Jacob Waryck, like most athletes, realizes that many people helped him to develop into a college football player.None more than his mother, Amanda Luebbers.The love and extreme adoration he has […]
When you make the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association Wrestling National Championships two years in a row, you will most likely get offers to continue your career at a four-year […]
Blake Shallenbarger, a Woodstock graduate, has decided to end his baseball career as the sun sets on his career at Rockford University.However, Shallenbarger leaves with what most pitchers can only […]
The end of his career was far, far from what Woodstock graduate Logan List, a pitcher for Rockford University’s baseball team, desired.But this year, which was supposed to be the […]
Two National Junior College Athletic Association Division II All-American honors – is only one of the reasons that Bull Valley resident and Marian Central Catholic graduate Mason Schwalbach made it […]
In every event that Marian Central Catholic graduate Dominique Thomas ran at the Horizon League Championships, she scored in.The Lake in the Hills resident scored individually in both the 100-meter […]
The question at this point has to be, What will Woodstock North graduate and Coe College pitcher Ellie Thurow do for an encore?Because her most recent year of softball for […]
Ellie Thurow, a Woodstock North graduate, and the Coe College softball team are happy to be home. Not only are they home, but the coming three games against Hiram College will […]
On the track, the 10,000-meter run is 25 laps long. But when University of Kansas freshman Peter Walsdorf, a Marian Central Catholic graduate, was circling the track at the University of […]
Evan Bridges, a Carroll University golfer and Woodstock graduate, progressively got better and better with each passing round at the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Championships.The Pioneers’ senior, who […]
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