Edge of Your Seat Podcast

Do you know the rules of the fight club? Nathan Blanton, a Mendota native, is learning them all quickly as he has earned a 5-1 record at the Peoria Fight Club. He dives into his training, his strategies, and why he loves to fight. Next up is an MMA fight on June 4. Intro: Bulls' season over, NBA Playoffs, quick movie/TV talk

Jake Reinhardt has worn a Princeton, Augustana College, and a North Park University baseball uniform. After signing a contract in November, he is ready to wear his first professional jersey with the Schaumburg Boomers. Intro: Bulls/Bucks Game 4, Friday Night Lights

12-Gaige has been putting in the work to push his wrestling career to the next level. The last time we talked to the La Salle-Peru grad some know as Gaige Noonan, he had just wrestled his first match. Now, he has 30 matches under his belt, new gear, new strategies, and new moves. Intro: Bulls/Bucks Game 3, WrestleMania, Bring it Back: Kid Cudi's Man on the Moon; End of Day, NBA Playoffs.

Julia Browning, a St. Bede graduate who is in a Master's Program at Loyola University Chicago, tells us about the awesome Relay for Life she is a part of in Chicago...Today, April 10!!! The American Cancer Society Vice President on campus has been devoted to walking and advocating to help those battling, surviving, and living with cancer.

Mendota soccer coach Nick Myers and junior Jonathan Cortez discuss the amazing fall the Trojans soccer team had which featured an undefeated regular season and the program's first sectional championship. Myers also talks about the girls soccer team. Intro: The slap heard around social media, Scott Hall, March Madness, NFL offseason moves, and more.

Yorkville Christian, in its sixth year as a member of the IHSA, won a Class 1A Boys Basketball State Championship. Coach Aaron Sovern chats about his squad, the humble upbringing of YC, and the naysayers saying the Mustangs recruited or shouldn't be a 1A team. Junior Brayden Long may still not realize he's a state champ, but the medal he wears proudly reflects on his basketball families in Yorkvil...

Princeton boys basketball coach Jason Smith is this episode's guest as he talks about his Tigers a few days after winning their first regional title in 11 years and losing a Class 2A Mendota Sectional Semifinal. Smith, who wrapped up his third year at PHS, is excited about the future. Intro: Girls basketball postseason breakdown, Khalil Mack traded, Bulls get back in win column

Maybe some of you need a reminder of how well the IVCC Women's Tennis Team played in Fall 2021. Coach Julie Milota, and players Brianna Strehl, Clara Ferrari, Olivia Woods, and Karissa Etzenbach tell us all about their season that ended with the Eagles finishing third at Nationals in Georgia.

After a bout with Covid-19, Edge of Your Seat Podcast returns. The intro is packed with IHSA winter postseason action in the form of boys bowling, girls bowling, dance, girls wrestling, and boys wrestling. Followed with EOYS besties, Skee Hartman, Tony Milus, and Devin Masters predicting the Super Bowl. It's never too late to talk Super Bowl.

November seems like so long ago, except for the St. Bede volleyball team as it will feel like it was yesterday when it won its second regional championship in program history and first since 2001. Senior Lia Bosnich (6:53) shares her memories of the win, and SBA coach Abbi Bosnich (33:13) couldn't be more grateful for the regional (she was a player on the 2001 team) and the birth of her daughter,...

Brady Blanco is an 18-year-old student at IVCC, who graduated from La Salle-Peru High School. Most people expect a diploma from high school and college or think it's a normal part of life. For Brady (56:48), every day he is able to breathe, smile, talk, walk, and just be alive...is a blessing. Intro: NFL Playoffs, Boys Bowling Sectionals, Boys Soccer Playoffs, Ryan Poles, Matt Eberflus, Big Ben, B...

Putnam County volleyball coach Amy Bell is a great coach, teacher, mother, supporter of wrestling fans, taco bar provider, and friend. She shared info of her Lady Panthers and cracked some jokes on EOYS. Also, lead off with Dwight junior Wyatt Thompson, who scored 20 points Jan. 19 in a 59-43 victory over Marquette. Into: Boys bowling regional, volleyball postseason, Bears, NFL Playoffs, Bulls, Bl...

Listed as a junior and a freshman on this year's Illinois State University women's cross country team, La Salle-Peru graduates Rachel Hickey and Ashley Heagy spoke with EOYS before the season started. How did the season compare to their predictions? Intro: Girls swimming postseason, basketball holiday tournaments, Steph Curry, John Madden, Betty White, MLB strike, NFL Parady, Antonio Brown, Dirk N...

Warning: Loaded Show! Schimmer Mendota Ford General Manager Skee Hartman talks about vehicles and sports. Then Matt McDonald drops all kinds of wisdom on baseball and the brutal nature of sports on an athlete's mind. McDonald has left the Hall baseball team as the pitching coach and will now be giving tips to the hurlers at Blackhawk College. Intro: High school football and boys and girls golf pos...

Christian Soderholm has taken his basketball skills groomed by La Salle-Peru, summer ball, and NAIA college to international hoops. The 6-foot-6 forward is playing basketball professionally in Malta, a country between Italy and Africa. He joined EOYS before he left and has agreed to do a pod series to update us on his experience. Also, Princeton football Ryan Pearson discusses the quarterfinal mat...

There is a whole lot of running in this show!!! D.J. Glynn, a 1999 Hall graduate, joins EOYS to speak about being inducted into the NewsTribune Illinois Valley Hall of Fame after impressive football and track careers with the Red Devils. In the intro, we break down the cross country postseason to prepare you for Saturday's boys and girls IHSA State Meets at Detweiller Park in Peoria.

LOADED SHOW! Three guests as Kewanee senior QB Will Bruno and coach Brad Swanson break down the season with extra emphasis on the Princeton and Hall games as the Boilermakers (6-0) play Mendota (5-1) Friday. Then we catch up with Mike Goff who was inducted into the NewsTribune Hall of Fame after playing football with La Salle-Peru, University of Iowa, and three NFL teams during a 12-year career. N...

Don't know if this show can hold all of the awesomeness of its two guests. Amboy sophomore Elly Jones joined us in between her fantastic freshman campaign and her sophomore year that is almost done with cross county. Then we spoke with Mendota senior Yahir Diaz after the Trojans boys soccer team defeated Kewanee 6-1 Thursday night. So much AWESOME!

The Mendota football team is winning games again. The Hall and Mendota rivalry is back on. A conversation had in July finally makes podcast waves. All worth the wait. MHS senior QB Ted Landgraf spoke with us after the Trojans 43-34 victory over Hall and former Mendota girls basketball coach and new Pana girls hoops coach, Brent McKinney, joins us! Intro: High school football Week 5 scores, Monday'...

Mendota senior Emilio Perez and La Salle-Peru senior Matt Carrico take us to the field for Week 3, Week 4, and Week 5 of the high school football season. Intro: More high school football as well as volleyball, soccer, tennis, swimming, and golf, NFL Week 2 breakdown.

Chat-packed episode of Three Rivers Conference representatives as we're traveling the sports scene watching and covering games! Hall football coach Nick Guerrini after 40-32 Week 2 loss to Monmouth-Roseville (8:21). Princeton volleyball coach Andy Puck after defeating Mendota (12:32). Mendota volleyball coach Nicci Gibson after battling the Tigresses (18:10). Bureau Valley football coach Mat Pisto...

We talk football with St. Bede senior wide receiver Tyreke Fortney. In a 53-0 Week 1 victory over Sherrard, Fortney scored four touchdowns including a 91-yard grab. What will the Bruins do against Erie-Prophetstown in Week 2?

There is a couple of first timers on this show. First, Sterling Newman baseball coach Kenny Koerner relives the season that seems it just ended yesterday in which the Comets won their first-ever sectional championship. He dives into everything Newman baseball - last season and the future. In the intro, EOYS celebrates its 200th show with a new segment called Name of the Game! Who's name was the ha...

Sign in hand, Mendota resident Tony Arredondo Jr. was in heaven for at least one night as he was part of the Field of Dreams Game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees. What a story he has to tell? Intro: Week 1 high school football, other sports and accomplishments, Lauri Markkanen, Big Brother, Madden 22

It's fall and we have football. Had to start the season with a chat from Princeton's now-graduated Grant Foes, who is a freshman for the Indiana Wesleyan football team. Also on the football docket is preseason previews with Hall coach Nick Guerrini and Mendota coach Keegan Hill.