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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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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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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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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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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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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En route to helping New Trier’s 200-yard medley relay set an astounding record at the girls swimming and diving state meet in the home water last weekend, senior Joelle Ohr—the…
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