It has been a special season on both sides of Normal. Normal Community is 11-0 and the No. 1 seed in the Class 7A playoffs. Normal West is 10-1, losing only to NCHS, and seeded No. 2 in Class 6A.

Lauralai Zink is a volunteer with the Central Illinois Special Hockey Association in Bloomington. She serves as a coach for the Central Illinois Courage, a team of players 5 years and older with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The Illinois State men's basketball season opens a new season Monday with high expectations. The Redbirds visit Saint Mary's in California.

The Illinois State women's basketball team has its sights set on another postseason run in 2027. Head coach Kristen Gillespie and the Redbirds prepare for another season amidst a changing landscape in college basketball.

Redbird athletics has announced a marketing agreement with the Illinois Farm Bureau, Country Financial, Prairie Farms, Growmark and IAA Credit Union. It's one of the largest sponsorship deals in ISU Athletics history.

Cody Muhlbauer is part of a "football family" and has continued to follow in his predecessors footsteps. Both of Cody Muhlbauer’s grandfathers played small college football, one a running back, the other a quarterback. At family gatherings, the game is a frequent topic.

The "War on 74" series will conclude each year with a traveling Rivalry Series trophy being presented to the school that scores the most points throughout the year in competitions against their rival.

Luke, who coached ISU's pole vaulters, was inducted into the Illinois Track and Cross-Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2026 after coaching for more than 30 years.

Normal Community is among four Intercity schools fielding a girls flag football team for the first time, joining University High, Normal West and Bloomington. While some schools in Illinois debuted the sport last year, Bloomington-Normal schools hit the field this season.

After two high-profile criminal cases against Twin City cheer coaches, WGLT looks into how coaches are vetted and supervised across local schools and private gyms.

Illinois State Redbird athletics is coming off what it calls a banner year for fundraising.

In an era of NIL and the transfer portal, Caiden Abbs is a throwback … a student-athlete as invested in academics as athletics.