Joe Trost

Metea Valley's Ryan Solomon doesn't live and breathe soccer year-round like many players in the Chicago area. That's because the three-sport athlete is a rare a find these days in...

One day, Lake Zurich coach Mike Schmitz and St. Charles North coach Eric Willson hope to lead their teams to Toyota Park. But for the sixth consecutive season, both coaches...

For the next two weeks, 80 games and 1,000 players will be showcased in the eighth Pepsi Showdown. But for the first time in the tournament's history, there isn't a...

After Naperville North's season-opening victory over No. 10 Morton on Wednesday, there were a handful of soccer observers and reporters who referred to the Huskies as a dark horse in...

Morton's Joel Salmeron, a preseason candidate for Player of the Year, will miss the first six weeks of the season after straining his left MCL Friday during a team scrimmage....

Darren Geisler, an avid soccer fan from downstate Illinois, sent an email last week thanking me for picking Granite City to advance to the semifinals of the Class 3A state...

It will be a bittersweet weekend for Wheaton Academy coach Scott Marksberry and Naperville North coach Brent Terada. As reported here earlier this season, Marksberry and Terada are resigning from...

As Oak Park coach Paul Wright pointed out last week, one of the Illinois High School Association's slogans is "Do What's Right." It's not always that simple, though. Last week,...

Wheaton Academy's Scott Marksberry became the latest area coach to announce that he won't return in 2012. The 31-year-old has been named head women's soccer coach at John Brown University...

There's no question luck has been on Joe Moreau's side during his high school coaching career. Whether it was in St. Charles or now at Neuqua Valley, Moreau has ended...