New Trier and North Shore Country Day.
One team has won 10 field hockey state championships, including two of the last three; the other just had its best finish in 20 years, with a fourth-place finish in last year’s state tournament.
Continue readingOn March 14, Loyola Academy, like many school across the nation, took part in the National School Walkout to bring attention to a unified call for change in the way our country addresses school safety, gun violence and adolescent mental health.
At 10 a.m., students who wished to participate had two options.
Continue readingMany people growing up in Chicago in the 1990s recognized the names Bill Wennington and Dave Wannstedt, even if they weren’t sports fans.
Wennington played for the Chicago Bulls from 1993 to 1999 and won three NBA championships with the team, while Wannstedt served as the Chicago Bears coach from 1993 to 1998. Since their careers have ended, both Wennington and Wannstedt have transitioned over to the media side of sports, with Wannstedt becoming a broadcaster for Fox Sports since 2014 and Wennington the color analyst for Bulls radio broadcasts.
Continue readingThe Atlantic Coast Conference is the pinnacle of women’s collegiate lacrosse. An ACC program has played for the national title in each of the last eight seasons and last year’s final Inside Lacrosse national rankings had five ACC teams among the top-10 at the end of the season.
So to get a chance to play in the nation’s top conference is an opportunity that would be to say no to. Loyola Academy junior Ellie Lazzaretto couldn’t pass it up, which is why on Jan. 22, the Lake Forest resident announced her commitment to play at Duke University starting in the fall of 2021.
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