Girls Season Preview Completed

The girls season preview is complete as of this Tuesday evening. Once again, if there are any glaring mistakes or even spelling corrections that need to be made, please email to illpolo@yahoo.com

Any coaches or anyone associated with teams who would like to help out with the information, I am looking to mention as many important players as possible...i.e. I would like to list and/or mention every team's starters if and when possible but it is extremely difficult without much to go by. Especially for team's who did not qualify for state and don't have their individual player info listed anywhere (year in school, position, etc.). Most times, I refer back to games or tournaments that I have seen, scoresheets from a previous year, or team rosters that tend to be inaccurate more often than not.

Thus, if one team has more written about it than another or has more players mentioned, it's likely that I just have more information available to me than trying to include/exclude anyone more than others.

The next step is to post the schedules...should be starting tomorrow. I have a list of 128 team schedules that I have to begin seaching for. I am also covering our girls' basketball team's trip downstate this weekend so I don't have the majority of free time that I used to have when compiling all that information. I'll stop whining now.

Final note on rankings...these are just one person's opinion and never meant to be treated as the AUTHORITY on how good a team is. I think that has usually been evident every year, it's just that I have the outlet to get information out and am at least usually more reliable than a Trib, Sun-Times, or Herald reporter who covers the sport once or twice per month. In all honestly, there are about 6-7 teams on both the boys/girls sides that it will take at least 2-3 weeks to figure out where they really stand, so you can probably toss the rankings out by then anyways...just kinda my note not to take them too seriously or at least to prevent a flood of emails calling me an idiot.

Any coaches with a Week 1 tournament schedule, please send to me as I am trying to plan the coverage for the opening weekend as soon as possible. Thanks.