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Lily Bosnich excels in two sports at one time: 2026 BCR co-Female Athlete of the Year · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Lily Bosnick excels in two sports at one time. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six pcr CO Female Athlete of the Year Written
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  Speaker 1: by Kevin Hieronymous. This article is being read by an
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  Speaker 1: automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Lily Bosnich never
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  Speaker 1: thought it was going to be such a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: She was just doing the two things she loves the most.
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  Speaker 1: The senior at Saint Bete Academy ran from a home
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  Speaker 1: softball rivalry game with Ottawa Marquette to the senior night
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  Speaker 1: track meet. With no time to change into her track uniform,
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  Speaker 1: Bosnick stretched and ran the hurdles in her softball uniform
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  Speaker 1: and became an internet sensation. I knew it was senior
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  Speaker 1: night for track, but I wasn't going to miss Marquette.
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  Speaker 1: How could I miss an opponent game. I was potentially
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  Speaker 1: willing to miss my senior night for it, but we
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  Speaker 1: ended up winning early. We got a run rule on them,
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  Speaker 1: and I ran over here, Bosnick said. Standing on the
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  Speaker 1: Saint Bede track, they announced me right away, and I
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  Speaker 1: just kind of figured that was it. I said, now,
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  Speaker 1: what the hurdles are coming up pretty quick? I haven't stretched,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really have anything to change into. My coach said,
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  Speaker 1: well you can run in that. I said, oh okay.
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  Speaker 1: It was either to be able to stretch and actually
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  Speaker 1: warm up and then run or go and change. I
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  Speaker 1: chose to kind of go with it and it worked
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  Speaker 1: and from there the story went viral, first appearing in
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  Speaker 1: the BCR And News Tribune, to being picked up Dan
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  Speaker 1: Pearson's FCA Story of the Week on w KD to
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  Speaker 1: going nationally by USA Today. It doesn't stop. This story
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  Speaker 1: just keeps going and going, Bosnik said, with a laugh.
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  Speaker 1: It's so crazy to me because I was just having fun.
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  Speaker 1: This is just another day. I was so grateful to
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  Speaker 1: end my career on the same track that I started
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  Speaker 1: in grade school. While I was running, I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I hope I remember this for life, and now I
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  Speaker 1: definitely will. It's everywhere. It was just one of the
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  Speaker 1: many shining moments Bosnik had during her senior year. She
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  Speaker 1: claimed her eighth and ninth career state track medals with
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  Speaker 1: a second place finish in the one hundred hurdles and
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  Speaker 1: third in the three hundred hurdles, graduating as Saint Bede
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  Speaker 1: EAD's most decorated track athlete with nine state medals. On
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  Speaker 1: the Diamond. Bosnick was also a star for the Saint
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  Speaker 1: Bede softball team, batting point four to five nine with
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  Speaker 1: ten homers, thirty one RBIs, thirty nine runs and fifteen steals.
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  Speaker 1: She was named first team ALLBCR and Tri County All
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  Speaker 1: Conference and second team to All State. The senior defensive
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  Speaker 1: specialist earned All BCR Honorable mention in volleyball for all
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  Speaker 1: of her accomplishments. Bosnik is the twenty twenty five to
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  Speaker 1: twenty six co BCR Female Athlete of the Year with
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  Speaker 1: Princeton's Keeley Davis. Bosnick said the key to her juggling
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  Speaker 1: act is organization. You have to be very organized and
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  Speaker 1: talk to your teachers and coaches. She said. If you're
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  Speaker 1: having a rough day, you have to communicate that because
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  Speaker 1: it's just going to carry on and you're going to
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  Speaker 1: make worse habits for yourself. My coaches were very flexible
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  Speaker 1: with me. Anybody can read me like a book. I
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  Speaker 1: show my emotions very clearly. I barely needed to say anything,
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  Speaker 1: and they just knew. Some days for track it would
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  Speaker 1: be take the day and just stretch. Softball. Same thing
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  Speaker 1: my coach would say, if you ever need a day off,
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  Speaker 1: just sit down and watch. They were flexible and communicating
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  Speaker 1: is the key. Bosnik has found just how big she
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  Speaker 1: has become in the awestruck eyes of the little girls.
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  Speaker 1: While working fielding and speed and agility camps this summer
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  Speaker 1: for the Mound Training Facility in Oglesby, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them are like, wait, you're the girl who ran in
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  Speaker 1: her softball uniform, Bosnick said with a laugh. One little
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  Speaker 1: girl has a picture of me from the newspaper in
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  Speaker 1: her bedroom. It's so heartwarming. It makes me so happy
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  Speaker 1: to know I'm making an impact on kids' lives. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just doing what I love. I never thought it'd turn
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  Speaker 1: into this. It's just fun to see these little girls
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  Speaker 1: who recognize me and get to know them and help
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  Speaker 1: them become better athletes. My coaches have always told me,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what sport, everybody's watching. You just know the
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  Speaker 1: little girls are watching you. And now it's like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: they really are. I hope all high school players know
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  Speaker 1: that all grade schoolers are watching. Last fall, Bosnik found
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  Speaker 1: herself out of her comfort zone when New Saint Bede
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  Speaker 1: volleyball coach Nicole Tranka asked her to move from hit
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  Speaker 1: her to libureau, a position she had never played before
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  Speaker 1: or thought i'd play before. When the coach told me,
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  Speaker 1: I was a little confused at first. I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm open to anything. I'll try new things. She said.
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  Speaker 1: It was very different. This was a lot getting used to,
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  Speaker 1: which is good. Allowed me to stay open to new
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  Speaker 1: things and help me not get frustrated with myself because
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  Speaker 1: if I made a mistake, I'm like, Okay, now I
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  Speaker 1: know I can now fix it because I've never been
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  Speaker 1: here before. I think that carried into these two seasons
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  Speaker 1: softball and track, because my mentality this year has been
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  Speaker 1: better than it ever has been. Looking back back over
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  Speaker 1: her shoulder at the school from the Saint Bede track
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  Speaker 1: brings back a flash of memories and emotion for the
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  Speaker 1: new Academy graduate, Looking at it again makes me want
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  Speaker 1: to tear up, she said. This place has so many
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  Speaker 1: memories and so many good times, good and bad ties. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: this was my home for the last four years. She said.
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  Speaker 1: Her favorite memory this year was when her two sportswords
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  Speaker 1: collided when she warming up for the state track meet
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  Speaker 1: in Charleston while watching the softball team in the regional
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  Speaker 1: finals on game changer. It was such a suspenseful moment
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  Speaker 1: and one I'll never forget, and I was so happy
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  Speaker 1: for my team, she said. Bosnik will continue to compete
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  Speaker 1: athletically in track at the Division I level for the
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  Speaker 1: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She said she's found what kind
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  Speaker 1: of softball player she was and now wants to see
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  Speaker 1: how far track will take her. She plans to study
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  Speaker 1: medical stenography to become an Ultra Sound Tech UWN professor.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't be surprised if she attends class in her track
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  Speaker 1: uniform one day, finding herself coming and going like she
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  Speaker 1: did at Saint Bede