Will Widick is always there to lend a helping hand to his teammates. The stats prove it. Widick, captain of the Rochelle Hubs varsity basketball team is averaging four points per game this year as well as four rebounds per game. But the real story is his team-leading 66 assists. Pair that with 14 steals on the season and you’ve got a recipe for one of the Hubs best all around players.
Widick is the nuts and bolts of the Hubs team. While players like Grant Prusator and Matt Rosenwinkel...
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Jamie Wyatt may not be the Rochelle Lady Hub flashiest player. She may not be the MVP and she may never set a record with the team. And she’s just fine with that.
While many athletes seek that penultimate moment of glory when you sink a winning shot as the buzzer expires or the gripping rush of solidifying your spot in fandom history, Wyatt prefers to be a team player.
It’s kind of expected to be like that when you’re team captain too and that’s why Wyatt is leading the Lady Hu...
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Holly Brown has been working hard over the past couple of years to get her bowling game where she’d like it, and she’s just about there.
Brown, one of 12 female bowlers for the Rochelle Hubs this season, is the anchor of the varsity team. She’s already had one 600 series and has a high game of 255 in the LaSalle tournament, but she’s not completely satisfied with the season yet.
“I’d really like to get another 600 series,” she said.
Brown credits most of her ...
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Logan Sutton never meant for wrestling to be anything more than an extended conditioning drill. As a freshman in high school he weighed in at the 189-pound weight class, and really didn’t take the sport too seriously.
“The funny thing is I was just looking to stay in shape for football,” he said.
But the universe has its own funny way of doing whatever it wants. Sutton kind of surprised himself over the next few years. Winning matches from time to time, adding muscle mass and lea...
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Ben Shank is bucking the old cliche of sophomore slump in his second year with the RTHS Hubs bowling team. Shank, in his second year of the sport, has been making a lot of starts at varsity for the first time this year and plans on holding on to that varsity spot for the remainder of his high school career. Shank started out the season pretty average, but a lot of practice and a lot of consistency has led him to an increase of more than 20 pins on his average. He credits most of his success ...
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Brandon Villa is nothing short of a movie cliche. Take a kid who's never really played organized sports, throw him in a soccer jersey, start him at forward his senior year and just see what happens. Well, if you're Villa, you end up being the leading scorer for the season. Villa led the Hubs boys soccer team with 14 goals this season and helped lead the team to a chance at the regional championship. Villa said he never got much of a chance to play much organized sports because his mom's job ...
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Sarah Glaser never imagined years ago she’d get to play varsity volleyball at the same time as three of her sisters, but she’s certainly not complaining.
“Sometime’s there some sister tension, but not very often,” she joked around. “It’s actually really fun. We really understand each other on the court.”
Glaser, the eldest Glaser in high school teamed up with two of her sisters this year, but it was Sarah who shined in her final year with the Lady Hubs.
“I think ou...
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Rochelle senior Zac Risley was the high school's No. 2 man all year on the golf team this season, but he has no problems with that. For someone who didn't start playing golf until his freshman year of high school, Risley's made leaps and bounds to get to where his golf game is these days. Over the past four seasons Risley has consistently shaved two strokes off his game every year, slicing his average per 9 holes from a lack lustre 51 to an impressive 43 to top off his high school career. What's...
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There’s little doubt Jackie Crystal was the best player on the RTHS women’s golf team this year. It helps that she was the only member of the women’s golf team this year, but that doesn’t mean she just slacked through the season.
Crystal went never playing a round of golf in her life to being the premier women’s player for the last two years.
“My brother got a scholarship for it a few years ago and I thought it’d be fun to play,” she said.
Crystal said she spent her ...
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Emily Plapp is no stranger to long distance running. She’s put her mark on RTHS track for the last three years, but this year’s she’s extending that legacy to cross country for the first time.
The senior runner is making quite a bit of headway during her inaugural year with the long distance runners too.
Plapp said she started the season with runs in the mid to high 22s, but has cut nearly 2 minutes off her runs and is hoping to cut even more over the next three weeks.
“...
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