Grace Tierney enjoyed the ultimate moment after the final race of her prep swimming career last month. The Loyola Academy senior, who has been named @Properties Athletes of the Month…
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Loyola’s Yaccino: a consummate competitor
When Blake Yaccino lived in Sarasota, Fla., for nine months before enrolling as a freshman at Loyola Academy in 2012, she did what most golf enthusiasts do when they call…
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Oh so close: LF 4th at state swim
The sport of swimming has the equivalent of a last-second shot that rims out in a tight basketball game. It unfolded at the state swimming and diving meet at Evanston…
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Soaking in the glory: LA swimmers win state
Before the start of the final event at the girls state swimming and diving meet in Evanston last weekend, Loyola Academy coach Mike Hengelmann found himself in a position to…
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Winter Wonderland
Snow falls slowly on a bunch of gliding boys playing a not-so-gentle game of pick-up hockey at West Park in Lake Forest. Think of an enormous snow globe, after it…
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Oh Brothers! Loyola Wins State Swim Title
For the second time in six months, a fully clothed Hengelmann brother got drenched — after achieving a first. Loyola Academy girls swimming and diving coach Mike Hengelmann and his…
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Powell, Guare lead Deerfield’s charge to …
Ruby Powell held a small plastic cup of water in each hand as she walked briskly to receive a first-place medal at last weekend’s Niles North swimming and diving sectional….
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GBS’s Wells aims for more state medals
The decibel level of Katie Wells’ cough at a sectional swimming and diving meet last weekend fell somewhere between that of a foghorn and a freight train. The Glenbrook South…
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GBN swimmer Abigail Rosenberg: One of the true …
Abigail Rosenberg’s transition from club swimming to high school swimming was a turbulent one three years ago. Now a Glenbrook North senior, she recalled her freshman season as a Spartan…
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Diving to the nines: Loyola’s Rourke wins …
A wonderful reaction from the crowd of diving spectators filled the new natatorium at Niles North last weekend. But it wasn’t applause. It was the sound made by people moments…
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