The Chatham Glenwood High School varsity girls return several key players from last season, including senior forward Kate Matthews.

The transition from one high school basketball season to the next can present a number of challenges. 

IHSA and IESA sports and activities have resumed in Illinois, following actions by both governing bodies last week.

Cross country runners from Glenwood High School completed another amazing season by competing in the ShaZam Racing/MileSplit Illinois Cross Country championships last Saturday at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe.

The Glenwood High School boys and girls cross country teams both claimed some hardware last Saturday in winning team titles at the Class 2A Jacksonville Regional.

The banner season for the Glenwood High School girls tennis team continued last weekend, as the Titans showed off their depth and won the Central State Eight Conference title for the first time since 2016. 

This time around, Glenwood High School senior Aidan Peterson got the better of rival Matt Herren of Rochester at a dual cross country meet at Rochester Community Park last Saturday morning.

The Glenwood Middle School girls softball team capped off a dominant and undefeated season last Saturday by defeating Pana 11-3 to win an IESA Regional title.

Rylann Law and William Patzia paced the Glenwood Middle School girls and boys cross country teams as they got their seasons underway at Community Park in Chatham last Tuesday on a sweltering hot afternoon with temperatures over 90 degrees and the heat index at 100.

The Glenwood High School boys and girls cross country seasons will begin in historic fashion this Saturday, as the Titans host their first-ever meet at GHS.

The Illinois High School Association announced its plans for the 2020-21 school year last week, with four truncated seasons established.

.The Glenwood High School varsity boys basketball team used a huge third quarter run to take control before finishing off a 45-39 victory over Carbondale in a semifinal game of the Class 3A Mt. Vernon Sectional last week.

Before a rather sparse crowd, the Glenwood High School boys basketball team captured the IHSA Class 3A Taylorville Regional title by defeating Jacksonville 54-40 last Friday night.

Defense and 3-point shooting carried the Glenwood High School varsity boys in their opening game of the Class 3A postseason Tuesday night in Taylorville.

Casey Erickson has been hired as the next head coach for the Glenwood High School varsity baseball team, with formal approval given at last week’s Ball-Chatham Board of Education meeting.

Glenwood High School junior Levi Vorreyer has qualified for state for the third year in a row in one-meter diving (11 dives), and he will be joined by the members of the 400 yard freestyle relay squad.

The Glenwood High School wrestling team has dealt with plenty of challenges this season, and the drama continued heading into last weekend’s Class 2A Individual State Tournament in Champaign.

The Glenwood High School wrestling team has two sectional champions and a total of four individuals headed to this weekend’s IHSA Class 2A Individual State Tournament at the State Farm Center in Champaign.

The Glenwood High School wrestling team will send seven wrestlers on to this weekend’s IHSA Class 2A Mascoutah Individual Sectional.

The Glenwood High School boys swimming and diving team won four of the first five events, then took the top two spots in the final event, the 400 freestyle relay, to take home the Central State Eight Conference title last Saturday at Eisenhower Pool in Springfield.

As the IHSA wrestling postseason gets underway this weekend, the Glenwood High School wrestling program is dealing with the repercussions of violating two IHSA by-laws.

The Glenwood High varsity boys basketball team didn’t have a lot of time to dwell on Friday night’s disappointing overtime loss at Decatur Mac-Arthur, with an afternoon matinee scheduled for Saturday at Springfield High in a make-up from a December postponement.

The Glenwood High School varsity wrestling team headed south last weekend and came home with the team title at the 59th annual Murdale Tournament in Carbondale.

The Glenwood High School wrestlers won eight of 14 matches and had four victories by pin in defeating Rochester 41-28 in a Central State Eight Conference dual in Rochester last Friday night.

In any way you want to look at it, by any definition or statistic, the 2019 Glenwood High School football team had one of the best seasons in the program’s history.

The Glenwood High School boys swimming and diving season is underway, with sophomore Will Turk breaking the school record in the 100 yard breaststroke at last Saturday’s Macomb Invite.

The Chatham Village Board held both a regular meeting and committee of the whole affair Tuesday night at Municipal Hall, with all trustees except Matt Mau in attendance. 

A triumvirate of state qualifiers, including two state medalists, will lead a strong Glenwood High School wrestling squad this season.

The hype proved to be real, and as a result, the East St. Louis Flyers ended the Glenwood Titans’ dream football season on a very cold and gloomy day last Saturday in the shadow of the Gateway Arch.

Big plays and another tremendous all-around effort from senior Luke Lehnen helped propel the Glenwood Titans past New Lenox Providence 40-16 last Saturday in a Class 6A football playoff quarterfinal.

For quite a while last Saturday afternoon, it seemed like the Glenwood Titans were playing against several different opponents in their second round Class 6A football playoff matchup with Lemont.

The Glenwood High School girls volleyball team stretched heavily favored Rochester to the limit in last week’s Class 3A Jacksonville Regional championship match.

On a cold and blustery Saturday afternoon before a rather sparse crowd, the Glen-wood Titans football juggernaut remained undefeated by taking down Danville 56-20 in a first round Class 6A playoff game at GHS.

The Glenwood High School boys soccer team had outscored its three postseason opponents 16-0 before Friday’s Class 2A Bethalto Sectional championship game against Triad, with the contest being played on the turf field at Collinsville High School.

The Glenwood Titans will begin their Class 6A postseason football journey this year against a team the program has never faced.

The game of the year in the Central State Eight Conference lived up to the billing, and then some, last Friday night as the Glenwood Titans capped off an undefeated regular season with a 56-26 thumping of previously unbeaten Rochester.

Down 18-10 in the third and deciding set, the Glenwood High School girls volleyball team summoned an incredible comeback and rallied to claim a 26-24 win to defeat Jackson-ville Tuesday night in a Class 3A Jacksonville Regional semifinal match.

The Glenwood Middle School boys and girls cross country teams are a fixture at the IESA State Meet each fall, collecting 14 total state championships since the inception of the state series in 1979.

With sophomore Nia Gibson setting the pace, the Glenwood High School girls and boys cross country teams took home team titles at last Saturday’s Central State Eight Conference Meet at Jacksonville Community Park.

Thanks to overwhelming community support, the Glenwood High School volleyball program made a donation of $1,600 to Cindy Davidsmeyer, Director of Community Support with Simmons Cancer Institute in Springfield.

A road trip to Hancock Stadium at Illinois State University last Friday night included several ingredients of playoff football.

In a season full of races in hot and humid conditions, it made sense that temperatures were near 40 degrees with gusty winds at Saturday’s IESA Class 3A Chatham Sectional cross country meet at Community Park.

The Glenwood High School varsity boys and girls cross country teams competed at the Peoria Invite at Detweiller Park last Saturday, while the JV teams were in action at the Dan Moy Jacksonville Invite.

The message was delivered loud and clear by the coaching staff last week, and the Glenwood Titans responded with a fully dominant performance in taking down Decatur MacArthur 48-0 last Friday at GHS.

The Glenwood offense racked up nearly 600 yards of offense, including just under 500 on the ground, in improving to 5-0 with a 55-16 win at Jacksonville last Friday.

After defeating Stanford Olympia 3-2 in dramatic, walk-off fashion just a couple hours earlier, the Glenwood Middle School girls softball team had to regroup and focus on the IESA Class AA state championship game against undefeated Manteno last Saturday at Champion Fields in Normal.

The Glenwood Titans’ first team offense and defense took care of business early and often last Friday night in a 56-6 win at Decatur Eisenhower.

Jack Bima and two relievers combined to hold A-C Central (co-op) to one run, and the Glenwood Middle School boys baseball team posted a 6-1 victory to claim the IESA Class 3A Chatham Regional title Monday evening at GIS.

Cam Patterson’s line drive triple to deep center in the bottom of the ninth scored Grace Ballard and gave the Glenwood Middle School girls softball team a dramatic 7-6, walk-off victory over Pleasant Plains Monday night in the IESA Class AA Chatham Regional title game.

The Glenwood Titans’ football machine was cranking on all cylinders last Friday night, with GHS improving to 3-0 after overwhelming Springfield High 49-20.