The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District’s Coyote Run Golf Course in Flossmoor set a record in 2024 with 40,261 rounds of golf played. That is a 6.4% increase over 2023, according to Tom Denklau, course manager. The golf season stretched from Feb. 3 to Dec. 30. Denklau said the course was open[Read More…]
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H-F High wrestlers read to kids for MLK Day
For the third year, the Homewood-Flossmoor High School wrestling team invited children to a Readers are Leaders event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The team also collected books to share, swap or donate to local organizations. The wrestlers spent their morning off school for the holiday reading stories to[Read More…]
Spectators are welcome Monday for curling competition
If you’ve ever thought about being on the ice enjoying a game that doesn’t require ice skates, curling is for you. See this Olympic sport up close and personal on Monday, Jan. 27, when a friendly competition between two teams happens at the H-F Ice Arena, 777 Kedzie Ave. Spectators[Read More…]
Taylor, host H-F escape Joliet West in MLK Invite
It’s somebody different almost every night for Homewood-Flossmoor High School boys basketball. For the final game of the Vikings’ home MLK “The Dream Continues” invitational against Joliet West, it was Brent Taylor. With H-F down by two points and less than 10 seconds remaining, he didn’t give up on a[Read More…]
Homewood-Flossmoor hires McAllister as football coach, promotes Nesbit to head girls volleyball coach
Troy McAllister is the new head football coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School after the District 233 school board approved the hire Tuesday. McAllister comes to the Vikings from SouthWest Suburban Conference rival Sandburg, where he was 19-20 over the last four seasons and qualified for the postseason three times. The[Read More…]
H-F boys wrestling ready for postseason after challenging slate
The Homewood-Flossmoor High School boys wrestling team isn’t interested in easy. The Vikings put together a schedule as difficult as almost any high school in the country. The downhill portion of that included the home Mega Duals Jan. 18, in which H-F won all three of its team events. It[Read More…]
H-F, Dismukes will not cage freshman ‘lion’ Hawkins
Lions don’t belong in a cage. That’s how Homewood-Flossmoor boys basketball coach Jamere Dismukes describes his handling of talented freshman guard Darrius Hawkins. The ninth grader is self-assured. Right now that can sometimes lead to mistakes, but Dismukes is careful not to bottle that. “We’re not going to hurt his[Read More…]
Hart girls hoops teams make runs to state
Both the seventh and eighth grade girls basketball teams from James Hart Middle School advanced to the state finals bracket in early December. The eighth grade Panthers finished 16-10, advancing to the third-place game in Class 4A. They beat Phoenix Coolidge and Harvey Brooks, then won 34-29 over Markham Prairie-Hills[Read More…]
Marian Catholic’s fencers winning honors in meets
The fencing team at Marian Catholic High School has been having success at various meets this season bringing home gold medals and other honors. During a meet Nov. 9, Brazil McGruder, a junior, won the gold medal in women’s sabre at the DHP JV Individual Meet at Highland Park High[Read More…]
H-F football sees three ink to play in college
Cameron Brooks and Jarve Bey Jr. knew this day would come when they were playing together as kids. The Homewood-Flossmoor High School defensive linemen officially signed to play college football on Dec. 18 in the school’s auditorium. It’s the culmination of a decade or so playing together. “(Brooks) used to[Read More…]
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