Baseball  After sweeping a doubleheader against Sacred Heart-Griffin and Joliet West on Saturday, and defeating Mahomet-Seymour on Monday, the Ironmen baseball team extended their win streak to 13 games.  Closing out the season with a 9-3 Big 12 record, sitting at third in the conference, the...

Boys Tennis The Community boys tennis team is 5-0 to begin the season with team wins over Big-12 rivals Bloomington, Peoria Notre Dame and Normal West by a combined score of 24-3.  On Saturday, April 23, the Ironmen continued their domination, swinging their way to a first place finish at the JD...

Girls Track Ali Ince’s time of 2:05.42 in the 800 meter race at the Arcadia Invitational in California broke the all-time record for the event at the prestigious national meet. Ince joins elite company as an Arcadia Invitational record holder. Two time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin and...

The Bloomington-Normal High School lacrosse co-op makes history as they travel to Central Catholic for the first IHSA-sanctioned intercity lacrosse match tonight at 5 p.m. The B-N Lacrosse co-op, in its sophomore season of competition, is a combination of players from Normal Community, Normal West,...

Softball The Lady Iron (1-3) won their first game on Friday, April 1, defeating the Chatham Glenwood Titans (3-2) 6-5. Community jumped out to an early lead, scoring four runs in the first inning and adding two in the fourth to take a 6-0 lead. Emma Conover (’23), Leigha Luering (’22) and Kara...

Girls Soccer The Lady Iron opened their season with a 4-0 victory over Metamora (1-2-1), with freshmen Sarah Thompson (’25) and Rayna Powers (’25) scoring goals in their high school debuts. Teagan Fahy (’24) and Reese Anderson (’24) also sent the ball to the back of the net. In their second...

Girls Track & Field Members of the Lady Iron track and field team kicked off the indoor season at the Illinois Meet of Champions in Gately Park, IL on Saturday, March, 5.  Ali Ince (’24) teamed up with two commits from Stanford and one from the University of Arkansas to break a distance medley...

Down 45-23 with 5:48 left to play in the Sectional Final, Community boys basketball's (33-2) historic season appeared heading for a screeching halt at the hands of the Quincy Blue Devils (28-5). The Ironmen were not going down without a fight.  The comeback began with Community scoring 5 points...

Community (33-1) takes on three-seed Quincy Blue Devils (27-5) in the IHSA Sectional Final on Friday, March 4 at Collinsville High School, following Tuesday’s Sectional Semifinal win over the Moline Maroons. The Ironmen, ranked third in the state by MaxPreps, face an unfamiliar opponent in Quincy...

  The one-seed Normal Community Ironmen (32-1) play in the Sectional Semifinal against two-seed Moline Maroons (28-4) at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Mar. 1 at Pekin High School  Community's advance to Sectionals comes after derailing the Bradley-Bourbonnais Boilermakers' season in the IHSA Collinsville...

After a 35 point victory over the Pekin Dragons, Community (31-1) faces three-seed and Southwest Suburban Conference Champion Bradley-Bourbonnais (23-7) in the Regional Championship at 7 p.m. tonight. In search of his 10th Regional Championship, Head Coach Dave Witzig said that Bradley-Bourbonnais’...

The Ironmen basketball team is set to host Pekin High School (7-16) in the IHSA Regional Semifinals Wednesday at 6 p.m. Community defeated the Dragons Dec. 7 by a 25-point margin at Pekin. Community held the Dragons to 18 points, despite Pekin averaging 41.3 points per game. The Ironmen are undefeated...

Girls Basketball The Lady Iron are 7-0, outscoring their opponents by double digits in six of those games. They opened the season by sweeping the Intercity Tournament, winning the title for the first time since 2017. Community plays host to Rock Island on Tuesday Dec. 7 before their first Big-12 game...

Travis Scott isn't known for calm, cool, and collected concert performances. His headlining appearances make headlines. In 2015, the Houston rapper encouraged Chicago's Lollapalooza audience to climb over security barriers and storm the stage.  In 2017, after encouraging fans to bypass concert...

Lady Iron Cross Country Ali Ince (’24) and Olivia Hartke (’22) finished 5th and 13th respectively at the IHSA Cross Country Sectional on Oct. 30, qualifying for the IHSA State Meet at Peoria’s Detweiller Park on Nov. 6.  The Lady Iron finished 9th at Sectionals as a team, seven points shy...

The A-Train, Community’s pork chop sandwich concession at Friday night football games, advanced to the IHSA’s inaugural Pork and Pigskin Final Four.  The 79 school competition, a partnership between the IHSA and the Illinois Pork Producers Association, will award the state’s concession stand...

Ironmen Football Ironmen varsity football closed out the regular season with a 9-0 record, finishing 8-0 in the Big 12.  Community opens the first-round of the IHSA 7A playoffs as the three seed, facing Blue Island Eisenhower at home on Friday, Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m.   Lady Iron Volleyball Lady...

The Ironmen defeated the Peoria High School Lions 42-38 at Peoria Stadium on Friday, Oct. 1, securing a playoff berth and their spot atop the Big 12 conference standings.  The Big 12 conference "is kind of ours to lose," quarterback Chase Mackey ('22) said.  Mackey was instrumental in the Ironmen...

The undefeated Ironmen take on the 4-1 Peoria High School Lions at Peoria Stadium on Friday, October 1, with a win and one more in the season's three remaining games, the Ironmen seal a Big 12 Conference title. The “team that wins this game,” Head Coach Jason Drengwitz said, “is going to be...

A TikTok trend popular amongst high school students led to a drastic increase in petty theft and vandalization of school property nationwide. The "#devious lick" trend originated when TikTok user jugg4elias uploaded a video depicting the removal of a box of masks from his backpack, captioned: "A month...

The Normal Community Ironmen football team opens its 2021 campaign tonight, as they take on the Bloomington High School Purple Raiders at Fred Carlton Field.  After the fall season was postponed due to COVID-19, last year’s IHSA Football season took place in the spring. Facing a shortened schedule,...

After opening their inaugural seasons with a combined record of 0-5, the Bloomington-Normal girls and boys lacrosse programs recorded their first victories the week of May 3. After an 0-2 start to the season, the girls team celebrated their first program win over Minooka on May 5. BHS junior...

Buzzer beaters. Underdogs and upsets. Cinderella stories. It's that time of the year again -- brackets are back as the NCAA March Madness tournament tipped off with Thursday's play-in games.  68 college basketball teams traveled to three cities across the Hoosier state with hopes of taking home a...

Unit 5 Superintendent Dr. Kristen Weikle announced Friday, Nov. 13, that the district would return to remote learning effective Wednesday, Nov. 18. Students will not be in attendance Wednesday to allow teachers and staff time to prepare for change. The “adaptive pause” to hybrid learning is tentatively...

The Lady Iron cross country team concluded their history-making season by finishing third at IHSA Sectionals on Saturday, October 31. Running their home course, Maxwell Park, with an undefeated record, the team’s goal “was to really just get in front of as many teams as possible,” Lauren...

The longest season in NHL history ended with the Tampa Bay Lightning hoisting the Stanley Cup on September 28, after defeating the Dallas Stars 2-0. After COVID-19 forced the NHL to suspend the 2019-2020 season on March 12, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman ensured the season would somehow be completed. It...

The Lady Iron cross country team heads into Saturday's Peoria Notre Dame Invitational amidst a historic season. A Normal Community girls cross country team, since 1979 when the IHSA records began, has never finished the season among the state's Top Ten teams. A feat which rivals -- the U-High Pioneers...

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The Lady Iron varsity tennis team heads into Senior Night confidently, with a 7-1 record, facing the Richwoods Knights today at home. The 4:30 p.m. match recognizes seniors Varsha Naraharasetty and Lexie Wells, who stress the importance of keeping a "good attitude during every situation," Meg Moser...

Before COVID-19 indefinitely shut down professional and amateur sports alike, a bright spot emerged in the ordinarily dark time after the Super Bowl. The NFL season concluded on February 2 with the Kansas City Chiefs being crowned league champions. In years past, the days and months after the NFL...

Before COVID-19 indefinitely shut down professional and amateur sports alike, a bright spot emerged in the ordinarily dark time after the Super Bowl. The NFL season concluded on February 2 with the Kansas City Chiefs being crowned league champions. In years past, the days and months after the NFL...

As the NHL All-Star game was played in St. Louis on January 25, hockey fans saw some of the most exciting storylines of the season. Or they could have - if anyone was watching. New York Islanders' young phenom Mat Barzal ended Edmonton Oilers' Connor McDavid's three year of the Edmonton Oilers' reign...

It took four overtimes for the NCHS boys basketball team to cap off an undefeated Intercity tournament with a 63-60 victory over Normal West on December 2.  With four seconds left on the Shirk Center clock, Community’s Mitch Sauder (‘20), drained a three-pointer to break the 60-60 tie. The tie-breaker...

Olivia Hartke (‘22) qualified as an individual for the IHSA State Cross Country Finals and will line up at Detweiller Park on Saturday, November 9 against the best runners across the state. Hartke ran an 18:54:30, finishing 21st and advancing as one of the top 10 individuals from November 2’s 3A...