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26 | October 13, 2016 | The highland park landmark sports hplandmark.com Athlete of the Week 10 Questions with Julia Shafir Shafir is a sophomore on the Highland Park High School girls golf team. We’re pros at treating professional athletes. Current and future. At NorthShore, we’re the official healthcare partner of the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Blackhawks. Our sports medicine experts help keep everyone in top form, from professionals and competitive amateurs to young athletes and weekend warriors. Congratulations to this week’s Athlete of the Week. We’re pleased to be a sponsor of this program. Vote for Athlete of the Month Help support young athletes. Cast your vote October 10–25. Visit: hplandmark.com Advertise your RENTAL PROPERTY in the newspaper people turn to first CALL US TODAY: 708.326.9170 www.22ndcenturymedia.com Walk-in Clinics Monday to Friday 9am–4pm Saturday 8am–11am (847) 6-SPORTS northshore.org/sports How long have you been golfing and how did you get started with it? I started golfing when I was around 10 and I started getting serious about it maybe two years ago. I’ve started to really love it these last few years after playing with a group and having an actual pro guide me through in Chris Oehlerking of The Golf Practice. What’s the most challenging shot for you to hit? I’ve been working on my driver for maybe a year and a half and it’s just been a constant struggle with that, but I’m starting to get there and it’s getting better for sure. What do you usually have to eat before a meet? Coach (Cathy Nachman) usually brings all of these different energy bars and candy so I just munch on Oreos all the time. The sugar definitely helps me. What is your favorite club to play with? 6-Iron, for sure. I feel super confident with it every time I use it. If I hit my 7, it’s faulty. I’ve always felt confident with it. Do you have a favorite course you’ve played anywhere? I think my favorite course might be Crane’s Landing Golf Course (Lincolnshire). If you could have any superpower, what would you choose? Maybe to fly, that’s pretty awesome. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why? Greece. I’ve been to Russia and have 22nd Century Media File Photo family that lives there but with Greece, every picture I’ve seen, every video I’ve seen, it looks beautiful. What music is on your go-to playlist right now before a meet? It’s usually a mix of pop and alternative like Twenty One Pilots. I also listened to Panic at the Disco for a while now and have seen them in concert, they were incredible. Fall Out Boy, just really any pump up music. What’s the best coaching advice you’ve ever received? Mentally, what (Oehlerking) has told me is that you just have to move through each shot and block out the last one and pretend it didn’t happen if it was a bad shot. If it was a good shot, obviously celebrate it but never let it get to your head. What’s the best part of being a golfer at <strong>HP</strong>HS? The best part about playing golf is that you have to know what you’re doing; you have to know every step in your swing, you have to know everything to accomplish what you’re trying to achieve. It’s nice to be a part of something, being part of something greater, even though it is an individual sport, it’s a team sport as well. I think it’s just a great sport and it’s nice to be part of it, for sure. Interview by Sports Editor Derek Wolff
hplandmark.com sports the highland park landmark | October 13, 2016 | 27 high school highlights The rest of the week in high school sports Boys Hockey Highland Park 3, Evanston 2 The Giants got off the schneid with their first win of the year, besting Evanston by a final score of 3-2 at Robert Crown Ice Arena in Evanston on Oct. 5. Defenseman Jeff Ransom broke the deadlock for Highland Park midway through the first period, with Ryan Genender and Aaron Hope registering assists. After Evanston tied things at 1-1 early in the second period, Gabe Schlussel gave the Giants the lead back after a nice feed from Noah Gordon behind the net allowed him to convert on a wraparound goal. Captain Jake Mandel extended the lead to 3-1 late in the second period after a pass from Michael Gallo. The Wildkits cut the deficit to 3-2 in the third but the Giants held them off. Highland Park outshot Evanston, 44-26, in the win. HIRE LOCALLY Reach over 83% of prospective employees in your area! CALL TODAY FOR RATES & INFORMATION 708-326-9170 www.22ndcenturymedia.com golf From Page 31 including a back-nine 42 after largely abandoning her driver on the final nine holes. Erin Shalala (88), Isabella Martino (89) and Green also factored into the scroing for Lake Forest. Ultimately it wasn’t the best day for Lake Forest No. 2 player Julia Loginhov, but her fifth best 98 for the Scouts was enough to win the tiebreaker with Highland Park, which qualified Lake Forest through to sectionals as a team. With four sophomores gradually improving throughout the year and led by Benjakul, Scouts coach Steve Johnson felt the team had a strong chance to advance heading into play Wednesday morning. “We had to have a great day today from everybody, one through six and it was our depth that really paid off,” Johnson said. “Clare Green had her best round of the year. Everybody came to play and peaked at the right time so it was a good team place.” Apart from Barrington, Buffalo Grove and Lake Forest, the next 10 best indiviudal scorers also qualified for sectionals, meaning Nicole Berardi, Kovitz and Shafir all advanced. Placing three individuals offered Giants coach Cathy Nachman some measure of solace. “It’s really been a fourhorse team the whole season and it wasn’t a good day for one of them and that’s how it goes,” Nachman said. “The three of them deserve to move on and we’ll just focus on that.” For Nicole Berardi, sectionals means another chance to qualify for state, while for Kovitz it’ll be Sydney Kirsch watches her shot on the fairway during an IHSA Regional from Deerpath Golf Course in Lake Forest on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Mirek Pomian/22nd Century Media her second-straight apperance. The experience will perhaps be most beneficial to Shafir, Nachman said. “I think that is a really big step and Julia has really made that jump this year. It’s good because Nicole gets another shot at it and Lexi has more experience now, so it’s OK. Hopefully (the regional result) will just make them all hungrier.” The Giants won the Central Suburban League’s northern division this season and played well in dual meets all season, prompting some dissapointment with the regional result. But Nachman has witnessed too much golf through the years to be bitter about one missed putt or a drive that landed in a sand trap, anything that could have affected the team score enough to see the entire Highland Park team progress through to the next round. “That’s the beauty of this game, it’s the same for everyone, so you can’t beat yourself up,” she said. “Today isn’t an indication of what we accomplished throughout the whole season, it’s just not. Tomorrow is a new day.” As Lake Forest’s No. 1 player, Benjakul had high hopes for herself and her teammates coming into the meet thanks to fair weather. She praised the total team mentality the Scouts have embraced throughout the season. “I’m so proud of our team; it was definitely a team effort day,” Benjakul said. “Everyone played so well and special shoutout to Clare Green because this is the best she’s ever played and I was really proud of her that she was in the 80s. Everyone else played really well too.” Barrington’s 309 tied for second best of the 16 Illinois teams to win a regional held on Oct. 5, while both Lake Forest and Highland Park’s team scores would have tied for first at the Plainfield North regional and would have won the Mundelein (Carmel) regional. Both the Scouts and Giants representatives competed at the Buffalo Grove sectional on Monday, Oct. 10, though results were not complete as of press time. Heading into the meet, Johnson expressed confidence in his team. “I think it’s going to be a great learning experience,” Johnson said. “For all of the sophomores it will be their first time at sectionals so if nothing else it will be great experience for the next two years for them. With Lena leading us, I think we have a chance. We’re a good team, a deep team so we’ll have as good a chance as anyone.”
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