Kingston serves up summer’s first games
June 17, 2020
I like a lot of summertime recreational sports, from biking and kayaking, to trail riding and swimming. I even favor occasional competitive equine events, but I haven’t had time for any of them this summer because I’ve been busy with another activity that I’d like to think of as a sport as well: hay baling. […]
Even with his career ending one outdoor track season early at Benedictine University, Marian Central Catholic graduate Ryan Di Pietro helped the Eagles win a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference team title. As a senior, he earned the right to call himself an individual conference champ as the Eagles won the 1,600-meter relay indoors. As the sun […]
Jacob Schmitt went from Woodstock North, to the University of Wisconsin-Stout as a football walk-on, to the scout team player of the year in two years and, finally, to Saturday gridiron games and a position on the field. As a senior, he played in all 10 games and finished with 39 total tackles. Of his […]
Life for Woodstock North graduate Isabella Mazzanti at University of Dubuque was about challenges. Both athletically and academically. The former track athlete, who competed in cross country in the fall, not only passed the challenges of track and field, but she might have even passed the challenges of the classroom even more successfully. It would […]
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