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SPORTS

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Kyle Fisher wrapped up a fine hockey career with the Glenbrook with Bree Muldoon of the North Spartans.

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NEWS

Legendary Team To Be Honored

Glenview Hindu Temple Nearing Completion

BY By Steve Sadin Dailynorthshore.com

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ORTHBROOK — Imagine the principal at Glenbrook North High School dismissing school for a spontaneous field trip late one June morning.

It happened June 3, 1966 — the day the Spartan baseball team won the school’s first state championship in any sport.

The core of that team won a dozen baseball championships between 1965 and 1967 and members of all of them will be honored as marshals of Northbrook’s Fourth of July Parade this summer with a theme of the 50th anniversary of Northbrook champions.

Two members of all 12 title teams—Ken Kozil, who now lives in Rolling Meadows, and Chuck Leve currently living in Evanston—remember the

LENVIEW — A 3 9 , 0 0 0 - s q u a re - f o o t marble Hindu temple is nearing completion in Glenview.

The Hanuman Mandir Spiritual and Community Center will hold its grand opening events on April 15, 16, and 17, and will open to the public at noon April 17.

It is located at 3623 West Lake Avenue in Glenview, offering the Hindu community a place of worship and everyone exposure to Indian traditions, according to devotee Savi Ram. “It will be an unbelievable day for which many devotees have been waiting,” Ram said. “ The temple is a place to learn more about life and religion and humanity. It will promote ser vice, spiritual devotion and appreciation for Indian culture.”

Ram said the marble exterior and interior have a special meaning.

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IN THIS ISSUE [ NEWS ] 7

Event Benefits GLASA Lake Forest-based organization provides recreational and competitive sports for people of all ages with physical and visual impairments.

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Hindu Temple Coming A stunning, 39,000 square foot Hindu temple is nearing completion in Glenview.

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Legendary Team A legendary Glenbrook North High School baseball team will be honored.

9 MRW Center Luncheon

Bob Sirott and Marianne Murciano to speak out on wellness.

[ REAL ESTATE ] Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.

17 h ouses of the week

Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.

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[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ]

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[ LAST BUT NOT LEAST ]

Sands shining in Glenbrook South’s potent offense.

Love & Marriage Marriage Test? That seems redundant.

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We talk with Bree Muldoon of the Winnetka Youth Organization.

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NEWS

Event to Celebrate GLASA

The Lake Forest-based organization provides recreational and competitive sports for people of all ages with physical and visual impairments.

By JOANNA BROWN

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ennifer Burkhart is an occupational therapist and exercise physiologist by trade, and thus uniquely aware of how physical activity benefits the body and soul. So when her son was born 14 years ago with spina bifida (a malformation of the spinal cord), she didn’t want to hear about all the things her beautiful baby boy would not do.

Now an 8th grader in Libertyville, Ethan Burkhart is an enthusiastic athlete and a fierce sled hockey player. He plays

alongside Lake Forest’s Ana Kohout in the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association.

The Lake Forest-based organization provides recreational and competitive sports for people of all ages with physical and visual impairments. This includes the sled hockey and swim teams that Ethan Burkhart and Kohout, a Lake Forest High School junior, enjoy, as well as other team sports and outreach programs in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. More than 3,000 athletes are served by these programs, including veterans, stroke survivors, and ampu-

tees.

“The directors and coaches at GLASA do not believe in disabilities,” Jennifer Burkhart said.

“They believe that these kids can do anything, and the kids develop the mindset that they can, too. They have high expectations for these kids, which we all should.”

The Burkhart family will be among those celebrating GLASA at the Women’s Auxiliary Spring Gala Saturday, April 23, at Lake Shore HarleyDavidson in Libertyville. The evening will include a poker run, whiskey tasting, live music, and

food from more than a dozen local restaurants.

“The theme for the event is On the Road, and then you look at the motorcycles you certainly get the sense of going places,” said Jennifer Sawant, a GLASA Auxiliary Board member from Lake Forest. “And that is the essence of our GLASA community; the directors and coaches and especially the athletes – they just keep going.”

Sawant learned about GLASA serendipitously two years ago. She was at her own yoga class as an adaptive yoga class for people in wheelchairs

was ending, and she was reminded of how much a beloved cousin had enjoyed yoga before a stroke impaired her mobility at age 42. Sawant acted quickly to get more involved with GLASA. “It is amazing to see people in our community impacted so directly and so positively,” she explained. “All the support generated at the Gala helps out our neighbors who will be playing wheelchair basketball at Lake Forest College’s Rec Center and sled hockey at Hot Shot in Lake Bluff.”

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Kohout will also attend the gala, proud of the work she does as a GLASA yoga instructor and Auxiliary Board member, and of her daughter’s state titles in swimming and wheelchair racing.

“GLASA is not just a not-forprofit for disabled people to grow,” Areta Kohout said. “It’s a community with a feeling of belonging in an environment that empowers all ages. It’s all very positive and that makes a difference.”

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NEWS TEMPLE Cont. from PG 1 “The marble is significant to the people entering the building,” Ram said. “It gives it authenticity and richness.”

People can enter the main sanctuary by ascending to an altar with marble steps climbing to the base of a marble statue of the Hindu deity Hanumanji. The statue is more than 22 feet high and weighs over 46,000 pounds.

“The statue of Hanumanji is sacred to worshipers of the god (and) is an important element of the new center,” said Ram. Ram said she expects more than 5,000 people f rom the Chicago area and beyond to attend the temple’s three-day grand opening festivities.

During the grand opening weekend, “many priests will be setting deities, saying prayers and performing rituals,” Ram said referring to statues of other Hindu gods that will be placed in altars along the perimeter of the sanctuary. “On each day of the gr and opening weekend, morning prayers will be conducted to place statues of gods in the temple as well as rituals in honor of Hindu deities.”

Building the temple has taken more than two years f rom inception, according to a news release f rom the or-

TEAM Cont. from PG 1 ganization. In December 2013, 170 devotees of Hanumanji gathered to sanctify the land and 650 people took part in the groundbreaking c e re m ony i n April 2014.

S ince then builders have been working to finish the two-story structure with the main sanctuary on the top floor and a community gathering place beneath. Ram said celebrations like weddings are already booked.

Once the temple is open, events will be held every day of the week, according to the grand opening brochure. These inc lude religious ser vices and other activities.

moment like it was yesterday.

The Spartans were already in Peoria playing their semifinal game while the student body was listening.

“The game was on the PA at school and everybody was listening,” Kozil said referring to a local radio broadcast at the time. “The principal said ‘we have buses lined up. Whoever wants to go to Peoria can go.’”

With that seven busloads of Glenbrook students headed to the state tournament and arrived while the Spartans were playing.

“We got goose bumps,” Kozil said. “We stopped what we were doing and just watched them come in. They had signs. The stadium filled up.”

A few hours after dispatching Galesburg, 7-1, in an 11inning semifinal, Glenbrook North was playing against Maine South for the state title.

The stands were full of students from Northbrook. Leve said the team scored eight runs in the top of the first on its way to a 15-2 victory.

Celebration Comes Home to Northbrook The electricity continued when the team returned to Northbrook. The students reboarded the buses and headed north quickly while the players stopped for dinner, according to Kozil. Late that night they headed home.

“We got off the tollway at Willow Road and we see fire engines and police cars,” Kozil.

“We thought there was an accident. They took us off the busses and put us in convertibles. We drove all over Northbrook.”

The impromptu parade ended at the high school at 10:30 p.m. but the celebration

continued.

“Our feet never touched the ground,” Leve said. “They lifted us all up. The guy who picked me up was (Glenbrook) South’s number one pitcher. He said, ‘hey man, this is for everyone.’”

Northbrook was a different place then. The population was 12,000, according to Cheryl Fayne-DePersio, the village’s communications manager. As of the 2010 U.S. Census the population was 33,170.

That championship moment was the sixth of 12 for Kozil, Leve and at least 38 others who were also part of the 1965 Northbrook Colt League squad as well as the 1966 and 1967 Northbrook American Legion teams. Leve said many of them began playing together when they were eight.

“Everybody played baseball then,” Leve said. “There was no soccer and basketball was a winter, indoor sport. We played baseball. If there was no (organized) game we went to a vacant lot and played baseball.”

The Colt Leaguers won divisional, state and regional crowns in 1965 before finishing fourth in the national tournament. That team as well as the Legion squad had additional Northbrook residents who went to other schools like Loyola Academy.

The Spartans won regional and sectional tournaments before taking state. Less than a week after winning the state high school title, the players reassembled with more athletes as the Legion squad winning the Cook County, state and regional championships and finishing fifth in the American Legion World Series.

Northbrook Takes One More Shot at a National

Championship Leve, Kozil and others like Paul Brubaker, Bobby Breitzman and Ray Larson were college players in 1967 but still eligible to play American Legion baseball. The group with nine championships under its belt made one more try for a national crown.

Again Northbrook won the Cook County, state regional championships before reaching the title game in the American Legion World Series. It was a double elimination event.

“We lost our first game to Tuscaloosa, Alabama,” Leve said. “We had to come back through the loser’s bracket. We won our next four games and were looking at Tuscaloosa again. We beat them once.”

The two teams played a third time for the title. Northbrook ended up second best in the country that year.

“Choke,” Leve and Kozil said simultaneously when reminded of the second-place finish and the 1-0 defeat by Tuscaloosa.

“I pitched a two hitter and lost,” Kozil added.

Some of those players earned a living playing baseball. Kozil was drafted by the Chicago White Sox but decided on a business career instead. Breitzman was selected by the Chicago Cubs and played eight years of minor league ball in their organization.

Henry Hyde, Jr., who graduated from Loyola Academy and pitched for the 1967 legion team, played minor league baseball for five years in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ and Atlanta Braves’ organizations. He died from cancer in 2005. He was the son of the late Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Wood Dale), who died in 2007.

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Sirott, Murciano, Speak Out for Wellness

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IGHLAND PARK–Known for their witty repartee on and off the air, TV and radio super couple Bob Sirott and Marianne Murciano will be the keynote speakers at the 20th Annual Myra Rubinstein Weis Health Resource Center Benefit Luncheon in May. Sirott said different organizations have reached out to him and his wife, Murciano, for non-profit appearances over the years, but the MRW Center really struck a chord because as his father died from lung cancer. “My dad always ate healthy, but he smoked from the time he was a young kid,” he said.

One of Murciano’s close friends had cancer and attended several survival groups. “It’s such a vulnerable time of life,” she said. “I’m also very big on the fact that health education is being addressed at the center.”

The MRW Health Resource

Center committee has raised more than $1 million for NorthShore University HealthSystem since its inception two decades ago. The May 4 fundraiser will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Highland Park Country Club in support of the healthcare provider’s wellness and cancer survivorship programs. The event will include free educational lectures, which are open to the public and include the importance of nutrition, exercise and genetics for cancer survivors.

“Marianne’s passions include healthy eating, healthy living and exercise,”said Sirott. He added that no matter how busy they are, his wife always makes a point of sitting down to home cooked meals with the family.This tradition was maintained when their two older children were involved in theater and continues now that their 15-year-old daughter is into sports -- meaning the family often waits until after 9 p.m. to have dinner together.

“Being happy is part of being healthy, and (eating healthy dinners

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together) makes my kids happy,” said Murciano. “That’s one of the things that made me connect with the MRW Center.”

It also gave Murciano food for thought in creating susosfork.com, a website featuring Cuban recipes from her life. Suso is named after her childhood pet capuchin monkey.

“When I was a little girl (in Miami), my brothers and I would

feed Suso all of our fruits and vegetables so we wouldn’t have to eat them,” she said. “Bob and I created the website as a reminder to eat healthy recipes with the Latin flavors I grew up with.”

The Wilmette couple launched the website in February after working on it for over a year. Sirott said many of the recipes are quick and easy to prepare, as well as tasty

and nutritious.“It’s all about education, fresh ingredients and not eating processed food,” he added.

“My goal is to get the word out that what you put in your body is what gives you a long happy life,” said Murciano.

Murciano acknowledged that her emphasis on healthy cooking has been passed down to her children.

Recently while Facetiming with her 26-year-old daughter, who works as a reporter and news anchor in Flint, Michigan,“I saw in the background that she was cooking a healthy dinner in a crock-pot,” she said.

Murciano and Sirott met in 1993 when they co-anchored Fox Thing In the Morning on WFLD-TV. “It was not an instant attraction, because Bob told me to save my stories to tell on the air,” said Murciano. “It took a couple of years before we got personal.”

The duo recently hosted the March 15 election primary coverage on WLS radio.

They look forward to speaking

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he concept of a marriage test strikes me as redundant. And yet, someone out there is making a million dollars off the idea.

I’ll explain.

The Marriage Test is a new book by Jill Andres and Brook Silva-Braga, who were dating when they came up with this cockamamie scheme to spend a year simulating marriage before they tied the knot. They broke it down into 40 “dates,” during which they recreated what they decided were the biggest challenges of marriage.

They swapped credit cards for a month, and borrowed someone’s kids for a weekend.

They used each other’s phones for a weekend, spent a week without electronics outside of business hours, and lived for a month on half of their usual budget to simulate financial stress. Scariest of all, they recorded themselves during an argument and listened to it

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together a week later to critique their fighting styles.

The authors agreed before they began that if the experiment went well they would spend their lives together. If the dates went poorly, they would part ways. I don’t think I’m spoiling anything to say that they are both wearing wedding bands on their media tour.

I’m wondering, though, if they’ll be wearing those same bands on the 10th anniversary of the book’s publication.

My money is on no. I think that their project was a fun activity to do together, and marriage is generally easy when you have a shared activity to focus on, like wedding planning and house hunting.

Marriage is hard when you have nothing but each other to pass the days.

In other words, it’s a fun project to simulate parenting and spend 48 hours setting up

the portable crib, laughing at the baby’s funny faces while he tears the pages out of your favorite books when you know that the end is in sight; you started the weekend wellrested and you will get a good night’s sleep after the baby goes home. But it’s a lot more stressful when you haven’t slept through the night in six months, your trusted babysitter is on vacation and you can not possibly stomach another night of take-out.

The same goes for the simulated financial stress of living on half their budget for a month. It sounds good, but in reality they likely delayed a lot for 30 days; the trendy shoes and dinners out resumed at the end of the month.

That’s not how it works for most newlyweds, nor for folks whose financial stress is rooted in unemployment or the healthcare expenses of a sick family member. This date was

dumb, dumb, dumb.

But before I solidified my opinion I posted a video from the authors’ media tour on my Facebook page, and invited comments and suggestions for new tests that would be more realistic.

I received not a single response. Radio silence. Not a sarcastic remark about hanging the Christmas lights together, nor a sympathy “Like” from my mother-inlaw.

I like to think it’s because everyone agrees with my opinion that this Marriage Test is a ridiculous waste of time. Marriage is a feeling that comes from your gut and an activity that will challenge you every day of your life in far more than 40 areas.

But I’ve been wrong before.

Tell me what dates you would add to a marriage test via email to joanna@northshoreweekend.com

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Socials The Springs of Vernon Hills Ribbon Cutting Photography by Larry Miller

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dinner the other night with a couple known to dress for success. He’s in a hooded sweatshirt and her jeans have holes in the knees. W hite table-cloth restaurants welcome such attire in the age of everything’s cool.

Maybe there was a time when neighborhood newspapers and their sister-websites were considered less cool than, say, The New York T imes. No more. It ’s extremely cool to know what ’s happening close to home.

So: you’re cool for reading these words. And even if you also read The New York Times, well, that ’s cool.

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north shore foodie

The BBQ Pit

jumping into the kitchen when an employee doesn’t show up for work, washing dishes, or doing whatever it takes.”

Karigan learned from watching his dad Frank who came from a long line of restaurateurs. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, the family moved to Chicago in 1968 when his dad opened a couple of Little Red Hen fried chicken fast food restaurants. The last one he owned was in Glencoe until 1978.

“We enjoyed the North Shore and wanted to stay in the vicinity, because he developed a good customer base,” said Karigan. “In Gus Karigan 1978 Dad found a restaurant that

By JULIE KEMP PICK lot in front of the restaurant. As had closed down in Highland fate would have it, she turned out Park. We took that business over IGHLAND PARK —Nearly to be the mysterious girl next and it became The BBQ Pit.” It everything Gus Karigan is door, who literally worked in the was on First Street between Mcgrateful for can be traced beauty salon next to the BBQ Pit Donald’s and an old Porsche/ back to his restaurant, The BBQ at the Shops of Elm Place. The Audi dealership, and his dad ran Pit. couple will be celebrating their it for 10 years. Sadly, he passed “This business brought me my 15th wedding anniversary in away in 1988.

“I was just graduating college wife, my gorgeous children, and September.

I get to work with my mother,” In addition to serving a menu during all of this turmoil in our he said. “I’ve met so many people specializing in barbecue ribs, family,” said Karigan. “It wasn’t a and it’s helped me cultivate a new chicken, brisket, meat loaf, and matter of choice; I had to take business as well.”

Greek salad, Karigan works as a over the family business for perYears ago, Karigan’s neighbor realtor for @properties on Central sonal reasons. My two older in Prospect Heights wanted to Avenue, which is a short walk brothers had families and were fix him up with “the perfect girl.” from The BBQ Pit. entrenched in their jobs. I was The timing was right and he How does Karigan manage to single and basically it had just agreed to go on a blind date with juggle two jobs, and still find time fallen into my lap.”

Karigan’s mom has been with her. for his family?

On the day before their date “In owning your own business him from the very beginning. he noticed a “gorgeous girl” in the you have to be able to do 20 “My mother who’s 82 still comes window at Love’s Yogurt while things at one time, so it’s worked in here everyday and drives back he was pulling into the parking out,” he said. “I’ve been good at and forth like the post office. For

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the most part it’s like we’ve become friends,” he said.

His brothers are also very involved in her life as well, but she lives by herself, and Karigan said if she needs something, like the driveway shoveled or the grass cut he’s only a mile away.

After staying at the First Street location for 10 years, in 1998 The BBQ Pit moved around the corner to 589 Elm Place at The Shops of Elm Place to provide greater visibility.

“The other unique thing is, if we’re not the oldest restaurant in Highland Park, we’re definitely in the conversation, said Karigan who noted that Country Kitchen on Central Avenue opened the same year.

He continued, “In 1978, I was 12-years-old, and now I’m 50. To me it speaks volumes that families have been coming here with their kids, and now those parents are grandparents. We’ve lasted through a couple different downturns in the economy, and the changing of generations.”

In 2008, Karigan decided to take out four booths to add a bar with a big screen TV in the front of the restaurant, and another television on the back wall. “The BBQ Pit has become a neighborhood hangout like Cheers,” he said. “You can have a cocktail and watch a game.” He also prides himself on knowing most everyone’s name. “I can recognize most

people. I’m very strange that way.”

There are 40 items on the menu. Karigan said they can create so many different entrees from the same base items; chicken, ribs or steak “which are probably our big three.” They also offer different types of fish.

“You have to take into account

gluten free. The latter is also available at Sunset Foods in Highland Park.

The BBQ Pit was one of the first restaurants in Highland Park to serve sweet potato fries.

Karigan discovered them when he was at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia about 17 years ago.

“We went to a little shack between Atlanta and Augusta, and we got these unbelievable southern smoked ribs, chicken and sweet potato French fries. I said when I go back to Chicago I’m going to search for them,” he said. They continue to be a fan favorite.

Karigan’s employee turnover is very low. “I’ve had four of the same help here for 20 years. To me it says something that people are happy here. I think that they allergies, diets, and people aren’t look forward to coming to work. eating as many carbs,” he said. I’m a very low key boss,” he added.

“People used to order exactly Karigan’s brothers, nieces and what was on the menu, but his 14-year-old son are always nowadays you have to readjust willing to help out in the family your plating on the fly. Another restaurant, and he hopes his change is that we used to have 11-year-old daughter will also be big breadbaskets on the table, and involved one day.

For now, Karigan is enjoying now we go through half as much bread. Pop sales have gone down running back and forth between dramatically. That’s a big profit The BBQ Pit and @properties. item for us. It’s like any other “My awesome managing broker business, it’s challenging when is so sensitive to my schedule. It’s you own your own place.” been such a great relationship.

The homemade barbecue sauce They order food from us, and we and his late paternal grandfather’s send customers there. I’ve been Greek Salad dressing are both very happy,” he said.

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1. 630 Scranton Ave. Lake Bluff Sunday 1-3 PM $759,000 Kathi Hudson, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485 2. 39 Warrington Drive Lake Bluff Sunday 1-3 PM $498,000 Brad Andersen, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0816

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3. 348 W Prospect Avenue Lake Bluff SUNDAY 1-4 $619,000 Becky Dolin, @properties 847.295.0700

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4. 28613 Isleworth Court Lake Bluff Sunday 1:30-3:30 $559,900 Lyon Martini Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.828.9991

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8. 175 Suffolk Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 PM $1,749,000 Elizabeth Wieneke, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485 9. 333 E. Westminster Lake Forest Sunday 11-1 PM $1,325,000 Jack Comerford, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485 10. 443 W. Deerpath Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 PM $1,599,000 Jack Comerford, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485 11. 1763 Hackberry Lane Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 PM $699,000 Kathi Hudson, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485 12. 455 Butler Drive Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 PM $1,399,000 Kathi Hudson, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485

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13. 440 Saddle Run Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 PM $1,399,000 Kathi Hudson, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 3536

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Sunday 1-4 $759,000 Susan Updike, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.533.9636

7. 1763 Hackberry Lake Forest $699,000 Sunday 1-3 Debbie Hepburn, The Hudson Company 847.867.5825

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16. Lot 15 & 17 Sussex Lane Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 PM $489,000 EACH Cathy McKechney, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0816 17. 177 Washington Road Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 pm $775,000 Lori Baker, Coldwell Banker 847.234.8000

18. 550 King Muir Rd. Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 $995,000 Jean Royster, Coldwell Banker 847.234.8000

19. 1839 Wedgewood Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 $974,000 Patricia Carter, Coldwell Banker 847.234.8000 20. 431 Spruce Avenue Lake Forest Sunday 1-4 $1,075,000 Jean Anderson, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.460.5412

21. 1730 Wimbledon Court Lake Forest Sunday 1-4 $1,197,263 Jeff Folker, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.504.6182

22. 1770 Parliament Court Lake Forest Sunday 1-4 $939,000 Jeff Folker, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.504.6182

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14. 650 Lake Road Lake Forest Sunday 1-3PM $2,800,000 Brad Andersen, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0816

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Sunday 1-3 $1,394,000 Rima Chopra, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.903.8229

24. 1490 S. West Fork Drive Lake Forest Sunday1-3 $575,000 Suzie Hempstead, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.910.8465

25. 670 Rockefeller Road Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 $899,000 Mona Hellinga, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.814.1855

26. 727 Grandview Lane Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 $819,000 Jill Okun, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.902.2296

27. 845 Walden Lane Lake Forest Sunday 1:30-3:30 $1,995,000 Lyon Martini Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.828.9991

28. 44 Farnham Lane Lake Forest Sunday 1:30-3:30 $939,000 Lyon Martini Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.828.9991

29. 495 Ryan Place Lake Forest Sunday 1:30-3:30 $579,000 Lyon Martini Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.828.9991

30. 1079 Jensen Dr. Lake Forest Sunday, 1pm-3pm $1,395,000 Elizabeth Rasmussen, Baird & Warner 847-721-3481 31. 1516 N. Western Ave. Lake Forest Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm $890,000 Jan Mason, Baird & Warner 312-560-3081 32. 327 S. Basswood Rd. Lake Forest Sunday, 11:30am-1:30pm $1,145,000 Jan Mason, Baird & Warner 312-560-3081 33. 1516 N. Western Ave. Lake Forest Sunday, 2pm-

4pm $890,000 Jan Mason, Baird & Warner 312-560-3081 34. 300 Bluff Edge Dr Lake Forest Sunday 1-4 $1,495,000 Rina Du Toit , Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.814.8648

35. 10 W. Honeysuckle Rd Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 $1,395,000 Darcy, Traynor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.809.1894 36. 830 Moseley Road Highland Park SUNDAY 2:30-4:30 $585,000 Debbie Scully, @properties 847.432.0700

37. 2157 St Johns AVE Highland Park SUNDAY 1-3 $792,157 Cory Albiani, @properties 847.432.0700

38. 348 Park Ave Highland Park Sunday 1-3 $360,000 Karen Skurie, Baird and Warner 847.361.4687 39. 1111 Oxford Road Deerfield SUNDAY 1-3 $539,000 Susan Ringel Segal, @ properties 847.881.0200

40. 1027 Kenton Road Deerfield SUNDAY 12-2 $339,900 Koerner/Kim, @properties 847.509.0200 41. 1480 Northwoods Circle Deerfield SUNDAY 1-3 $699,000 Goodman/Burklin, @ properties 847.367.0500

42. 1321 Somerset Ave Deerfield Sunday 11-2:30 $699,999 Betsy Seno, Coldwell Banker 847-444-9594 43. 1007 Whitfield Northbrook Sunday 1-3 $759,000 Michelle Ahn, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 44. 3 Court Of Harborside Drive, #108 Northbrook SUNDAY 2-4 $279,000 Barbra Jacobs, @ properties

847.509.0200 45. 2615 Canterbury Drive Northbrook SUNDAY 12-2 $1,499,000 Connie Nadia Dornan, @ properties 847.998.0200 46. 1127 Briarwood Ln. Northbrook Sunday, 11-1 $565,000 Debra Guillod, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 47. 7 Fox Tail Northbrook Sunday 2-4 $699,000 Ellen Atlas, Berkshire Hathaway KoenigRubloff 847.272.0330 48. 563 Oakdale Avenue Glencoe SUNDAY 12:30-2:30 $949,000 Brandie Malay, @properties 847.881.0200

49. 314 Shoreline Ct. Glencoe Sunday, 2-4 $2,349,000 Mark Sirota, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

50. 715 Brookvale Glencoe Sunday 1-3 $959,000 Gloria Matlin, Coldwell Banker 847-951-4040

51. 355 Bluff Glencoe Sunday 2-4 $1,439,000 Jody Dickstein, Coldwell Banker 847-651-7100

52. 244 Mary Glencoe Sunday 1-3 $1,350,000 Jody Dickstein, Coldwell Banker 847-651-7100

53. 1056 Edgebrook Glencoe Sunday 1-3 $509,900 Jody Dickstein, Coldwell Banker 847-651-7100

54. 334 Hawthorn Glencoe Sunday 12-2 $599,000 Sonia Cohen, Coldwell Banker 847-337-6005

55. 751 Woodridge Glencoe Sunday 1-3 $929,000 Julie Deutsch, Coldwell Banker 847-217-1277 56. Coventry Road Northfield

Sunday 2-4:00PM $1,650,000 The Skirving Team, Coldwell Banker Patti: 847-924-4119 Greg: 847-863-3614 57. 1060 Arbor Ln. Northfield Sunday, 1-3 $479,000 Colleen Remsberg, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

58. 6040 Arbor Lane Unit 100 Northfield Sunday 1-3 $224,900 Dene Hillinger, Jean Wright Real Estate 847-275-9143 59. 1473 Edgewood Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $714,900 Stacy Deemar, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 60. 975 Vernon Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $975,000 Gabrielle Root, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 61. 433 Locust Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $1,475,000 Peg O’Halloran, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 62. 1165 Ash Street Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $830,000 Carol Hunt, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 63. 799 Foxdale Winnetka Sunday 2-4 $850,000 Dayle Lively, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 64. 107 Bertling Winnetka Sunday 12-2 $725,000 Dayle Lively, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 65. 4 Golf Lane Winnetka Sunday 2-4:00 PM $3,350,000 The Skirving Team, Coldwell Banker Patti: 847-924-4119 Greg: 847-863-3614 66. 1169 Scott Winnetka $1,479,000 Sunday 1-3 Laura McCain, The Hudson Company 847.347.4630 67. 630 Rosewood Winnetka $1,899,000 Sunday 2-4 Paige Dooley,

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OPEN HOUSES The Hudson Company 847.609.0963 68. 1121 Ash Winnetka 929,000 Sunday 1-3 Rene Nelson, The Hudson Company 847.338.4001 69. 15 Longmeadow Winnetka $999,000 Sunday 12-2 Joanne Hudson, The Hudson Company 847.971.5024 70. 955 Tower Manor Winnetka $1,199,000 Sunday 2:15 - 4:15 Joanne Hudson, The Hudson Company 847.971.5024 71. 1495 Scott Winnetka $1,295,000 Sunday 12-2 Laura McCain, The Hudson Company 847.347.4630

847.446.4000

79. 456 Elder Ln. Winnetka Sunday, 2:30-4 $2,399,900 Marina Britva, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

80. 361 Hawthorn Ln..

Winnetka Sunday, 1-3 $1,995,000 Kathy Almond, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

81. 1136 Cherry St. Winnetka Sunday, 12-2 $929,000 Maureen Mohling, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

82. 1040 Elm St. Winnetka Sunday, 1-3 $895,000 Betsy Barnes, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

72. 160 Woodley Road Winnetka SUNDAY 1-3 $2,250,000 Hambleton/Hazlett, @properties 847.763.0200

73. 1102 Ash Street Winnetka SUNDAY 12-2 $1,959,000 Monica Childs, @properties 847.881.0200

83. 435 Sunset Rd. Winnetka Sunday 2-4 $1,249,000 Jenni Gordon, Coldwell Banker 847-778-0359

74. 1138 Scott Avenue Winnetka SUNDAY 1-3 $919,000 Susan Ringel Segal, @properties 847.881.0200

85. 307 Melrose Avenue Kenilworth SUNDAY 1-3 $3,295,000 Kathryn Mangel, @properties 847.881.0200

86. 614 Essex Road Kenilworth SUNDAY 1-3 $2,430,000 Colleen P. McGinnis, @properties 847.881.0200

87. 200 Oxford Road Kenilworth SUNDAY 2-4 $2,195,000 Mary Grant, @properties 847.881.0200

88. 423 Abbotsford Road Kenilworth SUNDAY 12-2 $1,999,999 Mary Grant, @properties 847.881.0200

89. 325 Richmond Rd Kenilworth Sunday 1-3 $2,375,000 Betsy Burke, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.565.4264

75. 989 Elm St Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $799,000 Muggsy Jacoby, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.924.3811 76. 1258 Pine Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $739,000 Chris Downey, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.340.8499 77. 1144 Tower Rd Winnetka Sunday 1-4 $1,695,000 Sherry Molitor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.204.6282 78. 517 Cherry St. Winnetka Sunday, 12-2 $3,288,000 Nancy Powers, Coldwell Banker Winnetka

84. 326 Oxford Kenilworth $1,299,000 Sunday 2:15 - 4:15 Joanne Hudson, The Hudson Company 847.971.5024

90. 549 Earlston Rd. Kenilworth

Sunday, 2:30-4 $1,399,000 Linda Martin, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 91. 2421 Fir Street Glenview SUNDAY 1-3 $1,575,000 Monica Sofranko, @properties 847.881.0200

92. 338 Nora Avenue Glenview SUNDAY 12-2 $774,900 Connie Nadia Dornan, @properties 847.998.0200

93. 606 Huber Lane Glenview SUNDAY 12-2 $649,000 Connie Nadia Dornan, @properties 847.998.0200 94. 604 Long Rd. Glenview Sunday, 1-3 $375,000 Beth Groebe, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 95. 1034 Elmwood Wilmette Sunday 1-3 $1,100,000 Georgia Garvey, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 96. 1022 Pawnee Wilmette $1,749,000 Sunday 1-3 Julie Bradbury Miller 847.751.2619 97. 777 Michigan Avenue Wilmette SUNDAY 1-3 $1,489,000 Christina Fawcett, @properties 847.881.0200

98. 2217 Beechwood Avenue Wilmette SUNDAY 2:30-4:30 $1,044,000 Monica Childs, @ properties 847.881.0200 99. 835 16th Wilmette Sunday 1-3 $1,980,000 M.J Black, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.507.9124

100. 1140 Sheridan Rd Wilmette Sunday 1-4 $2,299,000 Bree Misiak, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.420.1214

101. 1947 Greenwood Ave Wilmette

Sunday 12-2 $1,195,000 Sherry Molitor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.204.6282 102. 714 Elmwood Wilmette Sunday 1-3 $1,635,000 Constance Coll, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.707.6143 103. 124 Maple Ave. Wilmette Sunday, 12-2 $899,000 Team Van Horn, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

104. 108 Hollywood Ct. Wilmette Sunday, 12-1:30 $859,000 Linda Martin, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

105. 2610 Kenilworth Ave. Wilmette Sunday, 2-4 $649,000 Elaine Mulroy, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

106. 1616 Sheridan Rd. #3D Wilmette Sunday, 12-2 $309,000 Carmen Corbett, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000 107. 2015 Lake Ave. Wilmette Sunday, 2-4 $1,593,000 Team Van Horn, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

108. 1047 Miami Rd. Wilmette Sunday, 2-4 $1,300,000 Pam & Jim McClamroch, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

109. 1630 Sheridan Unit 4I Wilmette Sunday 1-3 $525,000 Carrie Healy, Jean Wright Real Estate 847-507-7666

110. 1500 Sheridan Unit 2B Wilmette Sunday 1-3 $485,000 Carrie Healy, Jean Wright Real Estate 847-507-7666 111. 1328 Monroe St. Evanston Sunday, 2-4 $510,000 Debra Guillod, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847.446.4000

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PROFOUND RESPECT Captain’s role was an ideal fit for Glenbrook North’s Fisher

BY DAN SHALIN, sports@northshoreweekend.com

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here is one anecdote that perfectly illustrates Glenbrook North senior center Kyle Fisher’s personality and the respect he had among teammates.

When the Spartans hockey team voted for its captain ahead of the 2015-16 season, Fisher got all but one vote — his own.

Fisher said this admiration likely stemmed from his commitment to being a team leader in the offseason, including going out of his way to take the Spartan youngsters under his wing. “(That everyone voted for me) is definitely good to hear,” Fisher said. “I did try during offseason workouts to make myself prominent and be there for the team. I was already establishing myself as a captain figure, and I guess that was (well-received) by teammates.”

Senior defenseman Jack Elowe, one of two alternate captains, called Fisher unselfish, modest, hard-working and difficult not to like.

“Everyone respects him,” Elowe said, “He always had a smile on his face, but he knew when to be serious and when to have a good time. Every day at the rink, he has a great time, but he knew we always had to be working for a state champions h i p . ” After capturing the state crown in 2015, the Spartans’ bid to repeat came to an end on March 11 with a 5-2 defeat to Loyola Gold in a AHAI state quarterfinal.

Fisher said the finality of that high-school career-ending loss hit him a few days later.

“You realize, ‘Wow, I’m never going to play with these guys again,’ ” he said. “I think I liked being with the team even more than playing. We all would carpool to the games, and I’m going to miss those carpools as much as the games. Just being with the boys was so fun.”

Though the defeat to Loyola Gold meant Glenbrook North missed its first title game since 2012, there were plenty of

have limited Fisher in several facets of the game, but speed was not one of them. Poulakidas called Fisher the fastest high school player in the state of Illinois.

“He’s got lightening speed,” the coach said. “He can flat out fly. No one is close to his speed.”

Poulakidas said he believes Fisher has the tools to play high-level hockey next year, in this case putting off college in order to play juniors. The coach has encouraged Fisher to consider his options.

“He’s a smart kid. He’s an honor role student. He has a real opportunity to do things in the future (academically and beyond),” Poulakidas said. “But if he’s willing to take a year off, play hockey a little longer and see where it takes him … it may take him somewhere special. I don’t think he’s reached threequarters of the player he can be.

He can be a sensational player.”

Fisher, who was named as an alternate for Team Illinois, which is set to play in the 2016 America’s Showcase in Pittsburgh on April 14-18, said he appreciates the sentiment, but it sounds like he’s leaning toward attending a big university and playing club hockey like one of his older brothers Jared, a former Spartan, who went the club hockey route at Northwestern. Kyle said he’s considering University of Illinois, Miami (Ohio) or University of Denver, and he may study engineering.

“I don’t really know what I’m doing yet,” said Fisher, whose twin sister Sarah will play hockey at Division III HamilGlenbrook North’s Kyle Fisher looks to pass to a teammate during play this past season. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER ton University in New York next positives for the Spartans, who “When you look at graduat- 5-foot-10, 150-pound center healthy. He did finish with a season. “I know my coach wants graduated 18 players from the ing so many kids and winning from contributing as much as solid 46 points (21 goals, 25 me to try to play juniors, but previous season. Though some 53 and only losing 14 in regula- he had hoped. Fisher, who assists), seventh-best on the that’s a huge commitment.

What if I get injured again? in the state predicted a big tion … a big credit goes to our played on the first or second team. drop-off for the club, Glen- captains, and Fish was our line, was hampered by a linger“It was a disappointment, Then, I’m wasting a whole year “I might end up just playing brook North’s record of 53-20-2 captain, and it was him saying, ing left shoulder injury, which being senior year and having to (including 6 shootout losses) ‘We’re not going to rebuild; may ultimately require surgery, face all these injuries, which (club hockey) in college, which suggests it was anything but a we’re going to contend.’ That’s and he also spent some time out affected my game negatively,” would be just for fun and not transition year. a big deal,” Poulakidas said. with an ankle problem. said Fisher, whose postseason to better my hockey career. My Fisher’s performance on the Head coach Evan Poulakidas play as a third-liner in 2015 was brother did that and he had a said Fisher’s leadership was one ice also was a key ingredient in Though he missed only six instrumental in Glenbrook lot of fun with it, and he still of the major reasons for the the Spartans’ strong campaign, games, there were many nights North’s run to the title. got the experience of being on Spartans’ success. though injuries prevented the Fisher was far from 100 percent The problem shoulder may a team.”

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AT THE NEXT LEVEL | MEN’S BASKETBALL Kevin Kucera: A sophomore point guard for Washing-

ton University in St. Louis, the ex-Loyola Academy standout claimed honorable mention all-University Athletic Association (UAA) accolades this winter.

Kucera, who started all 25 games for the Division III Bears (15-10), led the team in assists (136). His 5.4 assists per game were third best in the UAA. His assist-to-turnover ratio was 2.7.

The 6-foot-2 lefty also shot the ball well, averaging 11.1 points per game. He hit 36 percent of his three-point tries, while he knocked down 74 percent of his free throws. He also averaged 1.4 steals and 3.4 rebounds per game.

Joe Day of the Spartans will be playing in the 2016 America’s Showcase. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

SLAP SHOTS | BOYS HOCKEY America’s Showcase New Trier Green, Loyola Gold and Glenbrook North will be well represented in the 2016 America’s Showcase.

New Trier Green, which defeated Providence Catholic 5-2 in the AHAI state title game on March 19, placed four players on Team Illinois: junior forward Charlie Burton, junior forward Michael Graham, senior defenseman Stephan Bazianos and senior defenseman Dillon Munson.

Two Loyola Gold senior forwards made the roster in Ryan Hill and Danny O’Grady.

Glenbrook North’s Joey Day, a senior forward, also will made the squad, while two Spartans were named as alternates (senior forward Kyle Fisher and junior defenseman Zach Knudson).

The roster also includes Michael Altobelli (Providence), Jacob Barnhart (Benet Academy), Colan Fitzgerald (St. Rita), John Hatton (Naperville Central), Ryan Iaciancio (Providence), Ryan Lieber (St. Rita), Thomas Magnaville (St. Rita), Mitchell Plonka (Benet), Jacob Rott (Providence), Luke Sammons (Benet Academy), Eric Simkowski (Sandburg), Jake Vennetti (Providence) and Sam Weiss (Glenbard).

America’s Showcase will be held April 14-18 at Robert Morris Island Center in Pittsburgh.

SLAP SHOTS | GIRLS HOCKEY America’s Showcase: There will be a number of local players competing for Team Illinois at the 2016 America’s Showcase, which will be held in Pittsburgh on April 14-18.

The roster features Victoria Soukup and Hannah Nelson of the Lake Forest Scouts; Taylor Munson and Meagan Hearn of New Trier; and Mathilda Sullivan of Loyola Academy.

The other squad members include Liliana Bibian, Anna Cockey, Catherine Heyboer, Maureen Hogan, Michelle Kaczmarek, Andrea McDougald, Amelia Murray and Jessica Sloat.

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Evan Boudreaux: He turned in a sensational freshman season.

The former Lake Forest High School star capped his season with a number of high honors. The 6-foot-8, 225pound power forward was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year and earned All-Ivy League honors (second team).

Basketball writers liked him. Boudreaux also made the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) All-District I team after averaging 17.7 points and 9.4 rebounds per game for Dartmouth College.

And that’s not all. Boudreaux also was named Dartmouth’s most valuable player and was presented with the A.D. “Dolly” Stark Award. He recorded 10 double-doubles and tallied 20 points or more in 10 games for the Big Green (10-18).

Boudreaux, who is the all-time leading scorer and rebounder at LFHS, finished the season in pretty exclusive company. The only other Division I freshman to average 17 and 9 was LSU’s Ben Simmons, who already declared for the NBA Draft.

Connor Boehm: He had an extremely productive college career.

The 6-foot-7, 235-pound Boehm, a New Trier grad, played in 112 games during his four-year career at Dartmouth College. He’ll go down in the school record books as one of only eight Big Green players to shoot a career 50 percent or better from the field. For his career, he averaged 10.1 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.

In the 2015-16 season, Boehm remained consistent. He average 11.1 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. He shot 50 percent from the field (128-for-256).

For his efforts, the senior was honored with the school’s John Dilorio ’56 Award for hustle, drive and determination.

Steven Cook: The New Trier product came up with another strong season for Princeton University.

Cook, a 6-foot-5 junior guard, was honorable mention All-Ivy League this season after averaging 11.7 points and 4.1 rebounds per game for the Tigers (22-7). He shot 36 percent from beyond the three-point arc (47-132) and 75 percent (45-60) from the foul line.

Cook, who made Second Team All-Ivy League as a sophomore, tallied a team-high 22 points and added three assists in Princeton’s 86-81 loss to Virginia Tech in an NIT opener on March 16.

A four-gone conclusion? Raith pretty much locked up Athlete of the Month honors, when the junior forward scored four goals in New Trier Green’s 5-2 win over Providence Catholic in the state championship game at United Center.

The all-stater finished the season with a team-high 38 goals. He also had 34 assists for the 54-10-1 state champs.

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Lily bright Sands shining in Glenbrook South’s potent offense

BY DAN SHALIN, sports@northshoreweekend.com

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rguably the biggest goal of Lily Sands’ Glenbrook South soccer career came last May and took regulation and nearly two overtimes to arrive.

It was the final of the 2015 Glenbrook Cup, when Sands, then a sophomore, scored a golden goal 24 seconds before the end of the second extra session, and just before the teams went to penalties, giving the Titans a 2-1 win.

Glenbrook South fans did not have to wait as long for Sands’ most recent game-winning goal, which came in the Titans’ 4-1 victory over Stevenson on March 19. Actually, if fans were out for a halftime hot chocolate or warming up in their car on that chilly Saturday afternoon, they might have missed it.

Shortly after the second-half kickoff, Glenbrook South senior Olivia Peters passed to Sands, who dribbled up the left side, used her pace to beat one defender and, nearing the goal, put the ball in the net at the far post.

Just 43 seconds had elapsed in the half, and the strike gave the Titans a 2-1 lead and the momentum in a game they had trailed early. Stevenson eventually conceded two more times, both own goals.

“It’s always nice to score, but when it really means something, when you put the team into the lead (for good) or get a gamewinner, it’s a lot more special,” Sands said.

Sands, a speedy third-year varsity player, is off to a fine start this spring. She has three goals and one assist for the red-hot Titans (4-1), who have won four straight.

As a sophomore, Sands was third on the team in goals (14) and tied for third in assists (7), earning all-Central Suburban League South honors for a Titans team that went 16-5-3 and lost to Hersey in a Class 3A regional final. Entering this season, Sands’ 46 career points (18 goals and 10 assists) ranked her No. 19 on Glenbrook South’s all-time points chart.

Glenbrook South head coach Seong Ha said that some of the Titans’ forwards rely on strength and power, but that is not the case with Sands.

“She’s all finesse,” Ha said. “(Sands) is not going to bowl you

Goal-oriented: Titans junior Lily Sands puts pressure on Loyola Academy goalie Maggie Avery in their season opener. Sands had 14 goals and seven assists last spring.. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER

over. She plays hard, but is graceful on the field. She’s quick with the ball, very technical. She’s got natural speed and speed with the ball. She’s at her best taking players on 1 v. 1.”

Sands may find herself in many of those 1 v. 1 scenarios this season, as most defenses will be reluctant to double-team any one member

of Glenbrook South’s potent group of attackers.

When the team lines up in a 4-3-3, Sands often finds herself playing alongside the prolific Peters, a senior who entered the season second on the school’s career points chart, and 6-foot Gabby Baldo, a signee at Division II University of Tampa making

her return to high school soccer for the first time since her freshman year. Sands said each member of the trio brings something different to the field, and therefore they complement one another.

Peters currently leads the team with seven goals and four assists.

She had a trick in GBS’s 7-0 victory over Glenbrook North on

March 23.

Baldo is the team’s second leading goal scorer with four. She also has two assists.

“Baldo can control the ball, turn and take a shot. Peters is good with her head. I can go off and run, get to a ball,” Sands said. “We’re each good at different things and that works really well together.”

Though Ha said he would like to see Sands improve the velocity of her shot, she appears to have many of the tools necessary to play at the next level. Baldo, who said she looks up to the younger and shorter Sands, also said her teammate has the skill and athleticism to play in college.

Yet, as of now, Sands said she has no plans to continue her soccer career beyond her senior year in 2017.

If a college got in touch, Sands said she would listen.

But while many girls with a comparable skill level and similar accolades are already making college commitments, or at least joining elite clubs in order to gain access to college showcases, Sands said she’s content competing for the local FC-1 of Northbrook and Glenview, where she has played since she was seven.

“Every time tryouts come around, I think whether I want to try out at another club. But I don’t want to play in college and I want to be with my friends,” said Sands, who is joined at FC-1 by several of her Glenbrook South teammates. “I’m comfortable at the club, I get to play with my friends and I don’t feel I need to change.”

As of now, Sands said she is leaning toward studying education in college and could see herself as a teacher and coach one day.

But how will she feel if teammates and opponents whom she’s as good as or better than are playing college soccer, and she is not?

“Part of me feels like I will have regrets if I don’t play, but I won’t take it too hard if I don’t,” Sands said. “If I see other people playing in college, I’ll just be happy for them.”

Notable: After opening the season with a 3-0 setback against Loyola Academy, the Titans have put things together. Besides beating Stevenson and Glenbrook North, they have recorded shutout wins over St. Ignatius 6-0 and Waukegan 7-0. Junior Maude Tarbox (3-1-0) and freshman Libbie Vanderveen (1-0) continue to shine in goal. … The team’s other offensive leaders include junior Callie Pekosh (1 goal, 5 assists), freshman Makayla Stadler (2 goals, 2 assists) and senior Rosemary Maher (2 goals, 2 assists).

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He’s now … a cut above

Gardner turns into a tour de force for the Loyola Academy’s boys volleyball team

BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com

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ileen McCarthy Gardner wanted to know everything there is about Type 1 diabetes. Everything.

That would have been impossible had she continued to work as a full-time manager for Ford Motor Company.

So she retired. She read all about diabetes, asked questions, read more medical literature, asked more questions.

Her new full-time job became Type 1 diabetes researcher (salary: $0).

The woman did not have the metabolic disease.

Her son, Ryan Gardner, had it.

“My mom practically became my nurse,” Gardner, a Loyola Academy senior volleyball player and Winnetka resident,recalls.“She took the initiative to learn about Type 1 diabetes and became a stay-at-home mom because of me. A great mom. A caring mom.”

Ryan Gardner attended an overnight camp for kids with Type 1 diabetes for eight years.The camp is based in Ingleside, way north of Winnetka.

He has served as a volunteer counselor at the camp for the past four

summers.

“It’s stressful for parents,taking care of kids with Type 1 diabetes.The camp gives the parents a break, and the kids like it because of the experience. All kids like the overnight camp experience.”

Not all kids enjoy competing against Gardner, a 6-foot-5, 170pounder listed as an outside hitter/ right-side hitter/middle on LA’s roster.

He was all set to enter the 2016 season as a middle, a year after seeing little playing time as a first-year varsity member. But a starting outside hitter sustained an injury, forcing Ramblers coach Lionel Ebeling to shift Gardner to the outside last month. Gardner shifted.

Gardner dominated. Seamlessly.

He was named to the all-tournament team at Vernon Hills High School on March 26 and then pounded 10 of his 13 kills in the first set of a 28-26, 25-23 loss to visiting St. Patrick on March 31. Gardner, on the next day, finished with 11 kills — second among teammates,behind

freshman outside hitter Jack Howard’s 14 — in LA’s 27-25, 22-25, 28-26 defeat of host Lake Forest High School.

“Coming into the season we didn’t even know which position he’d play,” Ramblers senior libero Noah Regnier says. “Then, at the [Vernon Hills] tournament, he jumped to another level, stunning us.There was no going back. Ryan and I play for the same club, [Skokie-based] Division I, and I’d seen him play well,but nothing like this, nothing like the way he’s playing for us now. He’s got a lot of things going for him. He’s got that killer instinct.”

Gardner’s placid, clean-cut, altarboy mien belies his competitive fire on a volleyball court. Nobody wants to win a match more than Gardner does. He was polite and open and engaging during an interview after a tough loss, that setback to St. Patrick last week. Inside, though, he probably was steaming, wishing he and his teammates could play the Shamrocks in a rematch … that night.

“He’s a great kid, super nice,” Ebeling,whose crew owns a 5-4 record through April 1, says. “A great kid to coach and a very good volleyball player, intense and determined. Losses upset him.A loss probably makes him want to punch his pillow all night and disrupt his sleep.

“Here’s a guy,”the coach adds,“who didn’t get a ton of playing time last year, continued to work hard in the offseason and then emerged as a major contributor this spring. You want a Ryan Gardner on the floor, battling for you, a guy who adapts to any situation, a guy who plays with as much heart as he does. He was a quick learner, and he’s got a high volleyball IQ. But it all comes down to heart, wanting to play. Ryan has a lot of heart.”

Gardner had his heart set on playing baseball for Loyola Academy’s freshman team in 2013. The hopeful pitcher got cut, disheartening him for about two days. He went out for volleyball. Gardner had not had a whole lot of volleyball experience. He had

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“I’ll bet he will show up at our open gyms (in the summertime) for the next 10 years,” the coach, a Loyola Academy graduate, says.

Gardner stands near a volleyball court after a recent home match, discussing his favorite sport and his future and his little brother, Owen, a sixth-grader. Owen is a volleyball player, a libero.

“He’ll be a better player than I am, definitely,”the proud big brother says.

The topic of Type 1 diabetes resurfaces. Gardner briefly addresses the challenges of living with it and playing a sport with it.

“It’s been tough at times, conditioning-wise,”he admits,taking a swig of Gatorade. “I have to make sure I drink a lot of Gatorade.”

Gardner smiles. Perhaps he is thinking about the coincidence of his swig and his reply. Perhaps the son, forever grateful, is thinking about his mom.

“My mom,” he adds a short time later, “is fun and fun-loving. She is a great mom overall.”

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played in a couple of matches in the eighth grade and was, at 5-foot-11, “semi tall for a freshman,”he says.The LA volleyball coaches did not cut him.

The volleyball coaches did not cut any volleyball hopeful that spring.

“Good thing they had a no-cut policy that year,”Gardner,still relieved, says.“Had they had one,I never would have made the team.”

Gardner is considering Xavier (Ohio) University and Providence College, Xavier nudging ahead of PC because one of its new academic programs (sports marketing/sports management) is an appealing one to him.

The opportunity, as an XU student, to complete an internship with the Cincinnati Bengals or the Cincinnati Reds intrigues Gardner. Excites Gardner.

“Maybe I’ll become a sports agent or maybe I’ll work in the marketing department for a professional sports team,” Gardner says.

Ebeling knows one thing for sure: Gardner won’t stay away from Loyola Academy’s campus after he graduates.

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Youth Group Striking the Right Note

By BILL MCLEAN

for the events. Proceeds from a concert in November helped an riana “Bree” Muldoon dis- organization provide new winter cusses her musical tastes coats for impoverished children. over a plate of two eggs Concertgoers felt the beat.

Kids later felt warmth. over medium and sausage links Win-win. at Walker Bros. Original Pancake “Our concerts allow teens to House in Wilmette. She enjoys Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, be themselves in front of an aujust like her mother, Keri, still dience,” Muldoon says. “North does. She and her father, Tom, Shore teens feel pressure to share an appreciation for Billy succeed, sometimes too much Joel tunes. pressure; they don’t feel that at Bree Muldoon later reveals she The YO. The concerts allow them bought a vinyl record player last to open up, to try new songs in year. The thought spinning at 78 front of their friends and peers rpm in my mind is, She cannot be and family members. That’s ima Millennial. Muldoon, with a portant, giving them an opporBaby Boomer job title of Win- tunity like that. Teens need valinetka Youth Organization dation.

Program Director, is a Millen“Our organization is a safe nial, a 22-year-old who has place, and it gives our teens a visited more countries than most sense of community.” passport-toting octogenarians Muldoon earned a Bachelor have. of Science degree in psychology “Music,” the Northbrook and minored in anthropology at native and University of Iowa the University of Iowa. It was in graduate says, “brings people Iowa City where the opportunitogether.” ties to work and interact with The Winnetka Youth Organi- younger kids paved the first zation — The YO, for short — stretch of her career path. Two uses music to attract teens professors needed a nanny. They looking to perform in a non- hired Muldoon. She served as a school setting and to raise funds research assistant in an Infant for worthy causes. Muldoon has Communicative Development organized at least four benefit laboratory and interned at a biconcerts for budding musicians lingual elementary school in since October. The YO rents a Turin, Italy, while studying room in the basement of the abroad.

“I am so grateful for the opWinnetka Community House

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portunity to do what I do at The YO,” Muldoon says. “I get to work with kids (ages 13-18), find my authoritative voice, run events, contact other organizations. Networking … that has been valuable. Our teens volunteer at a ‘A Just Harvest’ community kitchen in Rogers Park.

It’s like a soup kitchen, but it’s more elegant. The people don’t wait in line for their food; they’re served, restaurant-style. My first time there I noticed our teens welcoming and carrying on conversations with the people they had served. That was special.

Nobody told them to do that.

“A man, maybe 50 years old, said to me and others, ‘Thank you.

God bless you.’ That was reassuring, hearing that, for all of us. He was genuinely grateful. His words confirmed our mission, solidified it.”

Muldoon never hesitates to strike up a conversation with people in a public setting. She once startled — and comforted — a woman in the waiting room of a dentist’s office after asking the stranger, “How is your day going?’ Once, in the checkout line at a store, Muldoon was waiting to purchase cashews, avocados and body wash. She turned to another shopper in line and admitted how unusual her basket of items was that day. She made another stranger smile that day.

“I love meeting the avid reader. She has people, and I appreciread The Price of Privilege, ate time with people to

by Madeline Levine. Teenthe fullest,” Muldoon agers from affluent famisays. “I grew up in a lies, Levine posits, have family [her younger more intense psychological brother, Tommy, is 20] problems than expected. that liked to eat dinner She has read, “three or together every night. My four times,” The Alcheparents wanted to know mist, by Brazilian how their kids’ days author Paulo went, what they had Coelho. learned each day. “ T h a t b o o k , ” Dinner was a time Muldoon to slow down, catch up. Today, it says, “is about seems, everybody is recognizing your Pergo, go, go, in a cons o n a l stant state of busyness. My parents, Legend. It also raising me the way stresses the imthey did, how supportance of folportive they were … I lowing your Bree Muldoon | Illustration by Barry Blitt Personal Legend, was super lucky. I feel blessed.” your destiny.”

Muldoon has been to Without Borders.

You listen to Bree “I am interested in doing the Muldoon. You get the feeling she London, Amsterdam, Ireland, Germany, France, Switzerland, hands-on work for non-profits,” is doing just that.

The Millennial’s favorite Led Spain and Central America. The Muldoon says. “I like to get inGlenbrook North High School volved, deeply, with people and Zeppelin song is, “Ramble On,” graduate feels blessed for having with projects. I like challenges. I produced in 1969. The hard rock experienced each trip. A basket- want to push the limits of my track from the Led Zeppelin II ball/softball player in high comfort zone.” album starts slowly, picks up later. school, Muldoon has plans to Books? Muldoon has read a An early portion of the lyrics: Thanks to you, I’m much obliged backpack in Europe with a friend few. Times 100. She has already this summer. Graduate school is devoured six books in 2016, for such a pleasant stay.

Can you hear a teen at The in her promising future, too. She plenty more on the table waiting can see herself applying for a for her eyes. Some of the books YO saying, or singing, those position in a humanitarian aid are for Muldoon, the profes- words to Muldoon after a organization such as Doctors sional. Some are for Muldoon, Muldoon-run event?

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