Colin Likas caught up with coaches from three schools to discuss their distance-running programs with roughly a month remaining before the postseason.
St. Thomas More boys’ soccer remains perfect
Oakwood/Salt Fork distance runner and Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley golfer recognized for their athletic excellence.
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On a Sages girls' cross-country program loaded with talent, Estella Miller has gone from dealing with a stress fracture to being a must-have athlete in Monticello's varsity lineup.
Plenty of area programs can contend for hardware during the IHSA postseason.
Johnson shines on home course for PBL cross-countryÂ
Mahomet-Seymour girls' golf wins Champaign/Piatt County meet.
Champaign Central girls' swimmer and Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond boys' distance runner recognized for their athletic excellence.
Spartans, Sabers volleyball stay unbeaten
Ross leads Sages to boys' golf win
The all-boys' boarding school boasts basketball and cross-country teams and is known for its passionate home crowds.
The area distance-running scene is filled with top-tier talent at the state level. Could any of these individuals place first in an end-of-season race?
For being a radio rookie, Michaela Powell came off sounding as smooth as Voice of the Illini Brian Barnhart.
A full state series is planned for area high school sports. Let's embrace the moments in the months ahead
Preps coordinator Colin Likas breaks down the local high school sports season that was, shining a spotlight on some of the best and brightest from fall, winter and spring athletics.
A handful of Unity athletes — some of them 2021 graduates — represented the school Thursday during its second consecutive victory in The News-Gazette's Program of the Year chase.
Whitman, Virgin remember former Illini coaching legend who died Thursday
The 2017 Bulldogs graduate set a personal-best time in the 1,500-meter run.
Brian Brooks coached the last area high school boys' basketball team to win a state title, and the St. Joseph-Ogden Superintendent is hopeful high school athletics will return this school year: 'Let's try to do as much as we can for these kids'
It can be confusing to figure out what the latest announcements about high school sports actually mean for athletes.
On the last day of a forgettable year, particularly from a sports perspective, The News-Gazette sports staff offers up 10 noteworthy stories on the local scene from 2020
Oscar Hicks, whose name adorns Unity's football field, died last week. The former Unity football coach was 93 years old.
The Paxton-Buckley-Loda junior is close with several other distance-running standouts, both locally and beyond, and he relishes those relationships amid the strain of cross-country.
Dorjahn directed the Knights to their second consecutive regional title and first-ever sectional crown, and ALAH's club team placed second at unsanctioned state.
Get to know a little bit more about the area's top seven boys' cross-country athletes of 2020.
Check out our 2020 All-Area boys' cross-country first team, second team and honorable mention team.
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