Game faces: Rockford area top players and rising stars for spring 2024: Photos

The high school spring sports season is well underway, and plenty of Rockford-area stars already are making names for themselves.

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Belvidere North's girls soccer star Cortlyn Hefty has 29 goals through the Blue Thunder's first 10 games.

Auburn's Essence Horton-Graves has the seventh fastest time in the 100-meter dash in the entire state in track and field.

Sophomore Caden Considine has the Byron baseball team on a nine-game winning streak.

We asked some of the region's top athletes to stop by for a photo shoot earlier this month to capture both their love for their sports and their passion for playing at their highest level.

Here are the results.

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Jay Taft is a Rockford Register Star sports reporter. Email him at jtaft@rrstar.com and follow him on Twitter at @JayTaft . Sign up for the Rockford High School newsletter at rrstar.com. Jay has covered a wide variety of sports, from the Chicago Bears to youth sports, since the turn of the century at the Register Star, and for over 30 years altogether .

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