Tom Keegan

Left: Kaden Summer contributes 23 receiving yards and 9 rushing yards in his final game for Chesterton. Right: Louis Raffin burns along the left sideline on his way to a touchdown on a hitch-and-pitch trick play for Chesterton’s first TD in a 28-21 loss to Valparaiso in the sectional final. The Chesterton loyalists who watched from the Valparaiso stadium’s west stands must have felt like they were attending a funeral for a football season. Somber and heavy. Lifeless. Empty.

Now that Kieran Barnwell has chosen Indiana State as the school where he will study kinesiology and exercise science and continue his hurdling career, he can turn his attention to four of his goals for the spring track season. Barnwell aims to break the school records he set last season in the 110 hurdles (14.11) and the 300 hurdles (38.78), […]

The comparative swimming talent of the schools didn’t allow for a competitive team competition, but individual events were not without suspense that was amplified by the boisterous crowd at Merrillville. Chesterton freshman Nathan Fernandez made his first high school meet a memorable one by taking on Jacob Cruz, who was backed by the home crowd in a big way, in […]

Chesterton High student Del Livovich, his safety glasses on, is using an end mill to shave both sides of a piece of metal until it measures three-quarters of an inch. Back and forth, back and forth he moves the mill. “It’s really fun,” said Livovich, who is making a hammer-head in Tom Moodie’s Principles of Precision Machining class. “This class […]

From the moment she laced up her sneakers as a freshman, Kenedi Bradley changed Chesterton High’s basketball program, infused it with energy, speed and an appeal stemming from a relentlessness to her game. The wildly athletic basketball player also finished fifth in the state in the 100 meters as a sophomore. Playing fast enough never has been a problem for […]

You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your roster of wrestlers so that nobody better than you is in your weight class. You just hope to get lucky and it doesn’t happen, or you wrestle JV, or a third option does exist. Move up a weight class, beat every challenger in the room so that it becomes your […]

The rust has been knocked off, the body has been built up and former Chesterton High basketball player/assistant coach Nick Mullen is in the midst of a wild improvement. A 6-foot-10 junior, Mullen ranks second on Indiana University South Bend’s NAIA basketball team with 12 points per game, leads the Titans in rebounds (9.4) and blocked shots (2.2) and ranks […]

Josh England of La Porte won the 138-pound weight class in Saturday's Duneland Conference Championships at Chesterton.

Josh England of La Porte won the 138-pound weight class in Saturday's Duneland Conference Championships at Chesterton.

Juniors Jaylon Watts, left, and Logan Pokorney continue to be Chesterton’s two most consistent scoring threats.