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SAT, 1/16/2021

Saturday, January 16, 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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Grant Blaney gives a pregame pep talk to the 2011 Buffalo Grove football team after the school’s stadium was dedicated to him. Blaney, who coached the Bison to the 1986 state championship, died Tuesday at 85.

Prep Football | Grant Blaney, Buffalo Grove coaching legend, dies at 86

Grant Blaney, who led the Buffalo Grove High School football team to the 1986 Class 6A title, died Tuesday at 86.
Stevenson’s Matthew Ambrose celebrates the Patriots’ 61-52 victory over Zion-Benton at the Prospect sectional last season. The IHSA board meeting on Wednesday did not yield any change to the current “paused” status of winter sports.

Prep Sports | IHSA board: No change to current status of sports. Board will meet again Jan. 27

The Illinois High School Association's highly anticipated board of directors meeting Wednesday ended with little change to the current state of winter sports.
As the calendar shrinks, the likelihood of a winter sports season becomes unlikely.

Columns | Why the IHSA board needs to roll out a plan, and here are some suggestions

The Illinois High School Association staff and board of directors meet Wednesday, and it could be their most challenging meeting since the pandemic hit last March.
Longtime St. Charles High School coach Bill Olsen is going into the Saints’ Hall of Fame this year. He’s pictured with his wife Jennifer Heyer-Olsen, also a Hall of Fame swimming coach for the Saints, and their daughters Hannah and Hailey.

Prep Sports | Olsen heads into St. Charles Hall of Fame while battling cancer

Bill Olsen, one of the newest members of the St. Charles East Hall of Fame, is fighting leukemia which he was diagnosed with Dec. 15.
Geneva graduate Margaret Whitley is averaging 22 points a game in her junior season at UAB.
Girls' Basketball | Rosenfeldt, Whitley step into bigger roles at UAB
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has six Illinois players on its roster including Geneva's Margaret Whitley and St. Charles East's Sara Rosenfeldt.
Larkin High School graduate Ryan Sienko, here with the late Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda, is entering his seventh season as the team’s catching coordinator.
Prep Sports | Larkin grad Sienko continues to savor coaching career with Dodgers
Being in the right place at the right time has paid big dividends for 1993 Larkin High School graduate Ryan Sienko, not to mention his interaction with one legendary baseball icon who recently passed away.
Geneva and Notre Dame graduate Duncan Turnbull made his professional debut this week for Portsmouth FC in England.
Prep Sports | Geneva grad Turnbull makes professional soccer debut in England
Geneva graduate Duncan Turnbull made his professional soccer debut this week in England for Portsmouth FC.
Venus Taylor is the new head softball coach at North Central College in Naperville. She was the head coach at Judson University in Elgin before spending two years at Charleston Southern University in South Carolina.
Prep Sports | Former Judson coach Taylor lands North Central softball job
North Central College hired former Judson University softball coach Venus Taylor as its new coach. Taylor spent the last two seasons at NCAA Division I Charleston Southern University in South Carolina.
Mark Hahn retired as Glenbard North’s wrestling coach last year after a 33-year run that saw him coach 151 state qualifiers and 23 state champions.
Prep Wrestling | Hahn reflects on championship-filled 33-year career at Glenbard North
Retired Glenbard North wrestling coach Mark Hahn gives much of the credit for his 716 wins over a 33-year career to his assistant coaches and a number of dedicated wrestling families.
District 214 announced the creation of the Bob Frisk Legacy Fund which will be used for high school students interested in journalism in Districts 214, 220 and 211.
News | Fund in Bob Frisk's name to help student journalists in three suburban districts
District 214 announced the creation of the Bob Frisk Legacy Fund which will be used for high school students interested in journalism in Districts 214, 220 and 211.
Scott Johnson, an Elgin High School graduate who worked for the Illinois High School Association for 25 years, will be inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame with the Class of 2021.
Columns | 'Labor of love' leads Elgin native Johnson to IBCA Hall of Fame
Scott Johnson, an Elgin native and 1974 Elgin High School graduate who had a 25-year career as an Illinois High School Association administrator, will be inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame with the Class of 2021.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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