Articles filed under Sports Types

• Two-time Saints MVP Jordan chooses Bradley May 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  St. Charles East senior Paige Jordan’s strength on the golf course is a long drive. Relatively speaking, she won’t require much more than a 5-wood to reach her next destination, Bradley University in Peoria.
  

   

• Wheaton North steps up, cruises to DVC title May 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  Naperville Central offered outstanding individuals. Wheaton Warrenville South looked solid. Yet there was no containing Wheaton North at the DuPage Valley Conference boys track championships Friday at West Aurora.
  

   

• Local schools will be well represented at state badminton May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  Geneva badminton coach Pat Fischer called No. 1 singles player Ann Green a "wonderful musician," an Ohio State-bound senior who plays flute in the Elgin Symphony Orchestra. Now Green is ready to make noise in the state badminton tournament.
  

   
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  To McWhirter, recognition is always all about the kidsMay 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  It's obvious Naperville North girls water polo coach Andy McWhirter prefers talking about his team, players past and present and the growth of the sport than about being inducted into the Illinois Water Polo Hall of Fame in Elmhurst May 28.
  

   

• Lake Park looking for one last UEC titleMay 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  Lake Parks boys track and field team intends to go out of the Upstate Eight Conference with a bang.
  

   

• Former St. Patrick players celebrate Burger’s 80th birthday May 2, 2013 12:00 AM
  For the young-uns out there the name Bob Burger may not register. To St. Charles High School graduate and basketball star Jeff Howard, Burger was the closest thing to John Wooden.
  

   

• A story as beautiful as a rose May 1, 2013 12:00 AM
  The story of Catherine Kitz may not be a miracle, but it's close. The Montini senior distance runner was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 4 months old. She runs a fine line between appreciating her physical ability and resenting the confinements of the disease. Cystic fibrosis, for which there is treatment but no cure, is a life-threatening, genetic disease that causes mucus to build up and clog parts of the body, according to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation website. The organs affected most are the lungs and pancreas — ironic, Broncos coach Pete Connelly notes, since lungs are among a distance runner's most vital organs.
  

   

• Coast Guard boat safety checks offered Apr 29, 2013 12:00 AM
  The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is offering free vessel safety checks to all boaters to look for problems and ensure each meets the minimum state and federal safety requirements. Two exam sessions will be held from 10 a.m. until finished on Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 25, at Bald Knob Marina, 515 Bald Knob Road in Johnsburg.
  

   

• Boating safety course in Arlington Heights Apr 28, 2013 12:00 AM
  To ensure prospective boaters have a safe and fun time on the water and meet state requirements, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is offering an 8-hour boating safety course. Class sessions will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on two consecutive Saturdays, May 11 and 18, at West Marine, 63 W. Rand Road in Arlington Heights.
  

   
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  Wheaton Academy’s Ruff, VanDyke moving up Apr 20, 2013 12:00 AM
  The maturation of Wheaton Academy track athletes Matt Ruff and Noah VanDyke continued at Kaneland’s annual Peterson Prep Invitational.
  

   

• There’s more than just a name behind track meetsApr 18, 2013 12:00 AM
  Who are those guys? Nearly every weekend track athletes and their parents might wonder whose name heads the cover of the invite program they’re holding. Most of the time these folks are not household names, just normal people with passion.
  

   
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  Fans want to drag Cubs, Wrigley into 21st century Apr 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  The friendly confines of Wrigley Field hosted baseball for the 100th straight year Monday as the Chicago Cubs welcomed fans for the first home game of the 2013 season. Some fans are willing to let Wrigley go. “Move the team to Rosemont,” suggests longtime fan Rick Romanelli of Des Plaines, with a homemade sign calling for the Cubs and the Chicago Bears to accept that suburb’s recent wooing attempt.
  

   
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  Cubs fan finds hope in lost hat returned from hurricaneApr 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  A favorite Cubs hat, thought to have been lost to Hurricane Sandy during a fall filled with bad news, miraculously reappears. And its Lake in the Hills owner thinks that could be a sign. “It was nothing short of a miracle finding this hat,” the 44-year-old Lake in the Hills man says as he tenderly removes his beloved 1934 replica wool Cubs hat, which recently found its way back to him. “This hat made it through Hurricane Sandy.”
  

   

• Everything clicks for St. Charles East Apr 5, 2013 12:00 AM
  One would not have guessed St. Charles East had lost its last two softball games based on Friday's 8-0 victory over visiting Metea Valley.
  

   

• Congrats SCN coaches: Gould headed to Hall; Vostal reaches 200 wins Apr 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  This weekend is the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association annual spring clinic. Retiring St. Charles North football coach Mark Gould knows it well, but would never have expected to be part of the event's highlight. One day earlier this year Gould opened his mail and discovered he'd been selected for the IHSFCA Hall of Fame. Inductions are Saturday in Champaign. "I remember when the envelope came I thought it was when the (annual IHSFCA) clinic was coming up. I was completely blindsided," Gould said.
  

   
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  You want pizza, TV and basketball with that vasectomy? Mar 21, 2013 12:00 AM
  Need a heart-bypass, a new kidney or a 3-inch framing nail removed from your forehead, and you don't have the luxury of scheduling a surgery to meet your TV-watching desires. But an Elgin urology clinic offers men a surgery combo that includes a vasectomy, a pizza and time to watch the NCAA tourney. “We're starting to see an uptick,” says Dr. Timothy J. Roth, one of the vasectomy-performing urologists at the clinic.
  

   

• Scola’s big 4th helps Suns rout Kobe-less Lakers Mar 18, 2013 12:00 AM
  Luis Scola scored all 14 of his points, including his second 3-pointer of the season, and grabbed eight of his nine rebounds in the fourth quarter Monday night and the Phoenix Suns pulled away for a 99-76 rout of the Lakers, without Bryant for the second night in a row.
  

   

• Top-notch soccer for a good cause Mar 13, 2013 12:00 AM
  It worked so well the first time, they're doing it again. The girls soccer teams from Neuqua Valley, Naperville Central, Waubonsie Valley and Naperville North will play March 20 in a doubleheader that doubles as an event to raise awareness of breast cancer.
  

   
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  West Aurora beats pressure, Benet Mar 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  West Aurora guard Jayquan Lee had Benet's student section in his ear at the free throw line, yelling "Pressure!" He knocked it down anyway, a usual sight for the Blackhawks on Friday in a third straight thriller at the Class 4A Bolingbrook sectional.
  

   
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  West Aurora takes seriously how it honors Black Hawk Mar 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  Using Native American images and names to denote a school mascot or athletic team is a highly sensitive issue. West Aurora, whose teams are known as the Blackhawks, is wisely doing its part to increase integrity in the use of its namesake. As part of a process begun in the fall of 2011 and implemented this school year, an accurate depiction of Black Hawk — not technically a chief but certainly a legendary leader of the Sauk and Fox people in Illinois and Wisconsin of the late 18th and early 19th centuries — has been installed as the symbol of West Aurora.