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Questions & Athletes, Volleyball »

[ 3 Jul 2010 | One Comment | Mark Heller ]
VX Q and A:  Ashli Bellinger

Ashli Bellinger will return for her senior season at Hamilton as a four-year starter and the team’s leading outside hitter. Last week, her club volleyball team finished 12th out of 48 teams at a national Junior Olympic tournament in Reno, Nev., against some of the best high school players in the country. Since then, she recalled an ovation she’d rather have never received and a unique Texas Rangers outfielder she wishes she could be for a day.
Class you dread the most: Physics. I took chemistry last year …

Basketball »

[ 20 May 2010 | No Comments | Mark Heller ]

Pity the Highland Park High School girls basketball team.
They just wanted to get some sun and escape the treacherous Chicago cold in December and come play in the Scottsdale Holiday Invitational. They accumulated their own money to make this trip with fund raisers and donations to play basketball.
Instead, the overzealous and paranoid prevail.
Superintendent George Fornero and assistant Suzan Hebson kiboshed the trip by citing fears over Arizona’s new immigration law and its enforcement.
The only thing public to come out of their explanation is a written statement on the Township High …