Lake Zurich's Brown excels again at Marquette
Last season, Marquette's Rachel Brown was named to the Big East Championship all-tournament team and scored the game-winning goal in a 3-0 win over DePaul in the quarterfinals.
Now she is helping the Golden Eagles to a stellar start for the 2011 season.
The junior midfielder and Lake Zurich High School graduate had a goal and an assist when Marquette improved to 6-1 with a 9-0 victory over North Dakota.
The Golden Eagles' 29 points in that match (9 goals, 11 assists) were the most in program history. They last registered 29 points at Purdue on Sept. 1, 1998.
No. 12 Marquette raised its record to 7-0 on Sunday with a 2-1 triumph at Indiana.
While in high school, Brown represented the Eclipse Select Soccer Club, winning the Disney Showcase Championship in 2008 and 2009, and the Illinois State Cup championship in 2009.
Ÿ DePaul defender Chelsea Grant (Mundelein) provided the assist on freshman Amber Paul's first career goal for the Blue Demons in a 4-3 overtime loss to visiting Illinois State.
Grant headed the ball off a corner kick and Paul rolled it just across the goal line.
Grant started in DePaul's first four games last season before sustaining a season-ending injury.
As a freshman, she was named to the Big East All-Academic Team, starting in all 21 matches and named to the Big East All-Rookie Team.
Positive Coaching Alliance
PCA-Chicago, a Chapter of the national nonprofit Positive Coaching Alliance, has named six Chicago-area high school student-athletes as winners of the organization's Triple-Impact Competitor® Scholarships presented by Deloitte LLP and Thrive Foundation for Youth.
Among the winners is Thomas Hauert of Palatine.
At the Sept. 7 event at US Cellular Field, Hauert received a $1,000 college scholarship for best exemplifying PCA's model of the Triple Impact Competitor: personal mastery, making oneself better; leadership, making one's teammates better and honoring the game, making the game better.
The awards dinner featured special guest Jarrett Payton, a former football standout at St. Viator High School and the University of Miami and son of Chicago Bears legend Walter Payton.
Among the 30 student-athlete finalists were Rose Silviera of Palatine High School and Christopher Hoffman of Lakes High School in Lake Villa.
Women's golf
Former Class AA state champion Kris Yoo (Conant) of Wisconsin is on the list of Big Ten Women's Golfers to Watch. Yoo won the state title in 2009.
Women's soccer
Eclipse Select Soccer Club alumna and Philadelphia Independence midfielder Jen Buczkowski was named to the Women's Professional Soccer's Best XI of 2011.
The Elk Grove Village native and Notre Dame product started and played in 18 regular-season matches for Philadelphia, and capped off her 2011 season with an appearance in the WPS championship against the title-winning Western New York Flash.
Named by Gatorade as the 2003 Illinois player of the year, Buczkowski played three seasons at Elk Grove High School before focusing on national team duty. Her 190 career points at Elk Grove (69 goals, 52 assists) included leading the team in scoring each season from 2000-2002). She earned all-state honors in 2002 while serving two seasons as a team captain.
Women's volleyball
Millikin started its season by going 4-0 in the Oneonta State Tournament in New York.
In a 25-20, 25-23, 20-25, 27-29, 15-9 victory over Pacific University (Oregon), Sara Travis (Schaumburg) had 5 blocks.
Prospect boosters
The Prospect High School Athletic Booster Club is sponsoring its 14th annual golf outing. The event will be held on Sunday, Oct. 9 at the Mt. Prospect Golf Club. This year's event will continue the club's campaign to raise funds for the Gattis Stadium Turf Project and many other ongoing projects.
Any donations are welcome.
The Prospect Athletic Booster Club is a nonprofit organization. Any questions should be directed to Tom Ziegenfuss at (847) 641-1468 or at Tomziegenfuss@aol.com.
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