Edge of Your Seat Podcast

As the Midwest weather is throwing a tantrum in March, let's manifest how we want Mother Nature to act with some golf talk. Seneca junior Piper Stenzel (24:36.5) talks about golfing at state for her third consecutive year. Hall junior Luke Bryant (29:40) chats about the Hall team playing together at state for the first time in program history and hitting a hole-in-one at the biggest tournament of the year. Cam Pawlowski (39:37), an eighth grader at Holy Cross in Mendota, is ready to advance his game from the IESA State Tournament to high school golf.Chat It Up (the first 20 minutes of every episode): IHSA girls basketball postseason, What the Pod is with The Dan Patrick Show and Something to Wrestle With, and NFL offseason

Kim (Holdenrid) Barth (19:20.5), a Mendota native, has been teaching and coaching at Washington for the last 15 years. When she took over the girls basketball program in 2016, goals were created. The Panthers had checked off the entire list except one...until Saturday when they won the IHSA Class 3A State Championship.Chat It Up (first 19:20): Wrestling postseason and Paying Respect

Kelly Champlin, a Mendota native who has lived in Earlville for the last 20 years has entered the Ms. Health & Fitness Contest. She could be on the cover of HERS Magazine, tell her story in her article, help others with their fitness journey and take home $20,000.But...voting ends at 9 p.m. TONIGHT.To vote, you need a Facebook profile and your password. Visit the Kelly Champlin Facebook page, the Iron Family Supplement Facebook page or https://mshealthandfit.com/2026/kelly-champlin?

Fall IHSA sports are in full postseason motion. Regionals, sectionals, state championships...oh my.On this show:MHS boys soccer representatives after winning the Trojans' seventh straight regional: MHS coach Nick Myers (10:47), Mateo Goy (16:20) and Isaac Diaz (18:14)MHS boys soccer representatives after winning a sectional semifinal: Sebastian Carlos and Mauricio Salinas (22:30)Amboy cross country coach Michael Robinson (25:33)Hall-Putnam County football coach Nick Sterling (34:35.5)Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio football coach Scott Payne (41:58)

The Mendota boys soccer team has been on a legendary run the last few seasons. The Trojans took it a step further last year taking third at the IHSA Class 1A State Tournament. This year, Mendota has a 20-4 record after a Class 1A Mendota Regional Semifinal victory and is looking to accomplish the goal of winning Mendota High School's first state championship...in any sport. Edge of Your Seat Podcast has been working on this show for a long time, so there a mix of different chats in different time frames. Enjoy!On the show:Sebastian Carlos, now a senior, from his freshman year (11:16.5)Putting in the Work, girls tennis sectionals and boys soccer regionals (16:56)From last year's state tournament: MHS pep rally (25:21.5); semifinal loss post match conference (29:11.5); third-place match victory post match conference (33:33.5)Johan Cortez, summer between the tournament and his senior year (44:30)Outside of the Valley, NBA and NHL have started, World Series begins Friday, NFL is in Week 8, A'ja Wilson is the best in the WNBA (54:44)MHS boys soccer coach Nick Myers, in the summer between the tournament and this season (1:09:35) Myers after the first ever Three Rivers Conference Tournament in early October (1:17:30.5)Cortez and Cesar Casas after the regional semifinal win on Wednesday, Oct. 23 (1:30:42)

End of September, middle of October means IESA and IHSA fall sports are wrapping up and in playoff mode. The Peru Parkside baseball team finished second in the IESA Class 2A State Tournament, while the Mendota Northbrook soccer team wrapped up a 21-0 season with three wins in a tournament. We also had to catch up with football chats from Week 1-3 which weren't aired yet because host Brandon LaChance had a concussion. He's good now!On the show:Peru Parkside Coach Christian Parry (10:47)Putting in the Work - IHSA State Golf, IHSA Football through Week 7 (28:15)Between Week 1 and Week 2 of the football season with St. Bede's Jack Brady (44:08), Mendota's Jim Eustice (54:17), Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio's Scott Payne (1:03:37) and Hall-Putnam County's Nick Sterling (1:10:22).Sterling after Week 2, and before and after Week 3 (1:17:19PPaying Respect - honoring celebrities, musicians, athletes who passed away (1:24:42)Northbrook Coach Ruti Arteaga (1:51:32)

Week 6 of the IHSA football season is upon us! Edge of Your Seat Podcast was joined by five coaches as they prepare for big games.On the show:St. Bede Coach Jack Brady (5:55); Bruins (2-3) play Dwight (2-3) in the SBA Homecoming Game at 1 p.m. Saturday.Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio Coach Scott Payne (13:02); Clippers (4-1) play Peoria Heights (1-4) on the road at 7 p.m. Friday.Hall-Putnam County Coach Nick Sterling (18:21); Red Devils (3-2) host Princeton (2-3) in a huge Three Rivers Conference Mississippi Division rivalry game 7 p.m. Friday at Hall.Princeton Coach Ryan Pearson (25:25); EOYS had to get both sides of the rivalry.Mendota Coach Jim Eustice (38:18); Trojans (1-4) have their Homecoming Game against TRC Mississippi Division foe Kewanee (0-5) at 7 p.m. Friday.

Life transitions put us behind the football season. No time like the present to catch up and learn and be entertained with four chats with coaches before the IHSA football season began.Plus, Chris Walker led the Mendota-Waltham-Dimmick Lady Tribe softball team to a third-place finish in the IESA Class 1A State Tournament, only a month after having a field named after him by Putnam County.Walker (5:38)Mendota Coach Jim Eustice (27:24)Hall-Putnam County Coach Nick Sterling (43:18)La Salle-Peru Coach J.J. Raffelson (56:20)Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio Coach Scott Payne (1:11:08)

Jam packed show with all the amazingness expected on Edge of Your Seat Podcast!Marquette baseball representatives coach Todd Hopkins and seniors, now graduated, Keaton Davis and Sam Mitre speak on winning the IHSA Class 1A State Championship...for the second year in a row (22:09).Marisa Guisti, La Salle-Peru alumna and former NCAA Division I volleyball player, tells us about the sales role she had with the Jacksonville Jaguars and now the Milwaukee Bucks (37:32).Keep it Rollin breaks down 10 movies and then ranks them (51:54).Marion Persich, a La Salle-Peru sophomore for the 2025-26 school year, is cruising the NCAA Division I summer camp circuit and awaiting his second year as the Cavaliers' starting QB (1:28:19).What the Pod is chats a couple of podcasts you should check out (1:39:18).Mallory Powers talked with us after scoring 1,000-plus points for the Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team and graduating to move on to the next step in her schooling and professional life (2:07:36).Ella Sterling graduated from Hall in May and is excited to be on the Eastern Michigan University rowing roster, a sport she hadn't heard before being recruited by many NCAA Division I schools (2:07:36).Bring it Back features the 2019 Billie Eilish debut studio album, "Where We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" (2:17:28).

Edge of Your Seat Podcast talks baseball and state track.

Football playoffs are a couple weeks in and we've caught up with players and coaches from Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio (play an Illinois 8-Man Football Association semifinal at 4 p.m. today) and Princeton (play a Class 3A quarterfinal at 1 p.m. today) to talk about their games and tell their stories. Also, we spoke with Dave Martin, the man behind the trading card shows at the Peru Mall, including today, Nov. 16.New sponsor: Northern Illinois Seamless Roofing!!!!!!!Putting in the Work (16:14)Clippers Week 9 - Dillon Merriman, Brayden Klein, Scott Payne (44::03)Clippers Round 1 - Scott Payne, Trevor Stenzel, Josh McKendry (48:30)Clippers quarterfinal - Scott Payne, Eddie Jones, Quinn Leffelman (53:21)Clippers semifinal preview with Scott Payne (59:43)What the Pod is, Paying Respect, Keep it Rolling (1:04:55)Noah LaPorte (1:51:49), Ryan Pearson (2:05:07), Cade Odell (2:17:48)

The Hall-Putnam County football team has a new coach in Logan Larson. We had spoken to him four times by the time we entered Week 2. The excited coach hasn't let up and neither has his team. The no-quit mentality is in full-effect. Also, we lead in with a group of awesome kids at the Graves-Hume Public Library in Mendota.