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IHSA releases 2019 football
schedules
The Illinois High School Association
released its 2019 football
schedules Wednesday, June
26, including schedules for both
Loyola and New Trier.
The Ramblers are coming off of
an 11-3 season that saw them win
their last eight games after starting
3-3, en route to the state title.
Like last year, Loyola will
face off with New Trier in the
schools’ rekindled rivalry, in
week 2 at Loyola. The schedule
is different for Loyola, however,
because it is the first year of the
Chicago Catholic League/East
Suburban Catholic Conference
merger. So along with tough
games with Mount Carmel, St.
Rita and Brother Rice, the Ramblers
will also face tough ESCC
foes Marist and Benet.
After starting the season with
a tough regional opponent in
St. Ignatius of Cleveland (to be
played in Michigan City, Ind.),
the Ramblers play five home
games to just three natural road
games. They do start with a
tough opening stretch of St. Ignatius
(Cleveland), New Trier,
St. Rita and Mount Carmel in the
season’s first four weeks.
New Trier
Like Loyola, the Trevians will
be breaking in some new players
at key positions, namely quarterback
and running back, after
graduation hit them hard in those
positions.
As mentioned above, the Trevians
get Loyola in the second
week of the season, this year in
Wilmette. That game is followed
up by a game at Barrington,
which is always a traditional
power. Barrington and Conant
are the two Mid-Suburban
League schools New Trier drew
in the annual CSL/MSL crossovers.
After back-to-back road
games at Loyola and Barrington
in weeks 2 and 3, the
Trevians get four of the next
six at home, including Maine
South to end the season and
CSL South newcomer Glenbrook
North in week 8. Week
7 at Evanston will go far in potential
playoff seeding.
2019 schedules
New Trier
Aug. 30 host Lyons, 7 p.m.
Sept. 7 at Loyola, 1:30 p.m.
Sept. 13 at Barrington, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 20 host Conant, 7 p.m.
Sept. 27 at Glenbrook South, 7
p.m.
Oct. 4 host Niles West, 7 p.m.
Oct. 11 at Evanston, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 18 host Glenbrook North, 7
p.m.
Oct. 25 host Maine South, 7 p.m.
Loyola
Aug. 31 vs. St. Ignatius (Cleveland)
(at Michigan City, Ind.), 2
p.m.
Sept. 7 host New Trier, 1:30 p.m.
Sept. 14 host St. Rita, 1:30 p.m.
Sept. 20 at Mount Carmel, 7:30
p.m.
Sept. 27 at St. Ignatius, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 5 host Brother Rice, 1:30
p.m.
Oct. 12 host Benet, 1:30 p.m.
Oct. 18 at Marian Central Catholic,
7 p.m.
Oct. 26 host Marist, 1 p.m.
Novelline, Gridley qualify for
Olympic Trials
New Trier girls swimming rising
sophomore Kaelyn Gridley
hit an Olympic Trials-qualifying
time of 1:10.33 in the 100-meter
breaststroke at a meet June 21-
23. Gridely’s time is top 30 in
the world and the fastest LCM
time in her age group of 14 and
Under.
Fellow rising sophomore
Carly Novelline also qualified
for the Olympic Trials June 28
in the 100-meter freestyle after
finishing with a time of 55.76.
Novelline and Gridley are part
of a talented sophomore class
that helped New Trier take third
at last year’s state finals.
Weaver named Scholar All-
American
Recent New Trier graduate
Logan Weaver was selected
to the United Soccer Coaches
High School Scholar All-America
Team June 27. Weaver was
one of 40 males athletes across
the country to earn the honor
and will play soccer at Northwestern
University starting in
the fall.
New Trier grad to be inducted
into Northwestern Athletic Hall
of Fame
Former New Trier basketball
player Amy Jaeschke will be
inducted into Northwestern University’s
Athletic Hall of Fame,
the school announced June 27.
After a stellar career at
New Trier, Jaeschke played at
Northwestern from 2007-2011,
where she was named to four
All-Big Ten teams, including
two first-team nods, an Honorable
Mention All-America
honor her senior year and a
Wooden Award finalist her senior
season. She still stands
third in program history in
scoring and fourth in rebounding.
Following her Northwestern
career, she was drafted by
the WNBA’s Chicago Sky and
played professionally in China
and Russia.
Bianucci commits to Miami
University (Ohio)
New Trier rising senior and
girls soccer player Heidi Bianucci
committed to Miami University
(Ohio) to play soccer starting
in the fall of 2020. Bianucci,
who was a Team 22 first-team
selection this season, is a threeyear
varsity player who helped
New Trier to its sixth consecutive
final four last month. She
joins teammate Emma Weaver
as a Division I recruit from the
Class of 2020.
Sports briefs are compiled by
Sports Editor Michael Wojtychiw
(m.wojtychiw@22ndcenturymedia.
com).
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have been some of the more successful
ones in recent memory
for the Trevians.
The team won 29 games last
year and 32 the year prior, advancing
all the way to the supersectional
in 2017, one game
short of going downstate for the
opportunity to play for a state
title.
Klise feels as if it was the overall
team mentality that helped
them become so successful.
“I think it was our team in
general,” she said. “Everybody
on the team had the same goal in
mind, and we all wanted to win,
and at the beginning of each season
we all made a list of goals
that we wanted to have, like win
this game, win that game, go this
far in playoffs, and we always
held each other accountable to
those goals, and we also made
personal goals for everybody.
“Everybody made their own
personal goals, and we shared
them with each other, and we
held each and everybody accountable
for those goals.”
As mentioned previously,
Klise will head off to Rhode Island
early in August and plans
to study elementary education.
The idea of going into the field
popped into the middle blocker’s
mind quite early in life.
Kindergarten early.
“It was my first day of school
and my teacher, she literally was
just so fun, and I always remembered,
‘Wow, I want to do that
when I’m older,’ and my mom
was a teacher too,” Klise said.
“So when I went home that day I
was like, ‘Mom, I think I want to
be a teacher,’ and I would make
a school set in my basement, and
I’d always pretend play down
there and teach.
“So every since kindergarten
I’ve always wanted to be a
teacher.”
But before she heads off to
Rhode Island, Klise is working
on bettering her game so she
can get ready for the upcoming
season.
“I’m basically working out
and playing volleyball all the
time because I’m preparing for
the preseason,” she said. “So
when I go to the weight room
every morning, I lift weights,
and sometimes I go play volleyball
after, but I’m playing
volleyball a lot during the week
too.”
Rhode Island’s season
kicks off Aug. 31 against Iona
College as a part of the Army
Tournament.
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had never actually seen her play.
So when she got to campus and
started to play fall ball, that was
really the first time the coaching
staff and anyone at the school had
seen her on the field.
“I was a little scared going into
our first practices just because
our second practice he asked me
to try playing infield for him, and
I was like, ‘Oh, okay. You told me
in our beginning of the year meeting
that you only saw me playing
outfield, but okay, whatever you
want,’” she said. “Once we started
playing together as a team everyone
was very welcoming and
encouraging of everyone on the
team so it made me feel a lot less
nervous.”
After having to earn her teammates’
and coaches’ trust, Conway
feels as if she has improved
greatly, even in just a year.
Caldwell didn’t have as great of a
year as it had hoped, falling short
of an NCAA Tournament appearance,
but this year was a great experience
for Conway.
“I definitely feel like after
playing a year we have a pretty
competitive league that we play
in, but that really helps with my
knowledge of softball, so like
understanding what happens and
what you have to do in certain
situations,” she said. “I think the
main thing for us, because we actually
lost our 11-year streak of
going to regionals, was you can’t
take it for granted. Like you can’t
take, ‘Oh, we’re supposedly one
of the best teams in our league.
We’re going to make regionals no
matter what.’ And that was definitely
like the biggest takeaway
from the season.”