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Rogers brings leadership, toughness to Wolves

Northern State University’s Laurie Rogers, left, takes an open shot as teammate Rachel Garvey, back right, looks on during a game earlier this season against the University of Mary at Wachs Arena. Photo by John Davis taken 12/1/2022
Laurie Rogers knows a little bit about toughness. Except you’d never know it just by talking to her. That’s not a slight against Rogers, mind you. But the 6-foot-1 Northern State senior has more juggling pins in the air than one would think after a casual interaction. There’s basketball, of course, and that’s a big one. But there’s also classes and homework and work and dental school applications – she was accepted, by the way – and bus trips and any number of everyday stressors that come along. “She has an intensity level that she brings to everything, but she’s able to bring it in a way you don’t see it,” said Northern State women’s basketball coach Paula Krueger.  Part of that is perhaps due to the matter of fact manner in which Rogers approaches every scenario. Take, for instance, the transition from Class B All-State selection at Warner to NCAA Division II-level basketball at Northern. Rogers herself admits that coming to Northern was an

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