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Home of the Cadets

Marmion encourages both school spirit and a healthy balance between mind and body. With these goals in mind, students are encouraged to participate in multiple sports throughout the school year.

Athletic facilities include an indoor swimming pool, weight room, gymnasium, rifle range, football stadium, all-weather track, six tennis courts, two baseball diamonds, and several practice fields.

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Cross Country

Regional Champs 2009

The baton was passed to former assistant coach Dan Billish and this year Marmion competed in the newly formed Suburban Christian Conference. Marmion competed in the state competition as a 2A (middle enrollments) school.

Junior Bennett Marsh paced the Cadets to a second-place finish in the Aurora City meet. Marmion also won the ICOPS Invitational with senior Zack Young earning individual honors. Marmion finished third in its own Royal-Cadet Invitational.

In the ACC Charger Classic (25 teams) the Cadets were victorious. Young finished 8th and junior Ben Kanute (9th) made his first start of the season after finishing 38th overall in the World Junior Triathlon competition held in Australia. Ben led the triathlon competition after the first two stages (swimming and cycling).

In the Lisle Mane Event (31 teams) Marmion finished second. The Cadets were undefeated (7-0) in dual meets and placed the top 3 in all of these events. This season Young and Kanute led the Cadets, with strong performances also coming from Marsh and seniors Matt Wenzel and Trevor Stein. Marmion is currently ranked #5 in the state.

The Cadets won the SCC Conference Meet with Young capturing the coveted Conference title. Also earning All-Conference honors were Bennett Marsh (8th), Josh Kanute (9th), Matt Wenzel (12th) and Chris Hebert (13th).

The frosh-soph squad also had a great season winning this year’s City Meet. The squad was undefeated in dual meets (7-0) and placed the top 3 in all events in which they competed.

Football

Division Champs 2009

Head Football Coach Dan Thorpe entered his fifth season with the motto “Finish Strong.” During the 2008 season the Cadets lost by 2 points to both the Class 2A State Champion Immaculate Conception and the Class 5A State Champion St. Francis.

An early season loss to South Elgin did not deter the Cadets from rattling off eight consecutive victories in an impressive fashion. Mundelein was soundly beaten 24-8 with a dominating defensive effort. Junior linebacker Mike Carbonara returned an interception 50 yards for a touchdown and senior Chris Tydd kicked a 37-yard field goal. Marmion forced three turnovers and forced the opponent to punt eleven times.
A big victory over St. Francis 21-7 snapped the Spartan’s 12-game winning streak. Senior Bobby Winkle scored one touchdown and made a late interception to seal the victory. Senior quarterback Will Sterne was player of the game.

The Cadets then relied on great conditioning and pure heart and desire to defeat Marian Central 41-27. In the second half Marmion forced four punts on four consecutive drives and intercepted a pass.

Marmion’s Homecoming was highlighted by a resounding victory over Guerin Prep 54-14. Nine of thirty plays gained 20 or more yards with five runners finding the end zone.

They continued their string of victories shutting out cross-town rivals Aurora Central 21-0 and beating both Lincoln Way West (45-35) and Chicago Christian (23-20).

In the final regular season game, the Cadets defeated their Conference foe Montini (18-7) for the first time in ten years. The Cadets advanced to the Class 6A State Playoffs.

The new Suburban Christian Conference is broken into two divisions, Marmion now holds the first Blue Division Title

Golf

Johnson Places 14th in State

The season opened with the Marmion Golf Team claiming the title in the 25-team Larkin Invitational. Senior Tim Johnson (75), junior Evan Kline-Wedeen (77), sophomore Joe Lappin (77), and junior Taylor Kanute (78) led the way. The Cadets then defeated Somonauk (by 28 strokes) and St. Francis before losing to Wheaton Warrenville South. Marmion finished 5th in the Oswego Scramble, but bounced back with a win over Batavia by 10 strokes (led by Kanute’s 37). They then beat Aurora Christian by 9 strokes.

Performances continued to improve as the Cadets finished second in the Aurora City Tournament. Johnson (76), Lappin (76) and Senior Roy Logan (78) were 4th, 5th, and 8th respectively. Marmion then defeated IC by 1, lost to Marian Central by 3 and defeated Montini by 20 strokes.

The Cadets finished their regular season with a second place finish in the Conference meet, with the Fresh/Soph team as Conference Champions. Lappin (77), sophomore Zach Woytych (77), Kline-Wedeen (78), and Logan (79) were All-Conference. In the ACC Regional Tournament, Marmion advanced to the Wheaton Academy Sectional with a second-place finish. Johnson (75) bogeyed three of the last four holes, but still finished one stroke out of the top spot for individual honors. He continued on to compete at the Class 2A State Tournament, finishing 14th overall.

Soccer

Sectional Champs 2009

Marmion’s soccer season was the program’s fourteenth and head coach Kevin O’Connor’s teams’ record to date is 213-91-16. Dave DeBlock ‘03 and Danny Del Toro ‘05 assisted him. This year’s captains were seniors Stephan Anderson, Tommy Cruger, Sam Duffield, and Max Rosenfelder.

Marmion started the regular season with a 4-0 victory over Willowbrook. The opening game victory was followed by losses to Boylan Catholic, Lake Zurich, and Wheaton Warrenville South before rebounding with victories over Barrington (1-0) and Andrew High (3-2).

The two-game winning streak ended with a 2-1 loss to Morton West. The Cadets then proceeded with a very successful stretch where they defeated Mount Carmel 1-0, tied Sycamore 0-0, defeated Montini 7-0, Bolingbrook 2-1, a tough 5-4 loss to Wheaton Academy (WA scored with 1:02 remaining in the game), defeated Aurora Central Catholic 9-0, West Chicago 2-1, St. Francis 6-1, Aurora East 1-0, St. Edward 7-0, Oswego 3-2 and Guerin Prep 7-0.

The Cadets finished the regular season in second place in the Conference and went on to win the Regional Title defeating Johnsburg (2-1). In the IHSA playoffs Marmion was seeded #2 out of the 19 teams in the Hampshire Sectional.

Basketball

Cadets finish Second in Conference

The Cadet basketball team completed an up and down season finishing 2nd in Conference with a 10-4 (13-14 overall) record. Season highlights include the breathtaking 52-51 victory over then 14-3 Aurora East. Senior guard David Brouch hit a jump shot with five seconds remaining to provide the winning margin.

Earlier in the season, rival Wheaton St. Francis had downed the Cadets 51-49. Marmion reversed the score at home with a resounding 62-50 victory.

In an even more exciting and tense evening at Marmion, the student section respectfully called “Burno’s Inferno” cheered on the Cadets throughout a hotly contested conference game with ACC.

At home, the Cadets were able to reverse the earlier outcome of the ACC victory 35-33 in overtime. This time, senior guard Sean Fichtel sank a running shot with five seconds to go to put Marmion ahead 43-42. The Cadets had to watch a last second ACC jump shot bounce off the rim before claiming the victory.

Marmion finished the regular season with an impressive victory over Fenton in the season finale, but in the Class 4A Regional at Naperville Central, the Cadets had a cold shooting night that led to a defeat at the hands of Willowbrook.

Rifle

Compete at National Championships

Schroeder’s Snipers began their season with a win when the Precision team led by juniors Lucas Brandt, Jeffrey Voss, Ryan Novack, and Joseph Munder in the Redbird Classic at Illinois State University.

The team placed first in the three-position match and first place in the international (standing) match. Eight precision air rifle teams competed in this competition. Brandt and Voss finished one-two in the precision match. The Cadets also finished in third place at the Raider Classic held at Iroquois West H.S.

The team made a successful journey to Camp Perry OH competing against 13 teams including two teams from Germany. Marmion placed fourth in the Army JROTC Service Championship. Out of 58 individual competitors, Munder, Charles Leonard, Voss and Brandt finished in 18th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd place, respectively.
Prior to the trip they had competed in the first Army postal match in Illinois to determine who would represent the State of Illinois in this international competition. Marmion tied in the postal match with Peking High School with a score of 1120, but won out in a tie-breaker.

Marmion competed in the NRA three-position match and NRA International match, finishing first in the International match and the NRA 3-P team match. Munder, Leonard, Voss, and Brandt qualified to compete in the 2009 JROTC National Air Rifle Championship at Fort Benning GA, March 26-28

Swimming

Team Finishes in Fourth at State Meet

Coach Bill Schalz ‘79 returned this year with what appeared to be the strongest squad since the State championship team in 2000. This year’s talented group included seniors Tyler Capen, Austin Cox, Thomas Delves, and Matt Lifka, along with junior Matt Pircon and sophomore Ben Kanute. Newcomers to the varsity team were sophomores Mike Duy and Andy Healy and freshmen Zach Bennett and Dan Duhig.

To set the tone for the season, the Cadets stormed to victory for the fourth consecutive time in the Randy Block ‘70 Memorial Relays by capturing the final five events.

Approaching this year’s Sectional Meet at St. Charles East, Marmion had all three relays more than two seconds under the State cut and seven additional swimmers who had been faster than the State qualifying mark in recent races.
Marmion defeated second place St Charles North 232-215.5 with a thrilling runner-up finish in the final race of the day.

The Cadets advanced a swimmer to the State Meet in every event. Capen led the way by winning the 200 individual medley and the 100 backstroke. His time of 1.55.96 in the medley was almost five seconds under the State-qualifying standard.

In the State Meet Marmion fell just short of earning a team trophy, ending up two points behind third place Glenbrook South. This was the fastest State Meet ever, clocking several new State Records and one National record.

Coach Schalz was quoted as saying “These guys swam hard all the way to the end. I’m very proud of what they accomplished.”

Wrestling

A very exciting 18-4 season raised Head Coach Dean Branstetter’s Marmion seven-year record to an impressive 111-33.

Marmion finished second in this year’s Conference Meet behind state powerhouse Montini. Junior Pat Greco (140 pounds), his freshman brother Eddie (103 pounds) and junior Nico Jimenez (160 pounds) were all conference champions. Cadets earning second place honors in Conference were: freshmen Ryan Riggs (112) and Angelo Silvestro (119), sophomore Eddie Breen (125), senior Tim Benoit (145), and junior Connor English (215).

At Regionals, Marmion finished fifth with outstanding performances by first place finishers Eddie Greco (103), Silvestro (119) and Pat Greco (140), second place finisher Breen (125), and fourth place finishers Benoit (145) and Jimenez (160).

In Sectional competition Pat and Eddie Greco finished second and third respectively. Pat (37-4) and Eddie (36-4) were the first Marmion grapplers in the school’s history to qualify for State. Eddie finished in fifth place at the State competition.

Senior Andrew Konovodoff holds the team record for the fastest pin (14 seconds) and Nico Jimenez holds the record for the most pins in a season (22). Along with all of their teammates, Pat Greco (129 takedowns and 354 individual match points this past season) and Eddie Greco (36 wins and 211 team points this past season) have every reason to be excited about the 2009-10 season

Baseball

Marmion’s Varsity baseball team, under the direction of first year varsity coach Dave Rakow, finished the 2008 season with a 19-10 record. The previous school record was 18 wins.

After a 2-5 start, Marmion ran off a string of 11 consecutive wins. The Cadets tied for 2nd in the SCC with a 10-3 record. Coach Rakow was named “Top Baseball Coach” by the Daily Herald after leading Marmion to its first Regional Championship since 1969.

Tim Milroy ‘08, Robert Reder ‘08, Matt Milroy ‘09 and C. J. Foster ‘09 were named to the All-Conference team. The conference also honored Marmion with the Team Sportsmanship Award. Both Tim and Matt Milroy were placed on the Daily Herald’s All-Area team.

Coach Rakow was selected as the Kane County Chronicle’s Baseball Coach of the Year. The sophomore team also finished second in the conference (10-4) with a 16-8 overall record.

Highlights of the varsity season included a nail biting 16-15 win over St. Francis after St. Francis scored 15 unanswered runs to tie the score and also Tim Milroy’s no-hitter against Aurora Central. In this stellar 3-0 victory, Tim struck out eight and walked one. Additionally, his brother Matt broke the school home run record with 7 (the previous record was 6).

This year’s baseball team did not have the benefit of playing home games on the Marmion campus due to their new varsity diamond not being ready for play, but they certainly played with emotion up to and including their heartbreaking loss to Rock Falls in the IHSA Sectional Championship game. This was further than any Marmion team has gone in the state playoffs.

Lacrosse

In late February 2008, with the support of the Marmion Althletic Department, a group of dedicated students and parents formed the Marmion Lacrosse Club, led by John Emanuel, father of Dan ‘10. Coach Kevin Griffin, a semipro with MVP status in his native Canada, took on the task of teaching the 25 eager students the rules of the game.

“The team certainly has the talent and drive to provide a more consistent showing next spring,” stated Coach Griffin. “It was stunning for me, as a coach, to watch the development of this young team from one game to the next and it was a honor to be a part of it.”

The season began with a scrimmage and ended with a playoff event hosted by Marmion for the Midwest Lacrosse Club League. Marmion finished in a respectable third place in the League.

An emerging sport document has been signed with the IHSA and this year the team is competing at both the JV and Fresh/Soph levels.

Tennis

The 2008 Marmion Varsity Tennis Team finished the season in second place in the SCC with a 13-4 record with 7 of their matches rained out. The young team, with three sophomores and one freshman, went on to finish 3rd in the Sectional behind Neuqua Valley and Waubonsie Valley. Tom Weiler ‘08, the third place finisher in the IHSA Sectional, was named Kane County Chronicle All-Area.

To qualify for state, Weiler had to rally from a 5-1 deficit in the third set and then win a tiebreaker against Neuqua Valley’s Jose Cadena. Weiler won his first match in the State tournament, but lost his second to finish 63rd. Mike Rios ‘08 and Taylor Weis ‘08 were named SCC All-Conference and eleven athletes were named SCC Academic All-Conference. Weiler was the recipient of Marmion’s Fr. Columban Reed Achievement Award.

Track

Coach Dan Thorpe was drenched with 10 gallons of Gatorade and the Cadets amassed 177 points in securing their third straight conference championship in track and field. The team was also undefeated in dual meets.

T.J. Heffernan ‘09 and Josh Stein ‘08 finished 1-2 in the 1600 meter run. Joe Weber ‘09 and Peter Tate ‘08 went 1-2 in both the shot put and discuss events. Alex Rindone ‘09 led the way with personal bests of 10.7 and 22.1 in the 100 and 200 meters, respectively. Rindone’s mark in the 100 meters eclipsed the converted school record time (set at 100 yards) by Kevin Killough ’77 back in 1977. Alex tied the oldest Marmion track and field record in the 200 meters. The converted record (set at 220 yards) was set back in 1957 by Gary “Ach” Miller ’57.

Eleven Marmion athletes were named to the All-Conference team and Rindone was chosen as the SCC Runner of the Year.

Josh Stein, who finished in 11th place in the 1600 at the state meet, was the recipient of the Glenn Gilbert Achievement Award and will be continuing his career at Loyola University next year.

Joe Weber also went down state in the shot put event.