wes leonard

Last week, Wes Leonard was inducted into the Fennville Hall of Fame. This week, Wes Leonard is featured in Sports Illustrated. Leonard died on March 3, 2011, after hitting a game-winning shot for Fennville's high school basketball team.

On March 3, 2011, Fennville basketball star Wes Leonard died after suffering a heart attack shortly after hitting a game-winning shot. Tonight Leonard will be remembered as he is inducted into the Fennville High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

It's the time of year when TIME Magazine puts out their "Top 10 Everything of 2011" lists, and a local story has landed in the number 10 spot for "Top 10 Sports Moments". The story of Wes Leonard, and the Fennville boys' basketball team, garnered national attention this year, going so far as to earn them an ESPY nomination.

It's been over 4 months since Fennville basketball player Wes Leonard died after scoring the game-winning shot to clinch a perfect season, but Leonard will never be forgotten.

Through tragedy and an undying fire within, the varsity boys basketball team from Fennville earned a national following back in March when they won their district title just days after they lost their star player, Wes Leonard, to a heart attack. Thursday night, the Blackhawks will step onto the national stage again when they take their seats at ESPN's ESPY Awards in Los Angeles along with som

Fennville boys basketball teams road to the state finals is one of three sporting events nominated for ESPN's ESPY award for Best Moment of 2011.  Roy Halladay's playoff no-hitter and Trevor Bayne's Daytona 500 win are the other two events nominated.

The family of former Fennville basketball star Wes Leonard received a special gift today from a company hoping to celebrate his life. Leonard died in March after suffering cardiac arrest on the basketball court. Though he was a star on the basketball court and football field for Fennville High School, his sports career started much earlier than high school. THE RUSH, which is a company that spec

I'm constantly in awe of all of you Channel 957ers who are in good enough shape to do what you do on a basketball court, out in a baseball field or running in the annual Fifth-Third Riverbank Run! Sadly, tragedy overshadowed this year's race after former GVSU linebacker and father of three, Jason Kinzler, died a mile from the 25k finish line...

ESPN's "Outside The Lines" has debuted a 16-minute story on Wes Leonard. Leonard was a 16-year-old basketball star at Fennville High School.  He died on March 23rd after scoring the winning basket to clinch an undefeated regular season for Fennville...

It's been an emotional couple of weeks for the parents of Fennville basketball player Wes Leonard. We collapsed after hitting the winning shot to give them an undefeated season. The team soldiered on after the death of their teammate and friend, and played their hearts out for Wes to win the District Championship title...

For me, and hopefully for you, it has been really neat to see the Fennville community, as well as surrounding communities come together and lift up the Leonard family after Wes unexpectedly died after throwing the winning shot to advance his team to the play-offs on March 3rd. It's far reaching how many people I have since met who also either knew Wes or his family -- and how much they're all resp

If you don't know this about me by now ... you will soon find out that I am sports challenged!  But, I can appreciate everyone else's talent and success. Following the Fennville basketball team and Wes Leonard's family since he fatally collapsed of a heart attack last week has been bitterSweet with a capital 'S'.  Sweet because I have witnessed a loving community lift up Wes' family, friends and t