Elgin High School’s Kylie Graves is the 2017-18 Daily Herald Fox Valley Female Athlete of the Year.

Vernon Hills’ Kayla Caudle has decided DePaul is the right fit for both her basketball and non-basketball ambitions.

During the 2016-2017 girls basketball season, Hersey coach Mary Fendley reached a milestone of 400 wins in her 20 seasons directing the program.On May 5, she reached another milestone. Fendley was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association hall of fame at a banquet hosted by Illinois State’s Redbird Arena.

West Aurora named Teresa Waldinger as its new varsity girls basketball coach.

Harvest Christian senior guard Alyssa Iverson will play college basketball at Northern Iowa.

Former boys and girls basketball greats from Dundee-Crown and Jacobs high schools will come together May 12 for an alumni games with the proceeds going to help 2009 D-C grad Greg McNally and his family with ongoing medical bills.

One of Prospect’s all-time great forwards, Marie Baker Miller, has been named the girls basketball varsity coach at her alma mater. Baker was the freshman coach this past winter and had a brief midseason stint as the interim varsity coach when the team went 4-0 under her leadership.

The Lake County Senior Shootout is set for its ninth edition. The annual high school boys and girls all-star game will be played on Friday, April 13, at Waukgean High School.

Picking the right words to describe the high school basketball season for the Fox Valley area isn’t easy.

Morgan Dahlstrom has finished up her collegiate basketball career with academic honors. The University of Southern Indiana senior, a graduate of Grayslake Central. was named third-team Academic All-America by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Rolling Meadows graduates Jenny Vliet and Jackie Kemph wrapped up their four-years careers playing for the Saint Louis women’s basketball team. They have been teammates since second grade.

Veteran girls basketball coach Mark Smith, who’d spent 22 years in Maine South’s program, has decided to step down in order to spend more time with his family.

For the second straight year, Geneva’s Stephanie Hart won the state championship for her team.

High school girls basketball results from games of Saturday, March 3.

Maine West’s girls basketball team completed quite a journey in winning the Class 4A third-place game 45-41 against Edwardsville on Saturday at Redbird Arena in Normal.

Peoria Richwoods outscored Nazareth 18-5 in the fourth quarter and won the Class 3A girls basketball state championship game 55-46 Saturday at Redbird Arena in Normal.

Glenbard South defeated Breese Central to take third place in Class 3A for the 2017-18 girls basketball season.

Geneva senior Margaret Whitley won the Queen of the Hill 3-point competition Saturday at Redbird Arena in Normal.

High school girls basketball results from games of Friday, March 2.

Geneva’s girls basketball team will get a shot at back-to-back Class 4A state championships after the Vikings defeated Maine West 58-41 Friday night in the state semifinals at Redbird Arena in Normal. Geneva will play Montini Saturday night for the title.

Montini defeated Edwardsville to advance to the Class 4A girls basketball championship game.

Glenbard South lost to Peoria Richwoods in a Class 3A girls basketball semifinal at Redbird Arena in Normal.

Junior Annie Stritzel scored a game-high 29 points to lead Nazareth to a 58-25 win over Breese Central in a Class 3A semifinal Friday at the state girls basketball finals at Redbird Arena in Normal.

Introducing the Daily Herald’s Northwest girls basketball all-area team, featuring players from the Mid-Suburban League plus St. Viator, Leyden and Maine West.

Meet the Fox Valley All-Area Girls Basketball Team.

Making its first appearance in the state finals sicne 1993, Maine West’s girls basketball team (31-1) will face defending Class 4A state champion Geneva (29-3) at 7:15 p.m on Friday in the 7:15 p.m. semifinal at Illinois State’s Redbird Arena.

Defending champion Geneva and Maine West are set to do battle Friday night in the second semifinal of the Class 4A girls basketball state semifinal at Redbird Arena in Normal.

Introducing the Daily Herald’s Lake County girls basketball team, featuring players from the North Suburban and Northern Lake County Conferences plus Carmel Catholic and Vernon Hills.

Injuries — one after another — have kept Zoe MacKay Zacker from playing much for Montini’s girls basketball team, but the junior guard is still very much part of the team that will play in Friday’s Class 4A semifinals.

Glenbard South students and faculty are excited about the best girls basketball season in school history, one that won’t end until the final day of the state tournament.

After hiking their career point totals to 1,661 and 1,407, respectively, Warren’s Jordyn Hughes and Kaylen Dickson are co-captains of the Daily Herald’s Lake County girls basketball all-area team.

Geneva senior guard Stephanie Hart is the captain of the 2018 Fox Valley All-Area girls basketball team

The 40 best girls basketball players this season from the 29 DuPage County high schools.