Normal West High School

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.

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.

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.

History teachers at Normal West High School taught the facts and lessons of 9/11 to students Friday during the 25th anniversary.

This marks the first time a Unit 5 mock trial team is competing at the National High School Mock Trial Championship.

The students and staff of Normal Community West High School surprised the school principal as they celebrated her win of a leadership excellence award.

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.

Unit 5 was accepted for the News Literacy District Fellowship to provide $30,000 in grant funding over the next three years, beginning in the fall.

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.