Youth Sports

Heartland Community College will partner with Normal's Parks and Recreation Department to operate Miracle League Field, a recreational venue for children and adults with disabilities.

LeRoy's T-ball Spectacular was the biggest and last event of the 2025 season. The event drew a large crowd to the town of around 3,500 southeast of Bloomington-Normal.

Kendrique Coats recently accepted a three-year role as mental health advisor for the committee. He spoke with WGLT correspondent Braden Fogerson about the need for more focus on student-athlete mental health.

Republican state lawmakers have signaled they want to ban transgender girls from competing on girls school sports teams in Illinois.

The Illinois House has approved a bill that would ban portrayals of Native Americans in school logos, names and mascots, and another bill that would force a Southern Illinois school to drop its use of the Midgets nickname.

A St. Louis Cardinals outfielder urges young athletes to play multiple sports to improve their chances to make it to the pros. Michael Siani rejects the current trend of specialization throughout youth sports.

A former official with the State Farm Holiday Classic is under suspicion of stealing from the non-profit organization that runs the annual high school basketball tournament in McLean County.

Baseball is happening and all is right with the world. Today, though, let's hear about another bat and ball game — softball. It was big in Central Illinois for many decades with lots of semi-pro teams and even industrial leagues for men and women. it also offered an outlet for young women before they had opportunities to play other organized sports.

Illinois high school basketball teams are grinding through the late parts of their seasons as the state tournament approaches early next month. In this episode of our series McHistory, we learn about the longest-running annual basketball tournament in the state — 112 years and counting.

In another installment of our Sounds of Summer series, WGLT heads to the baseball diamonds of the McLean County PONY Baseball league, where young athletes convene each summer to play in over 1,000 total games.