Yorkville Christian senior Payton Wallin, who averaged 19 points per game as the Mustangs went 3-0 to win the Wheaton Academy Thanksgiving Tournament, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is her Q&A with Sports Editor Joshua Welge.

Thanks to a third-quarter offensive outburst led by Jadyn Long, Plano turned a back-and-forth battle with Sandwich into a no-doubt victory on Tuesday.

Aubrey Lamberti scored Oswego East's first seven points and finished with a game-high 25 points to go with 10 rebounds, leading the Wolves past Downers Grove South 60-40 at the York Thanksgiving Tournament for their first win of the season.

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Here are Gary Duncan's photos from Thursday's game between Downers Grove South and Oswego East at the York Thanksgiving Tournament.

As the 2025-2026 girls basketball season tips off this week, here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Six girls basketball teams got their seasons underway at the Reed-Custer Comet Classic on Monday, with Reed-Custer, Kankakee and Wilmington getting off to a 1-0 start on the year.

The 2025-2026 girls basketball season tips off this week. Here are five players to watch in the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Venita Parsons, a 2014 Oswego East graduate and the first player in that school’s girls basketball history to score 1,000 career points, has been hired as the next girls basketball coach at Oswego High School. Parsons was previously the Oswego head freshman coach for one season.

Here is the 2024-2025 Record Newspapers All-Area girls basketball team.