'He Makes High Schoolers Feel Like Pro Athletes'
Meet the man behind f/Go, the insanely popular Minneapolis sports photo site.
If you've been to more than a couple Minneapolis high school sporting events, you've probably seen Steve Kotvis before. You just wouldn't recognize him on the street, unless he held a giant camera lens in front of his face. You can usually find him belly-down in the mud at a football or soccer game, or ducking and running around a hockey or gymnastics arena as he tries to get the perfect shot, regardless of a team's athletic record. This dogged, enthusiastic approach to covering an ordinarily unglamorous subject has won Kotvis a legion of fans among players and parents alike. "He makes kids look like Adrian Peterson," said Jodi Wishart Anderson, the head of the Southwest High School Alumni Foundation and a Lakers booster parent. That …
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Kim Melin
9:46 am on Saturday, November 17, 2012
I had no idea who the name and face was behind the great photos. Thank you for sharing! more ›