Girls Swimming
VERNON HILLS – McHenry’s Kristen Lenard looked to her coaches after she finished the 500-yard freestyle, but it wasn’t until she turned to see the scoreboard that she knew she had done it.
McHenry’s Kristen Lenard will head to the IHSA girls swimming sectional in better shape – both physically and mentally – than a year ago.
WOODSTOCK – McHenry coach Mike Shanahan’s celebratory plunge into the Woodstock North pool was not something he expected to do coming into Saturday’s Fox Valley Conference girls swimming championships.
BARRINGTON – For the Cary-Grove girls volleyball team, the No. 1 seed in the IHSA Class 4A Barrington Regional carries some pressure.
CARY – The Cary-Grove girls volleyball team completed a perfect Fox Valley Conference Valley Division season Thursday, as the Trojans beat Dundee-Crown, 25-16, 25-11.
BURLINGTON – Two minutes into Tuesday’s IHSA Class 2A Burlington Central Regional semifinal boys soccer match, Johnsburg looked finished.
McHENRY – In the middle of every swimming season comes an inescapable lull in which swimmers find their times a little slower and their bodies a little weaker.
GRAYSLAKE – McHenry’s girls volleyball team won the Grayslake North Volley for the Cure Invitational by going 5-0 on Saturday.
CARY – Cary-Grove’s girls volleyball team collected its 20th victory of the season Thursday with a 25-17, 25-21 non-conference win against Lake Zurich.
CARPENTERSVILLE – For Dundee-Crown swimming coach Kendra Everett, dual meets are a work in progress.
NILES – Elise and Kayla Beattie finished first and second, respectively, Saturday at the 36th annual Pat Savage Cross Country Invitational, leading Woodstock to a second-place finish with 61 points.
WOODSTOCK – Elise and Kayla Beattie finished first and second for Woodstock’s girls cross country team Tuesday in the four-team Woodstock Mega Meet at Emricson Park.
WOODSTOCK – McHenry won the Woodstock Invitational, which featured five of six Fox Valley Conference girls swimming teams, but Warriors coach Mike Shanahan wasn’t ready to declare his team the best the conference has to offer.
BULL VALLEY – The Prairie Ridge girls golf team did not let Monday’s loss to Crystal Lake Central affect its play Tuesday at the McHenry County Meet at Boone Creek.
CARY – Cary-Grove’s volleyball team got a glimpse Thursday of what it might see this weekend at the Jacobs Golden Eagle Volleyball Invitational.
Fox Valley Conference
The girls swimming season starts this week, and there are few sure things both from a team and an individual perspective.
Jacobs athletic director Tom Ross announced Thursday that Chris Taylor was hired as the Golden Eagles’ varsity wrestling coach and Tracy Balla would coach girls swimming.
What started as a joke between Woodstock graduate Derek Brown and his mother turned into a significant career move.
