Prep sports: February 2008 Archives

By Sean Fuchs

Neuqua Valley swimming star Brian Alden told the Heat Index on Monday night that he will play water polo this spring.

By Sean Fuchs

EVANSTON -- The Wildcats secured their first ever team state championship on Saturday afternoon with a first place in the 200-yard freestyle relay.

By Sean Fuchs

After the first day of the IHSA boys swimming and diving championships, Neuqua Valley has set itself up for a run to its first team state championship.

By Sean Fuchs

Neuqua Valley senior Brian Alden was significantly faster than the field on Friday afternoon in the prelims of the 50-yard freestyle at the boys swimming and diving state championships. Almost blazing.

UPDATE: Guess who did you know what in the 100 freestyle.

By Sean Fuchs

Neuqua Valley diver Chris Murray advanced to the finals on Friday afternoon at the IHSA boys swimming and diving state championships.

By Sean Fuchs

One area coached termed this year's state qualifying standards as "a significant change" from last season's state cuts. While that may be true, the new standards didn't keep that many area swimmers from advancing to state.

By Sean Fuchs

Central's Mike Greco, Neuqua's Gus Appenbrink and North's Eric Heyson could get one of 32 at-large bids to the state finals. But they won't know until the IHSA website posts the list.

By Sean Fuchs

Wildcats coach Chad Allen said he wants 90 percent of his swimmers to advance to the state meet out of Saturday's sectional at Naperville Central.

By Sean Fuchs

There will be a team champion crowned on Saturday at the Naperville Central Sectional, even though nobody cares.

So the IHSA has decided not to allow newspaper photographers into state finals events (regionals, sectionals and the like are OK) if they don't sign a waiver. Essentially, the agreement prohibits newspapers from selling the photos, limiting them to publication only. Read the IHSA's most recent statement. Do you think the IHSA is right to regulate photos taken at its events, or should it back off? Do you think newspapers should just sign the waiver?

So the IHSA has decided not to allow newspaper photographers into state finals events (regionals, sectionals and the like are OK) if they don't sign a waiver. Essentially, the agreement prohibits newspapers from selling the photos, limiting them to publication only. Read the IHSA's most recent statement. Do you think the IHSA is right to regulate photos taken at its events, or should it back off? Do you think newspapers should just sign the waiver?

By Sean Fuchs

Just because Brian Alden has won the past two state championships in the 50-yard and the 100-yard freestyle, that doesn't mean the Neuqua Valley senior will get his chance to three-peat in those events. Neuqua coach Chad Allen told The Sun on Saturday that he might not have Alden swim both freestyle sprints in the tournament.