Sometimes a single play is more important than the final score. Homewood-Flossmoor flag football trailed Bradley-Bourbonnais 13-0 with only three seconds on the clock in the fourth quarter on Aug. 28. The ball was on the Boilermakers 7-yard line. It was only the second game for the Vikings, who didn’t[Read More…]
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Nesbit, H-F girls volleyball setting a foundation
Homewood-Flossmoor girls volleyball has homework between practices this season. New coach Nate Nesbit asked the Vikings to pick up a copy of The Champion Teammate by Jerry Lynch and John O’Sullivan. They read a chapter at home and then discuss it after practice. The book reflects what he wants H-F[Read More…]
H-F flag football program begins this fall; Vikings invited to Bears training camp
Everything about flag football is new for almost everyone involved. For the coaches, for the players, for Homewood-Flossmoor High School, even for the state, the sport is new. So far, though, Vikings Coach Walter Collins said there’s a lot of enthusiasm around his team. “Everybody saw the need because there’s[Read More…]
Ellis healthy and ready for H-F football: Senior to be an offensive weapon for the new-look Vikings
A major sports injury can sometimes be a bigger hurdle mentally than physically. Myles Ellis made sure that wasn’t the case for him. The Homewood-Flossmoor senior receiver broke his ankle in the final game of his junior season. The setback forced the three-sport athlete to miss all of the last[Read More…]
Newquist new softball coach at Marian Catholic
Ron Newquist has been named head coach of Marian Catholic High School’s softball program. Newquist has more than four decades of experience in youth athletics, including coaching softball and basketball programs in South Chicago Heights and Steger; leadership roles as president and coach of the OTYA Softball League; and athletic[Read More…]
Marian Catholic’s new basketball coach was star player
Marian Catholic High School has named John Oliver as its new men’s basketball head coach. A 2014 Marian Catholic alumnus, Oliver takes over after two seasons as a varsity assistant under coach Rick Romeli. Together they led the Marian Spartans to a 48-19 record and back-to-back IHSA regional titles. Oliver[Read More…]
A new era of H-F football begins under McAllister
Things are a little bit different around the Homewood-Flossmoor football program. Troy McAllister is in his first season at the helm of the Vikings’ longship so the aim this summer was to lay the foundation for a program that wasn’t in a bad place, he said, but needs to be[Read More…]
Fencing opens ‘whole world’ for H-F grad Rone
Tosan Rone didn’t grow up in fencing. It’s not a sport most kids in the South Suburbs dream about, but after almost a decade in the sport, the 2018 Homewood-Flossmoor High School graduate is having international success. When he was a sophomore in high school, a friend convinced him to[Read More…]
H-F wrestling to host invite for girls and boys
Homewood-Flossmoor High School wrestling will host its second-annual invitational tournament July 19. This time it’ll be open to both girls and boys. The girls program started the invite a year ago. Vikings girls coach Scott Aronson said boys coach Jim Sokoloski asked to include boys this summer. Later, they decided[Read More…]
José Correa’s joy, enthusiasm earn him 2025 Jarrett Rowe Award
When José Correa Jr. was announced as the 2025 recipient of the Flossmoor Baseball and Softball Jarrett Rowe Award on June 24, he received two tokens representing the honor. One was a trophy. The other was a rainbow, courtesy of a brief shower that popped up just as the ceremony[Read More…]
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