Boys Hope Girls Hope (BHGH) of Illinois Chairman Jamie Baisley stood in a back yard in Evanston not too long ago, observing sheer joy emanating from teenagers and their proud…
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Scott great! Giller family greater
The distance between the Giller home in Wilmette and Fonseca Martial Arts in Wilmette is shorter than a mile. Scott Giller walked it one day with daughter Jillian, his eldest…
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GLASA more than half full
Jacque Rogers rapped a pair of inflatable thundersticks repeatedly against a portion of the glass at one end of Lake Forest College’s ice arena last month. Many of Rogers’ LFC…
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Daring to Go: Diver John Ervin
Some of the older guys on New Trier High School’s swimming and diving team call freshman diver John Ervin “Diver”.Or “The Good Freshman” (no relation to The Good Wife, the…
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Geo Joe
It is safe to assume a mountain isn’t Joe Remus’s favorite landform. The Deer Path Middle School sixth-grader suffered a broken left leg while skiing down Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin…
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Business Teacher Bullish on Theater
The Schaumburg High School senior gymnast wanted to hit the stage in the late 1970s, not the mats. He aimed to land his first role, not a dismount off the…
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Classrooms Without Walls
It’s a mid-November morning, and I’m in Poland, shivering in the dark and hearing a medley of haphazard animal noises at the Warsaw Zoo. OK, not really. I’m actually in…
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Spark and Addison: Ebeling embraces new roles, …
Addison Ebeling wouldn’t hesitate to pounce on a loose ball at the end of a taut girls basketball game. The Loyola Academy junior guard/forward also wouldn’t pass up any opportunity…
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Engendering Respect
Zoe Crecos enters the room. She sees boys everywhere, more than two dozen. She also sees a male coach here, a male coach there. Not one other girl in sight….
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Back Into the Swim of Things
One of Zuzanna Janusz’s shoes was untied in music class one day. Janusz was 11. The concerned teacher at Holy Cross School in Deerfield practically ordered Janusz—a highly competitive COHO…
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