Eastern honors Hoffman's Aussin

The stars of tomorrow will have stars in their eyes when they attend the Chicago Bears Youth Football Camps.

The non-contact camps for ages 6 to 14 will be held in June and July at 30 locations throughout northern Illinois.

Registrations are being accepted. Camps are $365. If you sign up by Friday, you will save $25 on your summer camp registration.

With a station-based training format, the campers are separated by age and experience level.

The program rotates like a class room and keeps kids engaged with fresh material and new challenges. The campers are taught all football-playing positions over the course of five days.

Camp leaders such as Robin Earl, Scott Baum, Kevin Gallmeier and Mickey Pruitt deliver a blend of positive reinforcement, high expectations and love for the game. There is a 0-to-1 student-to-instructor ratio.

First-aid trained staff and an athletic trainer will be available.

Camps in Cook and Lake counties:

June 16-20, St. Alphonsus, Prospect Heights, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

June 23-27, Barbara Rose School, Barrington, 9-3.

July 7-11, Campanelli YMCA, Schaumburg, 9-3.

July 14-18, Poe School, Arlington Heights, 9-3.

July 14-18, Laura B. Sprauge School, Lincolnshire, 9-3.

July 21-25, Barbara Rose School, Barrington, 9-3.

July 21-25, Highland School, Libertyville, 9-3.

For information, e-mail tom@prosportsexperience.com or call (312) 226-7776. The web is rosportsexperience.com/bears/.

Soccer

Beth Aussin (Hoffman Estates) will be inducted into the Eastern Illinois University Hall of Fame at the Panthers' football home opener on Sept. 13.

Aussin, an all-conference player at Eastern for two seasons, was selected to the Missouri Valley Conference All-Centennial Team in 2007. She still ranks No. 1 in EIU career assists and No. 2 in total points and is in the Top 10 in 12 single season and career categories.

• Freshman Carly Gallagher (Barrington) of the University of Wisconsin, who saw action in nine fall games, is featured in an interview on UWBadgers.com as she prepares for the spring season.

Gymnastics

Freshman Holly Reichard (Fremd) of Northern Illinois University tied for first place on the uneven parallel bars (9.750) in the Mid-American Conference gymnastics championships.

Reichard claimed just the sixth individual MAC championship in Northern Illinois history as she tied for first place on the uneven parallel bars with a score of 9.750.

Reichard also took third place in the all-around with a total of 38.975. In addition to her first place finish on bars, she tied for fourth on the balance beam with a team-high score of 9.800. She added a 9.750 on vault and a 9.675 on the floor exercise.

Following the meet, Reichard was named to the Mid-American Conference first team.

Baseball

Grand Canyon University (Phoenix, Ariz.) senior pitcher Tom Catomer (Prospect) was named the Pacific West Conference Pitcher of the Week.

Catomer, who had played at South Mountain Community College, tossed 7½ shutout innings as the Antelopes blanked Cal State San Bernardino 2-0. He struck out four to earn his third win.

This marks the second time this year the 6-foot-2, 210-pound Catomer has received the PacWest pitching honor.

• Tyler Burback (Schaumburg) of North Park was hitting .460 after 17 games. He hit a grand slam against Carthage.

• Steve Godawa (Buffalo Grove) of Valparaiso University earned his team-leading second pitching win with 1¿ innings of scoreless relief against Youngstown State.

• Chad Rebecca (Prospect) had 2 hits, an RBI and a run scored in Stony Brook (N.Y) University's America East opener against Binghamton.

• Chad Christell (Wheeling) of Loras College hit a solo homer against Wartburg.

Softball

University of Chicago sophomore Kathleen Duffy (Barrington) was named the University Athletic Association Athlete of the Week. She hit 11-for-16 with 9 runs scored and 5 RBI during the final six games of the season-opening spring break tour in Tucson, Ariz. She started three games in left, two as a pitcher and one at shortstop.

• Amy Mitchell (Palatine) has a 2-2 pitching record in 9 appearances at Illinois State. She has started six games.

• Through 20 games, Robin Petersen (Maine West) was leading Wartburg College (Waverly, Iowa) with 5 home runs and 19 RBI.

• Kim Chalekian (Wheeling) of Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa) hit a 2-run homer in the 12th inning of a 2-0 win over Buena Vista University. She is hitting .368 in the Iowa conference.

Swimming / diving

Jeff Lichtenstein (Barrington) of Yale closed out his college career by competing in the NCAA national diving championships. He had qualified at the NCAA zone meet, the first male diver from Yale in over 45 years to go to the nationals in diving.

Lichenstein broke 4- and 8-year-old records in 1- and 3-meter diving for Yale and won the diver high point award in the Ivy League for the second year. He was honored with the Winter Academic All-Ivy League selection.

• Sam Wilcher (Christian Liberty Academy) set a Purdue University record in the 200 butterfly (1:45.53) at the Big Ten Championships. He finished sixth in the 200 and seventh in the 100 fly (47.88) in the meet.

Track and field

Suzy Turner (Palatine) of Illinois State won the 1,500-meter run with a personal-best 4:34.74 in the Eastern Illinois Big Blue Classic. She was third in the 800 at 2:18.14, also a personal best.

Football

Joe Newton, legendary high school cross country and track and field coach and popular motivational speaker, will headline the first annual pasta dinner on Saturday, May 3, that is staged by the Hoffman Estates High School football program.

The event will be held in the Hoffman Estates cafeteria from 6-9 p.m. and will bring together former, current and future players at Hoffman.

Cost is $10 for adults and $7 for children under 8.

Newton guided York teams to 26 Class AA state cross country titles and one state track title in over 50 years of coaching. He also was a coach for the U.S. Olympic team in South Korea, making him the first high school coach to ever receive this honor.

For tickets, send the appropriate amount to Hoffman Estates High School, attn: Jeremy Harkin, 1100 W. Higgins, Hoffman Estates, IL. 60169.

For reservations, contact Harkin at (847) 755-5620 or e-mail to jharkin@d211. org.

Volleyball

Barrington has four products on the St. Ambrose University men's team that won the conference title and has a 24-6 record -- Kyle Bolinder, Ryan Schneider, Kyle Warrenfeldz and Chris Koch.

Cheerleading

Beth Longo (Hersey), a freshman at Marquette, completed her first year on the cheerleading squad for men's and women's basketball. The squad performed at all home basketball games as well as the men's Big East tourney in New York and the men's NCAA Tournament in Anaheim, Calif.