Minnesota's first professional cornhole player
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| | Inside the world of cornhole playing with Minnesota's first professional player |
Lexi Hugeback didn't even know professional cornhole was an option until she was 19, when she saw pros play at one of her first tournaments.
"You guys are playing professional cornhole, like are you serious, this is a real thing?” she remembers thinking.
The pros took note of Hugeback as well.
"They watched me play. And they were like, you need to get into this. Like, your talent is outrageous for just starting, really. So that kind of flipped a switch in my head,” she says. “So, I tried a year of trying to get better becoming pro, and I did it in one year."
Hugeback, now 21, made history when she qualified at a tournament in September. She is one of 250 professional players in the U.S. And one of only 32 women. | |
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