Breakout Athletes: Chelsy Hyser, Belvidere

Belvidere Accomplishments
2002	First Team All-NIC-9, led Bucs to second with 12-4 record
2003	First Team All-NIC-9, led Bucs to conference title with 13-3 record
2004	First Team All-NIC-9, led Bucs to conference title with 14-2 record

Northwestern Stats
Year	Matches	Kills	Att. Pct.	Ast.	Solo Bl.	Ast. Bl.	Digs
2005	25	126	.284	3	7	49	30
2006	29	222	.289	11	22	108	25
2007	31	318	.316	14	23	112	51
2008	31	304	.290	7	22	92	51
Totals	116	970	.297	35	74	361	157
Notes:
2006	Led Wildcats in attack percentage, blocks and blocks per game, set single game school block record with 15 versus Iowa. Academic All-Big 10.
2007	Led Wildcats in attack percentage. Named AVCA All-Mideast Region honorable mention. Academic All-Big 10.
2008	Led Wildcats in kills, hitting percentage and solo blocks. Graduated fourth on Northwestern career list for block assists, sixth in total blocks and her .297 hitting percentage was second all-time. Academic All-Big 10.

Chelsy Hyser Corning today

Breakout Athletes: Kelsey Hoefer, Freeport

Freeport career
2006-2007	First team all-NIC-10 in girls volleyball,
2007-2008	Special mention in girls basketball on team that won NIC-10 and finished second in IHSA state tournament with 29-5 record
2008-2009	First team all-NIC-10 and conference MVP in volleyball, leading Pretzels to first conference title since 1977.
2008-2009	Graduated with 1,120 points in basketball and was a starter on Freeport team that won the NIC-10 for the second straight year and finished second again in the IHSA state tournament.

College career
2009	Appeared in 11 matches for Towson, recording 86 kills a and 15 blocks on season despite missing part because of injury.
2010	Appeared in 29 matches for Towson, recording 202 kills with a .224 attack percentage. She also recorded 51 blocks.
2011	Played 31 matches for IUPUI, finishing second on team in kills with 316with a .238 attack percentage. Third on team with 86 blocks.
2012	Played in 32 matches, finishing third on team in kills with 330 with a .260 attack percentage. Third on team with blocks with 75. Led UIPUI to 22-10 record.

Kelsey Hoefer Koncir today.

Breakout Athletes: Amanda Omar, Rockford East

East Accomplishments
1991	Honorable mention All-NIC-9
1992	First Team All-NIC-9
1993	First Team All NIC-9, Co-MVP
1994	First Team All NIC-9, MVP
* Graduated with 824 kills in career

College Accomplishments
1995	Played volleyball at University of Arkansas
1998	Played at Missouri State, led team in kills (515) and digs (368), voted second team All-Missouri Valley Conference
1999	Led Missouri State in kills (485) and digs (413), led Missouri State to 22-12 record and was voted first team All-MVC
* Omar's 515 kills in 1998 remain the sixth best season in Missouri State history and her 485 in 1999 remains 10th best.

Professional Career
2001-2002	Played for Gigantes de Carolina in Puerto Rico
2007-2009	Played for Kusammo Pallo Karbut in Finland

Amanda Omar today

Breakout Athletes: Ron Fearn, Rockford East

East Statistics
	Rushing			Passing
Year	Att.	Yards	TD	Comp.	Att.	Yards	TD
1957			6
1958	108	227	4	13	34	308	3
1959	85	184	11	27	75	484	5
Total	193*	411*	21	40	109	792	8

First Team All-Big Eight quarterback in 1959.

Illinois Statistics
		Rushing			Receiving			Passing
Year	G	Att.	Yards	TD	Rec.	Yards	TD	Att.	Comp.	Yards	TD	Int.
1961	9	55	219	0				29	7	73	0	0
1962	9	13	7	0				12	3	42	0	1
1963	10	13	51	0	6	91	0
Total	28	81	277	0	6	91	0	41	10	115	0	1

1957 Boys Cross Country

Big Eight Meet
Pl.	School	Points
1.	East Rockford	32
2.	West Rockford	42
3.	Elgin	58
* Scheduled to be conference championship but not enough teams entered to be official.

Individual Results (Sinnissippi Park, 1.9 miles)
Pl.	Runner	School	Time
1.	Larry Charles	West	10:24.3
2.	Ted Lund	East
3.	Jim Stanley	West
4.	Chuck Stadi	Elgin
5.	Tom Stacy	West
6.	Gary Bredeson	East
7.	Eric Matz	East
8.	Dave Bishoff	East
9.	Hugh Bundlie	East
10.	Bob Fredberg	East

Football: 1959 East

Results
Week 1	Beloit 12, East Rockford 6
Week 2	East Rockford 13, North Chicago 7
Week 3	East Rockford 40, Joliet 6
Week 4	East Rockford 19, West Aurora 13 *
Week 5	East Rockford 20, East Aurora 7 *
Week 6	East Rockford 14, Elgin 6
Week 7	East Rockford 19, Freeport 19
Week 8	West Rockford 9, East Rockford 6
Week 9	East Rockford 26, LaSalle-Peru 0

* Lost by forfeit

Rushing
Player	Att.	Yards	Avg.
Dan Longnecker	44	427	9.7
Bill Howard	86	280	3.3
Dennis Willis	36	257	7.1
Ron Fearn	85	184	2.2
Bill Weems	26	69	2.6
Dick Ogren	7	32	4.6

Passing
Player	Att.	Comp.	Yards	TD	Int.
Ron Fearn	75	27	484	5	5
Gale Gustafson	5	2	51	1	0
Dennis Willis	1	1	13	0	0
Don Longnecker	1	0	0	0	0

Receiving
Player	Rec.	Yards	Avg.
Jerry Sandberg	15	301	20.1
Don Longnecker	9	146	16.2
Bill Weems	2	34	17.0
Bruce Livingston	2	20	10.0
Larry Friel	1	37	37.0
Rich Olson	1	9	9.0
Dennis Willis	1	9	9.0

Scoring
Player	TD	PAT	Total
Ron Fearn	11	1	67
Dan Longnecker	3	0	18
Bill Weems	3	0	18
Dennis Willis	3	0	18
Larry Friel	0	12	12
Jerry Sandberg	2	0	12
Bill Howard	1	0	6
Bruce Livingston	1	0	6
Rich Olson	1	0	6

All-Big Eight
Team	Player	Position	Year
First	Cliff Cramer	Guard	Sr.
First	Ron Fearn	Quarterback	Sr.
First	Dan Longnecker	Halfback	Sr.
First	Bill Howard	Fullback	Sr.
Second	Frank Walker	End	Sr.
Second	Roger Erickson	Tackle	Jr.
Second	Dave Lonsway	Center	Sr.

Football: 1958 West

Results
Sept. 12	West Rockford 14, Harlem 13
Sept. 19	West Rockford 37, Beloit 19
Sept. 26	Elgin 33, West Rockford 0
Oct. 3	West Rockford 6, East Aurora 6
Oct. 10	West Aurora 32, West Rockford 20
Oct. 17	West Rockford 20, Joliet 0
Oct. 24	LaSalle-Peru 34, West Rockford 7
Oct. 31	East Rockford 13, West Rockford 7
Nov. 7	West Rockford 20, Freeport

Scoring
Player	TD	PAT	FG	Total
Curt Washburn	5	0	0	30
Dave Doolittle	3	0	0	18
Waldemar Hauff	0	11	1	14
Roosevelt Barbary	2	0	0	12
Frank Young	2	0	0	12
Mike Boyer	1	1	0	7
Chuck Wolfe	1	0	0	6
Mike Messman	1	0	0	6
Nate Martin	1	0	0	6
Buster Hargraves	1	0	0	6
LaVerne Whitt	1	0	0	6
Cal DeWeerdt	0	2	0	2

Rushing Leaders
Player	Att	Yards	Avg.
Curt Washburn	128	528	4.1
Dave Doolittle	58	405	7.0
Frank Young	51	286	5.6
Roosevelt Barbary	47	223	4.7
LaVerne Whitt	19	135	7.1
Buster Hargraves	16	83	5.2

Passing Leaders
Player	Att	Comp.	Yards	TD
Curt Washburn	30	12	130	2
Mike Boyer	12	3	39	0
Roosevelt Barbary	4	2	43	0
Chuck Wolfe	2	1	47	1
Dave Doolittle	2	2	30	0

Receiving Leaders
Player	Att	Comp.
Chuck Wolfe	13	159
Nate Martin	2	25
Mike Messman	1	47
Tom Mott	1	17
Nick Magacianni	1	13
Frank Young	1	12
Riley Goza	1	8
Tom Capone	1	8

Interception Leaders
Player	Int.
Curt Washburn	2
Riley Goza	1
John Casper	1
Dave Doolittle	1
Jerry Sundly	1

Tackles Leaders
Player	Tackles
Jerry Sundly	76
John Skopinski	48
Stan Witkowski	46
Marty Pirrello	37
Chuck Wolfe	28
Nate Martin	23
Dave Doolittle	22
LaVerne Whitt	22
Lee Frary	21
Chuck Van Horn	19
Frank Young	18