Edge of Your Seat Podcast

The Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp season has flown by as the Prospect League baseball team in Peru has one last regular season home game today, Sunday, July 28, before hitting the road for three games and the playoffs start Thursday, Aug. 1. Pistol Shrimp owner/manager John Jakiemiec and general manager June Keely (18:53) joined us before the season to talk about the team.

DREAMWAVE Wrestling has been on fire since returning to the Knights of Columbus in La Salle, including the double shot weekend of Uprising 2 (April 19) and Anniversary IX (April 20). DREAMWAVE Owner Jay Repsel (1:14:27.5) and DREAMWAVE Champion Christian Rose (1:35:04.5) join us to talk about the company. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today (April 22) for the next show, No Escape, on June 15. Intr...

Fall sports saw some awesome performances from athletes including Hinckley-Big Rock's Ily Hunt, who was joined by coach Jessica Bivins (1:29:58). Ottawa's Drake Kaufman (1:39:47), and Princeton's Tyson Phillips (1:50:44) Intro: NCAA Tournaments, guest's resume (beginning), Mix & Match (RIPs, KC shooting, NFL Draft, NBA Postseason, Bulls, MLB Opening Day, Cubs, White Sox, Connor Bedard, Wrestle...

Maybe not forever, but the Jason Burkiewicz (1:22:13) era has ended as he resigned as the Annawan girls basketball coach after two state championships, a 55-game winning streak, and more accomplishments in 14 seasons. We spoke to him after the 2023-24 season, and we spoke with then-sophomore, now-junior Bella VanOpdorp (1:06:18) during the 2022-23 season. Intro: Primary Election and Justin Fields...

Kishwaukee College sports, like athletics in general, are cruising through the calendar. Including women's soccer (coach Tony Terdina, 1:14:15), and women's and men's basketball (coaches Krystal Gundy and Joe Conroy, 1:28:02). All three programs progressed from last year to this year. Intro: Resumes for guests, seventh/eighth grade volleyball, and Putting in the Work Winter Sports Edition featurin...

At 11:15 a.m. today (Feb. 29), the St. Bede girls basketball team is doing something the Lady Bruins or the Bruins have never done before, playing in the IHSA State Tournament. Senior Ali Bosnich (14:19) and coach Stephanie Mickley (28:28) chat about the journey to the state tournament. Intro: Seventh and Eight grade boys basketball, junior high volleyball, Amellia Bromenschenkel.

We spoke to Plano Reapers boys basketball coach Kyle Kee twice! Once before the 2023 classic (52:02) to talk about some of the history and, twice (1:08:47) after the Reapers finished second at the 2024 classic. Great chat! Great Guest! Watch for Plano in the playoffs. Intro: NFL Conference Championship predictions, Putting in the Work (11:39, IHSA sectionals boys bowling and competitive dance), Mi...

Morris Competitive Dance Coach Megan Post (31:59) joined us after Morris finished second in the IHSA Class 1A State Tournament in 2023. With the 2024 sectionals starting today (Jan. 20), Post and trying to win the second IHSA state dance trophy in school history and take first or second for the eighth time in 12 years. Oh, Morris is also hungry because they were second last year by .05 points... I...

Last year, the Putnam County girls basketball team won the Tri-County Conference Tournament. We spoke to then-senior Gracie Cuicci, then-junior Ava Hatton, and coach Jared Sale (55:35) after the tourney victory. We spoke with now-senior Maggie Richetta (1:07:22) about volleyball awards she won and the hoops season a week or two in. PC is in the TCC Tournament Championship once again this year as t...

Nate Stubler (13:35) finished his rookie season with the Professional Bowling Association with being named a PBA Rookie of the Year nominee and he finished fourth in the PBA Player's Championship. He talks about his accomplishments and more.

The Mendota boys bowling team is getting ready for the IHSA Regionals (supposed to be Saturday, Jan. 13, but may be moved due to weather) after Landon Bauer (40:19) made state last year and is trying to better his 50th-place finish, the Trojans bowled at nationals over the summer (discussed by coach Matt Bauer, 55:13), and going 15-0 during the 2023-24 regular season. Intro: Guests resume, first w...

Mendota has been conquering the world in many areas. Naitzy Garcia (55:28) made it to the women's soccer NJCAA Division II National Championship with Rock Valley Community College. MHS senior Anthony Kelson (1:09:07)) qualified for the IHSA Class 1A State Final. Reanna Brant (1:19:48) was Three Rivers All-Conference for volleyball, graduated in December and starts Sauk Valley Community College and...

Football has been awesome in northern and central Illinois for quite some time, including the last two seasons. We start with La Salle-Peru alum Zach Hartman (57:25), who won two championships with North Central. Hall grad James Mautino (1:07.00) has had two stellar senior seasons at Aurora Central. We spoke to him between the two campaigns. Byron won the 3A state title and we were there! Listen t...

Adam Bontz has been with DREAMWAVE Wrestling since Day 1 in 2009. Although he has many duties behind the scenes, when it's show time, he's the best dressed ring announcer in the business. Bontz chats wrestling, his daughter Addie Bontz winning a state title with the St. Bede softball team, and more.

In October, Brittnie Brooks (36:09) became the first DREAMWAVE Wrestling Women's Champion. Now, Friday, Dec. 8, she is having her first title defense, against Masha Slamovich, at the first EVER DREAMWAVE Wrestling all-women's wrestling event, Uprising. She talks about it all! Intro: Keep it Rolling (Goldbeck Hostage Crisis, Silver Linings Playbook, Goonies, Indiana Jones, Mr. Nanny), Mix & Mat...

The Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio football team is playing in the Illinois 8-Man Football Championship at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17 at Monmouth College against Ridgewood. Let's get ready for the game with interviews after each round of the playoffs. Eddie Jones, Landon Montavon, and coach Scott Payne after the first round win over Hiawatha. Payne after the quarterfinal victory over FCW. Troy Anderson, Quinn Le...

St. Bede senior QB Max Bray (40:58) transferred to the academy from Aurora Christian during his junior year after his father, Frank Bray, passed away. The Bruins are in the postseason giving Bray at least one more chance to play for his father. SBA coach Jim Eustice joins Bray to talk about his QB's and the team's development. Also on the show, Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio coach Scott Payne (34:50) as the...

Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio football coach Scott Payne (26:58) and Hall-Putnam County football coach Randy Tieman (35:15) talk about their teams in the last game of the regular season. Intro: Mix & Match (9:47, WWE/AEW, MLB postseason, NFL, WNBA champs, IHSA Pairing Show)

DREAMWAVE Wrestling's Follow Your Heart is tonight, Saturday, Oct. 14. Hunter Holdcraft, half of the tag team The Hype with 12-Gaige, chats with us about The Hype winning the tag team championship in August and what's happened since then.

Kishwaukee College restarted their volleyball program this season. We spoke with Kish coach Zach Salapatek and athletic director Scott Kawall (56:35) before the season. The Princeton football team's junior Noah LaPorte (1:17:23) and coach Ryan Pearson (1:25:48) join us to talk about another successful Tiger season. Intro: Bring it Back with Earth, Wind & Fire's 1975 album The Way of the World...

Hall-Putnam County football coach Randy Tieman (12:25) and Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio football coach Scott Payne (16:12) chat about their teams, Week 7 results, and upcoming Week 8 contests.

We're getting ready for a Week 7 Three Rivers Conference Mississippi Division game between the Hall-Putnam County and Newman football teams. Newman is the first of three ranked teams the Red Devils end their regular season with. Coach Randy Tieman talks about the Week 6 win over IVC and today's battle against Newman. Tune into The Wolf 96.5 FM as the pregame starts at 12:45 p.m. and kickoff is at...

Jaylon Hughes, of Freeport HS and Kishwaukee College, talks about his business Juicy Vizualz and motivational writings (42:31), and two Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio Clippers talk football in coach Scott Payne (1:00.08) and Landon Whelchel (1:07.25). Intro: Speaking to eighth graders, Win/Lose/Stat (9:29, Sept 29-Oct. 3), Mix and Match (Dick Butkus, MLB Postseason)

Brett Herrmann (57:02) chats life after writing for newspapers as he works at Kishwaukee College and wrote a book, Grim Sweeper. First-year Bureau Valley volleyball coach Saige Barnett and her senior setter Kate Salisbury (1:19.26) talk to us about the season. Intro: Win/Lose/Stat (11:50. Sept. 25-28), Mix and Match (44:07, Jrue Holiday, Ryder Cup, Canelo Alvarez, Chase Claypool, Disney, Outkast,...

Mindy McConnaughhay (1:09:05) and the Marquette volleyball team won a regional title last year. Coach had a lot to say about that team after the plaque was earned and was excited about this season. The Lady Crusaders are 17-4 and preparing for a long postseason run. Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio football coach Scott Payne (1:22:48) and Hall-Putnam County coach Randy Tieman (1:30.41) each talk about Week 5 a...