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What Inspires the Boys Basketball Team

What Inspires the Boys Basketball Team

Alanna Ross May 24, 2023

The Knights Boys basketball team has had an awesome season this year. Their overall record was 25-6, with their conference record being 7-3. They also defeated the Manual Rams in the game to win the regional...

Richwood’s Athletes Pursue Excellence in Higher Education

Richwood’s Athletes Pursue Excellence in Higher Education

Andi Potts February 28, 2023

The college that a high school student decides to go to will often determine the course of their life. This is especially important for athletes who have a promising chance of going professional after...

Richwoods Basketball

Richwoods Basketball

Andi Potts January 22, 2023

The Richwoods varsity boys' basketball team started their basketball season with wins against Rockford Boylan, St. Charles North, Chicago Marshall, and Freeport. The Knights participated in the annual...

NFL: The Injuries and The Injured

NFL: The Injuries and The Injured

Larry Batton January 22, 2023

As we all know, football is a physical sport that requires a lot of mental strength as well as physical strength and sometimes during the season, players break. Starting the 2022-23 season, there...

Kyrie Irvings Suspension

Kyrie Irving’s Suspension

Alanna Ross January 17, 2023

Kyrie Irving is a professional basketball player for the NBA. He plays for the Brooklyn Nets, a team based out of Brooklyn, New York. He was suspended from the team recently, and Nike canceled his shoe...

Justin Fields and team mates celebrate a victory. Brian Casella, Chicago Tribune

NFL season- early thoughts

Larry Batton October 31, 2022

Football is one of the most joyous and painful sports at the same time. Football is unforgiving, for a lot of football fans the pain of losing 10 years ago in the playoffs still stings to this day and...

Richwoods Knights Girls Swimming

Richwoods Knights Girls Swimming

October 28, 2022

The Richwoods Knights girls’ swimming team is diving right into the new school year. Starting off strong, freshman Kara Hoffmann is being nominated for Journal Star’s “athlete of the week.” Coach...

Athlete of the Week

Athlete of the Week

October 28, 2022

The Peoria Journal Star Athlete of the Week is a weekly vote that anyone in the community can participate in, which recognizes local high school athletes’ accomplishments. A list of nominees is released...

The Importance of Student Sections in Volleyball

The Importance of Student Sections in Volleyball

October 28, 2022

When you think of high school sports, you may picture football or basketball, usually not volleyball. The popularity of mainstream sports creates a huge support system for those teams but sports like volleyball...

Richwoods Fall Sports

Richwoods Fall Sports

October 28, 2022

Our Richwoods Knights football team started their season off in a hard-fought battle against the Bloomington Purple Raiders. The final score was 26-28 in favor of the Purple Raiders. Our season has been...

Senior Jamauri Winfrey

Knights Take Down State-Ranked Irish

Maggie Urich and Audrey Drozd February 14, 2022

On December 3rd of 2022, the Richwoods Knights boys’ basketball team played against the Illinois state ranked, Peoria Notre Dame boys’ team and managed to bring home the win. The Knights defeated...

More Than Just Skill

More Than Just Skill

Montrell Wright and Audrey Drozd December 14, 2021

Mardy Fisher, tennis player for the United States says, “Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It’s not perceived as very masculine. We’re so trained to be “mentally tough,”...

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