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It had nothing to do with field hockey. But it might have had something to do with New Trier High School’s field hockey team capturing another Illinois State Field Hockey…
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by Bill McLean •
It had nothing to do with field hockey. But it might have had something to do with New Trier High School’s field hockey team capturing another Illinois State Field Hockey…
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by Bill McLean •
Birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle, birdie, birdie. Behold Lake Forest High School’s collective, astounding 7-under-par performance on the fifth hole of the second day at last weekend’s Class 3A state boys’…
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by Bill McLean •
Nate Van Zelst watches a college football game on TV at home in Glenview. Or maybe it’s a National Football League game. A kicker trots out to the field. He…
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Austin Agyemang’s right arm shot straight up. The Loyola Academy senior soccer player, standing between teammates Andrew Hoepfner and Alex Ainsworth, had just heard a question— ”Who’s the best dancer…
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Only five female tennis players in the medal-laden history of New Trier tennis—including New Trier East and New Trier West high schools, before the schools merged in 1981— have finished…
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One of the best punters in the state used his hands to kick-start his team’s offense last weekend. Lake Forest High School senior Kai Kroeger— a 6-foot-3, 180-pounder who verbally…
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David Lindquist looks to his left at football practice. Looks to his right. Highland Park High School’s second-year varsity football coach sees HPHS alumni. Everywhere. There’s Jimmy Knotek, the Giants’…
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Jeffrey Werner needed a running buddy. The Lake Forest resident was about to train for a Chicago triathlon about five years ago when he decided having company for jogs would…
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On the car ride home from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio last summer, Lake Forest High School golfer Danny Fisher stared out the window from the back seat for most…
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On one of the best days of his young life— March 19, 2019, when he found out the University of Notre Dame had accepted him for admission—Eddie Scheidler said good-bye…
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