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Orrin Schwarz

DuPage County High School Sports Coordinator and Pro Sports Writer
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Orrin Schwarz was named Assistant Sports Editor/DuPage in 2003 after spending four years in the same position in the Daily Herald's Tri-Cities office. He is responsible for all high school sports coverage in DuPage County. Among his duties, Schwarz assigns, edits and paginates stories about varsity sports for DuPage County's 28 high schools, as well as its five local colleges. He frequently can be found covering a wide variety of high school sports.

Since joining the Daily Herald in 1999, Schwarz has coordinated the Daily Herald's boys and girls soccer Top 20s. He was named the Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association media person of the year in 2002. He also won an award from the Society of News Design in 1998.

Schwarz also serves as the Daily Herald's beat writer covering professional soccer, including the Chicago Fire, the Chicago Red Stars and the United States national teams. He is a member of the North American Soccer Reporters organization and votes each week for the Major League Soccer Player of the Week award. He's also a voter for MLS Player of the Month, as well as postseason awards. Schwarz writes a weekly pro soccer column.

Prior to joining the Daily Herald, Schwarz worked at The Times of Northwest Indiana as a copy editor and assistant sports editor, and he was a freelance sports writer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Schwarz has covered high school sports in the Chicago area since 1991.

Schwarz graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a double major of English and history. He also has a master's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in American history.

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Rosary can't match Benet

May 26 2012 | 10:11 pm - Rosary learned Saturday what the rest of the Class 2A Nazareth sectional already knew: Benet has a very good girls soccer team.

Addison Trail holds off Batavia

May 25 2012 | 12:20 am - First Addison Trail limited the damage, then it created some damage. The Blazers took advantage of a slew of Batavia errors to eliminate the Bulldogs from the Class 4A Wheaton North regional semifinals Thursday with an 8-5 victory.

Chicago Fire enjoys a winning ride

May 23 2012 | 10:46 pm - This is the part of the roller coaster the Fire enjoys.Wednesday the Fire defeated an injury-plagued, slumping FC Dallas club 2-1, restarting its attempt to climb into the upper echelons of Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference.

Benet rolls past Glenbard South

May 22 2012 | 10:40 pm - Benet was worried that Tuesday's Class 2A Nazareth sectional semifinal might be a "trap game." It turns out it was the Redwings who set the trap.

Naperville Central places second at state

May 20 2012 | 12:48 am - Naperville Central's girls water polo players weren't about to give back their nice, big trophy after losing 10-7 to seven-time state champion Fenwick in the state finals at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire.

Geneva opens floodgates in second half

May 19 2012 | 6:35 pm - In the first half of Saturday afternoon's Class 3A West Chicago regional final, Geneva had nothing but problems earning good scoring chances.In the second half the Vikings had nothing but solutions.

Glenbard South leaves field behind

May 18 2012 | 11:58 pm - Glenbard South won the Class 2A Lisle sectional easily, scoring 173 points to defeat Walther Lutheran, which was far behind with 66 points.

Can Fire keep momentum going against Timbers?

May 17 2012 | 9:21 pm - Just because Portland sits at the bottom of the Western Conference standings doesn't mean the Fire is taking the Timbers lightly.

It may be time for a U.S. Soccer Summit

May 16 2012 | 1:46 pm - Nearly 20 years ago U.S. Soccer hosted a "Soccer Summit," gathering all its constituents to develop ideas for how to develop soccer in this country. Orrin Schwarz, the Daily Herald's soccer expert, says it's time for another summit, this one...

Naperville North falls in state quarterfinals

May 17 2012 | 10:04 pm - Minutes after losing 8-4 to Lyons Twp. in the boys water polo state quarterfinals. Naperville North coach John Blumthal celebrated the season just ended and looked ahead to next year.

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