Sports

Buoyed With Perspective

by Bill McLean • February 16, 2021

Late last year, with his final prep swimming season on pause and his “commute” to school roughly the distance between his bed and a nearby computer screen, Lake Forest High…
Read More

Alexandre Cotard, The Racquet Club of Lake Bluff ’s (RCLB) Junior Program Director and Head Tennis Professional, coaches young athletes with a focus on character-building, care, and self-esteem. “For me,…
Read More

A Cut Above

by Bill McLean • May 1, 2020

Connor Clark got cut from the Lake Forest High School freshman boys basketball team in 2016. “I’d anticipated making it,” Clark, now a senior, recalls. But the Lake Bluff resident…
Read More

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Athlete

by Briggi Knox • April 22, 2020

Northwestern University women’s lacrosse midfielder Brennan Dwyer left her painting of a pink castle out to dry in the Dwyer house in Winnetka last month. Her father, Loyola Academy girls…
Read More

Shaking My Head at the Shaky Status of Handshakes

by Bill McLean • April 8, 2020

My feet hurt. My mind churns. Behold a new regular walker’s reality in this nascent COVID-19 Age. Painful and blissful, with every step. I approach a neighbor walking a dog…
Read More

Quoteworthy

by Bill McLean • January 10, 2020

Fish need water. Sports journalists need insightful thoughts and reactions from athletes and coaches and admin- istrators. We never thank them enough for helping us enliven our pages. Thank you,…
Read More

The Top 19 in ’19

by Bill McLean • January 2, 2020

How fine were the feats of The North Shore Weekend-area athletes in 2019? North Shore Country Day School’s boys soccer team finished fourth at the Class 1A state tournament—and just…
Read More

‘Bella’s Back

by Bill McLean • December 27, 2019

Sneakers squeak-squeak-squeak atop the hardwood. A basketball bounces. A referee’s whistle chirps. A basketball clangs off the rim. It’s not the sweetest combination of sounds, but it’s the haphazard symphony…
Read More

Titans’ Record Remains Pristine

by Bill McLean • December 20, 2019

Emmett Burnside paced New Trier High School’s boys basketball team in a trio of statistics in a home game last week. Two were conventional. The 6-foot-7 senior pulled down nine…
Read More

It All Adds Up

by Bill McLean • December 13, 2019

That mad-about-basketball math department at Lake Forest was “sum”thing else last winter. A good chunk of its faculty members—about half, according to math teacher Kyle Wilhelm — showed up faithfully…
Read More

Top Ad

Sign up for the Daily North Shore Email