Woodard introduced Shelley Gray, Nancy Nestor and Jan Prochnow, who helped get girls athletics started at Round Lake, and Nestor gave the athletes a pep talk. There are a lot of positive things to build on. It's hard to be positive, however, amid the ominous reality that if residents don't approve yet another tax-increase referendum this spring and if the Illinois General Assembly doesn't OK millions of dollars in emergency loans, conditions in District 116 will only get worse. This week a committee will meet to discuss possible cuts in sports and other extracurricular activities. Students didn't know for certain until last October that they would have winter and spring sports this year, and they fear they may not be as fortunate in 2001-02.
Kids bring it up all the time.
We hear new rumors all the time. Everyone wants to know what's going to happen, and no one can answer those questions. Daily is a member of the Panthers' volleyball, basketball and track teams and sings in the school choir. She wants to play college basketball and said she hopes her family moves to another school district if sports disappear. I can't imagine what it would be like without sports.