Anderson: ‘We’re going to let our kids compete’
Work is ongoing this spring and summer for one of school district's crown jewels
The Illineks senior excels in the pool and on the ice with two sports that stuck at a young age.
He'll start in the role on July 1 after five years as the Chargers' athletic director.
The announcement was delivered Friday afternoon, a little more than a week after the delay of a scheduled May 28 meeting between IHSA officials and state athletic directors.
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Second postponement of IHSA-ADs meeting keeps high school sports types on their toes.
Organization officials were supposed to meet Thursday with athletic directors from across the state, discussing the next step for high school sports during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iroquois West athletic director Kristy Arie said PBL’s decision to leave the SVC 'kind of spearheaded everything going in that direction.'
IHSA has a fall decision to make
Danville went from not having a bowling team before this season to boasting seven boys and four girls under the direction of Mike Dokey
More than 70 area high school students worked alongside N-G Media engineer Ed Bond to produce 10-second promotions for local programming, from “Penny For Your Thoughts” to “ServPro Prep Football Confidential.” They sounded terrific.
While the Cubs are still trying to build on the success of ending their World Series drought, while the Cardinals are struggling to keep up with their NL rivals.
As recently as 'a month or six weeks ago, we thought we were going to announce hockey,' the athletic director said, but 'there have been a few things that have popped up at the 11th hour.'
News-Gazette copy editor Joe Vozzelli Jr. caught up with the Mattoon native before he tries to win his third straight UI Open, which begins Saturday.
How much of a St. Louis Blues fan is Jeremiah Cox of Mahomet (right)? Enough that the music director at Quest Church in Urbana made the trip to Enterprise Center for the watch party for Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final.
The Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon could add a mile run next year to the marathon and relay, half marathon, 10K, 5K and youth run.
With the constant rain over the last few days, the fields on the UI campus at the intersection of Florida and Lincoln avenues, where they planned on holding many of the games, were unplayable. So it was back to the drawing board.
Craig Virgin, a former cross-country and 10,000-meter world champion who was at Thursday's Illinois Marathon Health & Fitness Expo alongside copies of his biography, said the race is 'a total package.'
As the Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon builds a reputation among elite runners, the race directors are beginning to pull out the stops to make the race as professional as possible and avert disasters.
Their job is to finish the race within 30 seconds of the time listed on the placard they are holding during the event.
Asked to put into words what life's been like since winning the Boston Marathon, Champaign resident Daniel Romanchuk, back in town to close on a house, settled on just one: 'Busy.'
The 6-0 vote doesn't set aside that money, but indicates to the city of Champaign and the developer, Core Spaces, how much it plans to contribute to the project, which includes a major expansion of the 20-year-old Illinois Terminal.
'There's no other place in the country where there’s the coaching and the staff combination that there is at Illinois,' said Parkland student Daniel Romanchuk, who set the American record in the men's wheelchair race and become the youngest winner ever.
Young local product aims to 'just enjoy' running in this year's Boston Marathon after qualifying as an 18-year-old.
The numbers may be dwindling, but that's not slowing the group down, says coach Beckie Headrick, who founded it seven years ago.
On April 2, the Twitterverse was graced with a new account:@lincoln_prairie.Its first tweet was a simple one, reading "Welcome to the Lincoln Prairie Conference!" and containing two images displaying what exactly this introduction meant.
The Illinois athletic director stopped by 'Illini Pelle Saturday SportsTalk' to chat with hosts Loren Tate and Steve Kelly.
Fifteen members of the present-day Little Okaw Valley Conference now have a new banner under which they’ll compete moving forward.Starting with the 2019-2020 school year, these institutions will be part of the Lincoln Prairie Conference. League president Matthew Shoaff, Okaw Valley’s principal, announced the title through a Tuesday press release.
A couple weekend reminders about the Gottheil Cup at the UI Ice Arena and a new entry in our 'All Access' series.
Seven relatives of sophomore Kyle Jankowski, who made the All Rookie Team last year and is an Academic All-American, were in Champaign this weekend to take in the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament.
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