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  The  girls varsity tennis team comes into the year with high hopes and two young talents leading their team. Sophomores Amanda Black (a DOI staff member) and Lily VanDixhorn are the team’s singles 1 and 2 players, meaning they are the top two players on the team, according to junior Kiley Nolan. “[VanDixhorn and Black] are our motivation since they’re so young and so good. If it ...

UNICEF, which stands for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, was established in 1946 by the United Nations and has spread around the world to different locations, including Libertyville. The international UNICEF organization strives to “save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescenc...

From childhood to adulthood, Mr. Casey Aubin has always been into sports. Growing up in the south suburbs of Chicago, he and his twin brother attended their two older siblings’ games, the spark for them to follow suit. When Mr. Aubin was younger, he “played all the sports that your parents put you in, like baseball and soccer,” but later found himself gravitating towards football and volleyball. H...

Wildcat football has returned and is in the midst of their season. The Cats have adopted a new style of play this year with the plan to reload, not rebuild, their team. At the time of publication, the team was 0-4, with the hopes of turning around the second half of their season. Offense   The quarterback is the player on the field who sets the cadence for the offense. The traditional, es...

Mrs. Sherri Cote began working as a teacher support clerk in the Teacher’s Center because of her connection to the community and proficiency in customer service. This is her sixth year at LHS, and her interest in the job spiked after being a stay-at-home mom for the previous 21 years. During that time, Mrs. Cote spent a lot of time volunteering at Highland Middle School and LHS, volunteering w...

En garde, ready, fence! The Fencing Club at District 128 is a co-ed fencing team called the Thundercats. It is a self-funded club, started during the 2012-2013 school year; it is not considered an official sport. They compete in the Great Lakes High School Fencing Conference. The Thundercats meet three times a week in the LHS cafeteria for practice and compete in tournaments on most Saturdays....

Junior Anna Hirons had always loved the sound of the cello, so when the opportunity to play the instrument presented itself when she was in fourth grade at Rockland Elementary School, she decided to play. Around the same time, her mom began to take harp lessons, and she “soon jumped on board.” After taking lessons and picking up the harp, she “fell in love with the instrument.” For seven ye...

Mrs. Jewell Ronne, a secretary in the G-P LST, grew up in a small town outside of Lincoln, Nebraska, where she attended Malcolm High School. She graduated with a class size of 30, which was relatively large compared to the typical class of about 15. She explained that “if you’re in a really small school, you do everything. So everybody's out for volleyball, everybody’s out for basketball, everybody�...

Moving from Russia in 1995, Karina Konshin’s parents came to the U.S., Chicago specifically, to give their future family a better life free of discrimination, and in March 2002, Konshin was born. Konshin’s parents followed her great-grandmother to Chicago to escape the discrimination they faced in Russia due to their family’s Jewish ethnicity. The United States also provided a way for the family...

The 2018-19 school year marked the first time sophomore Ally Hardy was enrolled at LHS despite living in Libertyville her whole life. In the middle of eighth grade, when she attended St. Joseph's Catholic School, the Hardy family moved to Brisbane, Australia, for her dad’s job where he runs international department of Rust-Oleum. They arrived a couple of weeks prior to her freshman school year and b...