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Sports Briefs
New Trier graduate
qualifies for U.S. National
Kettlebell Lifting Team
On May
5, New Trier
graduate Andrew
Bora
placed first in
Men’s Long
Cycle, more
commonly known as clean
and jerk, by completing 55
reps with two 62 pound
kettlebells. This qualified
him for a spot on the U.S.
National Kettlebell Lifting
Team to represent the USA
at the global level October
10-15 in Daugavpils, Latvia.
This is Bora’s second
year in a row qualifying for
Team USA. At last year’s
U.S. Nationals, Bora took
third place
This will be Bora’s first
time traveling to Europe,
as last year’s World Championships
were in South
Korea and he says “I can
promise to go 110% every
single day, every single
play to bring the absolute
best package to the table to
represent Glencoe and our
country for the 2018 World
Championship .
Football schedules released
The IHSA released the
schedules for all of its high
school football teams for
the upcoming season, including
the ones for both
Loyola and New Trier.
Loyola academy
The Ramblers will be
looking to make their
fourth consecutive trip to
the state title game but it
will be a bit more difficult
for the Wilmette school,
which only hosts three
home games this season.
Loyola opens the regular
season with trips to Rockford
Mich.) on Aug. 24
and then a neighborhood
battle with New Trier
Aug. 31.
A home game against
Mount Carmel is followed
by trips to Brother Rice and
St. Ignatius. The Ramblers
then welcome new Catholic
League Blue member
Montini to Wilmette Sept.
29, before traveling to De
La Salle and St. Rita and
finishing the regular season
by hosting Providence.
new trier
New Trier has four home
games this season, highlighted
by the Week 2 battle
with the Ramblers and
a home date with Evanston
Sept. 28. The Trevians will
be looking to get revenge
on Loyola after it knocked
New Trier out of the state
playoffs in the first round,
35-32. Other home games
include Fremd and Glenbrook
South, which is the
team’s regular season finale.
The road schedule is
tricky, as the Trevians start
the year on the road at York
and then face a stretch of
four road games in five
weeks, including matchups
with Palatine on Sept.
7 and Maine South Oct. 12
Swimming All-Americans
The National Interscholastic
Swim Coaches Association
named its All-
Americans and New Trier
and Loyola were well-represented.
New Trier’s All-Americans
included: the 200-
yard medley relay team of
Patrick Gridley, Charlie
Scheinfeld, Ryan Gridley
and Pearce Bailey;
Scheinfeld and Patrick
Gridley in the 200-yard
individual medley; Ryan
Gridley in the 100-yard
freestyle; Ryan Gridley,
Nick Torre, Pierson Ohr
and Bailey in the 200-yard
freestyle relay; Patrick
Gridley in the 100-yard
backstroke; Scheinfeld
(nation’s second-fastest
time) in the 100-yard
breaststroke; the Gridleys,
Scheinfeld and Ean Vandergraaf
in the 400-yard
freestyle relay; Vivian
Wu, Kasey Venn, Audrey
Richardson and Joelle Ohr
in the 200-yard medley
relay; diver Jessie Creed;
and Ohr, Emma Eldring,
Olivia Lantry and Sophia
Girgenti in the 200-yard
freestyle relay.
Loyola’s All-Americans
were Luke Maurer
in the 200-, 50- and 100-
yard freestyles; Shannon
Kearney, Allison Mulvey,
Margaret Guanci and
Cassidy Coughlin in the
medley relay; and Kearney
in the 100-yard backstroke.
SMITH
From Page 45
I could run on it and I could
train on it and it wasn’t going
to hurt it anymore but
it would have flare ups and
just be really, really painful,”
she said.
“ It took honestly probably
a year to finally really
reduce the symptoms. To
this day I still feel lingering
effects of it sometimes but
that was kind of honestly
one of the worst injuries
I’ve ever had.”
By the end of her junior
year of cross-country
though, she said she was
back to 100 percent and
will be a two-time captain
this season. Her goals, other
than making it to physical
therapy school are actually
pretty understandable.
“For cross-country the
number one goal that I have
for our team is we really
want to make nationals.”
she said. “The ultimate goal
is in senior year, just go for
it and try to get a spot for
the 10K at (track) nationals
because I think that’s where
I’m strongest in.”
BOYLE
From Page 45
secutive state title games,
something that very few
players are able to accomplish.
That’s something
that isn’t lost on him.
“It starts, No. 1, with
our coaching,” he said.
“Not even in the in-season,
also in the offseason,
we have a great strength
coach who gets us prepared,
nutrition-wise, gets
us healthy. Great trainers
that do really, really well.
And then obviously our
coaches on the field who
are the smartest coaches
in the state, who know exactly
what they’re doing.
“And then, just players.
Just living up to the
expectations of getting to
that state championship is
kind of what it is now. You
have an expectation to not
only get there, but also
win. There’s just a lot of
expectations when you’re
a varsity football player at
Loyola Academy. I think
that, combined with the
unreal coaching and expectation
that they have
for us is second to none.
That’s why we’re always
so successful.”
Boyle, who had previously
considered himself
a pocket-passer style
quarterback, became more
of a weapon on the ground
last season, leading the
Ramblers in rushing on
the season with more
than 800 yards and seven
touchdowns.
Due to a couple injuries
throughout the season,
Boyle became more lethal
on the ground, often times
leading Loyola in rushing
and always using his legs
to get him out of trouble.
“The offseason going
into my senior year,
I worked on getting a lot
faster,” he said. “Working
on my running ability.
And I knew if I was able
to add that component to
my game, then I’d be a
lot harder for defenses to
stop.
“I’ve kind of mostly
been a pocket passer, most
of the time. I’ve used my
legs occasionally, in the
past. But I think it’s more
of a mentality, of just,
having that chip on your
shoulder. Not being scared
of anyone, not letting anyone
intimidate you. That’s
kind of the mentality I had
senior year. I think that
helped me come off as
more of a dual threat than
I actually was.”
Boyle will join multiple
teammates when
he gets to St. Thomas
later this summer as rising
senior defensive back
Mark Dowdle, and fellow
incoming freshmen,
defensive linemen John
McMahon and linebacker
Anthony Rodriguez, will
also be calling Minnesota
home.
“It’s definitely nice, being
able to know people,”
he said. “It doesn’t feel
like I’m going away from
home as much as it would,
had it been knowing no
one there.
“It’s also nice that I’ll
have some buddies on the
football team. I’ll have
older guys to look up to
and get used to it. It’s going
to make it that much
more comfortable, that
much more easy.”
DRURY
From Page 46
Ted Drury said most
people consider her the
better athlete of the two
of them. And even when
their son was away in
Iowa playing in the United
States Hockey League,
she still provided guidance
both as a mother and
as an athlete, Ted Drury
said.
“His mom has done an
incredible amount of work
over the last 10 years just
driving him all around
Chicago for hockey and
being there for him when
he was away from home,”
Ted Drury said. “In a lot
of different ways, she was
very instrumental in helping
Jack.”
That love and support
will continue as Jack
Drury heads to Harvard
this fall.
Jack Drury, a Winnetka
resident, hopes his patience
on the ice, and not
forcing plays, is a skill
that will translate well at
both the collegiate level
and at the professional
level with the Hurricanes.
“I think when the game
speeds up, and everyone is
getting better, I think what
separates the good players
from the great players is
kind of that intelligence and
knowing where to be on the
ice,” Jack Drury said.
The next few years will
be crucial for the young
Drury, and he knows that
his hard work can’t stop
when he skates on the ice
at Harvard. And like every
other collegiate-level
player in his position,
Jack Drury wants to get
bigger, stronger and faster
over the next few seasons.
Specifically, though, he
wants to perfect the first
three steps of his stride
and make his shot a little
harder on the release.
“If you want to make
the NHL, you have to be
willing to sacrifice a lot,”
he said. “You have to be
willing to work your tail
off every single day. [Professional]
sports is a business,
and if you want to
have a job on a daily basis
you have to earn it every
single day.”