Sidelines: The latest in a family tradition of Iron Sequoits

Keeping up with the Webbs.

That was Antioch senior Addison “Addie” Webb’s assignment, and she has met it beautifully.

Headed this August to play softball at Bradley University, where her older sister, Hailey, recently played her last game as a graduate student, Addie Webb has earned 13 varsity letters over four years competing in Sequoits sports.

She’s one of six Antioch seniors to have played a sport every season, every year, which earned them the Iron Sequoit Award.

Webb did it on the varsity level. A four-year starter in softball and field hockey, Webb started two of her four varsity basketball seasons. Last fall, on top of her field hockey schedule, she also ran cross country for the first time since middle school.

Webb figured, she ran at least 3 miles in field hockey, what’s the big deal? As long as she did cross country workouts before school she could play field hockey afterward. Webb became a top-five scorer in cross country while still a field hockey team captain.

Her 13 letters matched her sister’s total as the most varsity letters earned by a female Antioch athlete.

“I always knew that I wanted to follow in her footsteps and break the record as well,” Addie Webb said.

The Webb sisters remain three shy of Antioch’s overall record — the 16 varsity letters earned by their brother, 2024 graduate Carter Webb. He used the COVID-era allowance for athletes to compete in overlapping seasons and stuck with that all four years.

While Carter Webb hung up his spikes and cleats and gym shoes for “his new hobby,” Addie said — learning to pilot airplanes at Lewis University — she’ll continue to play softball for Bradley, a catcher like Hailey.

After No. 1 seed Antioch beat Grayslake North 6-2 on Tuesday in a Class 3A sectional semifinal, Sequoits coach Anthony Rocco sent Addie Webb’s stats.

Over four seasons she had a batting average of .339 with 39 runs scored, 28 doubles, 3 triples, 10 home runs, 112 RBI and 11 stolen bases.

This season behind the plate she’s got a 1.000 fielding percentage and has thrown out 83% of runners attempting to steal, with 4 pickoffs.

A three-time Northern Lake County all-conference selection, Webb so far has two all-state honors and played on Class 3A runners-up in 2023 and 2024.

She’s not just some 13-trick pony. A member of the National Honor Society and the Mu Alpha Theta math honor society, Webb graduated from Antioch on May 17 with high honors and a 4.0 grade-point average.

She was part of the Cardinal Crazies spirit group, ran social media for the school’s Tom Tom media program, helped incoming freshmen as a Sequoit to Sequoit leader and earned the athletic program’s Elite Athlete Award.

Chosen by her peers and school faculty, Webb earned one of the two annual Outstanding Senior Sequoit awards, along with classmate Genise Sarita.

“I am the first to do this in my family, so I got the honor of starting that,” Webb said.

Already having completed five courses at the College of Lake County, she’ll take two more this summer to get a leg up at Bradley. That is, when she’s not serving as a lifeguard at the Antioch Aqua Center.

Addie sees none of these things as “chores,” fun-killing responsibilities that take away from her childhood. She’s out there living her life.

“I don’t think about myself as, ‘Oh, I have to do so many things, I don’t get to have fun like normal teenagers,’” she said. “I just think that my type of fun is maybe different from others’.’”

Small world

Last week we contacted the University of Wisconsin-Oskosh for a picture of All-American pole vaulter Collin Kao, out of Lakes Community High.

Sports information director Brady Halvorson was busily readying the official announcement of a new men’s basketball coach.

Asking for the early news, the new hire turned out to be Steve Schweer, a former All-Area player at Hinsdale Central, Class of 2002.

Son of retired Hinsdale Central, St. Charles North and Metea Valley athletic director Tom Schweer, himself a great swimmer and swim coach, Steve Schweer came over from Illinois College, where in eight seasons he went 114-79 with a program-record 25 victories in 2022-23.

It’s a small world.

doberhelman@dailyherald.com