Eve Meintz was recruited by Benedictine University as a soccer player. The Marian Central Catholic grad and Huntley resident finished as not only an all-conference soccer player, but a conference champion in the sport of track and field. The former Hurricane athlete also set five school records in the sport at Benedictine. She set indoor […]
Patrick Brunken, who recently completed his lacrosse career and graduated from Benedictine University, might not remember the speech that Rocky Balboa gave to his son. But the Marian Central Catholic graduate definitely believes in it, and he has lived it In the movie, Balboa tells his son, “It is not how many times you get […]
Multi-sport athletes in high school, especially at a small high school, are common. In college, it is extremely rare, except with something like track and cross-country, where the activity only changes slightly, but the terrain changes greatly. Soccer and track would be a strange combo, but not for Marian Central Catholic graduate Eve Meintz, a […]
It might not be his best effort ever in the mile run, but Ryan Jones, a Marian Central graduate and Marengo native, has a good place to start. That start was the Bellarmine University Track and Field Open, which was sponsored by Urban Shipper and held at the Norton HC Center in Louisville, Ky. The […]
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