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The Varsity: North Shore Podcast
Guys recap second week of football
Staff Report
GBN
From Page 54
row, putting the Spartans
in Saint Patrick territory.
Buckner then completed
an 18-yard pass to tight end
Drayton Charlton-Perrin.
The Spartans finished
their first touchdown drive
of the game with a 1-yard
quarterback keeper from
Bucker, giving North a
10-7 lead.
The teams next traded
unsuccessful drives, each
going three-and-out.
Saint Patrick started its
next drive at North’s 36-
yard line and capitalized on
the good field position by
scoring on just three plays.
The Shamrocks offense
lost yards on a pair of runs
to start the drive but produced
a 39-yard score on
third-and-13, giving them a
13-10 lead.
North closed out the first
half with a six-play scoring
drive that was capped off
by an 8-yard touchdown
run from senior Mike Ciss,
giving the Spartans a 16-13
halftime lead.
The drive was spearheaded
by a pair of Buckner-Koulogeorge
connections
in the passing game.
GBN started the second
In this week’s episode of
The Varsity: North Shore,
the only podcast focused
on North Shore sports,
hosts Michal Dwojak,
Nick Frazier and Michael
Wojtychiw recap the second
week of football. They
recap each of the area
team’s games, are joined
by Glenbrook North head
football coach Matt Purdy,
play Way/No Way, preview
next week’s action
and talk some field hockey
to finish the episode.
First Quarter
The three recap the second
week of action.
Second Quarter
Spartans coach Purdy
joins the guys to talk
about the second game
against St. Patrick.
Third Quarter
half with a five-minute,
eight-play drive that ended
with a 29-yard field goal
from Cosentino.
The Shamrocks appeared
to have the makings of
scoring drive of their own
— but senior Ben Foster
intercepted a pass on the
eighth play of the drive to
end the threat.
The Spartans next produced
an explosive sevenplay,
68-yard touchdown
drive to give them their
biggest lead of the game.
A 41-yard gain from
Ciss on a screen pass from
Buckner set the Spartans
up inside Saint Patrick’s
territory. Buckner finished
the drive with his second
1-yard touchdown run of
the game.
Buckner then found a
wide-open Charlton-Perrin
in the end zone for a
2-point conversion, giving
the Spartans a 27-13 lead.
A late interception by
Nick Ullrich sealed GBN’s
victory.
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The guys move on to
Way/No Way, where they
make some predictions
with girls tennis.
Fourth Quarter
With week three next,
the three preview and
Buckner continues to
impress
Dylan Buckner entered
the 2019 season with the
hope of adding more elements
to his game.
The second-year Glenbrook
North quarterback
saw his hope once again
come to fruition during the
team’s Week 2 game.
Buckner displayed his
dual-threat ability under
center, passing for 253
yards and running for 33
rushing yards. Buckner ran
the ball nine times during
the game, two of which resulted
in touchdowns. The
junior quarterback already
has three rushing touchdowns
this season.
“Being able to run is really
important because I
think it just adds another
thing that the defense has to
prepared for every week,”
Buckner said. “Last year,
I didn’t really have that
aspect to my game. So this
offseason, I really worked
on it. I’m just happy the
work came to fruition.”
Ciss delivers another big
night
Spartans fans held their
breath when a low hit
from a Shamrock defender
forced Mike Ciss to the
sideline during North’s first
drive of the game.
But Ciss needed just a
few plays off, later returning
to help the Spartans finish
the scoring drive.
Ciss put forward another
make some predictions on
the next set of games.
Overtime
Our hosts go to overtime
and talk about the
start of the field hockey
season.
huge night for the Spartans,
finishing the game with
122 rushing yards and 41
receiving yards. His 8-yard
touchdown run in the third
gave the Spartans a lead
they did not relinquish.
“He was tremendous tonight,”
Purdy said. “He just
runs the ball so hard. He
sees the holes well, he’s a
really good pass protector
and he’s another great kid
to be around.”
Looking ahead
The Spartans (2-0) will
head on the road again in
Week 3 for a matchup with
the Wheeling Wildcats (0-
2).
“It’s all about consistency,”
Purdy said of the
team’s preparations for the
game. “(It’s about) how can
we continue to build upon
the stuff that we have in
and what else do we look
at on either side of the
ball that makes us a better
football team. If we can be
consistent, and continue
to eliminate the mistakes,
then we became an excellent
football team.”
The game is scheduled
for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept.
13, at Wheeling.
Swimming
From Page 55
ranks. His swimming career
took him to different
places, but the North
Shore was his home for
the most part for the
past 18 years. He started
coaching with the Northwestern
University NASA
swim club and worked as
a volunteer for the Wildcats
swimming program
in 2000. Schroeder moved
on to the New Trier swim
club in 2002 before he
became the coach at the
University of Maryland.
He returned back to the
North Shore and became
the head coach at Northwestern
after a few years
in the East Coast.
But Schroeder hasn’t
coached women athletes
since his time at Maryland
and admitted there
are some differences in
coaching styles between
the different genders. He’s
noticed the girls are not
as aggressive and wants
to instill that competitive
nature into his new program.
He’s more patient
with the girls team and noticed
they respond better
to conditioning well rather
than sprint training that
he noticed works when he
coaches the boys program.
While coaching hasn’t
drastically changed in the
decade since Schroeder
coached women athletes,
he admits there’s been an
evolution in coaching.
There’s a bigger emphasis
on quality instead of quantity
now, which is different
from when he last coached
this group in 2008.
While there are some
difference, the goals he
has remains the same, no
matter the program.
“I want our girls to
be competitive week-in
and week-out so hopefully
they experience improvement
throughout
the course of the season,”
Schroeder said.
Schroeder is still trying
to learn more about
his swimmers and divers
but he has some goals laid
out for the Spartans. Both
Nya Robinson and Kamila
Nowak barely missed
qualifying for state last
season, so the new head
coach is looking forward
to the challenge of helping
them reach state. He
also think his 200-medley
relay team will also have
a chance to qualify for
state with different strong
swimmers battling for a
spot on the team.
The Spartans will also
need to adjust to the
school’s shift to the Central
Suburban League
South division. North
swimmers and coaches
know that it’ll be a challenge
this season, but
Schroeder want his team
to respond instead of giving
in before the first races
start.
“I need our girls to
compete and not give
them the meet before we
start the meet,” Schroeder
said. “Swimming against
better people can give us
the best in you. I just need
to get the girls to buy into
that.”
Schroeder is still trying
to get his feet under him,
adjusting to coaching a
new program while also
teaching for the first time.
He knows it’ll take some
time to get the program
to the level that he wants,
but he’s encouraged by
the progress the Spartans
have taken and the progress
they’ll take.
“We’re a little less deep
and not as quite at talented
as the boys were last year,”
Schroeder said. “My hope
is to get a couple of girls
to assume those roles and
they take charge. They’re
the ones we can count on
at each meet and be our
go-to people the next few
years.”