It had nothing to do with field hockey. But it might have had something to do with New Trier High School’s field hockey team capturing another Illinois State Field Hockey…
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Standout Stands Tall, Again
Meet officials place chairs courtside for only the big matches each year at the Class 2A girls’ tennis state tournament. Players use them to rest during changeovers. Most players, that…
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Scouts Honorable
Birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle, birdie, birdie. Behold Lake Forest High School’s collective, astounding 7-under-par performance on the fifth hole of the second day at last weekend’s Class 3A state boys’…
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Sunday Breakfast: Suzanne Clores
Ever had the urge to place a bunch of orange traffic cones in a high school hallway and observe your peers’ reactions to them? Suzanne Clores, along with several of…
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Calm, Cool…Van Zelst
Nate Van Zelst watches a college football game on TV at home in Glenview. Or maybe it’s a National Football League game. A kicker trots out to the field. He…
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Sunday Breakfast: Nikki Nocera
Nikki Nocera had just delivered her campaign speech for the office of senior class president at Chaney High School when she had an “uh-oh” moment. Her male opponent at the…
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Homecoming Chances
Austin Agyemang’s right arm shot straight up. The Loyola Academy senior soccer player, standing between teammates Andrew Hoepfner and Alex Ainsworth, had just heard a question— ”Who’s the best dancer…
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Sunday Breakfast: Jack Schuler
Only kids and the milk man knocked on the back door at the Schuler house in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. So when Paul Humke—Whitefish Bay High School freshman algebra teacher “Mr….
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Cusp of Greatness
Only five female tennis players in the medal-laden history of New Trier tennis—including New Trier East and New Trier West high schools, before the schools merged in 1981— have finished…
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Sunday Breakfast: Nancy Paridy
Book? Check. Flashlight? Check. A young Nancy Paridy was ready for bed only when she had collected those two items after brushing her teeth. “That was me, the girl reading…
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