(Photo by Dave Ruggles) Friday, June 4 resultsGlenbrook North def. Hersey 25-17, 25-17Lake Park def. Lake Zurich 25-10, 25-17Libertyville def. Grayslake Central 25-19, 25-19Lockport def. Lyons Township 22-25, 25-23, 25-20Lockport (18-3 overall, 7-1 in the Southwest Suburban Conference): Matt Arens (16 kills, 4 blocks), Owen Knezevich (6 kills), Bryan Maida (10 digs), Evan Dziadkowiec (31 assists). Wheaton North def. Glenbard South 25-10, 24-26, 25-14Glenbard South (3-12 overall, 3-5 in the Upstate Eight Conference): Will Mack (8 kills, 1 bl...
Wednesday, May 19 results
(Photos of Wednesday's South Suburban Conference match between Bremen and Shepard by by Dave Ruggles) Wednesday, May 19 results Alton Marquette def. Belleville West 25-21, 25-22Deerfield def. Niles North 16-25, 25-20, 25-15Glenbard West def. Lake Park 22-25, 25-18, 26-24Glenbard West (19-2 overall, 4-1 in the West Suburban Silver): Tommy Lohman (28 assists, 4 kills, 17 digs, 3 blocks, 1 ace), Danny Pasinksi (18 kills, 6 digs, 1 block), Gavin Swartz (6 kills, 4 dig, 1 block), Quinn Hardesty (4 kills, 2 blocks), Nick Jones ...
Benet's Muisenga named Gatorade Illinois Volleyball Player of the Year
Benet Academy's Rachel Muisenga (18, far left) led the Redwings to a 51-1 record and an IHSA Class 4A championship during her two years as the team's setter. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year Rachel Muisenga of Benet Academy. CHICAGO (May 6, 2021) — In its 36th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Rachel Muisenga of Benet Academy as its 2020-21 Gatorade Illinois Volleyball Player of the Year. Muisenga is the second Gatorade Illinois Volleyball Player of the Year to...
Wheaton North, Knoerr take down Geneva in front of (gasp!) a crowd of people
Geneva lost for just the third time in DuKane Conference play, falling at Wheaton North, 25-23, 18-25, 25-21, in front of a large senior night crowd Tuesday. There was something different about this game.The playing court was the same size. The height of the net was unchanged. There were six players on each side. Two officials – one up, one down. The ball was regulation. Rally scoring was used.So what was it that made this match different?People.“This is the first volleyball game all season that we’ve actually had a crowd,” said Geneva co...
Monday, March 22 results
Downers Grove South entertained York in a West Suburban Conference crossover match Monday. York won, 15-25, 25-19, 25-20. (Photo by Dave Ruggles). Monday, March 22 resultsAnnawan def. Galva 25-11, 25-13Arthur-Lovington Atwood-Hammond def. (Broadlands) Heritage 25-9, 25-23Arthur-Lovington Atwood-Hammond (1-0 overall, 1-0 in the Lincoln Prairie Conference): Mackenzi Bowles (4 kills), Cheyenne Chupp (6 kills, 2 assists), Michaela Powell (3 aces), Sarah Rafferty (10 assists), Alisha Frederick 3 aces, 1 kill, 12 assists), Charley Condill 7 kills...
Dakota moves on without Toelke; T.F. South moves on without an identity
Dakota's Tabytha Toelke (left) likely would have broken into the top 10 among Illinois all-time kill leaders had it not been for last year's shortened season and a brief personal absence while in quarantine due to COVID contact tracing. She is now a freshman at the University of Memphis. (Photo courtesy of the Rockford Register Star). Monday, Monday. The first day of practice for the 2021 Illinois girls’ high school volleyball season is just hours away.One of the more intriguing storylines of the 2021 season is the plight of Thornton Fract...
Saturday, June 19 results
Glenbrook North junior libero Paul Wyszynski digs a ball during the Spartans' 25-22, 18-25, 25-19 victory over Lake Park in the IHSA boys volleyball championship game Saturday at Glenbard West. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) Saturday, June 19 results IHSA boys semifinals Glenbrook North def. Lincoln-Way East 25-17, 25-14Lincoln-Way East (20-6 overall): Tyler Walenga (8 kills, 1 assist, 1 ace, 2 digs), Ian Nicholson (4 kills, 1 assist, 5 digs), Owen Morrow (17 assists, 2 kills, 1 dig), Jason Kougan (1 kill, 2 blocks), Jon Guch (4 kills, 3 di...
Fueled by example of her older brothers, Zayna Meyer is driven to succeed
After leading Wheaton Warrenville South to an IHSA Class 4A runner-up finish in 2019, Zayna Meyer (left) has big goals for her SPVB 18 Elite team this spring. (Photos by Dave Ruggles) SPVB 18 Elite's BYU-bound setter Zayna Meyer. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By PJ BrozynskiIllprepb.com Writer/Editor If you can’t live at home while you’re going to college, you can always do the next best thing.Take home with you.“We’re going to see a lot of each other, for sure,” said Sports Performance 18 Elite setter Zayna Meyer. “It’s like bringing home ...
Saturday, October 2 tournament results
New Trier outside hitter Cece Burns tries to split two Assumption defenders during the Trevians' 25-17, 25-22 loss in a Gold bracket quarterfinal of the Asics Challenge Saturday at Mother McAuley. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) Asics Challenge at Mother McAuley Mother McAuley def. Marist 25-15, 23-25, 25-19 (third place)Marist (19-7): Elise Ward (4 kills, 7 digs), Maddie Berry (37 assists), Mary Clare Brusek (12 kills, 2 blocks), Bella Bullington (9 kills), Kamryn Chaney (14 kills, 1 ace, 8 digs), MaTaia Lawson (2 kills), Ufuom...
Here are the final regular-season 1st Alliance VBC/Illprepvb.com Boys Club Rankings
A number of Illinois club teams will head to the 2021 SCVA Junior Boys Invitational at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, from May 21-23, to either improve their seeding position for nationals or to qualify. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) The boys’ club season is winding down – save for the 2021 Southern California Volleyball Association (SCVA) Junior Boys Invitational at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, from May 21-23, and the big one in Kansas City in late June.Twenty-six Illinois-based teams h...