TriCounty Patience Grayer, a dominating 6-foot-1 player for Peoria Manual High School, averaged 21 points and 14 rebounds last season and was named the Peoria Journal Star's Class AA Player of the Year.
She was a first team selection on All-State teams selected by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and Champaign News-Gazette as well as the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association.
She finished second on the all-time Manual scoring list with 2,005 points, is the school's all-time leading rebounder with 1,214 and three times selected to the Mid-State 9 all-conference first team.
| 2007 Tri-County Female Athlete of the Year ALLISON McGLAUGHLIN A senior at Morton High School, McGlaughlin set the lHSA state record for career kills, with 1,697. Her 674 during the fall rank second all-time in Illinois for a single season. The Journal Star volleyball Player of the Year, McGlaughlin signed to receive a scholarship to play next year at Northern Illinois University. |  |