Over 130 years after De La Salle opened, senior midfielder/forward Alex Panduro threw everything he had into his ultimate goal of bringing the school its first team state championship in any sport.

Consider that mission to be accomplished. And now, Panduro and his teammates are letting it all sink in after winning the Class 2A title.

“At school, everybody’s grateful and they’re all congratulating us,” Panduro said. “It’s an amazing feeling. To me, it’s very crazy that in the 100 or even more years of De La Salle, we’re the first people to win a state championship trophy and lift it up together.

“In the future, it’s still going to be crazy to think, ‘Oh, it was my team that won the first state plaque.’”

Panduro, the 2025 Daily Southtown Boys Soccer Player of the Year, led the Meteors

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