After almost two years without a game, spring sports - girls’ soccer, boys’ volleyball, track and field, baseball and softball, are all finally getting the chance to play as summer sports. The fact...
This spring, freshmen athletes have been forced to make the jump to high school sports without much time to bond. The class of 2024 slid into their shortened seasons completely unfamiliar with South’s...
Senior swimmers Max Iida and Sami Moussally are enjoying their time at the top. The duo finished first and second in the Central Suburban League South conference meet and helped South boys’ swim to their...
Sarah Ordway, asst. opinions editor April 23, 2021
Passing a teammate the ball, anticipating their next move, knowing where a teammate is going to make a move even before they do. It may seem like telepathy, but for many of South’s athletes, long-standing...
From late actor Chadwick Boseman giving Black children the superhero they needed in the Black Panther, to Kamala Harris, the first African American, female and Asian American Vice President, Howard University...
Girls' Lacrosse
Devin McCue, varsity girls lacrosse coach is thrilled to be back on the turf. With her team’s season ending abruptly last year, she is excited to give her players a sense of normalcy...
In two years playing basketball at South, sophomore guard Rodell Davis, Jr., or RJ, boasts a career win percentage of 91.7 percent. To emphasize: Davis has played 48 games between his time on the sophomore...
Every fall, South students anxiously await the yearly tradition of packing the student section at John Davis Stadium for home football games.
This year, however, the fall came and went and the Friday...
Six years ago, two boys put on blue Diamond Instinct jerseys for the first time. Now, in six months, they will be seen matching yet again, but this time in bright red jerseys playing for Bradley University,...
Skylar Kreske, asst. sports editor February 12, 2021
From feeling burnt out to becoming a Division I college commit, senior Marc Blekhman, boys’ tennis player, has persevered throughout his career and watched it pay off in full.
Blekhman has been playing...
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Cole and Dylan Sprouse. Markieff and Marcus Morris. And soon, Addie and Ashley Carr.
With collegiate careers on the horizon for both South senior athletes, the Carr sisters...
Emily Pavlik, asst. sports editor February 12, 2021
“I want to play and I don’t care when it is,” David Schoenwetter, varsity football head coach, said. “If it ends up being the spring, or if it ends up being in the summer, [even] if it ends up...
