Competitive baton twirler Chase Dorn knows full well that some people don't think of her sport as, well, a sport. The 17-year-old from Elk Grove Village, recently named Illinois' Distinguished Young Woman for 2015, knows better. "It's a sport because it takes just as much agility and training and coordination and fitness as any sport -- as soccer, as basketball, as cheerleading, as dance," the Conant senior said.