Road Warriors: Inside Northwestern baseball’s rigorous travel schedule
By Andre Toran and Ben Friedl Medill Reports The Northwestern University baseball team has traveled 3,500 miles over the first five weekends of the 2019 season. Now, add that to the pre-existing rigors of being a full-time student athlete on the collegiate level; the art of balancing competing priorities. What takes precedent? Here’s an inside […]
Overseas experience propels Brazilian Gulin to Chicago tennis spotlight
By Fernando Shan Medill Reports International tennis teens are seeking out the U.S. tennis scene and college recruiters have an “A” list of players they want – players such as Georgia Gulin. Gulin, a 19-year-old Brazilian standout, is a sophomore athlete on the women’s tennis team at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her career […]
Heading toward basketball stardom – One step at a time
By Louis Ricard Medill Reports As a shooting guard for the French national team, Louis Lesmond has seen it all. Competing for European championships, flying all over the continent, the 17-year-old entered the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance in Paris last year, hoping to become a professional and follow his parents footsteps. He […]
Inspiration cafe serves up more than meals
By Clara Seung Lee Medill Reports Even in the darkest of times, Chef Demetrious Cooper is a source of light at the nonprofit cafe run by the Inspiration Corporation.
LGBTQ+ homeless youth take center stage
by Thomas Ilalaole Medill Reports In the basement of a Lutheran church in Lakeview is a mission of a different kind. One that brought Malia Santiago off of the streets and onto the stage.
True/False Film Festival welcomes spring with annual March march
By Ankur Singh Medill Reports True/False is one of the largest documentary film festivals in the United States. Every year documentary filmmakers and audiences from all over the world arrive in Columbia, Missouri, for four days of documentary screenings and events. Several notable films screened at the festival include Knock Down the House, which follows […]
Glencoe-native transfers home to play tennis for Northwestern
By Neel Madhavan Medill Reports When she was 8-years old, Carol Finke played her first tennis tournament in an event hosted by Northwestern University. Since then, she’s dreamed of playing for the Wildcats. The Glencoe-native caught the eye of Northwestern women’s tennis head coach Claire Pollard at a young age.
Freshman Focus: Meet the 2018-19 rookies of Northwestern baseball
By Andre Toran Medill Reports March 7 – Episode two of Freshman Focus brings you freshman IF/OF Shawn Goosenberg. The California native talks about his commitment to Northwestern University, baseball and his decision to become a Wildcat. Goosenberg felt he fit within Northwestern’s culture and loves the opportunities the university offers for student athletes to succeed […]
Survival of the skillest – How Europe is no longer reacting to basketball trends; it’s setting them
By Louis Ricard Medill Reports Giannis Antetokounmpo and Luka Doncic may be on the verge of a historic moment. There has never been multiple European NBA award winners in the same season. But 2019 could be different with Doncic as the frontrunner for Rookie of the Year and the Greek Freak firmly in the mix […]
Puerto Rico Association of University Professors rallies against proposed budget cuts
By Ankur Singh Medill Reports Puerto Rico remains in the midst of a massive fiscal crisis with over $72 billion in debt. To address this crisis, in 2016 the United States Congress created a Fiscal Oversight Board that was not elected through the passage of the PROMESA ACT in order to manage and reduce Puerto […]