2017 Spring sports preview
Boys’ sports
- Baseball-Brennan Reback (12)
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- Key Players: Reback, Drew Winegardner (12), Antonio Brown (10), Brad Larsen (12), Ryan Larsen (12), and Joe Rangel (12).
- Goals: To win first sectional.
- Challenges: The new IHSA pitching rules.
- Hardest Opponent: Crossover games against the bigger schools.
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- Boys Lacrosse-Brennen Tolari (11)
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- Key Players: Tolari, Spencer Fortman (11), Jake Olive (10), Joey Levitan (10), and John Dosemagen (10).
- Goals: To make a nice little run in the state playoffs.
- Challenges: It’s a new conference so we really don’t know a lot about our opponents.
- Hardest Opponent: New Trier.
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- Boys Tennis-Aakash Setty (12)
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- Key Players: Setty, Harsha Namburi (12), and Matthew Nguyen (11).
- Goals: To win regionals because our new conference is going to be extremely tough.
- Challenges: New conference.
- Hardest Opponent: Glenbrook North, Glenbrook South, and New Trier.
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- Boys Track & Field-James Hommer (12)
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- Key Players: Hommer, Mcnemon Vincent (12), Timothy Krashevsky (12), and Kacper Jaskowski (12)
- Goals: To win sectionals again.
- Challenges: Rebuilding after losing a lot of seniors last year.
- Hardest Opponent: Deerfield.
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- Boys Volleyball-Drake DeBoer (11)
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- Key Players: DeBoer, Jake Fiarito (12), and Jacob Adkisson (12)
- Goals: To beat Barington in the regional or sectional final.
- Challenges: Rebuilding after losing a lot of talented players such as Jayred Bennet and Johnny McDonald.
- Hardest Opponent: Glenbard West and New Trier.
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- Boys Water Polo-Jason Palmer (12)
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- Key Players: Palmer and Declan Kelleher (12)
- Goals: To get more people to try out for the team and develop those whom we already have.
- Challenges: Not having a lot of experience. Hopefully, this will be a successful building year.
- Hardest Opponent: New Trier
Girls’ sports
- Girls Lacrosse-Amanda Tsao (12)
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- Key Players: Tsao, Sarah Demas (12), Akvile Petrauskaite (12), Annie Wang (11), Kelsey Carido (12), and Taylor Phan (10).
- Goals: Having a winning season.
- Challenges: Being in a new conference with some of the best teams in the state.
- Hardest Opponent: New Trier.
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- Girls Soccer-Becky Bahlmann (12)
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- Key Players: Bahlmann, Alex Ludolph (10), Julia Neary (10), Ziggy Jezorski (10), Katie Burrows (12), and Sammie Biede (12).
- Goals: Winning conference and make it past regionals
- Challenges: “No challenges. We’re a fun group and are very accepting of everyone and all ages. You can’t tell when someone is a freshman or a senior on our varsity team.”
- Hardest Opponent: Deerfield, New Trier, and Glenbrook South.
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- Girls Track & Field-Jordyn Bunning (11)
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- Key Players: Bunning, Emily Kim (9), Payton Makowskyj (10), Abby Heinz (11), Raeden Mays (10), Michelle Zhang (12), and Lauren Katz (11).
- Goals: To win a third sectional in a row and qualify as many people for State as possible.
- Challenges: Staying healthy and peaking at sectionals/state.
- Hardest Opponent: Since we’re in a new conference, any team race will be challenge because we haven’t raced a lot of these teams before.
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- Girls Water Polo-Erin Blase (12)
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- Key Players: Blase, Blair Haberman (12), Emilia Pranica (12), Arden Floom (12), Katie Clayson (12), Diana Castro (11).
- Goals: To win games and learn new plays.
- Challenges: Not losing every game since there are not many experienced players that tryout.
- Hardest Opponent: Unknown (new conference)