A Champaign Central relay also succeeded at the Illinois Top Times meet, while Centennial girls' soccer opened its season with a victory.
Westville baseball pulls off impressive victory over Monticello.
Both Blake Wolters and Kollin Asbury threw a no-hitter, with Wolters adding a grand slam as a batter for Mahomet-Seymour baseball.
Eagles senior Brianna Dixon already has a Class 2A 100-meter hurdles state title to her name. But she'd like to go out with a bang in her other primary event as well.
Sterkel guided the Warriors to the Class 1A team state championship at last year's state meet, and they return many of the same athletes this spring.
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Our story on the boys’ basketball team from East St. Louis helping out at a Champaign restaurant last weekend didn’t surprise Urbana High track coach Forrest Farokhi one bit.
Monticello, Arthur Christian girls' soccer each cruise to victory.
Salt Fork softball overcomes a 10-0 deficit to stun St. Joseph-Ogden.
Danville led local programs in the Big 12 Conference indoor girls' track and field meet.
The perfect word to describe Kallen Robertson: juggler. As in his ability to excel in multiple tasks at once.
Jackson Gilbert is the defending Class 2A boys' 400-meter dash state champion. He'd like to win more individual titles, but he also has team goals on the mind for his senior season.
Salt Fork boys' track and field shared the 2022 Class 1A boys' team state championship trophy. Can the Storm garner yet another crown in 2023?
Local athletes competed in meets at Carbondale, Charleston and the U of I Armory.
Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin, Sullivan also collect titles in Mount Zion.
Hobick’s big game lifts Oakwood
Uni High senior Kate Ahmari is among 26 students in Illinois on the IHSA's All-State Academic team.
Mabry Bruhn plans to compete in cross-country and track
Preps coordinator Colin Likas explores 10 noteworthy topics in the area high school sports world from the calendar year 2022 that was.
Meet Salt Fork's Macie Russell, who does a little bit of everything for the love of her school.
Make room on the podium, Bonnie Blair and Tatyana McFadden — Champaign County has produced another gold medalist.
Former Mahomet-Seymour coach's obstacle course has become a training destination for teams across the state
The Marques Lowe-run organization out of Champaign will take a 29-strong contingent to the West coast, including multiple local IHSA state champions.
Lists of every high school student-athlete honored by The News-Gazette in 2021-22.
The former Illini turned in a time of 3 minutes, 33.81 seconds during a meet last Friday in Los Angeles.
Mahomet-Seymour captured The News-Gazette's Program of the Year honor for the first time in school history, with nearly every Bulldogs team contributing something to final outcome.
A glance at some noteworthy former local prep stars who are making waves both in-state and out-of-state, as well as a short list of programs that should make more noise in 2022-23.
A glance at some of the top local newcomers to the prep sports scene, as well as a listing of the area's Coaches of the Year and Assistant Coaches of the Year.
A glance at some of the best-performing student-athletes, individuals tied to local high schools who died in the last year, athletes who gave some of the best quotes and athletes who should've been highlighted more often.
A glance at some of the top programs, junior athletes and state titlists from the 2021-22 prep sports season that was.
A closer look at the local schools which excelled most in football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, wrestling, baseball and softball.
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