Eve Meintz was recruited by Benedictine University as a soccer player. The Marian Central Catholic grad and Huntley resident finished as not only an all-conference soccer player, but a conference champion in the sport of track and field. The former Hurricane athlete also set five school records in the sport at Benedictine. She set indoor […]
Multi-sport athletes in high school, especially at a small high school, are common. In college, it is extremely rare, except with something like track and cross-country, where the activity only changes slightly, but the terrain changes greatly. Soccer and track would be a strange combo, but not for Marian Central Catholic graduate Eve Meintz, a […]
Abigail Jones, a Marian Central Catholic graduate and University of Mary distance runner, has won many races during her career. But she may have never won a 3,000-meter steeplechase with the same margin of victory as she did at the Al Bortke Invitational, which was hosted by Dickinson State University. The Mary senior, a Marengo […]
It did not take long for Woodstock graduate CaroleAnn Goglin to figure out the No. 1 rule of college athletics: take care of business in the classroom. Not only is Goglin, a freshman softball player at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, doing that, she is doing it quite well, thank you. During the first semester, Goglin […]
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