Woodstock graduate Aidan Schleutermann ran his best 8,000-meter time ever at the Ken Weidt Classic. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point junior ran 25 minutes, 44.1 seconds to finish second in the meet. The junior says he is focused more on his placing, rather than time. “I am about 45 seconds faster than I ran last […]
By Dan Chamness Kaitlyn Wickersheim, a Woodstock North graduate, is a quick learner. The Western Illinois University freshman volleyball player has already found a spot on the varsity team. It’s not a steady starting spot, yet – with an emphasis on yet. In the first eight matches, she has made one start. Recently, the 5-foot-7 […]
Luke Silva, a Marian Central Catholic graduate, ended his active, competitive wrestling career a few months ago at Aurora University. But his involvement in the sport of amateur wrestling rolls merrily on. The new Aurora graduate is currently working in the Chicago Public School as a sports administrator and facility management employee. In addition, he […]
Jacob Waryck, like most athletes, realizes that many people helped him to develop into a college football player. None more than his mother, Amanda Luebbers. The love and extreme adoration he has is not unusual, but Luebbers dealt with the death of her husband, Christopher Waryck, Jacob Waryck’s father, in March 2003. “Without her, I […]
When you make the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association Wrestling National Championships two years in a row, you will most likely get offers to continue your career at a four-year school. Not to mention the two all-state medals that Marian Central Catholic grad Elon Rodriguez earned in high school. The Triton College wrestler, who earned […]
Blake Shallenbarger, a Woodstock graduate, has decided to end his baseball career as the sun sets on his career at Rockford University. However, Shallenbarger leaves with what most pitchers can only dream of – he never suffered defeat on the mound in college. Shallenbarger also leaves baseball with something more intangible, but something very valuable […]
The end of his career was far, far from what Woodstock graduate Logan List, a pitcher for Rockford University’s baseball team, desired. But this year, which was supposed to be the end for him on a baseball diamond somewhere, ended instead because of an injury. “The shoulder injury was the toughest part of my career, […]
Two National Junior College Athletic Association Division II All-American honors – is only one of the reasons that Bull Valley resident and Marian Central Catholic graduate Mason Schwalbach made it to the Kansas State University Wildcat baseball team. Behind the honors are the numbers. First and foremost is the batting average. In both years at […]
In every event that Marian Central Catholic graduate Dominique Thomas ran at the Horizon League Championships, she scored in. The Lake in the Hills resident scored individually in both the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash. She then combined forces with three other University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee runners to score points in the 400-meter relay. Thomas’ […]
The question at this point has to be, What will Woodstock North graduate and Coe College pitcher Ellie Thurow do for an encore? Because her most recent year of softball for the Kohawks became memorable quite a few games ago. Thurow, like many, has an option for a fifth year of athletic eligibility because of […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
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