Popular runner Andrew Kuebrich, alumni of Plano High School and Monmouth College, was killed in a biking accident in Taiwan on Wednesday. 

In its 27th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade  Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, today announced Michael Clevenger of MacArthur HS as its 2011-12 Gatorade Illinois Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year.  Clevenger is the first Gatorade Illinois Boys Cross Country  Runner of the Year to be chosen from MacArthur HS. 

 In its 27th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPN HS, today announced Amanda Fox of Naperville Central High School as its 2011-12 Gatorade Illinois Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.  Fox is the first Gatorade Illinois Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year to be chosen from Naperville Central High School.  

Southeast High School girls track and field coach Tom McBride will be entering the Illinois Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in a ceremony Saturday at the annual clinic at Oak Park-River Forest. (via http://www.sj-r.com)