ROCKFORD – Auburn showed its a legitimate NIC-10 conference contender by swimming away with the East Mermaid Relay title Tuesday night. The Knights scored 137 points, beating McHenry (121) and defending conference champion Hononegah (114). Seven of the eight competing schools were from the NIC-10. The Knights scored victories in the 200-yard medley relay, 100-yard […]
It was a great Labor Day weekend for several Rockford Public Schools teams. * Guilford’s girls tennis team went 4-0 and won the Cary-Grove Invitational. * Guilford’s girls swim team took second place in the Sterling Invitational. * Guilford’s boys cross country team took second to Hampshire (losing by two points) behind top 10 finishes […]
ROCKFORD – East sophomore Camden Taylor rewrote the NIC-10 swimming records on Saturday – literally. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there were no relays in the annual NIC-10 swim meet and swimmers were allowed to enter four individual races instead of being restricted to two. Taylor won all four that he entered and he set […]
ROCKFORD – Sophomore Camden Taylor’s top two finishes in two events powered East to fourth place in Saturday’s 10-team J-Hawk Swimming Invitational. Taylor dominated the 200-yard freestyle, beating Vincent Maier of Boylan by more than seven seconds, with a time of 1:46.98. Taylor followed that up with a second-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle. Taylor […]
ROCKFORD – In a season that wasn’t typical, Rockford Public Schools had lots of athletes turning in typically outstanding seasons. RPS runners swept the MVP awards in cross country. Three boys cross country runners made first team All-NIC-10 and another was named special mention. Four RPS runners made the first team girls team and another […]
BYRON – Auburn’s Ursula Koch didn’t have a chance to win any individual NIC-10 swimming titles because of COVID-19, but she showed at IHSA sectionals that she’ll be a force to contend with in future years. The NIC-10 decided not to have a conference meet this fall because of the ongoing pandemic. Instead, Hononegah was […]
ROCKFORD – Auburn tennis star Belen Nevenhoven was named Female Athlete of the Year Thursday night in the Rockford Register Star’s annual All Star Preps Best of Rock River Valley awards. Normally, the announcement comes during a grand gala. Thursday’s awards ceremony was conducted online because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Register Star made […]
In May, East announced its annual top awards and scholarship winners. Athletes of the Year: Roberto Davila and Kabrea Jamerson. Scholar Athletes of the Year: Hailey Hunter and Jack Bathje., Austin Rux Memorial Scholarship: Carter Wyatt. Craig Stalcup Memorial Scholarship: Tay’Veon Lake. Austin Rux was an East student who died just before his sophomore year […]
Stephanie Homewood Boozer, one of Guilford’s top swimmers from the 2000s, is now manager of program development, riding lawn equipment at John Deere in Cary, North Carolina. At Guilford, Stephanie was one of the top freestylers in conference history. She won seven individual conference titles, the 50 free style in 1994, the 100 freestyle all […]
ROCKFORD – Swimmers from the Eisenhower Montessori swim team won six events at this weekend’s RRAC swim meet. Kamel Habiba was the star of the event. Habiba won the 50-yard breast stroke, 100-yard individual medley and combined with Samara Norton, Stella Seminerio and Linnea Cagnoni to win the 200-yard medley relay. Seminerio also won the […]
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