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Uma Corniea won two consecutive girls hockey state championships with Breck before losing last year with Edina.
Even worse, the sophomore goaltender feared, was the prospect of no state tournament this season a real possibility after the Minnesota State High School League canceled fall state tournaments.
Corniea and thousands more winter sports athletes received the opposite news Thursday, when the league s board of directors approved state tournament dates, venues and formats during a virtual meeting.
It s game on starting in just over a month for Alpine and Nordic skiing and dance team. In the four weeks after that, championships will be held for boys swimming and diving, gymnastics, wrestling, girls and boys hockey, and girls and boys basketball.