Huntley senior Janiah Slaughter, who went 37-2 and became the first girls wrestler in McHenry County to win an IHSA individual state championship, is the 2026 Northwest Herald Girls Wrestler of the Year.

Northern Illinois University President Lisa Freeman and Vice President/Director of Athletics and Recreation, Sean Frazier, introduced NIU’s new head men’s basketball coach Matt Majkrzak at a press conference today in the Convocation Center at NIU in DeKalb.

Elijah and Malachi Bell are on the move after earning All-Fox Valley Conference honors for Jacobs' basketball team this winter. The brothers plan to transfer to Marian Central, where they will play for their dad, Lafeyette, who's the boys head coach.

Huntley girls basketball coach Steve Raethz is stepping down after 27 seasons and 505 career wins with the Red Raiders.

Woodstock junior basketball player Max Beard announced this week that he will be transferring to Darrow School in New York. The 6-foot-4 guard averaged 16 points and 6 rebounds a game this season in leading the Blue Streaks to the Kishwaukee River Conference championship.

Ten McHenry County basketball players, six girls and four boys, received IBCA All-State honors for the 2025-26 season. Johnsburg's Summer Toussaint received first-team honors in Class 2A.

People crowd along Green Street in McHenry for the ShamROCKS the Fox Parade on Saturday, March 14, 2026.

People enjoy watching as the McHenry's ShamROCKS the Fox dyes the Fox River green on Saturday, March 14, 2026, in McHenry.

Here is the All-Fox Valley Conference boys basketball team for the 2025-26 season, as selected by coaches.