Friday, May 10, 2013
Tony Smith resigned his position as teacher and coach at Bolingbrook High School for the same positions at Homewood-Flossmoor High School.
Leaving Bolingbrook for Homewood-Flossmoor was "another opportunity at the right time to go build a new program," Tony Smith told the Bolingbrook Reporter. Smith resigned May 2 from his position as head coach of the Bolingbrook Lady Raiders basketball team and as a health and driver's education teacher. He will have those same positions at Homewood-Flossmoor in the fall. Sign up for our free, daily e-newsletter. Like Bolingbrook Patch on Facebook. “Bolingbrook is home, Bolingbrook will always be home, and Bolingbrook gave me a great start to my career,” Smith told the Reporter. "I’ve been at Bolingbrook 12 years, and sometimes you just want a different challenge.” Smith will join former Bolingbrook High School Athletic Director Alec …
Monday, May 6, 2013
Tony Smith led the Bolingbrook High School Lady Raiders to four state championships and two second place finishes between 2006 and 2011.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Tony Smith led the Bolingbrook High School Lady Raiders to four state championships and two second place finishes between 2006 and 2011.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Tony Smith led the Bolingbrook High School Lady Raiders to four state championships and two second place finishes between 2006 and 2011.
Updated: Friday, 9 a.m. The search for Bolingbrook High School's next girls head basketball coach will start immediately, Bolingbrook Athletic Director Rob Rose told the Bolingbrook Reporter. Sign up for our free, daily e-newsletter. Like Bolingbrook Patch on Facebook. "As a graduate of Bolingbrook High School, I remember a day when girls basketball wasn't anywhere near it is now," Rose told the Reporter. "They're going to be tough shoes to fill. Tony did a great job with building our program into one of the best in the country." "Numerous" high-profile candidates applied for the Homewood-Flossmoor coaching job, according to the Chicago Tribune. H-F Athletic Director Alec Anderson (who was previously the athletic director at …
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Smith will coach some of the the best female players in the country in the 2013 McDonald's All-American girls basketball game April 3.
Bolingbrook High School Head Girls Basketball Coach Tony Smith has been selected to be head coach in the 2013 McDonald’s All-American girls basketball game. Sign up for our free, daily e-newsletter. Like Bolingbrook Patch on Facebook. The game invites top players from across the country to compete on either the East or West team. Twenty-four high school girls basketball players were chosen; only one, Linnae Harper from Whitney Young, is from Illinois. Several lady Raiders, including Ariel Massengale and Morgan Tuck, have played in the annual showcase. Smith's Lady Raiders have won four state championships and finished second two other times. BHS Athletic Director Rob Rose said he is one of the "most successful high school Basketball …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The Bolingbrook High School girls basketball team defeated Joliet Catholic Academy in the Pontiac Thanksgiving Tournament Monday.
The Bolingbrook High School girls basketball team defeated Joliet Catholic Academy Monday night in the Pontiac Thanksgiving Tournament 73-60. Kennedy Cattenhead, a four-year varsity player, had 27 points, according to the Joliet Herald-News. Shay Robinson had 14 points and Amarah Coleman had 13. Bolingbrook forced 24 turnovers. Bolingbrook held a slight lead against JCA in the third and held on for the win with an 18-9 closing run, according to the Herald-News. Bolingbrook Coach Tony Smith told the Herald-News he's still figuring out a regular line-up after eight of the team's strongest players graduated last year. “A lot of new faces, young faces,” he told the Herald-News. “We made the same mistakes we make in practice, so it’s a long…
Monday, December 19, 2011
Lady Raiders squander an eight-point lead at half and take their first loss of the season in the first round of the Nike Tournament of Champions.
Bolingbrook's Morgan Tuck and Cicero-North Syracuse's (NY) Breanna Stewart will be teammates next season at the University of Connecticut. On Monday, Tuck, the Bolingbrook High School girls basketball team's stud forward, and Stewart battled it out in Phoenix for bragging rights come fall 2012. Tuck and Stewart each led their respective teams, but Stewart and the Northstars ultimately proved to be too much as Cicero claimed a 43-40 victory over the Lady Raiders in the first round of the Nike Tournament of Champions. The loss was Bolingbrook's first of the season. The Lady Raiers are now 6-1 on the season. The game was one of the must-see matchups in the first round of the Joe Smith Division, which features 11 of the nation's top 25 teams…
Friday, November 25, 2011
Head coach Anthony Smith’s squad has finished in the Top 5 nationally the last few years, including a second place finish in 2010-11.
Close doesn’t cut it if you are the Bolingbrook High School girls basketball team. The Lady Raiders want to be national champions, but fell a game short and finished second best last season. Bolingbrook lost 59-54 to California’s Brea Olinda in a double overtime game in the Nike Tournament of Champions, which wound up costing the team national bragging rights. “They were a team we could’ve probably beat if we were all focused that night,” Smith said. “It was a bad night for us and it came back and bit us in the hand. So we had to settle for second. “We’ve always wanted to be the best. Not just the best in Bolingbrook. No just the best in the state of Illinois. We want to be the best in the country, so we try to go out and play the toughest…
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The eight seniors returning on the Bolingbrook High School girls basketball team are looking to lead by example and wind up playing for a national championship.
How do you top a third-straight state championship? Easy, members of the 2011-12 Bolingbrook High School girls basketball team say: win a national title. The Lady Raiders return eight seniors this season, and they're all eying national hardware. All eight have received scholarships to play Division I basketball next season. “I think it shows that we put in a lot of hard work and dedication and it paid off in the long-run,” senior guard/forward DaLacy Anderson said. During head coach Anthony Smith’s 11-year tenure, this class tops his 2006-07 senior class, which had six girls receiving DI scholarships. Keeping track of eight could-be college standouts could pose difficult for many, but Smith said his girls are coachable. “It’s pretty easy…
Friday, August 12, 2011
Williams was also considering offers from Central Michigan, Bradley, Southern Illinois and Roosevelt.
ChaRosnese Williams, a reserve on last season's Bolingbrook High School Lady Raiders girls basketball team, orally committed to play collegiate basketball at Stetson, according to a Chicago Tribune report. "It was the best fit for me academically and basketball-wise," Williams told the Tribune. "They will be able to develop me as a student of the game. According to the report, Williams was also considering offers from Central Michigan, Bradley, Southern Illinois and Roosevelt. Stetson plays in the Atlantic Sun Conference and finished with a 20-13 overall record in 2010-11 (14-7 conference record). The Hatters wound up losing 99-34 to the University of Tennessee in the first round of the NCAA Women's Championship.
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Lettuce
8:57 am on Monday, May 6, 2013
That is why we lose quality teachers in this district. Why work where you are treated unprofessionally and paid poorly? As a taxpayer, you should want the best teachers you can get, not the ones willing to work for less. You get what you pay for, Observer. I bet you will be the one complaining about crappy teachers in the near future. But hey, you told the good ones to go elsewhere. The schools … more ›