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Joe Aguilar

Lake County High School Sports Coordinator
  • Phone(847) 573-2760
  • Emailjaguilar@dailyherald.com

Joe Aguilar joined the Daily Herald as an assistant high school sports editor, serving as its first Lake County sports coordinator, in January 2001. He oversees our daily prep sports coverage in Lake County, assigning reporters and photographers to games, in addition to editing copy and writing game stories and columns. Joe anchors our prep football Web videos. Since 2006, he has been part of our Chicago Bears coverage and has made frequent television guest appearances on ABC 7's morning news shows.

Joe has covered professional golf, including multiple PGA Championship and U.S. Open tournaments, as well as the 2009 Solheim Cup, the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals and assisted with Cubs and White Sox games. He also lived the dream of skating in Wrigley Field in advance of covering the 2009 Winter Classic between the Blackhawks and Red Wings. In 2009, he served as a guest speaker at the University of Missouri during National Hispanic Month.

A native of Chicago and a lifelong Chicago sports fan, he grew up in Mundelein and attended Mundelein High School. He graduated from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb with a major in communications. He began his professional career as a radio sportscaster before embarking on his sports-writing career with the Waukegan News-Sun. He worked 11 years, including five as an assistant sports editor, for Pioneer Press Newspapers before joining the Daily Herald.

Joe and his family live in McHenry.

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McHenry makes it out of Warren regional

May 26 2012 | 9:29 pm - A one-and-done candidate considering it opened the state tournament with Zion-Benton, McHenry's softball team relies on a one-play-at-a-time approach. At Warren on Saturday, one swing from freshman Kristin Koepke got the young Warriors rolling, and...

Carmel's Bitter baffles Mundelein's hitters

May 26 2012 | 9:34 pm - The battle ware or "smear," as Carmel Catholic pitcher Nicole Bitter calls the black face makeup that she and her softball teammates often rub on, is meant for intimidation purposes. "For this game," Bitter said of Saturday's Class 4A Carmel...

Prairie Ridge tops VH in a wild one at Wauconda

May 25 2012 | 11:14 pm - Kirsten Stevens' complete-game effort and long 3-run homer lifted top-seeded Prairie Ridge to a wild, 8-7 win over the No. 2 seed, Vernon Hills, in Class 3A regional championship play Friday at Wauconda.

Mundelein's Hemmer hammers away

May 23 2012 | 10:12 pm - Rounding first base hard had become the norm for Alex Hemmer, but this time Mundelein's softball slugger stood on the bag. Then like all good base runners, she looked at her coach for instructions. She saw Mustangs head coach Brett Wilhelm flashing...

Fremd's Zack-Jack pack sinks LZ

May 24 2012 | 10:55 pm - Best friends Jack Andersen and Zack Kolakowski played key roles as Fremd earned a 5-3 victory over Lake Zurich in Class 4A regional semifinal play at Mundelein.

Super win suits Stevenson

May 23 2012 | 11:13 pm - Tim Crow's 5-year-old daughter ran excitedly toward him to give celebratory hugs, or just plain old daddy hugs. Then the 3-year-old son of Stevenson's boys volleyball coach did the same, while wife Jen held the couple's 1-year-old boy. The trio of...

Goshe leaves Grayslake Central in good shape

May 22 2012 | 7:53 pm - Nick Goshe gets a kick out of Grayslake Central soccer. The success of the school's girls volleyball, boys track and cross country, baseball, boys and girls basketball and wrestling programs get him equally juiced and make him proud to be a Ram.

Healing day for St. Viator's Hogan, Wauconda

May 21 2012 | 10:42 pm - Eight days after taking a line drive off her pitching hand during batting practice, St. Viator's Sam Hogan was a hero. The sophomore right-hander allowed only 3 hits — all to Wauconda starting pitcher Lauren Thomas — as fifth-seeded St.

Lakes' Blain goes three and out - to Kentucky

May 19 2012 | 8:21 pm - Lakes' Tanner Blain liked what he saw at Kentucky, enough so that he'll try to walk on to the football team and become the squad's punter next fall.

Grayslake Central's Goshe goes to Fremd

May 19 2012 | 10:54 pm - Grayslake Central football coach Nick Goshe is leaving the school and joining the staff under head coach Lou Sponsel at Fremd.

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