Jaeda Murphy is a point guard’s point guard. The diminutive Homewood-Flossmoor junior is a pass-first, defend-the-perimeter, make-things-happen sort of player who says she always thinks about the team before herself. “Coming into the season, I didn’t really have any goals set for me. I was just coming out here to[Read More…]
Author: David P. Funk
Homewood teen hits bombs in national home run derby
They used to call Jhames Holley III “Little Hurt” with a nod to former Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas, who was known as the “Big Hurt.” He eventually grew too big for any moniker with the world “little” in it, so now they call the Homewood 13-year-old “Hurtcules.” Whatever[Read More…]
H-F’s Robinson brothers win at Powerade wrestling tourney
Homewood-Flossmoor High School wrestling’s Robinson brothers each brought home first-place finishes from the well-respected Powerade tournament in Pennsylvania this week. Jaydon Robinson, a junior, was coming off disappointing finishes at the last two major tournaments he wrestled in Ohio and Indiana. He won the 145-pound division at Powerade, topping Cameron[Read More…]
Football, baseball highlight slate of college signings for H-F
Homewood-Flossmoor High School saw another crop of future college athletes sign to move on to the next level with a ceremony in the school’s auditorium on the NCAA’s national signing day, Dec. 21. “What a great way to start the holiday season,” Athletic Director Matthew Lyke told the student athletes[Read More…]
Robinson pushing past disappointment for H-F wrestling
Winning third place at the Carnahan Invitational is a reason for a lot of wrestlers to celebrate. The Crown Point, Indiana, wrestling tournament has become one of the more respected high school events in the Great Lakes region in recent years. Homewood-Flossmoor’s Jaydon Robinson wasn’t happy with that Dec. 17[Read More…]
H-F wrestler Johnson aims for a big finish to senior season
There’s only one way Deion Johnson sees himself smiling in February. “It’s my last season. I need to win a state title,” the Homewood-Flossmoor senior said. Johnson, who wrestles at 113 pounds for the Vikings, seems to be headed in the right direction to accomplish that goal. He boasted a[Read More…]
Prairie State men’s soccer wins national title
Prairie State coach Carlos Reyes talked to his team before the NJCAA Division II men’s soccer national championship match against Morton College in Arizona. The Panthers beat Reyes’s Pioneers twice during the regular season, first when they were in a position to win an Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference championship and[Read More…]
H-F senior Schoen highlights fall season for Vikings
Caroline Schoen didn’t finish her high school cross country career quite like she’d hoped but the Homewood-Flossmoor senior still graduates as a two-time state qualifier with a running resume full of first-place finishes. She finished 42nd in the Class 3A state meet, crossing the finish line in 18 minutes, 37[Read More…]
Baker’s dozen from H-F sign to play sports in college
Homewood-Flossmoor High School got back to normal in a big way on Nov. 9, holding a college signing ceremony for 13 Vikings athletes in the school’s auditorium. It’s the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 that the school held the ceremony in such a big way. During the[Read More…]
Homewood teen to be honored at World Series
It couldn’t have worked out better for 14-year-old Demi Chaney, but she earned it. The Homewood resident will leave for Houston Friday at the invitation of Major League Baseball. Chaney was chosen as the MVP of MLB’s Girls Baseball Trailblazers series in April in Vero Beach, Fla., so the league[Read More…]
