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For 25 years, George Shimko has been teaching basketball – and for most of that time his family looked on. Now, they are following in his footsteps. Through his George Shimko Basketball School in Oak Lawn, he coached his children, but never pushed them to go into athletics, especially as coaches, it just happened naturally. "I have always coached my children like players," George said. "I have never coached them like my child and I think that is why they became successful. I...
Imagine you are a direct descendent of the devil himself. For Jeff Mudgett, there is no need to imagine. For the first 40 years of his life Mudgett, a California lawyer and former Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve, knew he wasn't like everyone else. "I didn't know who I was, I didn't know why I had strange feelings," Mudgett said Oct. 19 at the White Oak Library Author Fest, where he was the featured author. "I knew the emotions most people carried in their life and the...
On the eve of the 12-year anniversary of the day Stacy Peterson disappeared, her sister, Cassandra Cales, was at the Bolingbrook Community Center to help others search for missing loved ones. Peterson, the then 23-year-old Bolingbrook mother of two, went missing On Oct. 27, 2007. Cales, who has never given up her search, donned a purple T-Shirt with a photo of Stacy as she was on hand to meet with families going through their own searches. The gathering was part of the...
The IHSA playoffs open this weekend and 13 Enterprise Newspapers teams advanced to the second season, including Class 8A No. 1 seed Minooka. Class 8A No. 32 Joliet West @ No. 1 Minooka Friday, Nov. 1 - 7 p.m. In Class 8A, the No. 32 seed Tigers are the lone 4-5 team in the field, getting in the postseason because of winning the Southwest Prairie Conference East Division. West, Plainfield East and Plainfield South all had 4-1 league records and the Tigers held the tiebreaker...
When January rolls around, Vince Carter will become the first player in National Basketball Association history to play in the league in four different decades. In 2016, Chicago native Kevin Garnett retired from the NBA as a 15-time All Star, 2004 NBA Most Valuable Player and 2008 NBA Champion. In 1995, those two, along with Terrance Roberson, Ron Mercer and Stephon Marbury made up the Street & Smith's High School All-American First Team. The five of them went on to combine fo...
Looking at the scoreboard at Legends Field on the campus of Notre Dame College Prep and seeing a 21-0 loss by the Dons does not in any way tell the tale of the game. Notre Dame was without standout running back Julian Schurr, who will be sidelined for at least one more week with a shoulder injury. "It is not a 21-0 game, but we didn't get what we needed to get offensively," said coach Mike Hennessey. "One loss will not define the season, but it is tough to experience a loss af...
For book lovers, going to the library to peruse some titles is a good way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Throw in the fact that the readers have the ability to meet more than 50 authors and discuss the books and it makes up one of the biggest events of the year for the White Oak Library District. The third annual Author Fest was held last Saturday at the Crest Hill branch and was designed to showcase local and regional writers. "Attendees can come out and mingle face to face...
When the Oct. 15 volleyball game between Minooka and Plainfield Central ended, the scoreboard said the visiting Indians had won 27-25, 25-17. The real winner, however, was Addy Boggs. Addy is a student at Circle Center Grade School in Yorkville and has been diagnosed with Batten Disease CLN3 - a very rare, genetic disease that to this point has no cure. Of the many symptoms of Batten Disease, one is vision loss, which she is already starting to experience. For the past seven...
This season, Romeoville has been without its head coach and its offense. The Spartans (0-3) have been outscored 138-10 on the season, most recently 42-0 at Plainfield North last week. All this has happened without head coach Oliver Gibson, who has not coached a game this season. He is on Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave with a "Oliver is on medical leave with the district, (his foot) has been in a cast," said Romeoville Athletics Director Mike Strode. "That leave carr...
In a game that featured blown calls, changed calls and made-up calls, Plainfield South held off the officials and Plainfield East's late rally to grab a 33-20 win and control of its own destiny in the Southwest Prairie Conference East Division. "I don't complain about crews and say anything, but they were a bad crew," "Both teams got it, it was just a rough flow to a game and that can affect us and we didn't let it." After a scoreless first quarter, East scored first on a...
It is easy to look at the success of Notre Dame football and look in the offensive backfield at junior quarterback Anthony Sales and senior running back Julian Schurr. While the talented offense is a key component to the success of the Dons, the defense has been stout this year. Led by senior Anthony Ranallo, the Notre Dame defense has allowed an average of 8.2 points per game this season and let up less than that last week in a 28-7 win over Montini Catholic. Ranallo posted...
Heading into his junior season at Ohio State University, Bolingbrook graduate Tuf Borland is excited for the changes on the horizon. Ryan Day takes over for Urban Meyer as head coach of the Buckeyes and that means a new look on both sides of the football. "Sometimes change is a good thing. You are going to see a lot of guys that are excited to be out there and excited to be playing again and I think our performance will show," Borland said. "There is a lot of expectation here...
After completing her internship at Argo High School at the end of last school year, Kristen Shimko was looking for a job. She went into Morton College in Cicero looking for a position as an academic advisor and ended up landing that position as well as head women's basketball coach. In her first head coaching position, Shimko takes over a Panthers' program that went 16-15 last season. "I am really, really blessed by the opportunity," she said. "I interviewed for the Academic...
Since 2011, Scotty McCreery's career has been one heck of a ride. The now 24-year-old won Season 10 of 'American Idol' at age 16, was dropped from his record label and then debuted his album for his new label at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Charts. The North Carolina native will bring his sound to the Taste of Joliet on Saturday, June 22 when he co-headlines with Cole Swindell. "You can call it co-headlining, but Cole is at that next level of his career. He has had so much...
To say the road has been easy for Mike Foltynewicz would be a lie. The Minooka High School graduate, who had all the scouts buzzing as a senior, did not have a smooth ride once he was drafted in 2010, but while he has faced adversity, Foltynewicz has always kept progressing and that hard work has paid off this season as he was named to the National League All Star team. The game will be played Tuesday night in Washington. He enters the game with a 7-5 record for the Atlanta Braves with a 2.66 ERA and 120 strikeouts. His...
Coming into this season, former Niles West superstar Jewell Loyd had a full list of accolades already in her career. She tallied more than 3,000 points for the Wolves, as a senior at Notre Dame, she was the ACC Player of the Year as well as ESPN women's college basketball player of the Year, she left the Irish after only three seasons, yet still walked away with 1,909 points in her college career, Notre Dame's fifth-highest total ever. After departing the Fighting Irish, Loyd...
To look at Allie Quigley's career over the last two years, it is hard to believe the former Joliet Catholic Academy and DePaul University standout almost walked away from the WNBA. But she did. After being drafted by Seattle with the 22nd pick in the 2008 draft, Quigley bounced around, playing in only 34 games total and was out of the league in 2012. She got the call to play for the Chicago Sky, which was a call that had it come with a different area code may not have gone the same way. "Chicago is my fifth team and when I...
When Notre Dame takes on Montini this week, the Dons will head into the game with an unblemished 5-0 record against a schedule that no team in the state is envious of. Most recently, the Dons defeated St. Patrick 14-0 in a game that spanned two sessions because of a weather postponement on Friday night. On Friday, Notre Dame got its first score of the game when Julian Schurr banged in form two-yards out four minutes into the game. On Saturday, Anthony Sayles found George...
Freemasonry. Just a mention of the fraternity that has roots back as far as the 14th Century or its iconic letter G surrounded by the compass and square brings different thought to the minds of different people. Who exactly are the Freemasons? What do they do? What lies behind the walls of Matteson Lodge No. 175 at 350 N. Midland Ave. in Joliet? Worshipful Master Ed Kerfin wants the community to have a look for themselves. The Matteson Lodge is holding a community day and...
With a half-dozen players back from last season's team, it is surprising the Minooka girls volleyball team was overlooked when the preseason rankings came out. That is because despite a 25-win season, a 25-16, 25-23 loss to Benet Academy in the Oswego East Regional final had those same sceptics calling the 2018 season unsuccessful. "Last year we were 25-12 and have six players returning and people said we didn't have a good season, but we did, we just had to play Benet," said...
First-year Plainfield North football coach Anthony Imbordino is on a three-week run of facing his former teams. And if they all goes as the first one did, the Tigers will be happy. North defeated Romeoville 42-0. Imbordino was an assistant for the Spartans under former head coach Jeff Kuna. Over the next two weeks, the Tigers will travel to Plainfield Central, where Imbordino was a star defensive lineman and Oswego, where he coached just before coming to North. "I try and...
After fours years as head boys soccer coach at Plainfield North, Steve Berry is out. According to North Athletics Director Ron Lear, Berry "resigned for personal reasons" last week. Former Plainfield South boys and girls soccer coach David Brown, who is the Division Chair for English and Social Studies at North, got a call on game day and was asked to take over the program on an interim basis. "Obviously, this is a different situation than I have ever experienced as a coach,...
Respect. Aretha Franklin sang about it, Rodney Dangerfield didn't get any and Niles Notre Dame has deserved it. And after a 28-7 victory over Providence Catholic on Matt Senffner Field inside Bishop Kaffer Stadium in New Lenox, the Dons have earned the right to no longer be overlooked. "We have been itching for that respect for a long time and hopefully after this one we get it because this was a huge win for us," said Notre Dame running back Julian Schurr. "This was great."...
Through its first 11 games of the season, the Benet Academy volleyball team is a perfect 11-0 and it is not because of an easy schedule. The Redwings have already defeated Class 3A and Class 4A state qualifiers in Joliet Catholic Academy and Downers Grove North, respectively. A week ago at North, Benet won 25-21, 25-16 without setter Rachael Muisenga, but Sam Buckley stepped up and contributed 32 assists. "It is always good to have a little adversity and throw a wrinkle in...
lthough both Plainfield Central and Plainfield East have played Southwest Prairie Conference opponents to open the season, under the new configuration of the league, when East visited Central on Homecoming 2019, both teams were playing the openers for the new SPC West. "I had kind of assumed the kids understood the whole conference thing, but after last week when I told them we were 0-0 and starting conference, they were puzzled," East coach Brad Kunz said. "We had to have...