{"id":102035,"date":"2023-02-17T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=102035"},"modified":"2023-02-17T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T23:12:01","slug":"chicago-public-red-south-conference-winners-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/chicago-public-red-south-conference-winners-make-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Public Red South Conference winners make history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Max Olsan<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medill Reports <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kenwood High School men\u2019s basketball team is having one of its most successful seasons in recent history. They beat powerhouse Simeon for the first time in school history and even won the Red South Conference. Yet the job is not finished, as they still feel they have more to prove. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Kenwood Red South Champions\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/799289950?h=b969b2272d&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>TRANSCRIPT:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Crowd cheers after made basket]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MIKE IRVIN, head basketball coach: Mike Irvin, head basketball coach Kenwood Academy. We got first place in the Red South Conference, probably the toughest conference, definitely in the state of Illinois, and probably one of the toughest conferences in the country. So, to finish up first in the Red South is big because that\u2019s hard to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Crowd cheers after made free throw]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CALVIN ROBINS JR., Kenwood junior: It means huge things, like you said, it\u2019s the first time it has ever happened in school history. Being able to knock off Simeon who has won the Red South so many consecutive times is a great feeling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Music playing]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IRVIN: It means a lot to the school in general. That means we are going in the right direction. We\u2019re winning. So, anytime you are finishing first, kids got an accomplishment, and you got something to point to, so the school loves it. There\u2019s energy here, there\u2019s energy in the building so that just keeps it going.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Crowd cheering during a timeout]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ROBINS: We learned that we can battle with the best teams in the country. We got three seniors, a lot of juniors, and a couple of freshmen and sophomores. Just being able to know everybody\u2019s game like that is really cool, to know each other and know how everybody plays.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IRVIN: When you think back to this season when it\u2019s all over? State championship, we won it. City championship, we won it. Because, like I&#8217;m telling the kids, once you win a city or state championship, that team will be remembered forever. So what do you want everybody to remember you as? A winner. So, when I think back, I just want to think about winning, you know, holding that trophy up, saying we won, we did it, all the hard work paid off.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Max Olsan is a sports media graduate student at Medill. You can connect with him on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_real_mdo\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/max-olsan\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Max Olsan Medill Reports The Kenwood High School men\u2019s basketball team is having one of its most successful seasons in recent history. They beat powerhouse Simeon for the first time in school history and even won the Red South Conference. 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