Hockey

Heise returns to home ice for Wild documentary

Jan 4, 2023

The reigning recipient of NCAA Division 1 women’s hockey’s top individual honor and the most valuable player at the most recent women’s world championships was back on the ice where she had some of her earliest experiences with the sport Dec. 28. Lake City native Taylor Heise will be featured with...

New fan wishes to know more about homegrown hockey star

Oct 20, 2022

Greetings, Lake Citians, present and past! We have a very bright new “star,” one likely to become more and more widely known, I am certain. This refers to the emerging international hockey star, who originated in Lake City and graduated from Red Wing High School, which offered a high schoool...

Heise playing well at World Championships

Aug 31, 2022

Lake City native Taylor Heise scored two goals in the first period of the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team’s 9-0 win over Switzerland on Monday, Aug. 29 in the International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship in Frederikshavn, Denmark. It was the third game in pool play for the U.S....

Heise makes women’s national team, will compete for world championship

Aug 17, 2022

Taylor Heise is travelling to Denmark later this month after being named to the 23-player roster of the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team. There the Lake City native will compete alongside 18 members of the silver-medalist 2022 U.S. Women’s Olympic Hockey Team and other elite women’s hockey...

Heise named top player in women’s hockey

Mar 30, 2022

Taylor Heise of Lake City is the winner of the top individual honor in NCAA Division I women’s hockey. On March 26, USA Hockey announced on NHL Network that the University of Minnesota senior had won the 2022 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. Selection criteria for the award include “outstanding...

Heise wins NCAA hockey scoring title

Feb 23, 2022

Lake City native and University of Minnesota senior Taylor Heise was the most prolific scorer in NCAA women’s collegiate hockey this year. “Senior forward (Taylor Heise) finished off the regular season as the NCAA scoring champion,” the official University of Minnesota Women’s Hockey Twitter...

Gophers’ Taylor Heise named National Player of the Month

Dec 8, 2021

Taylor Heise has been named National Player of the Month for November by the Hockey Commissioner’s Association, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) has announced. The Lake City native, Red Wing High School graduate and University of Minnesota Gopher women’s hockey player “was recently...

A standout Sunday for Heise siblings

Jan 13, 2021

Two Lake City siblings had big games playing different collegiate sports at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10. Taylor Heise had a hat trick playing for the University of Minnesota Women’s Hockey Team in their victory over St. Cloud State. Her brother Nate Heise was the player of the game for the University...

Heise named to All-WCHA Team

Mar 4, 2020

Minnesota Gopher Women’s Hockey player Taylor Heise has been named to the All-WCHA Team. Heise is a Lake City native and the daughter of Amy and Tony Heise. A sophomore, Heise is one of six Gopher players to receive the honor this season. Last year she made the All-WCHA rookie team. This year she...

Senior hockey wraps up fifth season

Apr 10, 2019

Lake City senior hockey finished up their fifth season in late March. Over 25 area adults laced up their skates again this year to play organized hockey at Red Wing Prairie Island Arena on Sunday nights September through March. “This season was a year of reflection as team favorite Dean Kaartinen...