Piper Lowder is headed back to the IHSA State Swimming & Diving Finals—but for the first time she’ll go alone, racing only individual events in Friday’s prelims at FMC Natatorium. The senior punched her ticket to Westmont winning the 50-yard freestyle in 24.08 seconds and finishing second...

Iron volleyball shuffled into August with the motto “Up the ante,” a slogan which would set the table for program-wide buy-in and raised the stakes for the 2025 season.  The annual team theme, a program tradition, dealt motivation first: “bet on yourself” and “never fold” notes from head...

Boys soccer’s best season of the decade ended with a 4-0 home loss on Nov. 4, with the Iron falling to the eventual IHSA Class 3A State Champions,  the Naperville North Huskies, in the supersectional. The loss closes out Community’s best season since 2017, a year in which the Ironmen tied for...

Twenty-five points weren’t enough. Iron volleyball needed extras in both sets to beat Lincoln-Way West on Oct. 30, 28-26, 26-24, and claim a second consecutive regional championship. Community controlled most of the first set, building a six-point cushion before the Warriors rallied to 24-22. Senior...

Community fended off Collinsville to claim the IHSA sectional championship—the program’s third and first since 2017—setting up a home supersectional against No. 1 in-state Naperville North on Tuesday, Nov. 4. The match against the Kahoks brought what head coach Mr. Matt Chapman called “adversity,”...

Senior A.J. Ince qualified for the IHSA Class 3A Boys Cross Country State Finals with an 18th-place 15:18.50 at Saturday’s Normal Sectional at Maxwell Park, advancing as the sixth individual not on a top-seven team. In Class 3A, the top seven teams and the first 10 individuals not on those teams advance...

Community advanced to the IHSA Class 3A Normal Community Sectional after placing fifth at the IHSA Class 3A Belleville West Regional on Oct. 25. The Ironmen will host the sectional at Maxwell Park at 11 a.m. on Nov. 1. Senior Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville commit A.J. Ince finished third...

Community’s girls cross-country team advanced to the IHSA Class 3A Normal Community Sectional at Maxwell Park on Nov. 1 after finishing fourth at the Class 3A Belleville West Regional on Oct. 25. Freshman Erin Schierer led Community with a 17th-place finish in 18:58.70. Community’s pack tightened...

Community beat the top-seeded Minooka Indians 2-1 on Oct. 28, avenging a 7-0 regular-season loss and earning a spot in Saturday’s IHSA sectional final at Peoria Notre Dame. “We knew coming into the game it was going to be a strong mental battle,” senior forward Logan Lelm said. “Conditions weren’t...

The Ironmen (7-2) head north to face Carmel Catholic (7-2) Saturday in the first round of the 2025 IHSA 7A Football Playoffs. After an elite eight appearance last fall and a semifinal run in 2022, Community, is aiming to extend a streak of five straight first-round wins.  First, they will have...