{"id":299186,"date":"2025-11-22T07:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299186\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:43:07","slug":"blackhawks-prospect-mason-west-wins-high-school-football-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299186\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks prospect Mason West wins high school football state championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"6a90f904-3782-4706-bca3-334775411963\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/mason-west\/6a90f904-3782-4706-bca3-334775411963\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mason West<\/a> finished his high school career a football champion.<\/p>\n<p>West, who was a 2025 first-round pick by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/chicago-blackhawks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"chicago-blackhawks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>, led the Edina Hornets to their first Minnesota state championship since 1978 with a 42-35 win.<\/p>\n<p>As the starting quarterback, the 18-year-old dual-sport athlete was 7-of-7 for 78 yards and two touchdowns while Chase Bjoorgard, the school hockey team&#8217;s starting goalie, totalled 320 yards and six scores.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/mason-west-46144950\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">247Sports<\/a>, West is rated as a three-star and the 144th-best QB in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>West was selected 29th overall by the Blackhawks after dominating at Edina. During the 2024-25 season, he posted 29 goals and 22 assists in 31 games.<\/p>\n<p>The forward also played 10 games for the Fargo Force of the USHL, notching a goal and eight assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason West finished his high school career a football champion. West, who was a 2025 first-round pick by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-299186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}