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06-05-2025
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Rockford Christian hires former Boylan standout Bryanna Weiskircher as head volleyball coach
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — Rockford Christian has a new girls head volleyball coach. She's well known in Rockford. She is Bryanna Weiskircher, now Branna was a star player at Boylan a decade ago, where she was a two-time NIC-10 MVP. Weiskircher then shined for one of the top NCAA volleyball programs in the nation Penn graduating from Penn State, Weiskircher-Moore played professionally in Germany. She more recently has served as Club Director and Technical Director at VC United and then as coach of the VC United Elite Program. She has coached boys and girls high school volleyball previously in is taking over a Rockford Christian girls volleyball program that will be loaded this fall led by first-team All-State outside hitter Maddie Anspaugh and honorable mention All-State setter Julia Irvin. Rockford Christian will also return several other key players from a team that went 30-5 last year and won the Big Northern Conference Championship for the first time while also winning at 2A regional championship. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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12-02-2025
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Christian Cummings plays through pain; Rockford Christian wins at Byron
BYRON, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — It was a good night and a scary night for Rockford Christian's basketball team and their fans. The Royal Lions won a key Big Northern Conference game at Byron, but they also saw one of their star players go down with an guard Christian Cummings went down hard on a collision under the basket while driving to the hoop. He landed hard on his right hand, and he was in extreme pain. After a delay of a couple minutes Cummings walked off the court, and he was tended to by a the time of the injury, Cummings had 22 points and Rockford Christian led by eight with 4:51 remaining in the game. Cummings returned a couple minutes later. Flexing his right hand, he not only played through the pain, he scored another basket on a driving layup. He then assisted on a game-clinching basket by Chase told me after that game how his hand was feeling. 'Yeah, I'm in pain, but it comes down to it we finished through it. I mean, it's, it's hurting me right now, but we've battled through.' With the Royal Lions battling for a Big Northern Conference championship and a high seed in postseason play, Cummings told me he just had to return to the game. 'Man, it means a lot, man. Going into regionals, the seeding and everything, we want to be here. We wanted to have the top seed going into the regional. So, it means a lot. Just coming back in, I just want to be a motivation to my team that no matter what I'm about through, we all get better through this together.'Rockford Christian won 59-48 to improve to 23-2 overall and 7-0 in the Big Northern Conference. That clinches at least a tie for the Big Northern Championship for the Royal Lions because they have a two game lead with only two conference games remaining. Those games are at Winnebago this Friday and at Rockford Lutheran the following highlights, watch the media player above. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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08-02-2025
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‘Overtime' Friday, February 7
ROCKFORD, Illinois-Drew Collins and Scott Leber bring you all the action from high school basketball in the Rockford area with 'Overtime.'Highlights form key games between Rock Falls and Rockford Christian. Also, Byron and Dixon battling in an overtime boys' thriller and many more also hear our interview with Byron boys' head coach Matt Huels. You see our Spotlight story on Belvidere's Emma Pierson, and we'll reveal our Athlete of the view this episode, watch the media player above. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
