Trev Forever
The coach who guided New Trier Township High School’s boys tennis team to another state championship last month—32 years after he won the state singles title as a Trevians junior…
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Sports
Red, White and Crew
Four words, uttered calmly by her grandfather, turned a terrifying moment on board a boat into an exhilarating one for Maggie Shea. “I was young, sailing on Lake Michigan, and…
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Wheels of Industry
You’ve probably seen them on the road—they often travel in packs, clad in brightly colored Lycra—zipping along in formation, some closely paired, others in looser proximity, but all heading in…
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Crackling Display
Had you been near Watts Park’s Bronco Field in Glencoe and closed your eyes earlier this month, you would’ve sworn you had stumbled upon a fireworks show. Intermittent waves of…
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Buoyed With Perspective
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…
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Serving Up Success
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,…
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A Cut Above
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…
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A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Athlete
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…
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Shaking My Head at the Shaky Status of Handshakes
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…
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