A state football quarterfinal game is coming to Owatonna High School this fall

            A state football quarterfinal game is coming to Owatonna High School this fall. Federated Field will host a Class 4A game in November. The Huskies are a Class 5A team. If they qualify for state, they will play at a different field.

            OHS hosts the Big Nine Music Festival next April. Owatonna had the section True Team meet in May, plus the state student council convention and Minnesota Supreme Court this past school year.

            Activities Director Marc Achterkirch says visitors continue to be amazed, “Incredible. They’re like, ‘This is not a high school. This is a college.’ I have had so many people, even some that have been repeats, ‘I just cannot believe how beautiful this school is.’

            “They walk through the music suite and the auditorium. Then they go down and see our nursing care lab, and they see the culinary arts lab. They’re just blown away at the opportunities that the kids in Owatonna have, not just in the activities, but more importantly in the academic side.”

            The Big Nine gymnastics meet is coming to Owatonna next year at the gymnastics center at the old high school, which is now their regular home.