Kankakee Area HS Varsity Football Preview: Goal Line
Kankakee Area HS Football Preview: Goal Line
The Ultimate: Gabrielle Dismang
This week’s Ultimate is Gabrielle Dismang, a senior at BBCHS. Gabrielle plays softball for BBCHS and travel ball for the River Valley Rage. Gabrielle’s Rage team took second place this year in the 16U “B” Eastern World Series. When described by her Rage softball coach, Ron Zielinski, he said, “Gabbie has played travel softball for us at River Valley Rage for several years now. Gabbie is a strong player with a big bat, her greatest quality is her leadership that she brings to the team.”
Kankakee Football Gets To The Hart Of The Program
When you talk football with Kankakee High School’s new varsity football coach, Derek Hart, you can hear the passion he has for the game in his voice. The 27-year-old Hart grew up in a football household. Hart’s father, John Hart is known as legend in high school football. The elder Hart has 294 wins and two state titles in Indiana. John Hart also has another 147 wins in Illinois. Hart says of his father, “He’ll probably end up in the Hall of Fame in Illinois and Indiana for high school football. He is successful and won a couple State Championships.”
Bourbonnais Rallies For Bears Camp
The one-hundred seven heat index didn’t stop football fans from coming out to the Friday Night Lights Fest on Friday. The second-annual family-friendly football festival was held at BrickStone Brewery Production Facility in Bourbonnais, IL. The event was put on by the Kankakee Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Village of Bourbonnais and the Kankakee County Convention and Visitors Bureau. The festival is a community-wide pep rally and football field event presented by Bear Construction.
