The resolution honoring Dr. Jeff Schutt as Kendall County Citizen of the Year notes that he has dedicated “more than 20 years to coaching high school teams, instilling discipline, teamwork and perseverance in student-athletes.”

The 2024 girls volleyball season starts this week. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

The 2023-2024 wrestling season is underway. Here are Chris Walker’s previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Yorkville softball earned a No. 1 sectional seed while Oswego and Oswego East softball and Oswego and Oswego East baseball received top five seeds in playoffs seeds and pairings released by the IHSA this week.

Yorkville softball won two games at a quadrangular in Pontiac, Aubriella Garza struck out seven in Oswego softball's shutout of Morris, Grace Allgood struck out 17 in Yorkville Christian softball's win, Sandwich baseball and softball won, and boys track was third at Hub Relays.

Oswego East senior pitcher Griffin Sleyko is rediscovering a love of the game after a strong start to the season, 20 strikeouts over his last three starts. That, Yorkville's Kam Yearsley on hitting tear and Cody Hazzard's dazzling start for Yorkville Christian in baseball notes.

The 2023 boys track and field season is underway. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

The 2023 high school baseball season starts this week. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

The full-time Summer INTERnship will be June through August and is designed to give students experience in areas of IT, including software engineering, cybersecurity, project management, user experience, personal computing and data analytics.

Ben Alvarez knows about losing in overtime in the state tournament. On Saturday, he made sure it didn’t happen on the biggest stage. Alvarez knocked off Kai Calcutt of Loyola to claim the Class 3A 220-pound title, winning 3-2 in the ultimate tiebreaker.

David Douglas Jr. had the third triple-double in school history with 30 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists and sophomores Brady Sovern and Zach Marini combined to hit nine of Yorkville Christian's 15 3-pointers in a 75-48 win over Fenger in a Class 1A regional quarterfinal.

Yorkville Christian junior Ty Edwards missed all of last season with a torn meniscus in both knees while his team won the program's state title – but now the No. 2-ranked 120-pounder is back and on a mission to make his own mark in Champaign, leading the area's state qualifiers.

At the Class 1A Oregon Sectional on Saturday, Yorkville Christian – ranked No. 2 in the state – sent six wrestlers through to the IHSA Individual State Tournament next weekend in Champaign, led by 120-pound champion Ty Edwards.

Jack Ferguson's earliest memories of wrestling were of wrestling older brother Cole in the family basement – and now the Yorkville sophomore is handing out the beatings and intent on returning to Champaign. That, plus Yorkville Christian at loaded sectional in wrestling notes.

Defending state champion Yorkville Christian crowned seven regional champs to take the Class 1A Plano Regional title, while Will Hupke highlighted four regional champs for team runner-up Wheaton Academy with host Plano third and Sandwich fourth.

Yorkville wrestling topped Oswego to clinch the Southwest Prairie Conference title, David Douglas Jr. scored his 1,000th career point in a Yorkville Christian win, and Yorkville and Yorkville Christian girls basketball both won in Thursday's roundup.

Yorkville Christian senior David Douglas Jr. continues a huge season with a record 56-point night in an overtime win, Bryce Salek steps up for Yorkville off the bench in big win over Romeoville, plus Yorkville and Oswego East at upcoming shootouts in boys basketball notes.

Mekhi Lowery scored 17 points and Ryan Johnson 15 to lead Oswego East past Plainfield Central, Desiree Merritt scored 14 points to pace Oswego East's girls past Plainfield Central and Danielle Bulson scored 17 in Yorkville Christian's win in Tuesday's roundup.

LeBaron Lee's double-double led Yorkville past Naperville North in its final game at the Jack Tosh Holiday Classic, Yorkville Christian and Sandwich won games at the Plano Christmas Classic, and Yorkville's girls team went 1-1 at the Rockford Boylan Tournament.

David Douglas Jr. scored 38 points and was a perfect 18 for 18 at the free-throw line with the go-ahead shots with 43.8 seconds, as Yorkville Christian overcame a blown double-digit lead for a 54-51 win over Sandwich in the first round of the 59th Plano Christmas Classic.

Mekhi Lowery and Bryce Shoto each scored 14 points as Oswego East rallied past Lincoln-Way Central in the first round of the Hinsdale Central Holiday Classic, and Grace Allgood scored 20 points to pace Yorkville Christian past Henry at Earlville.

From state titles in basketball, wrestling and track and field, record-setting seasons, a four-overtime football playoff game and a local baseball player being drafted by the White Sox, here are the top sports stories of 2022 in the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Yorkville Christian sophomore Danielle Bulson, who scored 30 points and grabbed 21 rebounds in the Mustangs' win over Islamic Foundation High School, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is her Q&A with Joshua Welge.

Austin Mattingly scored 33 points with the tying 3-pointer in the final seconds of regulation to force overtime, and Putnam County beat Yorkville Christian 75-69 in overtime in a rematch of last year's sectional final on Wednesday in Yorkville.

Sandwich wrestling won duals with Plano and St. Bede, Yorkville wrestling beat Oswego East in a dual meet, Oswego wrestling dropped a close dual to West Aurora and Oswego East bowling results in Thursday's prep sports roundup.

David Douglas Jr. scored 41 points for Yorkville Christian in a loss to Neuqua Valley, Yorkville rolled past IMSA, Sandwich lost in overtime to Serena, plus Oswego East bowling results in Tuesday's roundup.

Lainey Gussman's 3-pointer with 20 seconds left gave Yorkville a win over Ottawa, LeBaron Lee scored 23 points to lead the Foxes' boys team past South Elgin, Oswego and Yorkville wrestling both went 3-0 in duals and Sandwich and Yorkville Christian lost close ones on Saturday.

Yorkville Christian won seven individual championships, beating runner-up Oregon in four title matches, to win its third consecutive Reaper Classic title on Saturday at Plano.

Jason Jakstys scored a game-high 12 points to lead Yorkville basketball past Minooka, and David Douglas Jr. scored 33 in Yorkville Christian's two-point loss to Peoria Notre Dame in Friday's roundup.

Winners of five straight games, Sandwich is well on its way to quite a turnaround season – and the Indians are thinking big, perhaps their first regional title in 30 years. That, and David Douglas' huge week for Yorkville Christian in Joshua Welge's boys basketball notes.

Yorkville Christian senior David Douglas, who scored 51 points, matching a school record, in a game against Lake Forest Academy and scored 37 points in a win over Westmont, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is his Q&A with Joshua Welge.

Yorkville Christian's David Douglas Jr. tied a school record with 51 points in an overtime loss, Yorkville beat Plano to stay unbeaten on the season, Sandwich boys basketball won again and Lincoln-Way East handed Oswego East its first loss in Saturday's roundup.

Jory Boley scored 18 points and LeBaron Lee 14 as Yorkville beat West Aurora to stay unbeaten, Ryan Johnson's 16 points paced Oswego East to a win at Minooka, Sandwich boys basketball beat Sycamore and Danielle Bulson's 34 points led Yorkville Christian to an overtime win.

The 2022-2023 wrestling season is underway, and here are Joshua Welge's previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Mekhi Lowery had 12 points and 11 rebounds and Jehvion Starwood 14 points to lead Oswego East past West Aurora, Oswego boys basketball beat Minooka in its conference opener, Danielle Bulson scored 27 to lead Yorkville Christian to a win and more in Tuesday's roundup.

Jason Jakstys led three Yorkville players in double figures with 16 points in a season-opening win, Zach Carlson had 15 points to pace a Newark win, Oswego East won to advance to the Hoops for Healing championship and Sandwich and Oswego wrestling earned two dual wins.

Here is the 2022 Record Newspapers All-Area girls volleyball team.

Mikayla Walls had 18 points and 10 rebounds to lead Plano girls basketball past Yorkville Christian, and West Aurora boys basketball held off Oswego in Monday's prep sports roundup.

The boys basketball season tips off this week. Here are five boys basketball players to watch in the Record Newspapers area during the 2022-23 season.

With the 2022-2023 boys basketball season set to tip off this week, here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Oswego East's girls basketball dropped its final game to St. Charles East at the York Thanksgiving Tournament, Parkview Christian girls basketball rolled to a big win and the Parkview boys and Yorkville Christian girls came up short in Friday's roundup of prep sports events.

With the girls basketball season set to tip off this week, here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area for the 2022-23 season

Here is a list of athletes in the Record Newspapers coverage area scheduled to sign their national letter of intent on Wednesday's national signing day, or later this week.

Yorkville Christian has been ruled ineligible for the IHSA volleyball playoffs for exceeding the limit of 35 regular-season matches in the regular season. The IHSA notified Yorkville Christian of its ruling in a letter sent to the athletic office on Friday.

Yorkville Christian junior Chloe Saxe, who had 38 kills, 46 digs, two aces, one block and two assists over five matches as the Mustangs took second at the Plano Invitational, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is her Q&A with Joshua Welge.

Sandwich's Sunny Weber took second place individually and Sandwich's girls and boys teams both placed third at the Interstate 8 Conference cross country meet, and Yorkville Christian volleyball took second place at the Plano Invite in Saturday's prep sports roundup.

Yorkville Christian's volleyball team turned the tables on a pool play loss to Aurora Central Catholic by beating the Chargers 25-17, 25-21 to win the Sandwich Invitational title. The host Indians were third, Reed-Custer fourth and Serena fifth in the eight-team event.

Oswego volleyball outlasted Yorkville in three sets, Newark volleyball won to remained unbeaten, Kayden Page scored two goals, including the game-winner for Sandwich soccer and Oswego Co-Op girls golf was a winner in Thursday's prep sports roundup.

Newark volleyball won the championship of the Manteno Earlybird Tournament, Yorkville Christian was third, and Yorkville was fifth and Sandwich was eighth at the Joliet Central Tournament while Plano soccer's Christ Keleba had a hat trick in Friday and Saturday's sports roundup.

The boys cross country season is underway. Here are team-by-team previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.