Jeff Plackett, Naperville Central’s head coach of girls water polo, has been chosen for the Illinoi...

  Ed Watson has been the girls varsity soccer coach for the past 26 years. This year, the executive board members chose him as the 60th inductee for the Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association (IHSSCA) Hall of Fame. “[I felt] very honored [to be selected],” Watson said. “A piece of it is being able to lo...

There was no way that mother of three Courtney Rozek was letting her son, Noah, a sixth-grader at Lincoln Junior High School, play football. “A lot of information that’s come out in the past few years has been concerning because it talks about the risk of head injuries,” Rozek said. “[...] We just decided that wa...