Check-In With Maple Grove Alum

Plans for the new season.

Two Maple Grove Senior High graduates play at the college level. Having graduated in 2013, Jordan Gross played hockey for Notre Dame. Jake Wienke graduated just a year after Gross and went on to become the receiving football captain for South Dakota State University.

Both student athletes say Maple Grove prepared them well for college. Gross is a business major in management consulting at Notre Dame.  

“I think Maple Grove prepared me as well as a high school could,” Wienke says. “That goes for both on the field and in the classroom. High school classes were tough, so when I came to college I felt ready for the challenge.”

Wienke graduated from college in December and Gross expects to graduate this spring.