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BEMIDJI, Minn. \u2013 The final fall sports teams to swing into action head to the Bemidji Town & Country Club on Monday and Tuesday as the Minot State men’s and women’s golf teams tee off at the Don Niskanen Classic and the Tracy Lane Memorial, respectively.<\/p>\n
The two-day tournaments are the first of five fall events for the Beavers, who then take a few months break for the winter, then return to the courses in March in preparation for the NSIC Championships held in late April in Missouri.<\/p>\n
“They’re ready to go back out, compete hard for the team,” first-year head coach Dakota Brekhus said. “They’re really excited. I’m very excited to watch.”<\/p>\n
After two seasons as an assistant coach for the Beavers, Brekhus takes over a Minot State program that is a mix of new faces and returning veterans, and he admits to having some of the same nerves he felt when he stepped in as a new assistant coach.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got a little bit of a background now, but as a head coach, there’s definitely some big shoes to fill,” he said.<\/p>\n
But with some talented returners leading the way, things look good for Minot State and the Beavers’ new head coach.<\/p>\n
Leading the way for the men is senior Zach Hendrickson<\/a>, a local talent from Our Redeemer’s Christian School now in his fourth season with the Beavers. Hendrickson tied for 42nd at last spring’s NSIC Championship and shot a collegiate-best round of 70 last year.<\/p>\n For the women, senior Zoe Banack<\/a> leads the way, starting her fourth season with the Beavers after a redshirt year at Iowa Lakes Community College. Banack finished 45th at the NSIC Championships this past spring and shot a collegiate-low round of 78 last year.<\/p>\n “He’s playing some really good golf, and then Zoe Banack<\/a> on the women’s side, she’s just improved tremendously over the summer,” Brekhus said.<\/p>\n While they offer veteran leadership, both Minot State teams add talented newcomers ready to make an impact.<\/p>\n On the men’s side, Minot products Kasen Rostad<\/a>, from Minot North HS, and Fischer Johnson<\/a>, from Minot High, along with junior-college transfer Gunther Soltvedt<\/a> are ready to step in for Beavers.<\/p>\n Rostad helped lead the first-year Sentinels to the 2025 Class A State Championship, while Johnson finished 7th at the West Region tournament to help lead the Magicians to the Class A State Tournament.<\/p>\n As for Soltvedt, who played two seasons for a Hawks team that recently finished 7th at NJCAA National Championship, he is an All-Region Honorable Mention player who joins the Beavers as a junior.<\/p>\n “He’s got some really, really good talent,” Minot State’s coach said of Soltvedt.<\/p>\n On the women’s side, the Beavers add freshman Macie Sebelius<\/a>, who helped Bismarck’s\u00a0 Century High School to the Class A State Tournament two years in a row, sophomore Tori Worner<\/a>, who transfers from Jamestown after averaging 85.9 strokes per round as a freshman for the Jimmies, and junior Michaela Resler, who played softball this past spring for the Beavers and now becomes a two-sport student-athlete.<\/p>\n “(Macie’s) got some real good potential there, I’m excited to see what she does,” Brekhus said of Sebelius.<\/p>\n The Beavers’ first-year coach is excited to see how all the Minot State golfers do this fall during their 5-tournament stretch, which provides the Beavers a chance to fine-tune their game and build momentum before the spring and the race to the NSIC Championships.<\/p>\n “Fall’s for confidence building,” he said. “So if we can go out there and play really good golf in the fall, it’s going to set us up for a really good spring.”
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