Welcome to the Minnesota Southeast Stars! We are an AAU-certified non-profit team currently accepting any athlete between the ages of 9 and 17 (or qualified for 17U basketball) for the 2026 season.
We created four teams for the 2026 AAU season. On their first tournament weekend, our 15U boys won the Midwest Spring Splash in Stillwater, Minnesota. In their third tournament, the 15U boys also took first place in the MN Heat in the House of Hoops Tournament in Rochester, MN. In 2025, our 12U girls won the GameTime Tourney in Iowa, and our 11U girls also were the May Madness Champions. In 2023, our 12U Boys team won the AAU State Championship in Forest Lake! In 2022, our 17U Boys team won the AAU State Championship in Forest Lake as well. We’ve had so many amazing athletes play on our teams and have made some wonderful memories for themselves, their families, and all of us cheering from the sidelines.
Our Boys and Girls teams play hard in tournaments throughout Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and South Dakota. We were blessed to have begun our organization in 2020 and we have continued to grow as more and more players continue to join our organization. THANK YOU to so many supporters who donated time, money and advice to help make this new league a reality in 2020 and an expanded each year since! We have some of the most talented kids playing that we’ve ever seen and are so eager to see what they will continue to do as they play together every year. We welcome anyone who is interested in joining to contact us! Our goal is to make sure everyone plays, and everyone learns and improves on their talent on the court.
The Minnesota Southeast Stars wants to thank VFW Post 950 Mankato, American Legion 518 in Mankato, Connecting Kids, El Molino Restaurant, Oscar’s of Waseca Restaurant, InSports Foundation, Reiley Hoopman Memorial Scholarship, Waseca American Legion, Owatonna Buffalo Wild Wings, Owatonna Famous Dave’s Restaurant, and several very generous anonymous individuals for their help to sponsor our athletes! If you are interested in donating for our players, please contact us. If you are interested in a scholarship, visit the Connecting Kids website HERE for more information or to apply online.
We’d also like to add a very special announcement and thank you – for our expanded coaching staff, including Tony Caywood, Lucas Trumbull and Brandon Pena. We are so excited for our new season and our players are also really looking forward to tournament play with their coaches. It’s going to be an amazing season!