Riley Girod

[North Stars @SJHL_NorthStars]

From Battlefords to the NHL. ⭐️
A huge congratulations to North Stars alum Joshua Kotai on signing a two-year entry-level contract with the New York Islanders.
Kotai continues to make his mark after an incredible season at Augustana University, where he was named CCHA Player of the Year and Goaltender of the Year.
North Stars fans will remember the impact he made during the 2022-23 season, posting a 32-4-3 record in the regular season before helping backstop the Stars to an SJHL Championship and a National silver medal.
We are proud to have been a part of his journey and can’t wait to see what’s next for Josh at the professional level.
Congratulations, Josh from the entire Battlefords North Stars community is cheering you on. 🖤✨
Read more about it: https://t.co/ebKvBcRB0k...
(Graphic courtesy New York Islanders) (Release courtesy New York Islanders PR)

[Greg Revak, CFP® @CoachRevak]

Your life after hockey will be longer than your life in hockey… so you have to be all in.

Motivation stops at 6am and will make up 1% of your success.

Discipline and the ability to get better is what actually makes the difference.

[cbplayers - Canadians in US College Baseball @CollegeBaseba12]

🏆 Tourney Honors! 💪 Payton McHarg (Saskatoon, SK) representing Washburn Ichabods earned a spot on the MIAA Baseball All-Tournament Team!
Went 5-14 with XBH, 3 RBI & 2 R. Clutch performance! @IchabodBSB
Added to cbplayers Honor Roll! #cbplayers
https://t.co/4X3te3iBBL

[cbplayers - Canadians in US College Baseball @CollegeBaseba12]

🏆🏆🏆 THIRD TIME! Cory Wouters (Saskatoon, SK) from McCook Indians is the Region IX Player of the Week AGAIN!
Hit .529 with 3 HRs, 12 RBI, and set a team RBI record (91). What a season! ⚾️ @MCCBaseba11
Added to cbplayers Honor Roll! #cbplayers
https://t.co/KbnC0lELeN

[Cooper Carlgren @coopercarlgren]

One year of D1 eligibility. Two year starter at KCKCC, Two year starter at Washburn University.
FB: 91-95
SL: 82-85
CH: 82-87
CB: 73-77

[Payton McHarg @PaytonMcHarg]

I’m officially in the transfer portal. True senior with 5th year JUCO eligibility for D1 schools.

5”10 200lbs
3.32 GPA
OF/3B

Jr / Sr stats at Washburn:

106 GS / GP
.328 AVG
.458 OBP
132 H
28 2B
34 HR
111 RBI
70 BB

2024 NCBWA Second Team All-American

[email protected]

[Washburn Baseball @IchabodBSB]

Jett Buck is a first team selection for the first time in his career at shortstop! #GoBods

[The Masters @TheMasters]

Worth the wait. #themasters

[cbplayers - Canadians in US College Baseball @CollegeBaseba12]

Payton McHarg (Saskatoon, SK) hits 3 home runs (#8, #9, #10) with 5 RBI and 1 BB as Washburn Ichabods @IchabodBSB win at Emporia St. on Saturday, 14-13.
🏆 Payton earns a spot on the "BIG RBI" Wall of Fame!
https://t.co/Rm6AWkknzi

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

HE DID IT, HE DID IT ‼️

ALEX OVECHKIN HAS THE MOST GOALS IN NHL HISTORY 🚨

[cbplayers - Canadians in US College Baseball @CollegeBaseba12]

⚡Cory Wouters (Saskatoon, SK) Legendary Performance⚡
going 6-for-6 with 2 homers, a triple, 2 doubles, 8 RBI, 16 total bases.
His heroics fueled a stunning ninth-inning comeback as the McCook Indians @MCCBaseba11 edged Colby on Tuesday, 23-22.
https://t.co/kiFH2Fuu3g

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

Inject this video straight into our veins.

The greatest rivalry in all sports.

TEAM CANADA 🇨🇦 VS TEAM USA 🇺🇸

Who do you got⁉️

(Via: @Buccigross)

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn’t playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don’t worry about what you’re doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you’re going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady meet Greg Harden, a counselor who worked in the athletic department.

Brady went to Harden’s office and whined, “I’m never going to get my chance. They’re only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that’s what I did,” Brady said. “They’d put me in for those 2 reps, man, I’d sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. ‘Let’s go boys! Here we go! What play we got?’”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, he was getting 4 reps. Then 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, “with this new mindset that Greg had instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you’re getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it’s the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they’re stuck,” Cuban explained. “They’re stuck in a job they don't like. They’re stuck working for a boss they don’t like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, ‘Be great.’”

“The reality of life is that you can’t just always quit your job. You can’t just always go to your boss and say, ‘Give me the promotion, or I’m out of here.’” You can’t just always go to your coach and say, ‘Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.’

“So when you’re stuck, you’ve gotta find it within yourself to say, ‘Ok, this is where I am. And if I’m going to be here, I’m going to be great.’

Because if you’re great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

In the field of strategic management, there is a distinction made between “lead measures” and “lag measures.”

Lag measures are the results you’re trying to achieve: getting a promotion, winning a championship, being the starting quarterback. Lead measures are the actions that predictably drive those results. 

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” write, is that “a lead measure can be directly influenced by you.” To achieve your goals, they write (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), “apply a disproportionate energy” to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did.

After he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?” 

Brady said he was aware of that, “and I know he’s a heck of a player. But I’ve always concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It didn’t. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

[CCHA @CCHAHockey]

🎥 Tynan Ewart recorded a goal and an assist for @NMUHockey over the weekend, helping the Wildcats to a split with Alaska Anchorage and picked up #CCHA Defenseman of the Week honors.

[Rob Gucci @heatdaddy69420]

Connor Zary you crazy son of a gun this is outrageous

[CCHA @CCHAHockey]

Holden Doell (1 goal, 1 assist) produced his second-career multi-point game in @FerrisHockey's 3-3 tie with Miami on Friday.

#CCHAHockey

[North Stars @SJHL_NorthStars]

👀Surprise Announcement #1! 👀

In our “Home of the Battlefords North Stars” era! ⭐️⭐️

[The MIAA @TheMIAA]

In their final MIAA series, Washburn's Payton McHarg hit .579 with a .704 on-base percentage and a 1.053 slugging percentage.

He's our final 𝙈𝙄𝘼𝘼 𝙃𝙄𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙒𝙀𝙀𝙆 in the 2024 season⚾️⤵️

📰 https://t.co/AsAMmZlPIh
#BringYourAGame

[battlefordsNOW @battlefordsNOW]

North Stars’ 20-year-olds reflect on junior hockey experience: Part 1 https://t.co/TVGKiDstz8

[cbplayers - Canadians in US College Baseball @CollegeBaseba12]

Cory Wouters (Saskatoon, SK) Start #1 Win #2 (strong) - 7.0 IP, 5 H, 11 K, 2 BB, 0 ER as McCook Indians @MCCBaseba11 shutout at Trinidad State on Sunday, 11-0.
In 7 apps is 2-4 with 30.1 IP, 46 K and 7.12 ERA.
https://t.co/limBxtGhgL