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.
Bob Curran, who led the Thornwood men's basketball team to a pair of IHSA Class state trophies in five seasons, recently was named head boys coach at the new Lincoln-Way North
High School.
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.
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
teaches at Reavis.
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 A Lakeland.
Dontrell Jackson completed a successful four-year career at quarterback for Ohio University. He moved onto a career in the Arena
Football League.
Brian Johnson was a junior starting point guard for Marian Catholic.
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.
Corey Jumper played on the basketball team and competed
in a match competition at Vanderpoel Grade School. He is currently a varsity basketball player at Brooks High School in Chicago.
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.
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.
Casey Lilek plays on the baseball team at Marian Catholic High School.
Donovan McNabb led the Philadelphia Eagles to Super Bowl XXXIX against the New England Patriots.
David Posley, who led John Logan Community College to a
top 10 national ranking, recently signed a letter of intent to continue his 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 and played on the Freshman A basketball team.
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 sophomore basketball and soccer in 2007-08 at Lincoln-Way East. |
