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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…

Joining a top ten NCAA Division III Women’s Hockey program like Lake Forest College might be nerve-wrecking for some, but freshman goaltender Jacque Rogers thrives off the challenge. Rogers continues her outstanding season after serving only a few months in the Forester uniform. Not only has she had four shutouts in her 14 games played, the freshman has been named Forester Athlete of the week by the College’s Athletic Department and Defensive Player of the…

Lake Forest College Handball has been around since 1968, the year current Coach Michael Dau ’58 brought the sport to the Forest. He learned the game in the Marines after attending Lake Forest College, which led him to create the varsity program at our school today. Coach Dau still continues to coach the National Championship team, which clinched its 50th National Title last year. In just a couple weeks, the men’s and women’s team will…