Reid Hanley

There is no Gator on Adam Furman's uniform. The only way you know he represents Crystal Lake South is by looking in the program. Furman is Crystal Lake South's one-man...

A year ago Fremd's Ken Kemeny and Prospect's Clark Wilson ruled the Class AA shot put. They have graduated to college track at Iowa and Western Michigan, respectively, and the...

It takes a special athlete to be a pole-vaulter. You need speed, strength, agility, fearlessness and desire. When Fremd senior Rich Przekop took up the event, he didn't have much...

There are a certain number of times an activity must be repeated before it becomes second nature. Whatever that number is, Naperville Central jumper Amy Stonecipher reached it last weekend....

The pressure is off, and Nicole Marzano is enjoying pitching in her senior year on the McHenry softball team. High school athletes feel a lot of different pressures their senior...

Boys volleyball is exploding on the high school level, but college opportunities for boy volleyballers are not. There are 128 boys volleyball teams competing in Illinois this spring compared with...

Recruiting college baseball prospects is the proverbial double-edged sword: the better the recruit, the less chance he has of playing for you. Signing one of the top high school players...

There are two basics in fast pitch softball: pitching and defense. If the other team doesn't score, you can't lose. Lisle coach Rick Beato understands that, so he wasn't wringing...

When Dave Otto handed in his resignation as Cary-Grove boys basketball coach less than a week after the Trojans lost in the Class AA supersectional, it surprised a lot of...

Kevin Noel knows the road to Charleston. He knows there is not much scenery between Naperville and the blue track at Eastern Illinois University, but he isn't interested in rest...