Congratulations to the Lincoln team. It is always nice to be #1, yes. But my goodness! They are above EVERY OTHER team in the state. They are not at the bottom. Out of 100 such teams, they are in the 99 percentile! They now have a challenge for the next year.
THE LINCOLN TEAM SHOULD BE CELEBRATED! Yay for Lincoln!
High Five! I may have given out the wrong impression. I’m 100% stoked for the Lincoln Lady Railers high school basketball team, after all, it’s my hometown and birthplace.
I just never knew that a private parochial school in Illinois had the ability to attract students from such a broad geographic region, to include 120 communities, and in this case all from the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
It’s clearly an enormous advantage.
I guess a reason might be that - say... due to shifting demographics, a Catholic school, in a once predominantly Catholic majority city, town, or village, finds itself an island surrounded by people of other faiths, such as Jewish, Protestant, Muslim, etc., and a faltering enrollment requires the import of kids of a like faith from outside the limits of the community.
I guess I have a little homework to do, to find out why there is a discrepancy or disparity in district policies and boundaries when it comes to the Illinois High School Athletics Association, and how they treat a public school vs a private parochial school.
Ducky shared much in the way of basic common sense