the store.

We reached out to the owner of Puppy Station. Calls to the business are unanswered and we were unable to leave a message as the mailbox was full. We have left a message for him through other means and are waiting to hear back. The company's Facebook page no longer exists.

Puppy Station in College Station has shut down its social media pages and closed its doors.

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When word broke of the store's closing, Twitter appeared to rejoice.

Tonight at 6 & 10, only on KAGS, hear more from Riley and the people who she says helped her get justice for Kona.

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It looks like the Arizona Cardinals star cornerback is here to stay. After the Cardinals last home of the 2019 season, eight-time Pro Bowler Patrick Peterson was asked if Sundays game against the Cleveland Browns would be his last home game as a Cardinal.

The 29-year-old star assured media that he would back in Arizona for next year. The 6-foot-1, 203-pound cornerback out of LSU signed a five-year contract worth over $70 million in 2014 and is under contract until 2020. The cornerback is set to make $12,050,00 next year in Arizona.

Since he entered the league in 2011, Peterson has been one of the best players at his position. The three-time First Team All-Pro selection has recorded 24 interceptions, 78 pass deflections and 423 tackles throughout his nearly nine-year career.

This season, despite missing the first six weeks of the season due to suspension and injury, the veteran cornerback has totaled 36 tackles, one sack, and one interception. Before this year, the Cardinals star has been incredibly durable playing in all 128 of his first 128 games.

Despite Peterson being a constant star for Arizona, the Cardinals pass defense has been awful this year. The Cardinals have surrendered a league-worst 294.2 passing yards per game and 28.8 points per game which ranks 31st.

The swiss cheese defense is a big reason why Arizona sits in last place in the NFC West with a 4-9-1 record. However, in the past, with Peterson as the star, the Cardinals defense has been elite. The last time they made the playoffs, 2015, the secondary allowed just 230.4 passing yards per game that ranked within the top 10 in the NFL that season.

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CHAMPAIGN A love of the outdoors came naturally, you might say, for sisters Caity Peterson and Ellen Saathoff.

Their dad, Brian Deal, is a landscape architecture professor at the University of Illinois. And their moms father, Bruce Hannon, is an emeritus geology professor and a longtime environmental activist.

They spent their childhood hiking in Allerton Park, helping their grandfather plant burr oaks and playing outside all summer.

Now they want to share their passion with a younger generation at a new nature school, a preschool and after-school program that will immerse children in nature, play and being outside, Saathoff said.

Thats how we were brought up, Saathoff said. It was just a big part of our childhood, a big part of what we want to pass on for our own kids and for other kids.

Sprouts Art and Nature School will open in January in a remodeled 1924 house on a tree-filled lot at 1403 W. Springfield Ave., C. An open house is scheduled for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

The two women, who both hold UI degrees in early-childhood education, opened a child-care service in Petersons house in 2014. Saathoff was pregnant with her first child, and Peterson had taken some time off from teaching kindergarten at South Side Elementary School after having her third child.

They saw the venture as a chance to raise their own children and still work in the field they loved.

Theyve been developing a nature-based curriculum ever since, and now weve got the space to match, said Saathoff, mom to Freddy, 3, and Richie, 5.

The curriculum features lessons on the nature of central Illinois, with units on bugs, trees, birds and flowers.

We believe in the importance of imagination, making connections, play and authentic nature experiences over teacher-led direct academic instruction, said Peterson, who has three children, Mae, 7, George, 9 and Violet, 10.

Their husbands Derek Peterson and Joe Saathoff worked with Brian Deal to renovate the basement for the original preschool, and they are again the loving builders behind this place, Ellen Saathoff said Monday at the new Sprouts school.

Their mom, Claire Deal, is the official substitute; she went back to college to get the remaining credit hours she needed.

We couldnt do this without them, Saathoff said.

Displayed around the new center are their students nature-inspired works of art watercolors of leaves, butterflies and rain-streaked windows; a garland with caterpillars and other insects made out of colorful scrap materials; acrylic pendants with pinecones and evergreen cuttings inside.

Most of the books tie into the nature theme, including the sisters childhood favorite, the Caldecott Award-winner Roxaboxen. The book is about children who build a magical community out of ordinary objects like pebbles, sticks and boxes and their imaginations.

Its just such a good example, Saathoff said. Everything they need is already here.

Outside, they set up a mud kitchen with an old sink for making mud pies. A shelving unit was filled with twigs and other natural objects that the children use to make up elaborate games. A path encircles the yard, leading to a butterfly garden popular with monarchs and a real garden that produced squash and watermelon this year.

Most striking is a giant birds nest, with a metal frame built by the welding class at Central High School. Its designed for kids to climb inside and build their own nest with sticks and other materials.

In the spirit of sustainability, the sisters have tried to repurpose as much as they can.

The wood tables were crafted from the houses original framework. Outside, a table and chairs were built out of tree stumps. The deck had to be replaced, so the old lumber was used for a boardwalk.

They chose the house in part because its two blocks from Westview Elementary School so they can walk to pick up their kids.

Its not new construction. Its covered with trees and its a huge lot, in town, which is so rare, Saathoff said.

Sprouts will have a morning preschool, an extended-day preschool and an after-school program for school-aged children. It will have room for 12 preschoolers ages 2 to 5, and 20 kids altogether.

One of our goals is to build a community of people who believe in raising the next generation of environmentalists. Saathoff said.

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AMES, Ia. With respect to my friends in the online recruiting world ...

Your star ranking system works sometimes. It probably works many times, to be honest. With Iowa State, though, its different.

Coach Matt Campbell and his staff arent pulling in the five-star recruits that some opponents routinely get. Heck, theyre not getting nearly as many four-star recruits as the competition, either, although securing two during this recruiting cycles is pretty good.

College football fans pay attention to recruiting rankings especially during this early-signing period but really, what does it mean? If rankings were to be believed, then Texas would be churning out Big 12 Conference championship after championship, and not losing against the Cyclones and sharing third place with seemingly everyone else in the conference.

In Campbells case, recruiting is about development. Its more about eventually and patiently molding a three-star recruit into a five-star game day player.

That was evident again Wednesday, when his 21-player recruiting class included four-star quarterbacks Hunter Dekkers of West Sioux of Hawarden and Aidan Bouman of Buffalo, Minnesota and a bunch of three-star players.

Does this mean Dekkers, the talented strong-armed guy whocrushed nearly every Iowa high school record, is the gem of the 2020 recruiting class?

Maybe after Brock Purdy is finished rewriting the schools quarterback record book. But until then, Dekkers will be developing his craft alongside Bouman, the other just-signed quarterback recruit.

Iowa States most significant recruit who returned a signed national letter of intent Wednesday is three-star defensive lineman Latrell Bankston. The former Hutchinson Community College star will be given first crack to fill the huge hole vacated when middle linemen Ray Lima and Jamahl Johnson run out of eligibility after the Camping World Bowl.

Latrell is the national defensive player of the year in junior college football, Campbell said Wednesday. He had unbelievable success. He competes with some really good players in our football program right now. Hes from a great family. Has a strong purpose of what he does. Im really excited that Latrell will do a phenomenal job for our football program.

From Day One, Bankston better be ready to play at a high level, because the 2020 team on which hell play should be very good. Hed better quickly adapt to Jon Heacocks three-player defensive front assuming he wins the starting job. Hed better be ready to chase quarterbacks like Sam Ehlinger, Charlie Brewer and Spencer Sanders around the backfield.

Hed better be prepared to do all that, while also being a run-stopper when Oklahoma States Chuba Hubbard and Kansas Pooka Williams get the ball assuming one of them doesnt take his talent to the next level.

You can say the same for three-star juco transfer receiver Xavier Hutchinson. With LaMichael Pettway and Deshaunte Jones gone after the bowl game, someone has to make up for at least part of their combined 123 regular-season receptions.

Hes got good size, at 6-3 and 200 pounds. Oklahoma and Nebraska tried to flip his commitment.

I dont know that theres a better wide receiver in the country right now coming into a college football program thanwhat Xavier is, Campbell said of the former Blinn JC star. You saw that in his recruiting toward the end. You watch the videotape of his sophomore year at Blinn its as good as any videotape as Ive ever seen of a wide receiver that weve had the opportunity to recruit.

Bankston and Hutchinson are two reasons why, for now anyway, three-star guys have more immediate importance than anyone else in Campbells recruiting class.

Look at this class and the classes previous, Campbell said. What weve been really good atis finding guys that fit our culture.

To develop within a football program is the most critical aspect of recruiting. Today is a great day, but all it isis a start. Now its the opportunity to get into something thats really hard, and this is really hard what we ask our kids to do.

Do you have the mental fortitude and comfort and trust in the people around you to be able to develop, and become the best version of you that you can be?

And who even says the star-system is accurate?

Take Iowa States 2018 class, for example. Those 21 signings included four-star receiver Joe Scates and a three-star quarterback with the last name of Purdy.

Re-rate from what we know today. Scates likely stays a four-star recruit, but if Purdy doesnt ascend to five-star status then the Internet ranking system is all messed up.

Diving deeper into the stars, look at the pro-style quarterbacks in Purdys recruitingclass. Trevor Lawrence was No. 1. Purdy was No. 24, according to the 247.com web site.

Purdys 3,760 passing yards this season was fourth nationally ahead of all the 2019 pro-style quarterbacks ranked before him.

Don't abandon the star system. Just don't use it as the only factor in ranking a recruiting class. There are plenty of examples to the contrary.

Iowa State columnist Randy Peterson has been writingfor the Des Moines Register for parts of five decades. Reach him at rpeterson@dmreg.com, 515-284-8132, and on Twitter at @RandyPete. No one covers the Cyclones like the Register. Subscribe today at Des Moines Register.com/Deal to make sure you never miss a moment.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - A busy intersection in northeast Colorado Springs is getting a new look, according to the city.

People who live near Dublin Boulevard and Peterson Road said the intersection gets really busy in the morning and afternoon.

It could take 10-15 minutes to get through one stop sign, said Dustin Mangold, who lives nearby.

Mangold said he drives through the intersection almost every day when he drops his children off at school.

They start around 7:45, so I tell them, We got to leave the house by 7:10, no later, he said. Usually during the day, its a 15-minute drive to Rampart, but with this, it could be 30-35 minutes an extra 20-30 minutes.

City Traffic Engineer Todd Frisbie said the city was alerted to the intersection after getting calls from concerned citizens. The city said it conducted a traffic survey during the summer.

We saw a lot of traffic and delay at the intersection, and those are some of the main criteria we look at to make a determination whether to signalize the intersection or not, Frisbie said.

After conducting a 12-hour study, the city determined the intersection needed a traffic light.

The traffic signal can move more traffic than a stop sign, Frisbie said. Traffic signal, it helps improve efficiency and the flow of traffic but it also can be a safer type of intersection as people can get through that intersection.

11 News previously reported on Dublin and Peterson in 2017 when parents voiced their concerns about the busy intersection right next to Imagine Classical Academy. The school has since moved, but the city said the intersection still needs a traffic light.

We knew the school was leaving, so we decided to initiate the counts during the summer because we knew that school traffic wasnt going to be there, so we thought that would be a representative condition after the school was gone, Frisbie said. Without the school, that will help as well with congestion at the intersection. As you know, with any school you get that peak in the morning, you get that peak in the afternoon, and that can add to the congestion, so that element will be gone, but even with that gone, as I said, we were still meeting that warrant for a traffic signal. So were moving forward with that project.

Mangold said he was excited to learn that the city plans to install traffic lights instead of stop signs at the intersection.

I just think flow of traffic will be better, he said. It may feel like were sitting there longer at a red light, but I think more cars will be able to get through, and in the long run, its actually less time, in my opinion.

Frisbie said construction is likely to start in spring 2020. The project will also include some road and sidewalk improvements. Construction is anticipated to last four to six months. The cost is expected to be around $1 million.

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During his tenure with the Minnesota Vikings, Adrian Peterson created a number of memorable moments. But no season of his with the Vikings may be more memorable than what he was able to do out on the field in 2012.

That season, Peterson rushed for 2,097 yards and 12 touchdowns. His rushing total in 2012 is still the second-most ever by an NFL running back in a single season. Peterson is also one of only seven running backs to finish a year with at least 2,000 rushing yards.

Unsurprisingly, the former Minnesota rusher was named the leagues MVP in 2012 and hes just the fourth running back to win the award since the 2000 season.

In addition to his magical 2012 campaign, Peterson also had a number of very impressive seasons when suited up for the Vikings from 2007 to 2016. Currently, hes still chugging along as a member of the Washington Redskins and he is sitting in sixth place on the NFLs all-time career rushing yards list.

Now, all of these accomplishments during his time in the league would lead one to believe that Peterson should be considered one of the NFLs greatest running backs of all-time, right? Well, apparently not.

As part of the leagues 100th anniversary this year, the NFL has put together an All-Time Team and the running backs who made the cut were recently announced. 12 were selected, however, Peterson was not one of them.

Instead of the former Minnesota running back, the league went with Jim Brown, Earl Campbell, Earl Clark, Eric Dickerson, Lenny Moore, Marion Motley, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Gale Sayers, O.J. Simpson, Emmitt Smith, and Steve Van Buren.

Its a bit odd that Peterson was not one of the backs included, especially since four of the guys who actually were selected (Clark, Moore, Motley, Sayers, Van Buren), didnt even amass at least 6,000 total rushing yards during their NFL careers.

The players for the leagues All-Time Team were selected by a 26-person panel that included people like Bill Belichick, Tony Dungy, John Madden, Don Shula, Bill Polian, Ron Wolf, Dan Fouts, Ozzie Newsome, and Peter King.

Obviously, all of Petersons career achievements in the NFL were not good enough for the panel to think he is worthy of being a member of the leagues All-Time Team.

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The Choose Your Own Adventure books were one of the most popular children's series during the 1980s and '90s. As a reader, you assumed the role of the protagonist and chose your own actions and outcomes.

What if you had the chance at a Choose Your Own Adventure internship, but there was no map or prewritten adventures for you to contemplate. Would you take it?

Noelle Broughton did, and she's enjoyed every twist and turn.

Broughton is the Peterson fellow in the Indianapolis mayor's office, an opportunity she learned about when applying for scholarships through IUPUI and the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

"It's a really unique program because it's very self-directed," said Broughton, who is enrolled in the Master of Public Affairs program in the O'Neill School, concentrating in policy analysis. "I have been able to determine my own path and experience based on my interests and the city's needs."

With interests in community and economic development and tax policy, she has found plenty of projects to work on. Broughton is currently evaluating the Lift Indy program to see how it has impacted the 16th Street and Monon Trail neighborhood.

"There are concerns about gentrification impacting the neighborhoods economically and demographically, and we want to ensure that the longtime residents in that neighborhood are thriving and benefiting from Lift Indy," she explained.

Through her interest in tax policy, Broughton found herself another project to work on: developer-backed bonds. A more efficient approach and process was needed to maintain consistency, and Broughton found a solution. She is working with the Department of Metropolitan Development to create a welcome packet and a standardized contract for developers to receive tax incentives.

"This benefits the city because when a developer receives tax incentives, they need to contribute a certain percentage to public art, and sometimes that gets forgotten or left out of the contract," Broughton said.

With Broughton's help, contributions to public art are standardized in every contract. The tax-incentive process is outlined from start to finish, gives timelines and deadlines, and sets the expectation for how long each step in the process might take.

Increasing and enhancing relationships with Indianapolis and developers? Broughton can check that one off the list.

While working on this project, a similar one popped up. Broughton is working on creating a pipeline for developers to use when they apply for low-income housing tax credits from the state. Though the credits are coming from the state, developers need a lot of information from the city in order to apply for them. Broughton is setting expectations up front and gathering resources so developers know who to contact for each piece of information they need.

"There's always this mad rush to get information to developers when they request it, and this new process will make it easier for developers and for the city," she said.

Prior to these projects, Broughton worked with constituent services to create proclamations and greetings for big, citywide events. The greeting for the 2019 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon was written by Broughton on behalf of Mayor Joe Hogsett.

The best part of her internship, she said, is seeing her classroom experience come to life.

"I'm currently taking a statistics class, and I've been able to directly apply the quantitative analysis to the research I'm doing with Lift Indy," she said. "I had no idea this internship would prepare me for exactly what I want to do."

After a short career in fundraising that she didn't fully connect with, Broughton chose a new adventure and enrolled in graduate school. This internship, paired with her classes, has solidified her interest in public service, specifically working in government. And it's opened up other possibilities, like law school, and has helped her build an important network. As a first-generation college student, she now sees ideas that once seemed out of reach becoming her reality.

Broughton has only been in her internship since August, and she looks forward to choosing what she'll work on next.

"There are a lot of areas I'd like to learn more about and get experience in," she said. "I'd like to explore public finance-type projects, and I hope to work on a project soon that analyzes charter school finances."

Whatever she chooses, she's excited for the adventure.

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Noelle Broughton chooses her own adventure as the Peterson fellow in the Indianapolis mayor's office - IU Newsroom

REST OF SEASON OUTLOOK AND POSITION RANK

Patrick Peterson is not projected to be worth a roster spot based on total fantasy points the rest of the season. His 20 projected fantasy points puts him at #161 behind Mike Edwards and ahead of Roderic Teamer. He has averaged 4.38 fantasy points in his past 21 games, which is slightly more than our projected per game average. His projected per game average is 4 fantasy points. His rank based on avg proj (#145) is better than his rank based on total fantasy points. Patrick Peterson is expected to come up short of this season-to-date's #153 fantasy position rank.

Patrick Peterson is projected for 4 fantasy points in week 13 which only ranks him as the #137 projected defensive back and not a fantasy relevant player for the week. This week's rank is better than his rest of season rank. Patrick Peterson is not expected to be active in week 12.

The tables below show projected stats (totals and averages) for the rest of the season and next week. Also included are actual stats from the current and last season.

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Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel has hired the attorney who botched an investigation into the Fiesta Bowl a decade ago to oversee a probe of County Assessor Paul Petersen.

Adels office announced that former Attorney General Grant Woodswill oversee the work of two private law firms hired to investigate whether Petersen neglected his duties.

Petersen stands accused in three states of running an illegal adoption scheme involving Marshallese women, and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors suspended him Oct. 28 for 120 days for neglecting his duties. He was in federal custody in Arkansas at the time, but he is free on bail.

Woods, in 2009, conducted a week-long investigation into a campaign-finance scandal involving Fiesta Bowl employees and found no credible evidence of wrongdoing. But when state and federal investigators got involved, several employees of the college-football organization ended up pleading guilty to various misdemeanors and felonies, including former Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker, who spent eight months in prison.

Grant Woods

Woods has said in a subsequent interview in 2017 with Tempe-based journalist Nancy Puffer that the Fiesta Bowl manipulated him.

At the end of the day I had lots of excuses, but I was hired to see if there was a problem, and I didnt see it, Woods said.

Petersens criminal defense attorney, Kurt Altman, questioned whether it is necessary to have Woods oversee the neglect-of-duties investigation because one of the firms tasked to investigate the county assessor, Stein Mitchell Carey Chapman, is a seasoned and respectedoutfit that specializes in criminal defense.

Woods will be providing regular updates to Adel.

Sounds like a good gig if you can get it, Altman said.

Additionally, Cosmich Simmons & Brown, a litigation firm, will look into all of Petersens documents found on his county computer in an internal audit. The audit found that only five percent of those documents pertained to official county business.

Kory Langhofer, Petersens attorney who is defending him in the suspension matter, said Woods has already judged Petersen.

Langhofer provided Arizona Capitol Times a tweet from Oct. 9 in which Woods congratulated Attorney General Mark Brnovich for indicting Petersen and liked a tweet stating Petersen should learn to enjoy prison.

Great Work General, Woods tweeted.

Langhofer said Woods social media activity reveals a bias against Petersen and makes him the least qualified investigator.

He said the verdict is already in on Petersens suspension.

The Board of Supervisors premade conclusionswhich theyve already announced and voted to approvewill be dressed up and reprinted on Grant Woodss letterhead, Langhofer said.

The Board of Supervisors voted last week to have a suspension appeal hearing on December 11.

Woods laughed at hearing Langhofers comments and denied having any bias against Petersen. He also denied that the Board of Supervisors have already predetermined the investigation outcome as Langhofer suggests.

The Board suspended him and they need to review the suspension and what steps to take going forward. They need to know more about the Assessors Office and the job hes done. Its completely separate [from the criminal charges], Woods said.

Jennifer Liewer, an Adel spokeswoman, said Woods overall reputation and experience is why Adel considered him and why she thinks he is qualified.

[Woods] is a well-respected member of the community, Jennifer Liewer, a county spokeswoman, said. He has conducted hundreds of investigations as attorney general and overseen many we believe the team we compiled will do a thorough job and will be able to provide Adel and the Board of Supervisors with a thorough investigation.

Both Adel and Woods also have a history with Sen. John McCain. Adel interned for McCain while in college and Woods was McCains Chief of Staff when he was a congressman.Liewer said that history was not considered when choosing the former AG to oversee the investigation.

Woods said he was approached last week to begin overseeing the investigation, but still has not seen a contract yet for how much he will be paid for the work, which is expected to take less than one month.

He said the short timeframe will be challenging, but that the majority of the work will be conducted by Lee Stein of Stein Mitchell Carey Chapman.

Woods was vague on whether there is enough time before the Dec. 11 hearing to conduct a thorough investigation.

It depends on your definition of thorough, he said. Were going to do what were going to do and give [the Board of Supervisors] what we have and thats up to them.

Prosecutors say Petersen paid the Marshallese women up to $10,000 to come to the United States, where they were crammed into houses to wait to give birth and provide their babies for adoption.

Petersen faces charges in Arizona, Utah and Arkansas that include human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Petersen has now pleaded not guilty in courts in Arkansas, Arizona and Utah. And next month, he is scheduled for his next court dates in Arkansas on Dec. 5 and Arizona Dec. 19.

Editors note: This story has been revised to include direct quotes and paraphrased statements from Grant Woods.

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Former AG Woods to lead probe of suspended assessor Peterson - Arizona Capitol Times

I share a passage from Ian Hutchinson,Monopolizing Knowledge: A Scientist Refutes Religion-Denying, Reason-Destroying Scientism(Belmont, MA: Fias Publishing, 2011). Dr. Hutchinsonis a professor ofNuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a primary interest in plasma physics:

There does seem to be something special about science, which enables it to arrive at knowledge that is uniquely persuasive and reliable. That is of course a reason for the high prestige of science in our culture. But sciences persuasive and practical power is based on choosing as its topics of study precisely those aspects of the world that are able to be described and systematized into persuasive and practical scientific knowledge. Its insistence on reproducible experimental and observational confirmation, and its insistence on Clarity are the essential foundations of its astonishing successes. For all the justifiable critiques of sciences more immodest claims, for all the scholarly disproof of the fables that it has told about its history and certainty, and for all the well-earned condemnations of scientisms ambitions to encompass everything in its hegemony, science still does deserve high esteem. It produces real and valuable knowledge, about the topics it is competent to describe. It attracts into its enterprise those who value the truth that they find there, as well, perhaps, as those who seek the power and wealth that sciences technological capabilities can provide. But acknowledging all these sometimes admirable and often powerful characteristics of science in no way establishes that other fields are bereft of knowledge. Non-scientific topics are precisely those that do not lend themselves to providing the reproducible and unambiguous answers that characterize science. No wonder that their answers are more ambiguous, more debatable, more uncertain. Yet these topics are, of course, of profound importance in society and in everyday human life, and their pursuit deserves respect when it shows insight, rigor, creativity, and erudition. (141-142)

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Meanwhile, heres some actual science news:

19 more galaxies mysteriously missing dark matter have been found:The newly found outliers defy ideas of how these star systems evolve

How Julia Robinson helped define the limits of mathematical knowledge: Born 100 years ago, she was key in solving Hilberts 10th problem

What is Dark Energy?

Light leaking from a distant galaxy hints at a cosmic makeovers origins:Harsh ultraviolet radiation suggests how hydrogen got ionized in the universe long ago

This Is How Distant Galaxies Recede Away From Us At Faster-Than-Light Speeds

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There does seem to be something special about science - Patheos

An Australian man on a Bali holiday with his wife has been forced to celebrate her birthday from behind bars.

Michael Peterson has been held by officials over his prescription dexamphetamine, despite declaring the medicine he uses for Crohns disease and symptoms of myasthenia gravis at customs on arrival on Saturday.

Still behind bars, Mr Petersons wife Linda was forced to unwrap her ring and enjoy a slice of cake inside a police office.

He had brought the gift with him from Australia, but didnt get to hand it over in a romantic setting after being arrested moments after touching down.

He will remain locked up while authorities investigate the 87 pills he brought with him.

Mr Peterson declared his prescription tablets at customs however dexamphetamine sulfate is classified as a class one narcotic under Indonesian law - the most serious drug classification.

It can only be possessed with the appropriate doctors prescription and letters, which the Australian did not bring with him.

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Australian veteran Michael Petersen could be freed from a Bail prison on Tuesday

According to 7NEWS, the appropriate medical information has since been sent and his lawyers are confident he will be released without charge.

Mr Peterson, an Air Force technician of 24 years, has travelled the world but said it never occurred to him his pills could land him in trouble.

(I) just didn't give it a thought and cos I've travelled with Defence as well taking that drug, I just didn't think anything of it, he said.

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The federal Liberal government has always been a big fan of diversity.

Recently, for example, if you are a Canadian faculty member, there is a good chance that you received an email or letter from Statistics Canada. TheSurvey of Postsecondary Faculty and Researcherswas designed to assess diversity among the groups targeted because of the desire of the Liberals to increase diversity among those receiving funding. It has long been the case that research funding was dependent, as much as possible, on two factors, both intensely meritocratic: the research record of the applicant and the quality of the proposed research.

That appears about to change, and not for the better.

But the concept of diversity is a very slippery term. What it truly means is lets aim for fewer white men in positions of authority, which would be a fine idea if race and sex were reasonable criteria by which to judge applicants, and if it wasnt motivated by a broad set of progressive beliefs, which include the idea that we live in an oppressive patriarchy and that men who work now should be required to step back so that a litany of hypothetical, definable and prejudicial historical wrongs might be righted (this even though those who do the righting werent those who committed the prejudicial crimes, so to speak, and those who benefit not those who were the victims). There was evena recent articleinNature, a magazine that was once, withScience, one of the two unquestionably most influential scientific journals, suggesting male scientists should voluntarily delay their career advancement so that their underprivileged colleagues (underprivileged despite their status as university professors) could catch up and justice be properly served.

There appears to be no limits, practically or philosophically, to the number of group memberships that have to be taken into account

Diversity is a word that, on the face of it, masquerades as something positive because it is positive, in some of its manifestations. Its obviously not helpful to set up an organization where everyone thinks alike, or solely in the approved manner. It is necessary, for example, for healthy organizations to ally the conservative tendency to preserve with the more liberal tendency to transform. But that begs the question: where is diversity to be found? Among the ideologues pushing the progressive doctrine that its part of, most frequently including inclusivity, equity and intersectionality it is to be found in a set of immutable characteristics that typify different groups, including race, sex, gender (because that is distinguished by those same ideologues from sex) and sexual proclivity, above all.

There are real problems with this agenda, however. The first is that its dangerous, in exactly the manner it is hypothetically designed to fight. The argument made by those who are truly prejudiced has always been that the differences between groups are so large that discrimination, isolation, segregation and even open conflict, including war and genocide, are necessary, for the safety of whatever group they are part of and are hypothetically protecting. Why is it any less risky for the argument to be made in the reverse manner? The claim that group-based differences are so important that they must take substantive priority during hiring and promotion merely risks validating the opposite claim.

Theres a second problem, too and its particularly interesting, because it has been made by the same ideologically-oriented groups on the left that are pushing the diversity agenda: considering race, say, and gender when making diversity decisions is not sufficient. Diversity that focuses on females is insufficient, because black, Asian or Hispanic women, for example, face more egregious prejudice that white women.

This brings us to the last word of the progressive setintersectionality. For the ideologues of intersectionality, true diversity cannot be limited to the features we have already considered race and the like because many people are alienated or, in the jargon, marginalized, from the broader culture by more than one oppressed minority feature. In consequence, the intersection between the groups must be considered for any real justice to make its appearance as a consequence of policy.

But there appears to be no limits, practically or philosophically, to the number of group memberships that have to be taken into account for true diversity to establish itself. It doesnt take much thought just a little arithmetic to determine the nature of the problem: There are just too many potential intersectional categories. Lets break it down using American statistics much more comprehensive and easier to come by than their Canadian equivalents.

Theres race and sex, for starters and, following that, gender. But how many races, sexes and genders is it required to consider? Assume (and this is what the modern science suggests) that there are five major human subpopulations: African, European/Middle Eastern, East Asian, inhabitants of Oceania, and denizens of the New World. Lets assume two sexes and three genders although many of those concerned with diversity would insist that there are a much larger number of the latter.

So thats 5 X 2 X 3 =30.

Then we might as well add to that disabilities. I dont know how to calculate the appropriate number here, although according to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, 20% of undergraduates reported a disability in 2015-2016. These included one or more of the following nine conditions: blindness or visual impairment; hearing impairment; orthopedic or mobility impairment; speech or language impairment; learning, mental, emotional, or psychiatric condition, or other health impairment or problem. So, if we assume that two divisions (presence/absence) are necessary to cover each disability (counting each listed in the last phrase separately), we now require nine additional multiples of 2 (two for blindness, two for hearing impairment, etc.) for our equation:

So thats 30 X 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 = 15,360.

I cant see why class/economic origin shouldnt be taken into account as well. According to the U.S. Census Bureau estimates, 12% of Americans live below the poverty line. So, we need at least an additional two categories to even minimally account for economic disparity. And that brings us to 30,720 categories of diverse individuals (15,360 X 2).

If we are truly serious about diversity, and are willing to attribute it to group identity, and are going to apply its dictates to hiring, placement and promotion for every position, then we already have a minimum of 30,000 different categories to consider and there are many other categories of exclusion that are arguably of equal import. Theres height, strength and attractiveness, which all arguably provide an unequal starting place in the race for success. Theres intelligence, native language and education. Theres age, marital status and of critical importance presence or absence of dependent children. Thats nine more categories.

Assuming we once again use two divisions for each additional category (short/tall, strong/weak, etc.), the total of diverse individuals now reaches more than 15 million. Wed only need to add one more binary category obese/non-obese? to dramatically exceed the entire 18 million person Canadian workforce. And why not? Whos to say, given that elimination of discrimination is hypothetically the goal, that one is more important than another? I say this in all seriousness: Isnt that just another form of discrimination?

As far as I am concerned, unless you accept it as a dogmatic given (and this would be if you were an advocate of the equity doctrine, which means all outcomes for all groups in all professions must be identical, and which therefore runs into the same arithmetical problem that diversity encounters) university hiring and granting practices are remarkably meritocratic. In the university departments I have worked within (McGill, Harvard and the University of Toronto) it was obvious to everyone that within the limits of human error, people were promoted when they deserved it and obtained research grant money for the same reasons. In both cases, the more productive people had a pronounced edge, which is exactly how it should be if scientific research is important enough to garner investment, be it from private or public funding sources. The three granting agencies are as meritocratic as our somewhat (and inevitably) flawed measures of research productivity can make them, and the universities themselves bend over backwards and tie themselves in knots (both clichs are necessary) to right past wrongs even to the point where well-respected social scientists Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci demonstrated a 2:1 hiring advantage for female candidatesfor open science, technology, engineering and mathematical positions.

The concept of diversity is a very slippery term

The proper way to determine who gets what slice of which pie in a given organization is the manner in which employers are legally bound to hire: first, they must conduct an analysis of the job to determine and list its requirements; then, with certain exceptions they are required to hire, place or promote the person who is most qualified to undertake that job, regardless of attributes that are not relevant to the task. These include the differences in race, sex, gender, and their combinationsthat are pushed so assiduously, self-righteously and thoughtlessly by the progressives who think they can replace comparatively well-functioning meritocracies, aimed at the solution of serious problems, by the most qualified people, with candidates chosen on the basis of attributes that would clearly be viewed as prejudicial if they were used as grounds for rejection, failure to promote, and firing.

The fact of the endless multiplication of categories of victimization, lets say (or at least difference) was actually solved long ago by the Western emphasis on the individual. We essentially assumed that each person was characterized by so many differences than every other person (the ultimate in intersectionality) that it was better to concentrate solely on meritocratic selection, where the only difference that was to be considered was the suitability of the person for the specific and well-designed tasks that constituted a given job. That works not perfectly, but less imperfectly than anything else that has been contemplated or worse, implemented.

We toy with it at our peril.

Jordan Petersonis a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, a clinical psychologist and the author of the multi-million copy bestseller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. His blog and podcasts can be found atjordanbpeterson.com.

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Adrian Peterson is the lone active player among 24 running backs selected Monday night as finalists for the NFLs All-Time Team.

As part of its 100th season celebration, the NFL is using a 26-person voting panel to select the team. Twelve of the 24 running backs will be revealed Friday night as the first portion of the squad.

There are 23 Pro Football Hall of Famers on the finalists list - Peterson, of course, is not eligible until five years after he retires - and they represent

14 MVP awards and combined for 2,246 touchdowns.

Career rushing leader Emmitt Smith highlights the list that also includes the likes of Jim Brown, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders,Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski.

The NFL will have a weekly countdown of the team by position over the next six weeks.

The running backs list, in alphabetical order:

Marcus Allen

Jerome Bettis

Jim Brown

Earl Campbell

Earl "Dutch" Clark

Eric Dickerson

Tony Dorsett

Marshall Faulk

Harold "Red" Grange

Franco Harris

Hugh McElhenny

Lenny Moore

Marion Motley

Bronko Nagurski

Walter Payton

Adrian Peterson

Barry Sanders

Gale Sayers

O.J. Simpson

Emmitt Smith

Jim Taylor

Thurman Thomas

LaDainian Tomlinson

Steve Van Buren

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - The United States Air Force Academy has not declared an outbreak at this time, but the Chief of Media Relations for the Academy is reporting 400 cadets have had symptoms consistent with Norovirus since October.

11 News has a call into the El Paso County Public Health Department to see if other parts of the county are seeing an increase in Norovirus or flu cases.

11 News reached out to Peterson Air Force Base asking for information about cases there after multiple calls into our newsroom. A representative for Peterson said that they have a number of reported sicknesses, but they don't feel there is a need to send out an alert.

The Academy sent the following information to 11 News Wednesday afternoon:

"Approximately 400 cadets have had symptoms consistent with Norovirus, commonly known as "stomach flu, since these cases began to surface in the cadet Wing in late October.

To combat norovirus, increased cleaning is being conducted in common areas with agents that are certified to eliminate the virus. Areas that were cleaned once or twice daily are now being cleaned at least three times daily.

Cadets have been encouraged to practice good hygiene, including vigorous hand washing with soap and water for 20-30 seconds. Infected cadets have been placed on bedrest for at least 72 hours after their symptoms resolve and they are cleared for duty by qualified medical personnel.

Out of an abundance of caution, several large gathering-type events have been rescheduled.

Our cadets and support staff are our main concern. We have acted quickly with all the appropriate intervention steps, in cooperation with our medical group team, our cadre and leadership at all levels, and the cadet wing leadership to help stop the spread.

Norovirus is very contagious and causes vomiting and/or diarrhea in those infected. The primary means of cure are rest and consumption of plenty of fluids, since the biggest danger to those with norovirus is dehydration.

The 10th Medical Group has been in coordination with Peterson Air Force Base, Fort Carson, El Paso County Public Health and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to provide updates on infection numbers and measures taken to mitigate the spread of norovirus."

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Sophie Robinson committed to play hockey at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.. She played four years of varsity girls hockey as a defensemen for the Brainerd/Little Falls Warriors.

I love the small town and community there, Robinson said of why she decided to go to Dartmouth. The hockey was great, along with the amazing school and there are great opportunities there for me to grow.

In the 2018-19 season, Robinson tallied six goals and 16 assists for the Warriors as they placed second in the Class 2A State Tournament.

Teammate Gabbie Smith also signed to play hockey at Bemidji State University. Smith scored 20 goals to go along with 19 assists in the 18-19 season.

Its exciting to have this moment together, Robinson said.

Warrior baseball teammates Broc Peterson and Seth Vagts signed their letters of intent to play college baseball.

Peterson will attend University of Minnesota-Crookston and Vagts will go to St. Marys University in Minnesota.

It felt good to have support and everyone be there for us. Its nice, Peterson said.

Vagts hit .328 last season for the Warriors and tallied 15 RBIs. He plans to get into the Physician Assistant program at St. Marys.

Peterson hit .304 and scored 17 runs. He pitched 29 innings with a 3-2 record and an ERA of 2.41.

Peterson says Crookson was a good fit for him academically and he liked their baseball program.

I also like the idea of being in a small town, he said. Its just the type of person I am. The competition will be tougher and it will be more competitive, which is what I am looking for.

Clare Ceynowa highlighted the ceremony as she plans to go to the University of Minnesota to play softball. She also hopes to get accepted in the biomedical engineering program at Minnesota.

Ceynowa knows she is wanted for her power. The challenge playing at the next level will be to find a position for her to play consistently.

The biggest challenge will be time management with lifting and eating right, getting your studying in, its going to be a change, Ceynowa said. Ive been ready to go to college for a couple years now, but it hasnt really hit me that this will be my last season.

She has loved the campus of Minnesota since junior high and it was a reason she decided to go there.

It just felt different, Ceynowa said about her first trip to the University of Minnesota. It just really felt like home.

Gina Wasniewski will head to University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point to play soccer. She spent some of her senior season injured, but when healthy proved to be a valuable player for Warriors girls soccer.

In 2019, she played in nine games and notched two assists. At the end of the season, she was voted by the team for the Warrior Way award which highlights character. At Stevens-Point she plans on studying Physical Education

Avery Eckman rounds out the group who were honored. Eckman will attend University of Minnesota-Duluth and hopes to study biology.

They were a lot closer to home than some other schools I was looking at, Eckman said of why she chose to play for the Bulldogs. I am just excited to play with other girls who have worked hard to get the next level like I have. Just play at the next level where everyone is the best of the best.

The higher stakes and fast pace is the biggest challenge Eckman faces as she goes to play for UMD. She is known for her hammer as he tallied 344 kills her senior season with the Warriors. She wants to become a more all-around player at college.

Everyone notices the big hit because it makes the most noise, Eckman said. But you cant forget about a good pass. I have been working on improving my defense a lot and that might go unnoticed.

Broc Peterson

Sport: Baseball

College: University of Minnesota-Crookston

Seth Vagts

Sport: Baseball

College: St. Marys University

Gina Wasniewski

Sport: Soccer

College: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Clare Ceynowa

Sport: Softball

College: University of Minnesota

Avery Eckman

Sport: Volleyball

College: University of Minnesota-Duluth

Sophie Robinson

Sport: Hockey

College: Dartmouth

Gabbie Smith

Sport: Hockey

College: Bemidji State University

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Athletics: Warrior athletes have their signing day - Brainerd Dispatch

JEFFERSON Josie Peterson has been to state before, but never by herself.

Peterson qualified as a sophomore in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle and as the lead leg of the 200-meter freestyle relay in 2018.

The Jefferson junior will return to the WIAA Division 2 state swim meet at UW Natatorium as an individual in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle after winning both events in the WIAA Division 2 Jefferson sectional on Saturday, November 9.

Last year, Peterson and her fellow Jefferson/Cambridge teammates leaned on each other for moral support while they were on deck as underclassmen handling the pressures of competing in a state meet. A four-year streak of the EagleJays sending their 200-yard freestyle relay to state ended this season.

Jefferson/Cambridge was two spots away from extending its state streak.

So, Peterson will spend the time on deck by herself.

The time we got at sectionals, we thought we did have a chance because it was a low time for us, Peterson said. We were only two spots away from qualifying. It was kind of disappointing when we saw that, but that makes us more motivated and dedicated to fight for that spot.

Peterson finished the 50-meter freestyle at sectionals in 24.34 seconds, which was a half of a second faster than her seed time set at the Southern Lakes Conference meet on the prior Saturday. Her time at sectionals puts her as a third seed. Peterson swam a slower time than her seed in 2018, so a spot on the podium isnt a guarantee, but she does have a reason to breathe easy without stress of getting a top-six spot.

At the beginning of this year, I would breathe maybe four times in each race, said Peterson of her improvements in her races this season. I cut it down to twice this year, so its once on the way down and once on the way back.

Every time you breathe, it adds time, so I just make sure I have a specific spot where I know when Im going to breathe.

As far as the 100-yard freestyle is concerned, Peterson trimmed a full 1.5 seconds off of her race in sectionals after she finished in 54.21 seconds. Thats just a sign of the taper working and to make the podium in the 100-yard freestyle, shell likely need to trim another 1.5 seconds.

I feel like if I focus on my race and not worrying about any other people swimming I should be fine, Peterson said. Theyre going to push me to go faster, but I just need to do what Ive been doing all year and make sure that everything is perfect with my technique.

Whippets to compete in six events

Whitewater advanced its 200-yard medley relay and 200-yard freestyle relay to state. Those relay teams consisted of juniors Ella Houwers and Amber Krebs as well as freshman Grace Foucault and senior Brianna Zimdars.

Houwers qualified as an individual in the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard breaststroke. Houwers heads into the state meet as the defending state champion in the 100-yard breaststroke. She placed third last season in the 200-yard individual medley.

Zimdars qualified in the 100-yard butterfly and the 500-yard freestyle.

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Iowa State arrives to their hotel headquarters Sunday afternoon. Randy Peterson, rpeterson@dmreg.com

AMES, Ia. The Camping World Bowl committee liked Matt Campbells Iowa State football team and the thousands of fans that go with it so much last seasonthat it actually thought the Cyclones would be headed to their game.

Selecting second among the Big 12s non-New Years Six bowls,the Orlando-based Camping World figured the Alamo Bowl would use its pick on West Virginia, and then the Camping World Bowl would be picking Iowa State.

We thought that, all the way up to the point where the Alamo picked Iowa State, Camping World rep Kirtus Bocox said after the Cyclones 23-21 victory against Texas on Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium. We thought wed be welcoming Matt Campbell and all those wonderful Iowa State fans to Orlando.

ISU fans gather for the Cyclone Spirit Rally on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, in San Antonio. Iowa State takes on Washington State in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Friday.(Photo: Brian Powers/The Register)

Something happened on their way to the Magic Kingdom.

Alamo surprised Camping by selecting 24th-ranked Iowa State over No. 16 West Virginia, so the Mountaineers became the pick for Orlando.

Welcome to the bowl business, where Plan Bs and Csare probably more in play than fans think and where the Camping World Bowl just might get the Cyclones a year after they splashed onto their radar.

Assume Oklahoma and Baylor already have been picked on college footballs selection Sunday. Assume the Alamo Bowl picks between Iowa State and Oklahoma State.

Running back Breece Hall #28 of the Iowa State Cyclones breaks away from linebacker Joseph Ossai #46 of the Texas Longhorns as he rushed for yards in the first half of play at Jack Trice Stadium on November 16, 2019 in Ames, Iowa. (Photo by David Purdy/Getty Images)(Photo: David Purdy/Getty Images)

The Alamo loved the Cyclones San Antonio invasion last year, an enthusiastic partnership between fan and bowl that reportedly included at least 30,000 Iowa State fans at the game, but would they go back a second bowl season in a row?

Thats the great unknown, so assume its Oklahoma State to the Alamo and the Camping World picks Iowa State assuming, of course, the Cyclones finishes the season with wins at home against Kansas at 11 a.m.Saturday and at Kansas State on Nov. 30.

To be honest, we were excited to watch the big matchup against Texas, and then, as it played out while walking around the tailgate areas, fans told us theyd love to come to Orlando to be part of our bowl, Bocox said. To be honest, that meant a lot.

We judge the fan bases that we see. We see how tight the fans areand the excitement they have for their teams. Iowa State looks to have a very close-knit fan base, and everyone knows the enthusiasm they have for the team.

Iowa State qualified for its third bowl game in a rowafter winning its sixth game of the season Saturday with Connor Assalleys walk-off 36-yard field goal. Campbells team played in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee, after going 7-5 during the regular season in 2017. It impressed Alamo Bowl reps (and the Camping World folks, too) after an eight-win regular season in 2018.

It was an impressive site, walking around the tailgates two or three before the game, Bocox said. Despite the cold weather, I was impressed that many fans were out and about.

The Camping World Bowl is Dec. 28 at 11 a.m. on ESPN at 65,000-seat Camping World Stadium in Orlando. The Big 12 selection faces the ACC champion. Syracuse beat West Virginia in last seasons game before a crowd of 41,125 fans.

Iowa State quarterback Brock Purdy (15) celebrates with teammates Parker Rickert, left, and Bobby McMillen III after an NCAA college football game against Texas, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, in Ames, Iowa. Iowa State won 23-21. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)(Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)

Thatd be exciting for us, having a young coach like Matt Campbell thats on the rise and leading a team thats also on the rise, Bocox said. Were looking for an exciting game, from a TV perspective, and a team with players that would create a buzz. Individual starts and great matchups generate eyeballs in the stadium and on television.

Iowa State can offer up quarterback Brock Purdy, third nationally in both passing yards (3,023) and passing yards per game (320.3). Over the last five games, tailback Breece Hall leads all Power Five running backs regardless of age, with 120.4 yards a game. Sophomore Charlie Kolar is among the top three or four tight ends in the country.

We honestly thought we had Iowa State last year, Bocox said. Thats who we thought was coming, but we saw what they did at the Alamo Bowl we heard they ran the city out of Busch Light.

Tell everyone that we will double the supply and make sure that doesnt happen.

Iowa State columnist Randy Peterson has been writingfor the Des Moines Register for parts of five decades. Reach him at rpeterson@dmreg.com, 515-284-8132, and on Twitter at @RandyPete. No one covers the Cyclones like the Register. Subscribe today at Des Moines Register.com/Deal to make sure you never miss a moment.

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