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  • Wildkit Runners Aim To Make Best Of Pandemic Situation

    Wildkit Runners Aim To Make Best Of Pandemic Situation

    Sept. 5 Runners for the Evanston girls and boys cross country teams are still holding out hope that the Illinois High School Association will find a way to conduct a postseason series for their sport.

  • ETHS Names 6 Individuals, 2 Teams to Hall of Fame

    Aug. 31.  Six individuals and two teams have been voted into the Evanston Township High School Athletic Hall of Fame by a committee of coaches, administrators, faculty members and community representatives this summer.
  • Swimmers, Divers Seeking Virtual Success in 2020

    Swimmers, Divers Seeking Virtual Success in 2020

    Aug. 26  When he was a standout swimmer at Indiana University back in 1981, Kevin Auger participated in a “virtual” dual swim meet against the Soviet Red Army team. At the height of the Cold War, the two opponents traded faxes comparing times and the Hoosiers won bragging rights.
  • Kits Hope Numbers Add up to Winning Season in Tennis

    Kits Hope Numbers Add up to Winning Season in Tennis

    Aug. 20  Social distancing, reduced fields for invitational tournaments and the use of one set of tennis balls per team at ETHS are just part of the “new normal” that the Wildkits will be dealing with.
  • Antoine Named New ETHS Head Boys Volleyball Coach

    Antoine Named New ETHS Head Boys Volleyball Coach

    Aug. 19  The Wildkits will rely on Antoine to provide energy and passion for the program now as he and McDermott, who will remain as an assistant in both the boys and girls programs, will switch roles
  • Additional Tales During the Lockdown

    Additional Tales During the Lockdown

    May 15  As we venture forward in our new normal, I can’t help thinking that a fishing trip to an area lake would help with the “lockdown” feeling and allow us to get out into the fresh air and participate in an activity that we did prior to the COVID-19 impact.

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  • Fishing During the Lockdown

    Fishing During the Lockdown

    March 27.  As we all are dealing with “social distancing” and the “Stay at Home” directive, we will start getting to have some feelings of cabin fever. We need to be able to get out a little, and I couldn’t think of a better thing to do than to go fishing.
  • Gibson Leads the Way for Flying Fish at Illinois Senior Championships

    Gibson Leads the Way for Flying Fish at Illinois Senior Championships

    Matt Gibson placed second in the boys 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:51.93 at the Illinois Swimming Senior Championships, leading the way for YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s Flying Fish swim team, which sent a host of competitors to the event at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • IHSA Decision Ends Evanston's Cage Season

    IHSA Decision Ends Evanston's Cage Season

    Evanston’s season, along with the rest of the schools still alive in postseason play, was cut short on Thursday evening when the Illinois High School Association announced the cancellation of the Class 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A state basketball tournaments.

  • Late Free Throws Send Wildkits to Sectional Finals

    Isaiah Holden has evolved as a player into one of those do-whatever-it-takes performers that every high school basketball team needs. Tuesday night in the semifinals of the Class 4A Elk Grove sectional tournament, it took a perfect effort by the junior guard at the free throw line to keep Evanston’s season alive.

  • Wildkits Shut Down Trevs 49-46 in Defensive Duel

    The postgame handshake line resembled a somber funeral procession and there was no raucous celebration from the winners even while they were cutting down the nets Friday night at the Class 4A Maine East regional tournament championship game.

  • Diver Lesch Climbs to 7th Place at IHSA State Finals

    Saturday turned out to be moving day for the Evanston swimmers and divers participating at the Illinois High School Association state finals at the Burton Aquatic Center. And no one showed more upward mobility than diver Aryeh Lesch.

  • Close Finishes Count for IHSA Finalists Lesch, Long

    As a gymnast turned diver, Evanston sophomore Aryeh Lesch probably didn’t realize until now that there’s another element to his new sport --- scoreboard watching.

  • Kit Girls Feel the Pain of Season-ending Defeat

    It took members of the Evanston girls basketball team several months to get over the pain of last year’s overtime loss to eventual state champion Maine West in the sectional championship game. Thursday night in Des Plaines, the Warriors broke their hearts all over again.
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