Lexie Johnson was in Ohio last month when hundreds of fans at a Lake Forest High School basketball game and fundraiser chanted, “Lex-ie John-son, Lex-ie John-son, Lex-ie … .” The…
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Pumped-up Tran turns it up a notch
Allen Tran stands behind a start block at a swim meet, doing what Allen Tran loves to do to get his mind right for a race. The Highland Park High…
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Lake Forest’s Vogrich steps up his game
Steve Vogrich took a statistics final last week. The Lake Forest High School senior probably had to attack questions about probabilities and simulations and inferences. Vogrich took another final, physics,…
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Winsome Welch is a true winner
The reigning Central Suburban League South Female Athlete of the Year danced briefly on a basketball court last weekend. New Trier’s fun-loving senior guard, Jackie Welch, was not called for…
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LFA’s Clamage nails test and jumpers
Mike Dunleavy plays basketball for the Chicago Bulls. Steph Curry suits up for the Golden State Warriors. Dylan Ennis and Tyus Jones dribble and shoot for men’s hoops teams at…
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Loyola’s Canning is technique savvy
Maybe it has happened. Maybe it has not. Chris Canning stands on a diving board, slips, falls, hits water. Loyola Academy diving coach Tony D’Amico has a pretty good idea…
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New Trier relies on quintessential McQuet
Swimmer Murphy McQuet had been warned. His high school years at New Trier would zip by, four years feeling like two. Stop and smell the chlorinated water, the one delivering…
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Giants count on Beermann
They go way back, Jason Beermann and David Sachs. The future Highland Park High School basketball teammates shared space in a kindergarten classroom when they first met and each…
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LF’s Boyd: dart from Down Under
Dylan Boyd owns a Mickey Mouse towel and uses it at swim meets. It hung neatly on a rod, behind where Boyd and his Lake Forest High School teammates and…
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Q & A with Paul Pryma
The year is 1988. St. Ignatius College Prep had just shocked Gordon Tech in a varsity boys basketball game. Gordon Tech, coached by Steve Pappas, had entered the game undefeated,…
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