For 41 years, Mike Korcek covered the Huskies as reporter and sports information director.

So when you think homecoming, you think Korcek would have celebrated last weekend.

But in reality, the real homecoming will be today, as Korcek returns to his high school, Prospect High School. There he will be awarded the school’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

Korcek, a 1966 PHS graduate, will appear in four morning classes to provide encouragement and inspiration to current students. He will then, along with Donald Greco, the other PHS Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, be acknowledged at the Homecoming Coronation Assembly in the Jean Walker Field House at 2:15 p.m. The pair will also be introduced between the boy’s soccer match and football game against Elk Grove High School in George Gattas Memorial Stadium at 6:45 p.m.

The 61-year-old Korcek began his sports journalism career as a staff member of the Prospect, the PHS student newspaper. He then became a stringer for the weekly Mount Prospect News.

Upon enrolling at NIU, Korcek reported on the Huskies for three years as a member of the Northern Star. He spent his senior year working with NIU sports information director Bud Nangle.

Upon graduation, Korcek served in the U.S. Army for three years. When he returned to DeKalb, he became a full-time assistant sports information director for NIU. Eleven years later, Korcek became director when Nangle retired. Recently, he served as Sports Information Director Emeritus until NIU chose not to renew his contract July 1.

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