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]]>The 2010 squad is led by senior tri-captains Dan Goeddel, Rob Golterman, and Daniel Pike. Dan is the team's best two-way player, Rob steps in as the primary defender, and Daniel provides impressive depth at 2-meter. Additional seniors are goalie Pat Archer, the team's most improved player since last spring, 2-meter Ben Castro, and utility player Dan Schmidt, the most talented and inexperienced player on the roster. Junior 2-meters Michael Hagerty and John Lewis return for their second Varsity seasons, this time as starters, while fellow juniors Nate Burggraf (utility), Jake Chisholm (goalie), Eddie Harris (defender), Joe Kabance (defender), Mitch Kramer (defender), and Bill Luhmann (driver) join Varsity after leading last year's JV team to a spotless 15-0 record. Sophomore 2-meter Sam Erlinger and freshman 2-meter Michael Sigman are present contributors and future stars.
After three weeks of mostly encouraging practices, the boys will find out what kind of team they can be, beginning with three games against teams in the top ten of the preseason poll. Compared to the successes of the past few years, a drop-off should be expected. But don't tell that to this team.
]]>Monday practice location will be posted no later than 2 pm Monday afternoon.
]]>It is the desire of St. Louis University High School that good sportsmanship is practiced bu all students, players, parents and fans. Therefore such acts as throwing items on the playing surface, participation in vulgar cheers, and the demeaning os officials, cheerleaders and our guests will be considered foreign to our Jesuit philosophy and of good sportsmanship that is embraced by SLUH and its administration and athletic department.
Violators may be asked to leave the premises and possibly banned from attending future SLUH athletic events.
Please support your school in a manner that will reflect positively on you, your family, your faith and your school.
Winning is for a day and will in the long run be forgotten. Sportsmanship and ethics are for a lifetime.
]]>An interscholastic athletic program as a co-curricular activity is an integral part of the total education and growth experience at St. Louis University High School. Athletics are designed to affirm and promote the Ignatian values as stated in the Profile of the Graduate at Graduation and engage student-athletes fully in mind, body, and spirit. Student-athletes, coaches, and parents are called upon to work together in a true spirit of sportsmanship to assist in creating an environment in which those Ignatian values can be revealed, tested, and proven relevant both to participants and the entire SLUH community.
Through participation in athletics at St. Louis University High School, students will mature physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually. They will learn to take responsibility for personal growth by developing loyalty, pride, integrity, and commitment. Athletics provides the opportunity for the student-athlete to exhibit a progression of physical skills and knowledge of a particular sport, enabling him to apply these skills and knowledge to new situations and a variety of learning formats. Through participation in athletics the student-athlete learns that God is active in all things and that individual and liturgical prayer will bring him closer to God. The student-athlete comes to trust that he is known and loved by God: that love invites a personal response, which is an expression of movement within the human heart beyond self interest or self centeredness. The student-athlete is called to be conscious of the call to be a leader in service and to acknowledge his commitment toward fostering a just society. Every member of the St. Louis University High School community must seek to encourage, instill, and foster such growth and development in all student-athletes.
PHILOSOPHY**
We believe that the opportunity for participation in a wide variety of Interscholastic Sports is a vital part of the student's educational experience. Such participation is a privilege that carries with it responsibilities to the activity, to the student body, to the community and to the students themselves. These experiences contribute to the development of learning skills and emotional patterns that enable the student to make maximum use of his education.
St. Louis University High School student activities are considered as a co-curricular to the school's program of education which provides experiences that will help to develop each young man physically, mentally, spiritually, socially and emotionally. THE COACH AT A JESUIT SCHOOL: Coaches are first and foremost are Jesuit educators who use their sports to present and reinforce meaningful lessons for life. These lessons focus on the values expressed in the Profile of the Jesuit Graduate at Graduation.
“Cura Personalis”---”Care for the Individual”--is a central Ignatian priority. Coaches must demonstrate clarity, consistency, and compassion. Compassion means having an underlying care for and appreciation of the student-athlete even while challenging him to do better.
]]>MONDAY MARCH 15TH**
Varsity/JV Water Polo vs. Ladue at FPCC - 4/5:00 p.m.
TUESDAY MARCH 16TH**
No Events Scheduled
WEDNESDAY MARCH 17TH
Varsity/JV Water Polo vs. Kirkwood at FPCC - 4/5:00 p.m.
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY
THURSDAY MARCH 18TH**
No Events Scheduled
FRIDAY MARCH 19TH**
JV/C-Track vs. DeSmet/Chaminade/CBC at SLUH - 4:00 p.m.
Varsity Water Polo vs. Chaminade at FPCC - 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAY MARCH 20TH**
No Events Scheduled
Call the SLUH Athletic Hot Line at 531-0330 Press 8**
]]>“John and Andrew embraced our mission and established a connection with the children that went deeper than an ordinary volunteer-child relationship,” says Sara Nelson, Volunteer Director of the Crisis Nursery. “The children were drawn to them because they trusted them and felt safe in their company.”
About 100 student volunteers serve at the Nursery each year. According to Nelson, "Since both John and Andrew were so exceptional, we’re honoring both with the Student Volunteer of the Year Award this year."
The Saint Louis Crisis Nursery, with five locations in St. Louis and St. Charles, has been a valuable asset in the region for more than 23 years. Trained professional staff provides 24-hour care for children, birth to age 12, whose families are facing crisis or emergency. Committed to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, the Crisis Nursery has provided a safe haven to nearly 50,000 children and provided support and counseling to more than 64,000 families since opening in 1986.
Helling and Salamone, who worked at the location at Forest Park Community Hospital, spent their time playing games with the children, reading stories, doing puzzles and more.
“It was such an awesome, eye-opening experience,” says Helling, who plans to attend Creighton University in the fall. “I've only been back to help at the Nursery once since January, but I am definitely going to be back there more often before I head off to college.”
Typically, parents leave their children at the Nursery for a few days or so at a time. Occasionally, if the need resurfaces, some children return to Nursery.
“The best and worst part of the job was when the children would return to the Nursery,” says Salamone, who is attending Indiana University next school year. “It was great to see them again, but we knew they were there because their parents could not keep them.”
Approximately 10 percent of the children who come to the Nursery have fathers who support them in some way.
“To my surprise, the kids taught me so much and it was almost impossible to not get attached to them,” says Helling. “Knowing these kids have such rough lives, it’s amazing how happy they are and how much they trust you.”
“Aside from playing with the children, I think the biggest gift John and Andrew gave the children was positive role modeling,” says Nelson. “Their presence here at the Nursery reinforced the good that is in the world, sometimes not visible to our children. Having met John and Andrew, our kids are a little better.”
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