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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


The ETHS girls flag football won a sectional championship last season.

‘They don’t want powderpuff anymore’: Illinois’ girls flag football is gaining yardage throughout the state

May 9, 2025

A year ago, Carlton Rosemond volunteered to help coach a girls flag football club at Evanston Township High School. Today, he leads a sectional championship-winning varsity program that will field a junior...

Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller and assistant coach Scott Hiller speak during then-No. 4 Northwestern’s victory against Marquette on Feb. 19. Amonte Hiller has helped usher in a major lacrosse boom in Illinois for more than two decades.

Lacrosse: Northwestern’s limitless legacy sees sport skyrocket at local level

February 27, 2024

During the late 1990s, a legion of lacrosse legends descended upon Winnetka’s Skokie Playfields to coach a youth clinic. Several dozen players, many of whom hardly — if ever — had grasped a stick,...

Eleven girls wearing masks sit on the wooden floor of a high school gym. There are three posters on the floor in front of them: one is yellow, one is orange, and one is yellow.

Summer sports get going at ETHS with updated mask regulations

April 16, 2021

When COVID-19 shut schools down last year, it didn’t just move classes online — it forced student athletes to put their sticks down, mitts away and rackets to the side as all high school sports came...

A picture of Evanston Township High School’s exterior.

ETHS reports a record-high student-athlete GPA

October 29, 2019

After removing the athlete GPA requirement, the athletics department at Evanston Township High School boasted the highest GPA in department history. In the 2018-19 academic year, the average GPA for student-athletes...

Evanston Township High School, 1600 Dodge Ave. A federal appellate court ruled against an ETHS para-ambulatory athlete on Friday.

Court denies appeal on ETHS athlete discrimination suit

February 6, 2018

An Evanston Township High School athlete had his hopes of running in a state meet likely dashed on Friday, after a federal appellate court held up a ruling that denied his request that the Illinois High...

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