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By FRANKIE CORRADO ’18 SPORTS EDITOR Aram Arslanian ’20 Romania & Armenia Arslanian ’20, a 6’6” shooting guard for the Forester basketball team, played in Oradea, Romania, this summer as a member of the U-20 basketball team for the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). He averaged 15.5 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 3.7 assists per game, including a 33.4 minute playing average time each game in the tournament. Afterwards, he went back to Armenia to join the European Cup…

By KYRA VIDAS ‘18 STAFF WRITER The Lake Forest College Football team welcomed a new member to their family this season who’s nearly half the age of most of the players. Brannon Moran, a 10-year-old honorary member, was “adopted” by the team through a Team Impact Program, which allows young kids who are facing life-threatening illnesses to gain support from local sports teams. Brannon was drafted to the Foresters in 2015, after the College had…

This article originally appeared on goforesters.com. By MATT DEMIRS EDITOR IN CHIEF Aram Arslanian, a sophomore on the Lake Forest College men’s basketball team, took his talents overseas this summer to compete within the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) as a member of Armenia’s U-20 basketball team. Arslanian was selected to represent Armenia at the Under 20 European Championship – Division B, which was held in Oradea, Romania. “With new teammates, coaches and facilities we’d be staying at this summer,…

Lake Forest College’s Division I handball team has been ranked one of the best teams in the nation for the past 40 years, but most of the handball team is made up of athletes who were not recruited to play handball. For the past several decades, most, if not all, of the women’s handball team has been incorporated with students who have never slapped a handball prior to attending the College. This year only four…