By Michael Wojtychiw
PARK RIDGE – Maine South did something in the first week of the season against Maine East that it did only three times last season: score four or more goals in a single game.
Unlike the 2019 season when it took the Hawks to their 10th game to accomplish the feat, they were able to do it in their second game, when they took down their crosstown rivals 4-1 at home March 11.
Continue readingNew 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.
Continue readingFour years ago, the New Trier boys lacrosse program saw one if its best players, Ben Connelly, graduate and head east to play at Tufts University. That following season, a
new No. 32 (Connelly’s New Trier jersey number) arrived on campus — freshman Henry Scherb. Fast forward four years and Scherb will once again be following in Connelly’s footsteps, as he goes to Massachusetts to play for the Jumbos starting in the fall.
A year after taking a backseat to Katherine Gjertsen in their senior year at New Trier, Isabelle Sennett was looking to go out and make a name for herself during her freshman
year on Amherst College’s women’s lacrosse team.
And make a name for herself she did.
Ask most people what makes being a member of the Loyola Academy community a great one and the majority will have a similar answer: family.
Whether it be with returning alumni, family, friends or the athletes following the school’s motto of being “Men and Women for Others,” there’s something that stands out about the school.
That was none more evident this spring when the Loyola girls lacrosse team embraced the presence of Ryan O’Connor, 3-year-old son of Loyola alumna, and a lacrosse All-American, Elizabeth O’Connor and her husband Ben.
The recent Loyola graduate could have stayed in the Midwest and gone to Marquette, joining a handful of other North Shore players, or Colorado, the two other schools that
really recruited her, but she chose to go down a different path.
Brynn Holohan wanted to a new experience when it came to choosing where she’d play college lacrosse.
Loyola’s Mia McGrath came into the 2019 girls volleyball season knowing she was going to have some big shoes to fill in her first year on varsity.
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Michael Wojtychiw 