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Olympic bronze medalist and 2014 World Champion Kelly Murphy, who works as Naperville Central's Learning Commons Assistant, joined the Redhawks boys volleyball coaching staff for the 2026 spring season after head coach Roger Strausberger spent years recruiting her back to the sport she left in 2019.
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Twelve North Central College cross country and track and field athletes earned CSC Academic All-District honors on Tuesday, June 23, including NCAA 400m hurdles champion Alivia Henkel and school-record discus thrower Ben Balboa, with four advancing to the All-America ballot.
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The 2026 Naperville Sun Baseball All-Area Team features 11 first-team selections from six area schools, led by Naperville Central senior Michael Page, who batted .385 and committed to North Central College after helping the Redhawks reach the Class 4A state semifinals for the first time since 2010.
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Naperville Central alum Elizabeth Lumpkin Robinson, the only girls' tennis player in Illinois history to win four consecutive IHSA state singles titles, was named head women's tennis coach at the University of Illinois on June 17, 2026, agreeing to a five-year contract.
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Naperville Central senior Grant Umbright, a two-way third baseman/pitcher who helped the Redhawks reach the IHSA Class 4A state tournament for the first time since 2010, was named the 2026 Naperville Sun Baseball Player of the Year on June 23.
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Taylor Graveman, Sydney Petzinger, Sara Sterner, and Claire DiCugno won gold and silver medals representing Team USA at the U23 Pan-American Championships in Lima, Peru, on Friday, June 12, helping the Americans claim the team title.
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Twelve North Central College student-athletes earned CSC Academic All-District honors across six sports this spring, and three women's wrestlers now advance to the national Academic All-America ballot with winners announced Tuesday, July 7.
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Naperville Central junior pitcher Avery Miller earned the 2026 Naperville Sun Softball Player of the Year award after bouncing back from a sophomore hitting slump with a 19-6 record, 213 strikeouts, and a .392 batting average that helped the Redhawks win their second straight DVC title and first regional championship since 2015.
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Trinity Jones of Naperville Central was named 2026 Naperville Sports Weekly Female Athlete of the Year after a historic season in which she broke Candace Parker's single-game scoring record twice, won Ms. Illinois Basketball, and led the Redhawks to a DVC title while returning from a torn ACL.
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Naperville North senior and team captain Molly Depies won the Naperville Sports Weekly May Play of the Month for a buzzer-beating rainbow goal in the IHSA state third-place game against St. Ignatius on May 23.
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Naperville Little League will crown champions in five divisions on Saturday, June 27, wrapping up a spring season for roughly 1,500 young athletes across Districts 203 and 204.
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North Central College's athletics communications team earned four district writing honors, a Communicator of the Year presentation for Director Nicholas Osterloo, and 12 creative design recognitions at the College Sports Communicators Annual Convention in Las Vegas.
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