Feb. 2008- Craig Bowen (1978) co-produced a golf documentary, "Uneven Lies: The heroic story of Afro-Americans in Golf," which appeared on Feb. 12 on the Golf Channel (Chicago Tribune story).
Maurice Acker, a member of the 2000 International Championship squad, was a starting guard for the nationally ranked Marquette men's basketball team, leading them to the NCAA tourney in 2009-10.
Eric Armstrong has been the varsity assistant basketball coach at Thornton High School for several years.
Vance Cooksey completed his basketball career at Marian Catholic as one of the all-time leading scorers, then moved onto a scholarship at Youngstown State University and Pikeville College (Kent.).
Ki-Jana Crawford, a Viking career leader in several categories, is a key contributor as a freshman on the sophomore football and basketball teams at Marian Catholic.
Bob Curran, who led the Thornwood men's basketball team to a pair of IHSA Class state trophies in five seasons, has also served as head coach at Lincoln-Way North and currently Lincoln-Way Central.
Brian Dompeling will graduate in 2011 at Eisenhower High School, where he plays varsity baseball.
Brian Essig, a former Viking coach, turned in a team-best two-day total of 151 at the IHSA state golf tournament as a senior to lead his Homewood-Flossmoor
team to an 8th place state finish and earn team MVP honors. Along with Viking alums David Posley (University of Cal-Santa Barbara), Neil Trainor (Milwaukee School of Engineering)
and Ronnell Robinzine, Brian also played on the H-F IHSA Class AA state basketball runner up.
An honor roll student at Homewood-Flossmoor HS, David Fatoki plays varsity basketball and baseball, and has a career interest in medicine.
Anthony Frezza played varsity basketball at Mount Carmel, where he graduated from in 2010.
Dontrell Jackson completed a successful four-year career at quarterback for Ohio University. He moved onto a career in the Arena
Football League and played for the Chicago Slaughter and currently serves as a basketball coach with his dad Troy at Thornton HS.
Brian Johnson led Marian Catholic to its first sectional win in history over Homewood-Flossmoor as a senior guard in 2009 and played at Univesity of Indianapolis.
Skye Johnson played a key role in leading the Marian Catholic
women's basketball team to two straight IHSA Elite Eights and earned a basketball scholarship at Bradley University.
Mike Jones (Valparaiso, Andrew) is an
outside sales rep and plays in a rock band across the country. He played varsity baseball, basketball and golf at Andrew.
Corey Jumper played on the basketball team and competed
in a match competition at Vanderpoel Grade School. He was a varsity basketball player at Brooks High School in Chicago.
Dan Kelly teaches in the University of Notre Dame Law School, while brother Tom Kelly teaches philosophy at Princeton.
Ethan Kelly, a seventh grader at Infant Jesus of Prague, recently played on championship teams in baseball, basketball and football, and has career plans of becoming an architect.
Matt Kiley is on the honor roll and winner of the
Student-Athlete Scholar Award at Lincoln-Way East High School, where he plays basketball.
Jordan Koyn is a member of the Freshman A team at Homewood-Flossmoor HS for football, basketball and baseball.
Heather Kunkel was named first team all-Big 12, all-Big 12 Academic and
All-Tournament in softball her senior year at University of Missouri, where she ranks second all-time in homers and doubles. She earned her degree in Secondary Education in 2006 and currently
is the head softball coach at Lincoln-Way West.
Jeff Kunkel, majored in Sports Management and Communication at the University of Michigan, earned the Jim Campbell Award for Leadership and Dedication as
a catcher for the Wolverine baseball team. Jeff earned all-american honors from Louisville Slugger and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. He is currently in the Detroit Tigers
minor league system at Class AAA Toledo. He has been named top defensive catcher in the Tiger organization twice by Baseball America.
Cameron Lee began his college career at Iowa State University, then moved on to play at University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D.
Casey Lilek played on the baseball team at Marian Catholic High School.
Mark Maday serves as a general manager at Cardinal Fitness in Tinley Park.
Donovan McNabb led the Philadelphia Eagles to Super Bowl XXXIX against the New England Patriots and now plays for the Washington Redskins.
David Posley, who led John Logan Community College to a
top 10 national ranking, completed his college basketball career at California Santa-Barbara.
Dasaan Sanford earned all-conference honors in
basketball for Waubonsee Community College, where he graduated in 2003. He is currently working toward teacher certification at Governors State University.
Jamael Sanford
is a licensed real estate appraiser and mortgage counselor. He's a graduate of Rich South and Augustana (2000), where he lettered in football for four seasons.
David Schwab
currently works as a reporter at the Southtown/Star.
Jared Swoope is an honor roll student at H-F.
Nick Trzesniak hit .299 with 16 RBI in 2007 with the Class AA Erie Seawolves in the Detroit Tigers organization and gained a spring training invite.
Mark Zelenika
played high school basketball at Lincoln-Way East. |
