To access the scores for your favorite sport, simply go that that sport's yellow menu ("State Series Information & Results"), find the ScoreZone link, and for sports held in more than one class, click on the class you are interested in. Without you, none of us have the incredible opportunity to tell the stories we tell.The IHSA ScoreZone has been reconfigured for the new IHSA Web site. So, as I bid adieu for now, I've saved my final thanks for you - the readers.
I can't imagine not writing more, but in what form and for whom remains to be seen. You can't do what I've done for as long as I've done it and say you won't miss it. I never set out to be a hall of famer, but now as I close my career, those accolades do become special. Other special honors, such as the Burlington Central Hall of Fame and the IHSA's Distinguished Media Service Award, came after that. I had the good fortune to be inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2001, an honor I was able to share with my dad, who passed away in 2004. That's something I always strove for in my reporting and something I tried to instill in those I mentored.
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Bob taught me, and countless others, that high school sports should always be reported on fairly, but with a positivity that college and pro sports don't have. I had special relationships with those who collaborated with me, including Mike Miazga, Travis Miller, Patricia Babcock McGraw and Jerry Fitzpatrick, as well as John Lemon, who now takes the baton as high school sports editor.īut the one man who I owe the most to is Bob Frisk. When I was looking for an "in" with the Herald in 1995, I reached out to Lindsey and the rest, as they say, is history. Lindsey and I covered the Kane County Cougars together when they came to town in 1991 - Lins for the Herald and me for the Courier. Lindsey Willhite earns a mention as well. If I tried to name them all, I would surely miss many, but I do have to single out people like Tom Quinlan, Aaron Gabriel, Don Friske, Marty Maciaszek, Marty Stengle, Mike Smith, John Lampinen and Jim Baumann for their incredible support. I came to the Daily Herald as a freelancer in 1995 and was fortunate to cover the Elgin High girls basketball run to a state championship game appearance in 1996.īeyond covering those teams and all the athletes and coaches I've had the privilege of writing about and working with over the years, there have also been so many colleagues within the walls of this business who without, it would have been impossible to do my job.
Edward girls basketball teams of the 80s and early 90s - it's a list that goes on and on. The state championship football teams from Hampshire in the 70s, the run of state appearances and titles from the St. And I did at times, but I always came back to my passion - high school sports.Īfter graduating high school, former Elgin Courier-News Sports Editor Stan Shalett gave me my first opportunity to earn a paycheck as a sports writer, allowing me to cover teams and athletes who achieved greatness. At that time, I, like many other aspiring scribes just starting out, had designs on covering the Cubs, the Bears. Where to begin? Well, I learned in that six-month stint at the Chronicle this is what I wanted to do - be a sports writer. Little did I know then, nor was it in my wildest dreams, that 48 years later I'd be sitting at home in, ironically, Genoa, writing the final column of my sports journalism career.īut as I embark on retirement after today, what you're reading here is just that.
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