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Attending a sporting event at Hinsdale Central High School isn't the only way to support a student-athlete - or a good cause. Many Red Devil teams make it a practice to hold annual fundraisers or drives to benefit causes close to members' hearts. Since the start of the school year, the cheerleaders have held a fundraiser at Fuller House, the girls swim and dive team held a car wash at the school, the boys and girls golf teams held a food drive for HCS Family Services and the...
Dru Devata Clarendon Hills What was your goal going into your senior golf season? There's nothing like winning as a team, and that's the main goal. Winning individually is great, but winning as a team is a different level. It's a different dynamic. It makes the winning that much sweeter and It makes the losing a little more painful What has playing for the Red Devils meant to you? Playing golf at Central has given me a different community, and when I was an underclassman it ga...
Hinsdale Central golfers Dru Devata and Charlie Norby watch the paths of their respective drives Sept. 12 during a match against Glenbard West at Hinsdale Golf Club. The Red Devils defeated their West Suburban Silver conference rival Hilltoppers 141-157. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
Hinsdale Central's Grace Gruber competes during the Red Devil Invite girls cross country meet Sept. 7 at Katherine Legge Memorial Park. Gruber was one of four Red Devils to finish the 2.9-mile race. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Lights. Camera. Action! Hinsdale Central has gone Hollywood for Homecoming 2024, looking to Tinseltown to theme this year's weeklong series of festivities leading up to Friday night's football game and Saturday night's dance. On Monday, student organizers from the school's Varsity Club board talked about the fun ways they planned to stir the spirit of their fellow Red Devils, starting with an Adam Sandler Day to kick things off. Sophomore Carolyn Kentra said the idea was to...
Members of the Hinsdale Falcons football and cheer squads were featured Friday night on Dickinson Field before the start of the Hinsdale Central- Lyons Township football game. The Falcons formed a tunnel to welcome the Red Devils onto the field. Complete game information appears on Page 36. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
The Hinsdale Central Hall of Fame will induct six new members tonight, Sept. 19, at its dinner at Ruth Lake Country Club. The event has taken place every year since the inaugural class was inducted in 1997. Following are brief bios of members of the Class of 2024. Sandy Murray Gbur Class of 1973 As a high schooler, Gbur volunteered at The Farm Club (today's Hanson Center) in Burr Ridge and taught a young boy with a developmental disability how to bowl. This experience led Gbur...
Hinsdale Central senior Cooper Revord competes in the Red Devil Invite Saturday at Katherine Legge Memorial Park. The Devils scored 304 points and placed 12th in the cross county meet, which was won by Palatine with 102 points. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Hinsdale Central golfer Elyssa Abdullah chips onto the green of the par-4 first hole at Ruth Lake Country Club Aug. 22 while teammate Sara Han blasts her third shot out of the sand to give herself a par-saving putt during a match against LT. The Red Devils got the best of their conference rival Lions 159-201. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
With the start of classes at Hinsdale Central High School last week came the start of the Red Devils sports season. The addition of girls flag football this year brings the number of fall sports teams to 10. In this, the first of a three-part season preview series, coaches for the boys and girls golf teams and girls swim/dive team share insights on their teams and the athletes they hope will take them into the postseason. Boys golf First meet: Aug. 15 @ Edwardsville Invite (V...
The most significant improvement project at Hinsdale Central High School over the summer, according to Principal Bill Walsh, didn't require any heavy equipment. "We renumbered all the rooms," Walsh revealed on a recent campus tour shortly before students returned. Rooms now have four-digit identifiers, with 0100 numbers in the basement, 1000 and up on the first floor and 2000 on the second. "We ran out of numbers," said Walsh, explaining the way expansion over the years had...
The sun is shining and a cool breeze is blowing the morning of July 18 as Hinsdale Central juniors and seniors arrive for their seventh day of football camp at Dickinson Field. Before camp started July 8, it had been more than eight months since players and coaches were on the gridiron. "It always feels like a long time coming, but once it's here, its such a familiar, comfortable feeling, so it's great," varsity head coach Brian Griffin said. Quarterback Riley Contreras, a jun...
Kiran Amegadjie didn't start playing football until age 13 when he joined the Hinsdale Falcons youth program. "I remember getting hit, and I remember my first headache after a long practice and all the soreness I felt," Amegadjie recounted. "I was like, 'What did I just get myself into?' " The Hinsdale native had no idea he'd gotten himself onto a path that less than 10 years later would lead to the National Football League as the 75th pick in the 2024 Draft by his hometown...
After throwing out the first pitch for the Clarendon Hills Softball Queen of the Hills tournament, Hinsdale's Alexander Brown took over the microphone to shout, "Play ball!" The 10U round robin tournament was hosted by the Lady Red Devils June 9. Proceeds from the event went to benefit the Make-A-Wish Illinois organization. Alexander is currently undergoing treatment for a brain tumor and will be starting kindergarten at The Lane School this fall. He is also looking forward...
Elyssa Abdullah plays golf every day. But despite living just a couple of miles from Hinsdale Golf Club, the Hinsdale Central golfer never set foot on the links that serve as the home course for the Hinsdale Central boys team. "We've never had the opportunity to play on it," Abdullah said. That all changed this week as Abdullah prepared for the 97th Women's Western Junior Championship, taking place June 10-14 at Hinsdale Golf Club. Hinsdale last played host to the tournament...
For the sixth straight season, Hinsdale Central girls lacrosse finished among the state's elite. A 10-7 win over Lake Forest Saturday in the third-place game on Central's Dickinson Field avenged a 7-9 loss to the Scouts back on March 14, the first game of the season. It also helped salve the disappointment from the Devils' Friday night defeat to eventual state champ Loyola Academy in a hard-fought contest. "We definitely showed up in (the Lake Forest) game, and felt like we...
John Naisbitt began his tenure as Hinsdale Central's varsity boys tennis coach in 2010, hoping to lead the team to its fourth straight championship. Instead the team came in second. "I learned a great deal about details and making sure everything was in line and you can't take anything for granted," he said. In 2011, the team came in fifth. "Then 2012 came along. Martin Joyce, Eddie Grabill. We won four straight," he said. "We did five more in the next eight years." Naisbitt...
Hinsdale Central's Ryan Schultz fires a pitch toward the plate during a home game against conference rival Proviso West May 11. The senior helped lead the Red Devils past the Panthers 2-0. The team wrapped up its season Saturday with a 4-5 loss to Waubonsie Valley in the IHSA regional championship. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
The Hinsdale Central girls lacrosse team will represent Red Devil Nation at the IHSA state final tournament Friday and Saturday, May 31 & June 1, at Hinsdale Central. The girls will face off against Loyola Academy in the first semifinal match at 5 p.m. Friday. If victorious, they will play in the championship game at noon on Saturday, If not they will vie for third place at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Good luck Devils! Additionally, Hinsdale residents Shannon Earley and Molly Salvino, both senior members of Benet Academy’s girls l...
As the Hinsdale Central girls track and field team was completing the final leg of its season Saturday at the IHSA state final at Eastern Illinois University, head coach Pat Richards was wrapping up his 34-year tenure. "It's been a long but a good road," said Richards, who watched his Red Devils compete valiantly but come up short of registering points this year. "Not the way I wanted to go out." He acknowledged that the depth of talent in Illinois right now is the most he's...
Hinsdale Central's Barry Zhu returns a ball during the West Suburban Conference championship meet on May 10. Zhu and his doubles partner Aidan Hernandez took third place in the 1st doubles bracket in the meet, which the Red Devils hosted and won. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Members of the Hinsdale Central girls track team will compete at the IHSA state final today through Saturday, May 16-18, at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Representing Red Devil Nation are sophomore Ella Gray in the 400 meters; sophomore Lily Hodneland in the 800 meters; senior Camden Griffin in the 1,600 meters; seniors Keira Leech and Leena Abu-Ghazalah in the 300-meter hurdles; seniors Zari Dorris, Chistina Tresslar, Ana Hodneland and sophomore Molly Gilmartin in both the 4x100 and 4x200 relays; seniors Pola...
Amy Owens had undergone a cancer diagnosis, a total mastectomy and chemotherapy when I first met her in 2007. She had generously agreed to meet with me once a month for a year as she recovered from a rare form of breast cancer, invasive triple negative ductile carcinoma, as part of our Making a Difference partnership with Wellness House. I talked to her again in September 2009, about a year after my story was published and days before she celebrated her second year of being...
Hinsdale Central's Emily DiTomasso battles for the ball May 2 during a home match against Glenbard West. DiTomasso registered an assist on Avery Edgewater's goal in the game, but the Red Devils came up short in a 2-1 loss to the conference rival Hilltoppers. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Members of the Hinsdale Central girls badminton team will compete at the IHSA state tournament Friday and Saturday, May 10-11, at DeKalb High School. Representing Red Devil Nation are singles players senior Nora Sriparam and junior Kacy Liu, and the doubles teams of seniors Rachele Cameli & Maria Jiao and juniors Hannah Fang & Tiffany Tu. Good luck Devils!...
