Former U-High girls basketball coach Mike Sondgeroth recalls Meier being “a player who was devoted to the program and gave her all."

After 32 years at Central Catholic High School and 28 as head girls basketball coach, Debbie Coffman has decided to retire. She finished her career with an overall record of 632 to 204.

Illinois State Athletics has announced plans to discontinue its men’s tennis program, effective at the end of the spring 2026 semester.

Normal Community, Normal West and Bloomington High School play in a co-op for girls lacrosse. A new IHSA rule makes it ineligible for playoffs starting in 2027.

Sam Antonacci blossomed into the 2023 NJCAA Division II National Player of the Year by his sophomore season, leading Heartland to a 57-5 record and the national championship. In 2024, Antonacci was drafted in the fifth round by the Chicago White Sox.

While the second season coming to an end, head coach Phillip Barski and the Bloomington Bison want to keep playing hockey at Grossinger Motors Arena. With games Friday and Saturday, the team is close to earning its first-ever postseason berth.

Brandon Holtz called it “a great week, a great experience,” and here is what we know: Holtz learned a great deal in his time at the famed Augusta National Golf Club.

A 2017 Normal West High School graduate, Kinley has been around a lot of winning in his young career as a television sports director. While at KSNT in Topeka, Kansas, he covered a Kansas men’s basketball national championship and two Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl wins. Now this: Illinois’ run to the men’s basketball Final Four as sports director at WCIA in Champaign.

The Illinois State women's basketball team fell to Marshall University, 66-41, in the WNIT championship on Saturday in Huntington, West Virginia.

Illinois State is one of only two institutions that can boast that it had both of its basketball programs playing in the national semifinals.

The ISU men are set to make their first trip to the NIT since 2017, while the Redbird women are returning to the WNIT, where they were a semifinalist last year.

The Redbirds fell to No. 10 seed Evansville, 75-70, in the MVC Tournament semifinals at Xtreme Arena in Coralville, Iowa.