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GYM CLASS HERO
Owatonna gym teacher Tim Hunst adapts to COVID-19 By LUCAS SEEHAFER lucas.seehafer@apgsomn.com
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ot even 24 years of experience in the classroom was enough to prepare Owatonna Middle School physical education teacher Tim Hunst for the massive changes that came with the
COVID-19 pandemic. Hunst has been a teacher within the Owatonna school district for 21 years, the past 11 of which have come at the junior high and middle school levels. With that amount of experience comes a
comfortable routine and a set expectation of how things are supposed to go. Wake up, teach a unit on basketball, discuss the importance of physi-
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ABOVE: Tim Hunst was inducted into the Minnesota Girls Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2018. (File photo/southernminn.com)
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