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Limestone volleyball, runner-up statewide in Class 3A, was voted the Peoria Journal Star 2024-25 high school team of the year.
The annual all-star Shrine game pits the top Illinois high school players against one another, in benefit of the Shriners Hospitals for Children.
This is the fifth recruit in five days to pick Illinois football, whose Class of 2026 keeps growing in esteem.
What's up with Peoria's top girls basketball programs this summer, including Division-I recruits and incoming stars.
Here is a complete list of the 2025 all-state baseball teams, as selected by the Illinois coaches association.
Bradley junior guard Demarion Burch entertained kids at a youth instructional camp by leaping over two 7-foot teammates to deliver a dunk. Watch here.
Here is a full list of the high school athletes who were voted as Journal Star athlete of the week during the 2024-25 school year.
Here are the annual all-conference teams for the Big 12, including baseball, softball and girls soccer for the 2025 Illinois high school season.
College football programs from the Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, ACC and the Pac 12 have offered a scholarship to Mack Sutter, a QB/LB/WR from Dunlap, Illinois, near Peoria.
It also wraps up my eighth season covering sports for Wednesday Journal. Before I present my “Tatesies” awards, I’d like to ...
After a one-year tweak, Illinois will return to its previous format for the high school basketball state finals for 2026.