This reconciliation is always a work of justice, a justice discerned and enacted in local communities and contexts.
– 36TH GENERAL CONGREGATION OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, DECREE 1.21
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly this campus transitions from all measure of activity hurtling forward at 100 miles per hour to the extraordinary quiet that follows the last final exam. But this summer, more than most, the activity level will ramp right back up in anticipation not only of the coming school year, but also of the realization of a vision. And my, how the excitement is growing around here!
As I write this letter to our community, we have officially begun the groundwork to make way for Regis Jesuit High School’s new Science & Innovation Center. Inspired by our Ignatian mission and the fruits of the 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, Regis Jesuit’s academic programs will include a deeper, more active exploration of how our students may promote reconciliation–right relationships–with God, humanity and the natural world.
With this new facility, we are convinced we will more deeply inspire our students to put their creativity, gifts and talents to work in service to others by providing new, innovative teaching and learning approaches that elevate science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. This enhancement of our academic formation will complement our strong liberal arts foundation and provide applied learning opportunities to better anchor critical thinking and solutions-development for real-world problems.
Students will gain hands-on experience with iterative design process involving imagination, collaboration, creation and testing to strengthen their abilities in developing beneficial solutions and beautiful artistic expressions. Additionally, the Science & Innovation Center will provide a true front door to campus that showcases our Catholic, Jesuit mission and identity for all our current and prospective families, alumni and mission partners.
If it wasn’t hard to spot a Regis Jesuit graduate before now: young people characterized by the ability to think critically and act both competently and compassionately, we are convinced that our graduates will even further distinguish themselves as Men and Women with and for Others
The raw material is already here. Thriving within our 1700-strong student body is an abundance of creativity and desire eager to be guided by a talented and dedicated faculty. Together, we look forward to watching this transformative facility spring up on the west end of McNicholas Green over the coming year as we partner with our community to fund this project to completion. The following pages contain more information about this exciting project and additional funding initiatives of Inspire & Ignite 2025. We look forward to sharing our progress with the Regis Jesuit community.
Full STEAM ahead! Welcome to the latest edition of The Raider.
AMDG David Card ’87
The end of each school year offers time to reflect on the past year and, for seniors, reflection on the previous four years. Through the adversity and situations necessitating great patience and flexibility, my heart is full of gratitude for what Regis Jesuit, particularly our senior class, accomplished. Our community transcended each obstacle we faced with humility, grace and courage, allowing our Ignatian way of proceeding to guide us. This way of proceeding nurtures “inner work” based on prayer and the movements of the Holy Spirit. Our reflection on our experiences and the inner movements leads us to action, often requiring us to be innovative in our response to the times. Our ability to respond to new contexts is a hallmark of Regis Jesuit’s pioneering accompaniment of our students. We refuse to be stagnant, and we always seek the magis: collaboration with God. Our inner work leads us to a deeper exploration of the Jesuit education we provide, the best methods to care for students and new ways to introduce them to the overwhelming love of God. Our innovative inner work led us to innovative “outer work” with our future Science & Innovation Center. This new building will provide spaces for innovation in our courses, allowing our students problem-based learning opportunities, amplifying the inner work in tangible ways. Personally, our intentional approach inspires me in our changing times. It reminds of a quote by Br. David Steindl-Rast:
“So, I compare these religions (ministries) that we find in the world with old volcanoes. At one time, they were spewing fire and were a gorgeous spectacle, and now the lava has hardened, and nobody would recognize that that was at one point fire. It’s all rock. But here and there, somebody comes along, like Mother Teresa or Óscar Romero or Cesar Chavez, whoever, and makes a little crack, and out comes this live fire again. And there you have to do it with the warmth and the fervor of your own heart. Each one of us, we have a certain responsibility, if we stand in a particular religion (ministry), and that has its own great advantages, because it gives us forms. It gives us examples. It gives us relatives in all the others that ever belonged to it and will belong to it. It’s a good, healthy embedding, but it also costs a lot of work, inner work.”
I am grateful for the cracks, the live fire and fervor in the hearts of our students, faculty and staff, that keep our Regis Jesuit lava from cooling. While pumice is beautiful and quite practical, we continue to suspend settling into rock in our day-to-day. May God grant us the continued patience and graces of inner work nudging us toward the magis We strive to become like St. Teresa of Calcutta and St. Óscar Romero and fan the flames for our community each year.
Thank you for your partnership in this inner work. Our commitment to this way of proceeding reveals new graces in the life of our community.
Christ’s Peace, Jimmy Tricco
“I am grateful for the cracks, the live fire and fervor in the hearts of our students, faculty and staff, that keep our Regis Jesuit lava from cooling.”
PRESIDENT David Card ’87
PRINCIPAL
Jimmy Tricco
VICE PRESIDENT OF ADVANCEMENT
Mindae Russell
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Tom Dobbins
DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS
Paul Muller
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Charisse Broderick King
DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Katherine Fay
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL FOR ACADEMICS
Ryan Williamson
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL FOR FACULTY & CURRICULUM
Tim Bauer '88
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL FOR MISSION, MINISTRY & DIVERSITY
Sajit Kabadi
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL FOR STUDENT LIFE
Bryan Timme
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL FOR STUDENT SUPPORT
Dana Bauer
BOYS DIVISION HEAD Karen Wuertz
GIRLS DIVISION HEAD Adam Lomas '10
MANAGING EDITOR Tina Schaaf
CONTRIBUTORS
Dana Bauer
Charisse Broderick King
Jim Broderick King ’87
Barbara Brooks, Flamingo Strategies
David Card ’87 Bethany Carmellini Katherine Fay Kelsey Greiner
Sajit Kabadi Gretchen Kessler Paul Miller ’04 Weston Mullins ’23 Christina Ortiz Hudson Ridley ’22
Mindae Russell
Trina Sandler Todd Schuler Paul Soriano
Jimmy Tricco Mary Zimmerman
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Print Production: Unique Litho, Inc.
Printed on environmentally friendly paper using sustainable production methods.
Members of the Robotics Club and their “DigBot” prepare the way for greater ingenuity and innovation at Regis Jesuit
Message from the President 2
Message from the Principal 3
Sharing our Ignatian Heritage
Regis Jesuit Joins Jesuit Works Around the World in Celebrating the Ignatian Year 5
Prayerful Pilgrimage on the Camino Ignaciano Follow RJ Students Journeying with Ignatius in Spain 8
Future Science & Innovation Center 9
Momentum Builds for Inspire & Ignite 2025 13
The Impact of Immersion Encounters 16
Sources of Strength
Building Emotional Intelligence and Resilience in Teens 18
RJ Connect: Leveraging the Alumni Connection 20 Year in Review 2021-22
Class of 2022 Overview 22
Athletics and Activities Wrap Up 24
Athletics Wall of Excellence Goes Digital 33
Meet the New Athletic Director: A Q&A with Todd Schuler 34 LARK CannonBall Raises $815,000! 36 Class Notes 38
Raider Legacy Family Recognition 42 St. John Francis Regis Legacy Society: Bill Lamberton ‘66 43 Faculty Notes/Future Raiders 44 Raider Life Retirees 45
In Memoriam 46
Tribute to Tom Robinson ‘64 47 Save the Dates: Homecoming & Reunions 2022-23
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BY JIM BRODERICK KING ’87, DIRECTOR OF IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY & FORMATION
This Ignatian Year offered the possibility to get in touch with our roots again. So much of the life of a Jesuit is wrapped up in the life of St. Ignatius. Likewise, the Ignatian Year gave our institutions and apostolates opportunities to refocus and reground themselves.” So reflected Fr. Eric Ramirez, SJ, Director of Pastoral Ministries, when asked about this year of celebration.
In 2019, Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, announced that the Ignatian community throughout the world would dedicate more than a full year to commemorate important anniversaries in the life of Jesuits and Ignatian works. Fr. Sosa proclaimed the year to be one of renewal and a “call to conversion” inspired by St. Ignatius’ own conversion experience. The theme of the year for the worldwide Ignatian community was “To See All Things New in Christ,” a phrase that Regis Jesuit embraced as our own as well. Thus, communities around the world, including our Denver area apostolates, prepared to celebrate from “Cannonball Day” on May 20, 2021, to the Feast of St. Ignatius on July 31, 2022.
The Regis Jesuit community usually celebrates our Ignatian heritage in a variety of ways—the ongoing traditions of our First Friday Mass and Mass of the Holy Spirit are examples. But our special celebration of this Ignatian Year began with our return to Freshman Cannonball Day after a pandemic hiatus. Last May, freshmen commemorated the 500th anniversary of St. Ignatius’
conversion, delivered by a fateful cannonball at the battle of Pamplona in 1521. And this annual RJ event continued with a new class of freshmen in May 2022, as boys and girls spent a whole morning sharing in several contests, took turns firing “cannonballs” (water balloons delivered by slingshot) at an armor-clad Ignatius stand-in and punctuated the celebration with cannonballs into the RJ pool.
Beyond this freshman frivolity, the RJ community joined local Denver Jesuit works, as well as our colleagues throughout the United States Central and Southern (USC) Province of the Jesuits and Ignatian communities throughout the world in more serious commemorations of the Ignatian Year. In anticipation of the year, RJ staff gathered with members of other Denver-area Jesuit works to plan the whole year. Reflecting on these efforts, Fr. Marcus Fryer, SJ, Pastoral Director at Arrupe Jesuit High School, stated, “I really enjoyed getting to work with everyone to figure out a way to help bring our city closer. Group challenges like that help us to appreciate each other more and to grow in our faith life as well.” Likewise, Kristi GonsalvezMcCabe, longtime administrator at Regis University and parent of an incoming RJ freshman, said, “I appreciate any opportunity to gather with folks from the Denver-area apostolates. It reenergizes me for my own work and ministry and reminds me that we are companions in a shared mission. Such collaboration is a true source of consolation.”
The RJ community joined Arrupe Jesuit in August to begin our academic year with a Mass and social at St. Ignatius Loyola Church; companions from all 11 Jesuit works in the Denver area were invited to join this kickoff Mass. The liturgical celebrations continued as Regis University hosted all the works of the Denver area for our CommUNITY Mass in November,
where our provincial, Fr. Tom Greene, SJ, presided and encouraged our spirit of collaboration as a regional apostolate. Fr. Greene included in this Denver visit a stop on his “Tracing the Footsteps of God Pilgrimage,” a year-long series, including nine total stops in Belize, Puerto Rico and many other locations throughout the UCS Province; these events featured in-person gatherings at Jesuit works with liturgy and talks on Ignatian themes with livestreamed participation from around the Province.
The Ignatian Year in Denver included a variety of other gatherings for all our institutions, including a Lenten fish fry hosted by the Denver Jesuit Alumni Network and Arrupe Jesuit, a public talk by Fr. Patrick SaintJean, SJ, at Regis University on “Ignatian Imagination and Racial Justice” and our March evening at RJHS with nationallyknown Catholic speaker and writer Gloria Purvis, who spoke on our Jesuit values at the intersection of pro-life issues and racial justice. Gonsalvez-McCabe added, “I found myself moved and challenged by both events (Saint-Jean and Purvis). The question of explicitly naming racism as a sin has been lingering and resonating with me and challenging me to call it out.”
Regis Jesuit took the Ignatian Year to heart in many other ways within our own community. We celebrated the 400th anniversary of the canonizations of St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier with a special all-school liturgy in March. Our annual gala for 2022 was themed LARK CannonBall in honor of our Ignatian Year, featuring testimonials from students sharing their own “cannonball moments” of personal conversion; the event raised an impressive $815,000 in support, including a huge boost to our Ignatian Endowed Scholarship for financial aid. RJ programs bolstered ongoing efforts to address the four Universal Apostolic Preferences (Showing the Way to God, Walking with the Excluded, Journeying with Youth and Caring
for Our Common Home), all highlighted by daily social media posts throughout April and May, a clear expression of our school’s desire to engage the expressed hopes of the worldwide Jesuit community.
Additionally, in the spirit of our Ignatian charism, several Regis Jesuit staff explored their life of prayer in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, in both full and adapted forms throughout the year, with several attending our UCS Province Colleagues Retreat—seven days of silent, guided prayer in July. Theology and physical education teacher Catherine Cole explained her own perspective on the theme “to see all things new in Christ” after completing the nine-month program of the Spiritual Exercises in Everyday Life:
“Turning 40, I tried to see my life from a different perspective, in the image of a gradual hill path. Being 40 marked the plateau and the start of the walk down rather than the walk up. This image has stuck with me as I engaged the Exercises this year. I’m well past being a ‘new ’ teacher, a ‘new ’ mom, a ‘newly ’ wed, and yet I am not at all past seeing what is ‘new.’ Even the walk down the hill is a new perspective. Doing the Exercises during the Ignatian Year provided a plateau from which to see my whole life with new eyes. The invitation to let Christ guide my life has brought an immense amount of freedom. I finished the Exercises with a deep sense of gratitude, not only for the ability to pray them, but also for the ability to experience a real intimacy with Jesus. All things are made new when we can hold the power of the Passion and the Resurrection in our heart at the same time.”
In retrospect, we might ask why the Superior General, Fr. Sosa, asked Jesuits and colleagues around the world to raise the profile of this Ignatian Year. As Fr. Fryer noted, “I found it incredible that our people in Denver and across our Province were able to come together to celebrate! We often operate in our own little silos and do really good work, but we don’t often get a chance to share about it with each other. These connections are important for us; they strengthen our bonds and remind us that we’re not alone, a key gospel message!”
The Ignatian Year fostered a greater sense of our shared mission beyond the walls of Regis Jesuit and, as Fr. Sosa intended, the year offered an opportunity for renewal and conversion. Fr. Ramirez stated it well:
“This year’s theme ‘to see all things new in Christ’ helped us all. Our eyes were shaded by the pandemic and the polarization of our nation. We are more and more blinded by a cynicism which paralyzes. Quickly, we become overwhelmed by what seems like an impossible task. How easily the Evil Spirit can sneak into our lives! This year’s theme is a call to see. One can immediately join Ignatius at the banks of the Cardoner River in Spain, where he was given mystic vision and a new sight. This gift was not for him alone but would stretch through history. This gift challenges us to shake off the dust of cynicism and to see through Jesus’ eyes. Ignatian contemplation has long trained us to be able to see as Jesus sees. Jesus sees opportunity, new life and hope. Each of these radiates a crucial beacon for us. This year has been a challenge to shed off the dust of the Evil Spirit to look deeper. We recognize immediately our dependence upon God. But it is also in the space of dependency where our own creativity and gifts find life within God.”
T o round out this Ignatian Year, 12 Regis Jesuit students and five staff members walked the same pilgrimage St. Ignatius made after his conversion, or at least a good portion of it.
The modern Camino Ignaciano, as the way is called, was founded by the Jesuits of Spain in 2011 under the direction of Fr. José Luis Iriberri, SJ, who was the personal guide for the RJ delegation for 12 days in June. Fr. Iriberri led the Raider Peregrinos through a series of stages, beginning in St. Ignatius’ birthplace in the Basque region of northern Spain, where they visited the Castle of Loyola. The way included several holy sites, places of devotion for St. Ignatius’ own pilgrimage in the 1500s, such as the Sanctuary of Arantzazu where Ignatius prayed with the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary, the Monastery of Montserrat where Ignatius laid down his sword to the Madonna and the famous cave in the town of Manresa on the bank of the Cardoner River where he spent months praying and compiling the Spiritual Exercises. The journey also took our pilgrims to important locations in Jesuit history, such as the family castle of St. Francis Xavier and the home of St. Peter Claver. The RJ delegation also enjoyed experiences such as La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, as well as the food and culture of northern regions of Spain.
More than simply a cultural tour experience, this pilgrimage involved a devotional walking pilgrimage of more than 100
kilometers, highlighted with two hours of silent prayer per day and liturgies in many of the holy sites.
After completing their journey, a few members of the Camino Ignaciano delegation went to watch the RJ Boys Soccer team play a game against a Spanish Jesuit school team. Our team happened to be in Manresa and Barcelona at the same time celebrating the Ignatian Year as part of an short exchange program.
Pictured Above: [1] The RJ Delegation in front of the Castle of Javier.
[2] St. Ignatius was baptized in this font in 1492 at the local parish church, where the Loyola family were important members and benefactors.
[3] Fr. Iriberri celebrating Mass with the delegation at St. Peter Claver's Shrine. [4] Visiting a church in Verdu, the hometown of St. Peter Claver.
[5] On day three, the group trekked 18 km enjoying immense elevation changes and the beautiful mountaintop.
The RJ delegation blogged about their journey on the Regis Jesuit website. Read about their experience at www.regisjesuit.com/RJontheCamino
Robotics students have programmed their
help break ground on the future Science &
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Some might say that designing the future Science & Innovation Center “wasn’t rocket science.” But they haven’t looked inside.
With dedicated labs for science, flexible classrooms for collaboration and group work, and an 8000-square-foot Innovation Center, the 65,000 square feet of state-of-the-art space will provide a central home for applied learning at Regis Jesuit. With studio art space, a new home for RJ Media and journalism and a chapel for reflection, students will have room to create and reflect as never before.
And with highly visible offices for both Admissions and RJ Connect alumni programming, the building will become a new front door for visitors, taking the campus to the next level—just as the Steele Center did when it opened in 2014.
Saunders Construction Inc. is the general contractor for this project and anticipates the building will take 18-24 months to complete. Meanwhile, school leadership will ensure the
project stays front-and-center with stakeholders. In August, along with a celebratory groundbreaking ceremony, Regis Jesuit will launch a community fundraising initiative to fund successful completion of the Science & Innovation Center, while continuing to generate support for upcoming funding priorities of Inspire & Ignite 2025 (See page 13). Students will have opportunities to engage in elements of the building's construction to leave their own mark, and teachers will introduce new courses and programming that ultimately will move to the Science & Innovation Center.
“I love that we’re applying what we’ve learned to be part of such an important and exciting project.”
Isabelle Zuick ‘24, President of RJ’s Robotics Club
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Rocket science will be among the new creative, hands-on subjects offered this fall designed to foster critical-thinking skills and project-based learning in teams.
“Rocket science exemplifies the vision I have for programs in the Innovation Center,” says George Mitsuoka, Director of the Innovation Center. A graduate of MIT, Mitsuoka joined Regis Jesuit last summer after nearly four decades in industry as an engineer, manager and magazine editor. He now teaches graphic design, moderates the Robotics and Rocket Clubs and is overseeing planning of the Innovation Center, a key feature of the Science & Innovation Center.
“Studying rocket science will inspire students, teach them skills and build their confidence through accomplishment,” says Mitsuoka.
“And because rockets are the perfect example of technology that can be used for both great achievement and great destruction, students will be asked to consider their own purpose when they apply their newfound skills. They will learn a sense of personal responsibility to serve others with the skills they have learned.”
Rocket science classes will be taught by a professional rocket scientist who spent decades in the industry building orbital rockets. Students will have opportunities to design rockets using computer-aided design tools and build them with advanced techniques such as 3D printing and composites manufacturing.
Mitsuoka also aims to attract a growing number of female students to rocket science, robotics and other applied sciences. “We will highlight the achievements of women in the field and bring in current and former female leaders, engineers and hopefully even astronauts to speak with and further inspire our students.”
Regis Jesuit's FIRST Robotics Team, which had its best-ever finish at Regionals this spring, placing 11th out of the 41 teams competing, will find a new home in the Innovation Center, where club members will have easy access to the center's co-located workshop, computer lab, classrooms and practice field. Presently, the club's 30 members meet and work in rooms spread throughout the Boys Division and the Steele Center.
Isabelle Zuick ’24, who serves as president, is one of three girls on the team along with Arianna Morroni ‘24 and Elena Medina ’24, who also has a leadership role.
Zuick says, “In Robotics, we are learning many hands-on skills, as well as ‘soft skills’ like presentations and outreach events at schools and events in the Denver Metro area. We work a lot with our team, so communication is a major learning experience with all our members.”
Boys and girls work together on subteams specializing in programming, CAD, building and electrical work. The programming sub-team creates code that tells the robot what to do. In CAD, they map out visual specifications. The build group works with handheld tools and machining equipment to cut materials for the robot. And the electrical sub-team mounts the wires that help complete the function of the robot, from moving at a specific time, to putting a shovel in the ground.
“Robotics is very important because it is a field and a curriculum that females have historically not pursued, and have been discouraged from pursuing,” said Zuick, who is considering a career as a firefighting pilot. “I love that robotics encourages creative as well as critical thinking, which is important for any future endeavor.”
“Our unique single-gender learning model creates opportunities for our young women and men to explore their curiosities and confidently apply their skills. They are free to develop solutions to real-world problems rooted in our faith.”
Dustin Dvorak, Chair and Faculty, Science DepartmentZuick (right) is one of three girls on the Robotics Club team along with Arianna Morroni ‘24 and Elena Medina '24
Another new course coming to RJ this fall will be Sustainability: Environment, Economy and Equity, created by Kevin Russell, who also teaches AP Biology and Honors Biology. While the course represents a new and comprehensive way of teaching students to design projects and think through and create solutions for complex issues, it also shows how the Science & Innovation Center creates opportunities for teachers to explore their own passions more deeply and inspire students to join them in the discovery process.
“When Pope Francis released Laudato Si’ in 2015 on care for our common home, I started to realize the bridge that could exist between science and Catholic Social Teaching,” says Russell, who traveled to Peru in 2017 as part of the Carmelite NGO that built cross-curricular coursework for Catholic schools.
“I see this as a great opportunity for students at Regis Jesuit to explore environmental concepts by looking at who are the vulnerable people and how are they impacted disproportionately.” The semester-long course for rising juniors
and seniors will include three six-week-long units addressing water, food and energy.
“The course is designed to be project-based, so we’ll have speakers come in and we’ll build partnerships with local, national and global groups such as Aurora Water and CSU Spur, a new educational destination for science and research in Denver." Teams of students will be partnered with experts and people on the ground who will share their perspectives. Many of these partners will be alumni of Regis Jesuit.
This approach will lead students to design and produce what Russell calls “self-directed action items”—from business plans, podcasts and ad campaigns to affordable water purification systems or more efficient irrigation. Students will present their projects to expert panelists and other stakeholders. He says the ideal student for the course will be motivated, compassionate and entrepreneurial. “They’ll have a passion for the environment; they’ll be interested in the economics of the issues; and they won’t be afraid to use their voice to ask questions and push for what they believe."
Russell says, “To me, this is the most exciting aspect: seeing what ideas students develop. I see my role as a guide and partner for the students, inspiring passion and providing them with opportunities to explore their bold ideas. And as we approach these complex issues facing our communities, we will always bring it back to the Jesuits' Universal Apostolic Preferences of walking with the poor and disenfranchised, caring for our common home, showing the way to God and accompanying our youth in building a hope-filled future.”
Many of RJ’s new applied-learning courses—from the natural and hard sciences to studio arts, media and more—will draw alumni back to campus to share their expertise and mentor our students. To get involved through RJ Connect, contact Paul Miller ‘04, Director of Alumni Relations, at pmiller@regisjesuit.com . And learn more about our RJ Connect programming on page 20.
To work with students in Robotics or Rocket Science, contact George Mitsuoka at gmitsuoka@regisjesuit.com
To partner with the Sustainability: Environment, Economy and Equity class, contact Kevin Russell at krussell@regisjesuit.com
Inspire & Ignite 2025 has an ambitious overarching goal: to reach for magis in every way possible, in the true spirit of Catholic, Jesuit education.
“That means, first and foremost, ensuring access for students and families who want to be here," says President David Card ’87. “Every bit as important are our bold commitments to providing all our students with the collegiate-level facilities and technology they need and fostering leadership and teamwork through mission-centric athletic programs."
Last year, a third of Regis Jesuit students received a total of $6.4 million in financial aid—earning the school the top spot in Colorado for awarding the most financial aid to high school students.
We aim to further ensure access and affordability for students and that our classrooms reflect the world our students will join when they graduate.
“It’s really important that we have different perspectives when solving problems,” says Sandy Robertson, who teaches chemistry and moderates the Society of Women Engineers Club at Regis Jesuit.
Principal Jimmy Tricco says, “If a student has the capacity and the desire to be at Regis Jesuit, we want to make it possible for them to be here.”
Through the continued generosity of our RJ community and sound management of our investments, we will grow the school’s endowment from $20 million to $35 million by 2025. A robust endowment helps manage the rising cost of tuition for everyone and provides a permanent source of generous support for qualified families. At the same time, we also must continue to meet the immediate needs of our students during each academic year.
Our future Science & Innovation Center will be more than a 65,000-square-foot state-of-the-art building—though it certainly will be that! It also will be a welcoming front door to our campus and an inspiring space where our students and teachers can contemplate, collaborate and create across the curriculum.
According to Fr. Thomas P. Greene, SJ, Provincial of the U.S. Central and Southern Jesuits, “The Society of Jesus has always been known for its deep commitment to the humanities, to the liberal arts. But a lot of people don’t know how committed we’ve been to the sciences throughout the ages.”
The exploration and discoveries that happen in the building will advance the mission and vision of our school and serve every student.
“We hope to inspire students with ambitious hands-on projects,” says George Mitsuoka, faculty and director of the 8000-squarefoot Innovation Center inside the future building. “They’ll gain the confidence and sense of personal responsibility to take on the world’s challenges. They’ll become more prepared for college and careers where they can continue to learn and grow as creative, brave and faith-filled leaders.”
During the upcoming phases of Inspire & Ignite 2025, we will relocate and enhance our tennis facility, build two multi-sport athletic fields, add additional parking and plan for athletic support facilities to the east side of campus. These efforts will better centralize our athletic program, provide needed space and upgrades and continue to advance the long-term campus master plan for athletics.
“I couldn’t be more thankful for everyone who has contributed so much of themselves to make Regis Jesuit what it is. And with the continued generosity of the RJ community, we intend to make sure that it only gets better from here.”
David Card ’87, President
Learn more about Regis Jesuit’s strategic plan and the funding priorities of Inspire & Ignite 2025 » www.regisjesuit.com/BoldlyForward
EDITOR’S NOTE: After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, this spring Regis Jesuit again sent our juniors and seniors into the community to engage in Immersion Experiences (formerly known as Service Projects) around the Denver metro area as part of the school's Ignatian Immersion & Solidarity Program (IIS), which is supported by an endowed fund begun with 2021’s LARK Paddle Raiser. Program Director Christina Ortiz shares this reflection on changes to the program and the insights and impacts these experiences held.
During Junior-Senior Immersions, I found myself on the phone with one of the directors at Chelsea Place, a memory care facility that was hosting junior volunteers at the time. We were discussing logistics, but before I got off the phone she said, “I want you to know that your students are doing amazing here. The staff has been taken aback by all of them, in particular one of your junior boys. For the last few days, we have found him just sitting with one of our nonverbal residents, holding her hand. When we asked him if she was talking at all, he smiled and told us, ‘We communicate in different ways.’ It is quite the sight to see a teenage boy—one who looks like he is probably on the football team—sitting in silence with one of our elders, just holding hands.”
This has been one of the primary images from immersions this year that stuck with me. In the vision for the IIS Program, we state that this program exists to
dissolve real and perceived barriers between our students and the wider global, interconnected world. Dissolving those barriers requires so much of our students: humility, flexibility, patience, presence and vulnerability, to name a few. Working with vulnerable populations such as the elderly, the poor, the unhoused and the disabled requires our students to let go of preconceived notions about others and about the world and to put relationship first. Perhaps the hardest lesson they have to learn is how to be present to people before you try to do anything for them.
This year, we were not only able to return to our traditional program of sending all 800 juniors and seniors out into the community, but we also began a new tradition of hosting a few small groups of students for an overnight immersion. Two groups of seniors and one group of juniors each committed to a truly immersive experience as they spent an entire week away from their families and friends and instead spent their evenings praying together and reflecting on what they had seen and learned each day at their sites. The seniors worked with Bal Swan preschool, which serves a combination of children with
“Perhaps the hardest lesson they have to learn is how to be present to people before you try to do anything for them.” CHRISTINA ORTIZ
special needs and typical needs in Westminster. The juniors volunteered at Tennyson Center, a school and program for at-risk youth who come from abusive and traumatic backgrounds.
Our students go through many stages of growth as they process their immersion experiences. Many, such as Sawyer McFarland ’23, start by reflecting on the privileges of their own upbringing. “Working with these kids all week and learning about their stories have put things into perspective for me. I may complain about a test or a bad grade while these kids are just looking to be loved and cared for. Everyone has their own struggles and challenges, but it is important to notice the people who have to fight to be loved. I am very fortunate to be loved and cared for.”
Beyond just appreciating what they have, we hope our students are inspired to act to make the world a better place. Katelyn Nelson ’23 thinks a key part of that is overcoming self. “I was able to overcome myself this week at the Tennyson Center by growing in patience, persistence and openness to love… By the end of the week, my perspective that our job as volunteers was to directly help the kids developed into the perspective that our main job was to support them on their journey.” Molly Nichols ’23 learned that embracing uncomfortable experiences is crucial to loving others. “It was an intimidating environment, and I didn’t feel comfortable, not once. I think, though, that that is the point of immersion.” She goes on to say that she had to learn to see people for their whole, authentic selves “rather than stand in judgment at how they carry their own cross across the broken path they’ve been placed on.”
Perhaps the most unexpected part of immersions for our students is learning how much they themselves long to be accepted and loved. High school can feel like a very unforgiving, unkind place for many teenagers.
Many of them struggle with the feelings of not being ‘enough’, whether that’s in the classroom, on the field or the stage or in the hallways. In their day-to-day lives, though, they feel they must hide those insecurities and bury them deep enough inside so no one can see them. The very idea of being a vulnerable person means that their insecurities and “shortcomings” are right on the surface for everyone to see. As our students engage with the kind, generous, patient and, oftentimes, hilarious guests/clients at their sites, they learn how much strength can be found in vulnerability. Peter Houtsma ’22 , who was assigned an overnight immersion experience at Bal Swan, a children’s center focused on social-emotional learning and building inclusion, noted, “The community that the kids had with each other is way different then the community I have with my senior class. I responded to this love with admiration, and I wanted to immerse myself in it as much as I could.”
Before immersions start, we ask our students to reflect on their feelings going in. Almost all of them express a fear that they won’t be good enough for their site or that they won’t know how to help. On the first day, they are amazed at how welcome they feel right away. Some are greeted by young children who immediately want to be their best friend, no questions asked. Such was the experience of Ben Romero ’22 while visiting the
children in The Kidney Center at Children’s Hospital. “I can remember how his face lit up when he saw my friend and me walk into the center. I was able to connect with kids of all ages and help them take their mind off what is making them hurt.” Others are welcomed to conversations and activities with guests/clients, and they are surprised that they are the ones being taken care of rather than the other way around. Rahel Seyoum ’23 reflected early in her immersion, “In my family, it’s tradition for the children to sit at a separate table during the holidays. When I was younger, all I wanted was a seat at the table—to be an integral part of something bigger than myself and to have a space where I could voice my opinions without fear. As I grew older, this desire manifested in a need for diversity and inclusion without the toll of discrimination and without the need for conformity. Today, I got a seat at the table. Today, I became a part of something larger than myself. Today, I spent time with three of the most amazing and inspiring Black men that I have ever met…I look up to these men, and I am grateful that, today, they offered me a seat at the table.”
So much of the human experience is rooted in a desire to belong; to feel that someone genuinely cares.
Immersions are just a little reminder for our students that there is a place for everyone at God’s table.
In response to the growing global mental health crisis for adolescents, Regis Jesuit has made it a priority to enhance its staffing, programs and resources focused on improving mental health and resiliency in its students. As part of the Inspire & Ignite 2025 Strategic Plan initiatives, Regis Jesuit more than doubled its capacity to provide social/emotional therapy for students by increasing from one part-time to two full-time therapists. In addition, after several years of research and a desire to bring a holistic approach to mental health support for students, Assistant Principal for Student Support Dana Bauer and School Therapist Celeste Siade led the way to adopt the nationally recognized Sources of Strength (SOS) program aimed at building student emotional intelligence and resilience. Using an active learning model incorporating art, storytelling, small group sharing and games, Sources of Strength explores the eight protective factors, depicted in the wheel of strength, to develop resilient individuals and communities.
First developed in North Dakota in 1998, Sources of Strength slowly gained national recognition after it was awarded the American Association of Public Health’s (AAPH) Public Heath Practice Award in 2005. Following years of continued research and successful trials indicating that adult-supported peer leaders could have significant impact on the mental health of teens, the program was listed on the National Best Practices Registry by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) in 2009.
In 2011, Sources of Strength was listed on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices, the gold standard of prevention programs in the United States.
Under the guidance of Bauer and Siade, more than 65 students and nearly 20 faculty and staff members were trained as SOS
leaders in the fall of 2021. Their unified mission: to increase help-seeking behaviors and promote connections between peers and caring adults, ultimately preventing suicide, bullying and substance abuse. The group now has more than 93 members, and they look forward to welcoming new freshmen in the fall of 2022.
As a student-leader, Katherine Leaffer ’22 recognized that peer support was needed at the school and wanted in on the project. “Mental health is a problem, and I hate that it’s so stigmatized,” she said. “During my sophomore year, the pandemic hit, which made things worse all across the country. It really tore my heart apart, because, even before, a lot of kids didn’t feel like they could share their problems.”
Together, Bauer and Leaffer organized a student advisory committee and created an open forum for students to share their stories with the administration. At the first meeting, students spoke openly about what services they need, what the school is doing well and what gaps exist. After reviewing a list of the many services and programs the school could add, Leaffer’s family— and Katherine herself—provided seed funding to ensure that Regis Jesuit’s one part-time school therapist could expand her hours to full-time. The school also hired a second fulltime therapist, and was awarded a grant by the University of Colorado to implement Botvin LifeSkills Training for incoming high school students to help them build skills to navigate the challenges they face.
The Sources of Strength team has partnered with other clubs on five different campaigns throughout the year and held more than 20 meetings during the 2021-22 school year. A few of the schoolwide activities they supported this year were the “Get the Word Out”, “I Am Thankful For” and “What Helps Me” campaigns, as well as teaming up to support Mission Week and Wish Week alongside the Servant Leadership class.
To initiate the program, the school held an inaugural “Get the Word Out” campaign introducing the well-known colorcoded Strength Wheel. Each day, a different strength and associated activity was promoted, and students were encouraged to identify the strength that they most identify with, as indicated by a color pie piece. Additionally, during the weeklong campaign, daily prayer and the Examen were written and read aloud by Sources of Strength student leaders and focused on the strength of the day. As a reflection of the kickoff campaign, one student leader shared, “I think that doing the Examen and being featured on RJTV really helped our ‘Get the Word Out’ campaign succeed.” On the last day of the campaign, students were given a Raider Day and were asked to wear the color best representing the part of the Strength Wheel they felt most connected to. Students embraced this challenge.
Going forward, the program plans to partner once again with the Servant Leadership class as well as seek other opportunities to spread their message such as during Homecoming, athletics and through Performing Arts programming. Leaders also hope to create Sources of Strength swag for students to wear on special Raider Days to continue to publicize their messaging. Continual reminders of the Sources of Strength are important and impactful. At the conclusion of one of the campaigns, one student leader said “Getting to share with the school that there is a resource for them that can help is the best part of Sources of Strength.”
Siade, one of the two full-time school therapists at the school, is excited to have been a part of this charge, bringing the U.S.’s first-ever student-led mental health program to Regis Jesuit. “Giving them skills to be resilient, to overcome these obstacles, meet their challenges and know they have a community that supports them is important,” she said, “I think this program can help educate everyone about the strengths we have in our lives and these eight areas of our life that are important to maintain good mental health.”
Reflecting on the reason it was important to institute this program, Bauer shared, “Students cannot be fully successful in academics if their mental health is not the number-one priority. We are a unique environment, where cura personalis—the care and concern of the whole person— permeates everything we do. Katherine [Leaffer] has helped us see how important it is to hear from the students exactly what it is they need and how they want to proceed at Regis Jesuit.”
The Sources of Strength team will continue to educate the community on understanding what Sources of Strength is, how it can be incorporated into their daily lives and how to use the program to support one another. This tool will be invaluable in bringing the strengths of our community together, destigmatize mental health issues and permeate a sense of love, hope and support.
The objective of RJ Connect is to educate, cultivate and leverage the Regis Jesuit community network to inspire students to find, form and fuel a passion as global citizens to serve the betterment of humanity and the natural world. The vision is built on:
• Helping students and alumni to network, discover their passions and secure their futures
• Supporting RJ’s project-based learning initiatives to help form creative, compassionate and complex problem solvers
• Facilitating relationships between our industry partners and our academic departments
• Connecting alumni with Regis Jesuit and our students with industry professionals as a means of discerning their passions
RJ Connect depends on volunteers for its success. Here are ways you can help:
» Register at www.regisjesuit.com/RJConnect
» Offer internships and/or job opportunities to current students and alumni
» Offer job-shadowing opportunities at your place of business
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• It provides a full opt-in directory, job board, running feed of alumni updates, events and more.
• Nearly 100 alumni came back to campus to speak to current students this year about their career. We partnered with the Entrepreneurship, Medical Explorations and RJ Media classes providing monthly guest speakers. Other classes took advantage of one off opportunities. Alumni guest speakers were also asked to join club and sports team meetings to share their wisdom.
• More than 20 employers networked with nearly 100 young alumni , sharing career advice and offering potential job opportunities. Alums who have participated in the past have landed jobs or internships at Charles Schwab, Obsidian HR, Carollo Engineers and Zoom.
• Twenty alumni from various industries returned to campus each semester to speak with junior and senior students about their profession and their career journey. Students were given the opportunity to select two presentations to attend
• Throughout the year, alumni hosted industry immersion experiences for current students. Industries included law, physical assistant and EMT.
• Launched the Agape Mentorship Program, a yearlong mentorship opportunity for our BIPOC students. Our alumni of color were given the chance to mentor, engage and build relationships with students, and help them with career exploration.
• Provided guest speakers and support for Diversity Day.
• Alumni, and current and past parents who work in real estate, gathered for a networking happy hour. Future gatherings will take place quarterly.
Current upperclassmen will be invited to participate in a job shadow day where they will observe and gain insight into a particular business, industry and/ or position they’re interested in.
As Regis Jesuit begins construction on its new Science & Innovation Center, students will be given the opportunity to experience the groundbreaking firsthand. Through partnership with current teachers and community members who work in construction, students will learn about the construction process such as site prep, foundation, framing, electrical and more.
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
Andres Osuna, Liam Wood
NATIONAL MERIT FINALISTS
Abbott Howe, Chiara Lopach, Declan Newell
Caroline Adams, Alejandro Casillas, Tristan Christofferson, Samuel Istvan, Greta Leege, Lily O’Shaughnessy, Jack Quinn, Isaac Rechtin, Sophia Tognetti, Elias Vickers, Colby Whitehouse, Katherine Zerefos
Gio Aguirre – swimming, U.S. Naval Academy
Caroline Armistead – swimming, Ithaca College
Makayla Au – lacrosse, Xavier University
Fabiola Belibi – track & field, Harvard University
Will Bikulcius – golf, Rockhurst University
Kenna Cashman – swimming, Saint Louis University
Nico Correa Munoz – soccer, Lake Forest College
Grace Dale – swimming, Tulane University
Luke Dinges – swimming, Rollins College
Kate Dunn – soccer, Oklahoma State University
Ezra Ekuban – football, University of Northern Colorado
Brian Fischer – baseball, Augustana College
Jayden Franklin – football, Colorado State University, Pueblo
Brooks Gerig – baseball, Colorado School of Mines
Ben Gonzales – baseball, Augustana College
Logan Hillard – football, William Jewell College
Ellie Johnson – field hockey, Georgetown University
Anna Lantz – soccer, Rockhurst University
Chiara Lopach – diving, Dartmouth University
Conor Kaczmarczyk – tennis, Trinity University
Dallas Macias – baseball, Oregon State University
NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOLARS
Merilyn Amponsah-Asamoah, Moira Newman
QUESTBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
Lupita Lopez – University of Chicago
CHICK EVANS SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
Keily Cornejo – University of Colorado, Boulder
Faith Marsicek – swimming, University of Findlay
Jack Martin – baseball, Concordia University
Molly Kate McCloskey – track and cross country, St. Olaf College
Nate McHugh – baseball, Iowa Western Community College
Finn O’Connor – baseball, Rhodes College
SJ Pak – soccer, Davidson College
Charlie Rogan – baseball, Wichita State University
Allie Sanchez – swimming, Georgetown University
Jacob Sykora – swimming, Florida Institute of Technology
Dervin Taylor – football, Adams State University
Gavin Tinic – soccer, Colorado Christian University
Nunie Tuitele – football, University of California, Berkeley
Bryce Venrick – soccer, Baldwin Wallace University
Isaac Wachsman – baseball, Xavier University
Emma Weber – swimming, University of Virginia
Ava Wiley – swimming, Pepperdine University
Four members of the Canta Belles choir, Lucy Coughlon ’23, Carly Fischer ’23, Claire Mann ’23 and Camila Rodriguez Yanez ’22 , qualified for the prestigious 2021-22 Colorado AllState Choir and performed with other top performers in the state at the All-State Choir Festival in January 2022.
Jenna Kim ’25 was the winner of the school’s first-ever Jesuit Concerto Competition and was selected to play the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor in collaboration with the RJ Concert Band and String Orchestra at the Instrumental Music Concert in April.
Returning to perform in The Z Theatre, the Drama Club offered three spectacular performances this year to rave reviews and packed houses. Directed by Aldo Pantoja ’01, the club performed the comedic play Much Ado About Nothing in the fall. For the spring musical, RJ thespians, crew and pit band members offered eight “killer” runs of Little Shop of Horrors over two weekends in late March and early April. The impressive stage and costume designs, choreography and musical talent earned three Bobby G Nominations for Outstanding Achievement for Scenic Design, Outstanding Performance by an Orchestra and Outstanding Performance by a Chorus. This is the fourth time an RJ Theatre musical has received a Bobby G nomination. The club rounded out the year with three performances of the student-directed play Fuddy Meers in May.
A total of 22 students, 15 from choir, six from orchestra and one from band, were selected to perform in the Continental League Honor Music Festival at Boettcher Concert Hall in January 2022.
For two consecutive years, Regis Jesuit has had representatives perform their original music at the University of Colorado, Denver's Colorado High School Songwriting Competition! This year, two Raiders, Juan Paredes '24 and Elise Kuhn '24, qualified as finalists and performed their original songs, Beautiful Soul and You Lied respectively, at the CU Denver King Center in March. Each received an honorable mention.
In late October, McNicholas Green was transformed into an outdoor lab as the Chemistry Club and Science Department collaborated to showcase some 'spooktacular' experiments for the RJ community. Activities included eerie liquid nitrogen demos, boo bubbles, ghost rockets and pumpkin carving with chemistry, a.k.a. exploding pumpkins.
Throughout the year, the Environmental and Arrupe Clubs partnered in multiple cleanup projects around the Denver metro area. On various weekends and early mornings, students collected trash from roadsides, trails and along the rivers. Over two of these mornings in the fall, volunteers removed more than 950 pounds of garbage from the area around Confluence Park.
Marking Earth Day, the clubs participated in an event sponsored by the Patagonia store downtown in cooperation with Denver Parks and Rec and Environment Colorado to help clean up the South Platte River. Their unified mission to care for our common home honors the calling by both Pope Francis’ Laudato Si ' and the Jesuits' Universal Apostolic Preferences.
The Chess Club Team of Colby Whitehouse ’22, Ben Holt ’22 , Phineas Hagg ‘24, Ryan Calabrese ‘24 and Joe Fago ’22 took Second Place at the State Championship competition in February.
The Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Club sent 37 students to compete at the State Leadership Conference in April. A total of 19 students placed in the top ten and six of these finishers qualified for the 2022 FBLA National Leadership Conference taking place this summer. Colin Dwyer '24 won the State Championship in the Introduction to Financial Math category.
The RJ Coding Club finished second at the Programming Competition held at the Colorado School of Mines in April. In addition to their impressive finish among Colorado teams, the Advanced Division Team of Alex Casillas '22, Max Ficco '24, Oliver Howe '24 and Dean Miller '24 placed fourth in the nation. Teammates Diego Gutierrez-Raghunath '25, Xander Hung '24, Grant Rechtin '24 and Nicholas Turner '25 took fifth place in the Beginner Division.
Throughout the month of February, the Girl Up Club sponsored a drive to collect feminine products for women in the Denver area experiencing homelessness and poverty.
The Mock Trial A team of Liam Anderson '22, Taylor Cipra '22, Macklin Gifford '23, Kyra Graham '23, Heidi Haverkamp '23, Abbot Howe '22, Jordan Meriweather '22, Moira Newman '22, Feliciana Sayers '22, and Ashlyn Viereck '22 competed at the Colorado State Championship in March, placing seventh among all teams in Colorado.
The Mountain Biking Club Team of Chris Desfosses '24, Elise Holt '24, Ian Kilty '22, Aidan Miller McShan '22, Morgan Ronsse '24, Marcus Schultze '22 and Nathan Sirovatka '24 competed in the 2021 Colorado Cycling League’s Mountain Biking State Championships at Durango Mesa in October and finished the tournament in 12th place.
JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in April in Los Angeles. At the end of the year, the Colorado Student Media Association presented 15 awards to RJ Media students for the 2021-22 school year. A special congratulation to Serena Nguyen '22 on being awarded the Colorado Designer of the Year and Reilly Wible '22 for taking first place in the Sports Reaction Photo category.
Members of RJ Media earned several media awards and recognitions throughout the year. In November, they left their mark at the 2021-22 National High School Scholastic Press Association Conference, garnering a sixth-place finish in the Best of Show category for Broadcast News Programming for RJTV. In addition, Elevate magazine earned individual second- and fourth-place awards in Best of Show for Newsmagazine Design while Yearbook took eighth place in Best in Show for Yearbook and also earned individual first- and second-place awards in Best of Show for Yearbook Design. The Yearbook Club and class went on to earn the National Scholastic Press Association's (NSPA) highest honor, the All-American rating, for their work on 2021 Concordia Yearbook and were selected as one of just 58 finalists from high schools across the nation for the Pacemaker Award, the NSPA's preeminent award honoring the nation's best of the best. Eight RJ Media students garnered first-place awards at the Continental League Journalism Media Awards ceremony in February, while 11 students took top honors at the 2021-22
Continuing the tradition of hosting one of the largest studentled diaper drives in the country, the RJ Students for Life Club collected more than 36,000 diapers in its annual fall drive, including a significant donation from the diaper supply company ABBY & FINN in support of young families in need through Catholic Charities of Denver.
The Robotics Team FRC 3729 competed in the Colorado Regional Competition at the University of Denver in March and had its best showing in club history, finishing in 11th place out of 41 teams and advancing to the Alliance Selection semifinals round. Jack Bentfield ’23 was nominated as a Dean's List Finalist and was selected by the Regional FIRST Committee as one of two students to represent Colorado at Nationals in Houston, Texas.
In early October, Regis Jesuit welcomed guest speaker Denver Broncos offensive lineman Dalton Risner to the annual Special Olympics Unified Pep Rally, coordinated by the Special Olympics/Project Unified Club. SOCO athletes and their RJ partners played in a fun and inclusive basketball game against the Rowdies in front of a packed crowd in the Guy Gibbs ’47 Gym. After the game, Risner shared his Christianity and encouraged the RJ community to continue to love and embrace each other's uniqueness and gifts.
Four Speech & Debate Team members competed at the 50th CHSAA State Tournament held in March. Brady Oakleaf ’22 (pictured center below) qualified for the National Speech & Debate Tournament in the National Extemporaneous category. Emma Nicotra '24 and Sofia Rivera '24 were both finalists in the Congressional Debate category, and Brigid Smith '25 placed 11th in Drama.
In the fall, the Women’s Homeless Initiative Club organized a group of students to prepare more than 50 packed lunches to support the St. Francis Center’s Outreach Program, which works to build relationships with and serve people who are experiencing homelessness in the Denver metro area. In previous months, students have made similar efforts to support both the Delores Project and Denver’s Safe Outdoor Space Pop-Up Shelters, which also work to provide safe, comfortable shelter and services for individuals experiencing homelessness.
This year’s annual Ignatian Family Teach-In Conference included both a virtual component in October and the return of the in-person event in November, where a delegation of 12 students and faculty traveled to D.C. to hear from dozens of speakers, including Great Raider Fr. Brian Strassburger, SJ ’02 , around the theme Imagining a Path Forward. They joined the network of hundreds of Jesuit high schools and universities to learn about what it means to put love into action in building a more just world. The event focuses on topics of social justice and honors the memory of the El Salvador Jesuit martyrs.
In late October, 146 students, faculty and staff came together to walk/run the second annual Global 5K for International Samaritan here on campus. Leading up to the event, students fundraised $31,906 for International Samaritan, 33% more than the target goal, which will be used to help feed 26 families living in garbage dump communities in Jamaica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. To add to the fun, many teams paraded across the finish line lined with cheering spectators wearing goofy costumes, such as hamburger/ ketchup/mustard outfits and a whole team of Where’s Waldos.
The Latinos Unidos and Spanish Honor Society clubs hosted an on-campus experience of Las Posadas, the traditional religious festival celebrated in Mexico, Latin America, Cuba and Spain, as well as by the Latino community in the U.S. Students were invited to sample traditional food and drink and learn more about the origins and cultural relevance of this celebration as well as take a swing at the candy-filled piñata. To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over France in 1862, the club hosted an event offering students the chance to eat authentic Mexican food and delve into Mexican culture.
In the final week of April, Regis Jesuit students, faculty and staff participated in the school's second annual Wish Week, helping to bring the wish of Pippa, a four-year-old girl who is fighting cancer, to fruition through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Organized by the Servant Leadership class, RJ hosted a Walt Disney-themed weeklong celebration, including dress-down days, penny wars, discounts at local restaurants and a fun drawing of prizes offered by faculty and staff raising more than $37,000 in support of Pippa's wish to visit Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
In January, several members of the RJ Students for Life Club joined others from around the state at the Celebrate Life Rally and March in Denver in support of pro-life issues. Several members also traveled to Washington, D.C. in late spring for the national March for Life to take a stand and turn their faith into action advocating for vulnerable members of the human family in the journey from conception to natural death.
Coordinated by Special Olympics/Project Unified Club members, this year's Polar Plunge in April was another incredible success with more than 300 RJ students and faculty braving the frigid waters of the Aurora Reservoir. Additionally, Raider teams helped to raise an impressive $39,000 for SOCO's programming–the second consecutive year Regis Jesuit was the top fundraising team for this event.
This year, 16 students and two adults spent a week in March in both an online immersion experience with the global UN Commission on the Status of Women network and an inperson event with Denver-area organizations that promote and support women. The delegation participated in webinars and online presentations throughout the conference, including a direct discussion with the UN Youth Ambassador, as well as visited and learned more about several local organizations that share in the mission of promoting the access and participation of women and girls to education, training, science, technology and employment. These organizations included Regis University, Denver Center for Performing Arts, Comal Heritage Food Incubator, CIRCLE/STAMP, Florence Crittenton School, Re:Vision and the Women’s Homeless Initiative through the Regis University Safe Outdoor Space.
The Boys Cross Country Team had a strong season finishing fifth at Regionals, just shy of qualifying for the State Meet.
Varsity Football finished the regular season with an 8-3 record and ended their run in the quarterfinal round of the playoffs. Fourteen players were selected to First and Second All-League Teams. Dallas Macias ’22 was awarded the Co-Defensive Player of the Year.
The Boys Varsity Golf Team placed ninth at State after a solid season and winning the Regional title. Jake Irvine '23 was selected to Second Team All-State.
Boys Varsity Soccer finished the season 7-7-2, fifth in the Continental League. They lost 2-1 in a close first-round playoff match to end the season. Seven players received AllConference honors for the season.
Eckenhausen '25 and Liam McDonnell '23 secured the No. 3 Doubles title at the 5A Boys State Tennis Tournament. Conor Kaczmarczyk '22 placed second at No. 1 Singles. The undefeated Continental League Champions finished the season 8-1, sweeping the Regional tournament and placing fourth at State.
Eleven team members earned All-Aurora Team and AllContinental Teams honors on the season. Eckenhausen, Kaczmarczyk and McDonnell each earned First Team All-State recognition.
Finishing fourth at Regionals and placing 15th at State, the Girls Cross Country Team had a very competitive season.
BACK-TO-BACK STATE CHAMPS! The Girls Varsity Field Hockey Team was undefeated on the season for the first time in school history. Just six months after clinching the title the previous season, which was moved to the spring because of COVID, the team won another State Championship. Ellie Johnson ’22 was named Player of the Year, a first for the program, as well as Sportswoman of the Year by Sportswomen of Colorado. Five other Raiders earned All-State and/or AllConference honors. Coach Spencer Wagner was honored with a second consecutive Coach of the Year award.
With a full squad of 18, the Girls Varsity Rugby Team placed fourth at State. Hunter McGowan '24, Hazel Pron '25, Annika Parrish '22 and Riley Olson '22 went on to compete in the post-season All-Star matches and each earned CIRA All-State honors.
The Varsity Softball Team had another strong season with four players earning All-Conference honors: Brooke Carey '23, Kendall Kersey '23, Hailey Simco '23 and Kate Michalek '23
Girls Varsity Volleyball finished the season 15-10 and took second place in their Regional tournament. Six players were acknowledged at the end of the season with All-Conference honors.
The Boys Varsity Basketball Team ended its bid for a State crown in the Sweet 16 round, narrowly losing in the final minutes of the game. The team finished the season with a 15-8 overall record. Kyle Sandler '22 and TaRea Fulcher '23 were selected to the 2021-22 All-Continental League Teams and the Sentinel A-Town All-Star West Team. Highlighting the season, Coach Ken Shaw celebrated his historic 800th win and was honored with the national John Wooden Legacy Award recognizing his longstanding commitment to coaching and youth sports.
Following a strong regular season, the Girls Varsity Basketball Team went on to the Sweet 16 round of the Class 5A State Championship. Under new Head Coach Jordan Kelley, the team finished 15-9 on the season. Three players, Hana Belibi '24, Madden McHugh '22 and Coryn Watts '24, earned First-Team All-Continental League honors and were selected to play in the A-Town All-Stars Basketball Game.
The Varsity Cheer Team finished 11th at State and competed in Nationals for the first time in program history. In addition, they won back-to-back league titles taking the Championship Title in the Game Day Division for the second year in a row.
The Boys Varsity Hockey Team had another impressive season with an overall 15-2-2 record and advanced to the quarterfinal round of the Class 5A State Playoffs. In addition, six Raiders earned All-Conference and All-State honors. Topping an already incredible season, Coach Dan Woodley celebrated his 300th career win midway through the season.
Led by Head Coach Brent Bieshaar, the Boys Varsity Wrestling Team earned three Continental League Championship titles. Garrett Reece '25, Zion Taylor '23 and Dirk Morley '23 each went on to compete in the Class 5A State Wrestling Tournament in February.
The Varsity Poms Team made school history by qualifying for finals in both the Pom and Jazz categories at the 2022 UDA National Dance Team Championship in February. The Raiders ranked 15th in the nation in Small Varsity Pom, 20th in Small Varsity Jazz, finished second in Jazz and fourth in both Pom and Gameday at the Rocky Mountain Dance Challenge.
In its third season as an official CHSAA sport, the Girls Varsity Wrestling Team had six members compete during the season and two members qualify for the Regional Tournament in February.
INDIVIDUAL STATE CHAMP! Another strong season for Girls Swim & Dive as they placed third overall in 5A State Meet. Emma Weber '22 repeated as the 100-yard breaststroke State Champ and Chiara Lopach '22 took third in diving. Both athletes earned First Team All-State distinctions while Mia Henninger ’24 earned second team honors for diving. A total of 15 Raiders were selected to the All-Aurora Team. Coach Taylor Roberts was named 5A Diving Coach of the Year.
The Varsity Baseball Team held the top spot in the 5A CHSAA rankings throughout the season, finishing with a 23-5 overall record. Demonstrating their strong at-bats and overall athleticism, they matched their season high runs-scored record, earning 15 runs in a single game. The team won back-to-back games to sweep Regionals but ended their bid in a third-round loss in the 5A Championship series. Dallas Macias '22 was selected as the Gatorade Colorado Player of the Year for 2021-22, and won the 2022 CHSCA Freddie Steinmark Athlete of the Year Award. Head Coach Matt Darr has been selected as a finalist for the National Coach of the Year Award.
The Boys Lacrosse Team topped the CHSAA Class 5A leaderboard throughout the season, finishing undefeated in league play and boasting a 15-3 overall record. Ranked the No. 1 seed in the playoffs, they narrowly lost in a hard-fought semifinal round matchup against Mountain Vista 9-8. George Bowdouris '22, Fletcher Sullivan '23 and Logan White '22 were selected as 2021-22 All-Americans, while fellow teammate Blake Bateman ’22 earned Academic All-American honors. The team earned a number of All-State and All-Conference honors on the season.
BACK-TO-BACK STATE CHAMPS! Head Coach Anthony Mattacchione and the Boys Varsity Rugby team celebrated back-to-back CIRA State Championships. They were a dominating force throughout the season, going undefeated in the CIRA League, sporting a 6-3 overall record.
STATE CHAMPS! For the 23rd time in school history, the Boys Varsity Swim & Dive Team took home the Class 5A Boys Swimming State Championship Title, comfortably beating longtime rivals and two-time defending State Champion Cherry Creek in the State meet. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Gio Aguirre '22, Mack Dugan '22, Ronan Krauss '23 and Hawkins Wendt '23 celebrated a first-place win and State title. Head Coach Nick Frasersmith earned his third State Championship with the team and was selected as the 5A Coach of the Year.
In a last-second 11-10 upset loss to No. 4 Cherry Creek, the No. 5 Girls Lacrosse Team ended their run in the Quarterfinal round of the 2021-22 CHSAA Class 5A Girls Lacrosse State Championship tournament. With new Head Coach Crysti Foote at the helm, the team ended the season with an impressive 12-4 overall record.
The Girls Varsity Soccer Team ended the regular season with a 9-7-1 record. They received a 17th seed in the CHSAA 5A State Playoffs and upset Fort Collins in the first round with a 2-1 win in overtime. They advanced to face off No. 1-seeded Valor in the second round and held them to a 1-1 tie until the end of regulation. However, after two scoreless OT periods, the Raiders succumbed to the Eagles in a shootout.
The Girls Varsity Tennis Team took first place in Regionals with all singles and doubles teams qualifying to compete in the State Playoffs. The team placed ninth at the 2021-22 Class 5A Girls Tennis State Tournament in May.
Building on another solid season, 11 athletes from the Boys Varsity Track & Field Team competed in eight events and placed in four at the 2021-22 CHSAA 5A Championships. This year’s team was comprised of many younger athletes who are looking to make their mark during the 2022-23 season.
In just its second season as an official CHSAA sport, the Boys Varsity Volleyball Team ended the regular season ranked eighth in the state and finished the season third in the Continental League with a 10-4 record. The Raiders earned a bid to the CHSAA 5A State Tournament where they finished tied for fifth place. Tristan Christofferson ’22 , who also was awarded the 9NEWS Preps “Swag Chain,” and Logan Henry ’23 earned FirstTeam All-Continental League honors and Jackson Perez ’23 earned Second-Team honors.
Varsity Girls Golf had an impressive season, with four players, Ella Denslow '23, Georgia Meysman-Sharpe '23, Caitlin Neumann '23 and Audrey Whitmore '25, qualifying to compete in the two-day Class 5A State Championship Tournament. The team played well and finished 11th place at the tournament.
INDIVIDUAL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS! The Girls Varsity Track & Field Team sent several athletes to compete in the 202122 5A State Championship Meet in May, finishing in seventh place. Fabiola Belibi ’22 swept the hurdle events, earning two State Championships in both the 100m and 300m hurdles and finished second in the long jump. In addition, she took third in the 4x400 relay along with teammates, Harper Bradley '23, Hunter McGowan '24 and Catherine Stava '24, recording the third-fastest time in school history. Belibi also holds the school record in both the long jump and 100m hurdles.
Showcasing Raider athletes dating back to the 1930s all the way through the graduates of the Class of 2022, the digital wall offers the ability to search by year or sport. Those included number more than 500 Great Raider alumni who were either selected to the All-State First Team or won an individual State Championship during their four years at Regis Jesuit—the longstanding standard for inclusion.
While most of the athletes listed are accompanied by their senior picture, we are still in the process of scanning yearbook headshots for some of the earlier years and will continue to upload them to the page over the coming months. Going forward, we will add new Raiders who earn this distinction upon their graduation from Regis Jesuit.
We hope you will visit these pages and enjoy remembering these accomplishments (and hairstyles!) of our athletes on the field, court, pitch, mat and pool through the years.
If you note an error or omission, please accept our apologies and contact communications@regisjesuit.com so we may correct our records and update this listing.
RJ Media and Raider Sports Network broadcaster Hudson Ridley ’22 sat down with Regis Jesuit’s new Athletic Director Todd Schuler as he prepares to move his family to Colorado to begin his new role this July. We wanted to learn a little more about him, what he’s most excited about as he joins the Regis Jesuit community and his vision and philosophy for the Raider athletic program. Scan the QR code to watch the full interview.
Hudson Ridley ‘22: “Do you have experience playing high school sports?”
Todd Schuler: “I do. I played a lot of things growing up—baseball and basketball, but really soccer was kind of what I specialized in as I got towards high school. I was a serious soccer player and went on to play college soccer at University of Pennsylvania for a short time.”
Hudson Ridley ‘22: “What would you say had a big impact on you coaching-wise during that period of time?”
Todd Schuler: “Since I've been around sports all my life, I've had some really great coaches and then I've had other coaches who haven't been great. I learned at that time, especially when I was in college where I was probably playing a little bit above my level playing at Division 1 in a competitive conference, how much of an impact coaches can have on the culture and experience of a program. The best coach I've probably ever had was actually my Little League baseball coach. I know that sounds crazy. Paul Cody coached me in Little League Baseball and travel soccer before club soccer really took over. He was just an institution in this town in Connecticut where I grew up. Almost every young person who lived in that town played for him in some sport in some way, and he was just so giving of himself and so selfless. He tragically passed away a couple years after I was out of college. I went back and he had still been coaching, so there were
hundreds of people pouring out of this church just to honor this selfless human being who cared so much about giving kids an opportunity. That drove me into teaching and coaching: people like him.”
Hudson Ridley ‘22: “Are there lessons that you really like to teach kids at this level that you think are really important for them to know, not just academically, but also athletically?”
Todd Schuler: “Yeah, I mean that's one of the great things about sport, right? It's an immersive experience. You spend so much time around it and you're picking up things every day whether you're thinking about it or you're not. I do try to be intentional with athletes. A couple things that, you know, stand out to me: I talk about courage over confidence or courage being more important than confidence. You'll hear all the time, and I've probably said it to my own children, 'Be more confident.' I think athletics is having the courage to take risk, push yourself beyond the comfort zone that you might be in and that's how you grow. You grow, you fail fast, you learn from that, you get better. Then, over time, you can build confidence because you've got some evidence that shows that you're capable of doing it.
I think another lesson is ‘the effort is the journey’. I think a lot of times we get caught up in results. Only one team walks away at the end of the season having won a championship. So does that make your season a failure if you're not the champion? Of course not! It's the setbacks, the trials, the growth, the building relationships with your teammates. We've got to embrace and enjoy that part of it. If we're going in the right direction and
we're building something strong, then it might lead to results. It's not always going to be a straightforward trajectory, and that you're going to grow from it and be a better person for having gone through that.”
Hudson Ridley ‘22: “What are things that you're excited for, things that you're thinking about in coming to this community?”
Todd Schuler: “Like many people, I watch the Olympics when they come on, and I saw Missy Franklin as a swimmer years ago and was like ‘wow!’ Not only is she a great athlete, but what a great spokesperson and just fun. So, I knew about RJ. But when we started looking for schools in the Denver area, it quickly jumped out as being strong in a lot of areas. And then when we stepped foot on campus back in February or March, we were just struck by how welcoming everybody has been–students and educators. [On my way to my interview], I met a couple parents because they were wearing RJ gear and decided to play dumb. ‘Hey, do you have kids that go there and what can you tell me about it?’ And they had glowing things to say and what a great experience. I think coming out of COVID to see a school preparing for the new Science & Innovation Center, that commitment to opportunity and growth for students, that's really exciting to be a part of. A lot of schools are pulling back and saying, ‘Hey we survived this, but we've got to be careful, we don't know what the future holds.’ Regis Jesuit has clearly said, ‘No, we're going to be excellent in a bunch of different areas,’ and putting money and resources behind something like that, I want to be a part of that.”
Hudson Ridley ‘22: “How do you see athletics shaping and molding these young students into being better people and better students with more courage and confidence?”
Todd Schuler: “Athletics is kind of an immersive experience. Through four years, students involved in athletics are spending more time in that maybe than they are anything else in high school. So, if we've got quality people working with students and providing opportunities to go on retreat and do service together and provide academic support, athletics just becomes another extension of the classroom and an opportunity really to build deeper and more meaningful relationships between adults and students on campus, but also student to student. I know athletics were very formational for me. It's the primary reason why I got into teaching, and I think it should be formational. I've coached a lot of soccer, both the high school level and club. I think as a club soccer coach, my goal was to make you a better soccer player and to help you grow in that. But as a high school soccer coach, I'm using soccer to help you grow as a person and to help you connect in meaningful ways with your teammates and your school. There's just so much more opportunity because you've got that time and opportunity to build those relationships. You can go on a lot of different directions and I'm excited about being a part of that.“
From 2012-22, Todd Schuler was the director of athletics at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, North Carolina. His mission-focused leadership approach helped Cardinal Gibbons secure the 2016 NCHSAA Exemplary School Award, recognizing the top overall school in the state in terms of the "total program," including academics, athletic success, scope of opportunities offered, sportsmanship, community interest and involvement and facilities.
Schuler also partnered with coaches, parents and athletic administrators at Duke and UNC to design a mission-based leadership curriculum for student leaders. During his ten-year tenure at the school, Cardinal Gibbons earned 39 NCHSAA State Championships and five NCHSAA Wells Fargo Cup State Championships for overall excellence. He also serves as a national lead instructor for three professional development courses for athletic administrators as part of the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators’ (NIAAA) Leadership Training Institute.
The Schuler family will be moving to Colorado from Durham, North Carolina, and will have two children attending Regis Jesuit – Carson '24 and Mackenzie '26. We look forward to welcoming them to our community.
Thank you to the nearly 600 RJ community members who joined us, back in person, on April 23, 2022, at the Hilton Denver City Center to celebrate and support the school’s mission. LARK CannonBall, Regis Jesuit High School’s 49th annual auction, raised more than $815,000 in support of the Inspire & Ignite Annual Fund and Endowed Scholarships!
Special thanks to our current parent and emcee: Kyle Dyer West , auctioneer: Marty Murad , current parents and LARK Co-Chairs: Cheryl Hall and Katy Truitt , as well as the entire LARK Steering Committee, event support crew, sponsors, underwriters and catalog supporters for partnering with the Advancement team on helping to make Regis Jesuit’s largest community event fundraiser of the year a success!
This year’s LARK Paddle Raiser supported the Ignatian Endowed Scholarship Fund. This endowed scholarship was established in 2004 through the generosity of the school’s own Jesuit community. With years of continued support from our Jesuits, the endowed scholarship had reached just over $500,000. As we celebrated this Ignatian Year, we invited our entire Regis Jesuit community to continue our Jesuits’ impact by matching their generosity to the Ignatian Endowed Scholarship so it can continue to serve more RJ students in need of financial aid. Through the generous donations at LARK, we were able to raise $588,000 for the scholarship, doubling the Jesuits' generosity and getting the Ignatian Endowed Scholarship Fund over $1,000,000!
Stay tuned for more information about the 50th Anniversary of LARK, coming April 2023. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Thank you to all the generous parents, alumni, faculty, staff and friends who helped to make this possible and support our financial aid program that serves 1 in 3 students. You can still make a gift online and grow the impact of the Ignatian Endowed Scholarship Fund at www.regisjesuit.com/LARKPaddleRaiser
The notes listed here are from June 2021-May 2022. If you would like to submit a class note for inclusion in the next issue of The Raider (published summer 2023), please email alumnioffice@regisjesuit.com.
Andy Ott '64 is still going strong at age 75. After what he notes as a “great career” in the Navy and corporate world, he is still working as an engineering consultant. He notes, “I have nothing but fond memories now of Regis. I worked hard (for Fr. Krieger, Fr. Bakewell and many others). It was a wonderful start to a wonderful life. I sincerely still miss everyone, classmates and teachers alike.”
David Ciancio '72 was named to DataIQ100, a list of the top 100 most influential people in data.
Greg Goatcher '73 is the President at Orange County Windustrial.
RIGHT: The Broadway League awarded Jeff Hovorka '82 its 2022 Touring Broadway Award for Outstanding Achievement in Road Marketing & Press. Hovorka has worked at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts for 28 years in its Broadway and Cabaret Divisions. His efforts in local marketing and advertising campaigns have expanded the profile and strength of Broadway shows that travel to Denver.
Dr. Michael Hunt '83 is the Chief Medical Information Officer at CAREier, Inc. He also serves as a pediatrician at St. Clair Pediatrics Illinois.
Jimmy Verretta '86 is the Co-Founder/Chief Revenue Officer at ViTL Solutions.
Mark Waissar '86 is a Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Breville Group. Prior to this role, Waissar was the President and Chief Operating Officer at Ivory Capital.
Mike Henniger '87 was named the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Man of the Year for the Rocky Mountain Region.
Bill Shaver '87 has taken a new position as the Student Achievement Coordinator at Sterling High School as well as at Sterling Middle School and Caliche School in the RE-1 Valley School District in northern Colorado. This new position, created through state COVID-19 relief funding, supports the
mental health of marginalized and at-risk youth in the district. Through his work, Shaver has continued to embody the pillars of the Graduate at Graduation in supporting his community in caring for the health and well-being of young men and women.
Andy Boian '90 is the founder of a national award-winning full-service communications, marketing and public affairs firm Dovetail Solutions.
Jeremy Levine '93 is the Director of Business Development at WalkMe.
Dan Obarski '94 recently co-directed and produced an awardwinning documentary titled The Tale of the Dog. The film tells the previously untold story of the Family Dog Denver, the mysterious music venue that changed the city's history, then vanished. The film earned 14 film festival awards and is available for streaming on Amazon, AppleTV, iTunes, Google Play/YouTube, Vudu and Hoopla.
Alex Pavloff '95 is the Chief Technology Officer and CoFounder of Augmntr, which creates augmented- and virtual reality-based real time 3D imaging sets for military, defense, medical and entertainment industries.
Michael Nix '99 is a Senior Design Manager for Oracle.
Joseph Early '00 is the Head of Marketing Communications at Clearsight. He previously led the commercial digital strategy for Constellation as well as kicked off a startup, Breakerbox, as their Digital Head of Products.
Philip McDermott '00 is a shareholder at Polsinelli, assisting clients in all aspects of capital formation.
Tim Miller '00, a writer-at-large at The Bulwark and a political analyst on MSNBC, recently published his first book titled, Why We Did It
BELOW: Fr. Ronny O'Dwyer, SJ '01 has been appointed interim president at DeSmet Jesuit High School in St. Louis.
Huskies football fan Peter Rice '04 was named Scott Van Pelt’s 2021 Fan of the Year after being televised painfully enduring another home loss in the pouring rain.
Kyle Barella '05 is based in Brussels, Belgium, where he manages his own law firm, Barella Global.
Dan Ficke '05, was named MSU Denver’s head basketball coach. Ficke spent the previous three seasons as the head coach at Division II Belmont Abbey.
Michael Koenigs '05 is the host of ABC Television’s More in Common show and executive producer of Localish, which just won its first Emmy.
Klint Kubiak '05 was hired as the Denver Broncos quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator.
Ken Stable '05 announced he will be running to represent Colorado’s House District 37 covering Greenwood Village, Centennial and Foxfield.
Scott Ptolemy '06 is the co-founder/CTO of Web Guidz, LLC, which is a multi-channel ecommerce company in Wenatchee, Washington.
Dr. Kaitlyn Culliton '07, who teaches the Multicultural Children’s Literature course at Texas A&M International, had her students write multicultural books to support the TAMIU Border Literature Project, an organization that aims to support early childhood literacy by increasing access to diverse children’s literature and educating and promoting multicultural authors.
RIGHT: Paralympian Lacey Henderson '07 has set her sights on a new adventure: helping other amputees by joining Global Climbing for ROMP, an initiative that aims to increase awareness for disability rights and raise funds for prosthetic care for people with amputations.
Former Strake Jesuit High School football coach Klay Kubiak '07 was named a Defensive Quality Control Coach for the San Francisco 49ers.
PJ Marcely '07 was named head baseball coach for Denver South High School.
Emily Engerman '08 was recently recognized by Sky Ridge Medical Center with the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nursing for her compassionate care and clinical excellence.
At the 2021 President's Reception, President David Card '87 presented Conor McCallin '98 and Larry '74 & Lori Finch (pictured with their families above and below) the St. John Francis Regis Outstanding Service Award in recognition of their service to Regis Jesuit. This award is bestowed annually in commemoration of the namesake of Regis Jesuit High School and given to those in our community, who, like St. John Francis Regis, seek the greater good for all and have provided exemplary service and support to the mission and life of Regis Jesuit High School. The President's Reception is held annually in recognition of generous supporters of Regis Jesuit High School.
Veteran left-hander Ty Blach '09 earned a spot on the Colorado Rockies roster and was instrumental in helping the team win one of its games during opening weekend.
Charles Dirk Macdonald '09 and Steven Lowy '09 have started a bike-glove company called Bird Bike Co., which focuses on encouraging all kinds of cyclists and is committed to supporting veterans and caring for the environment. Check them out at www.birdbikeco.com.
Erin (Dempsey) Heule '10 has been selected as the founding principal of the new St. John Paul the Great High School in Denver.
Damian Mencini '10 penned a special tribute published in the Spring 2022 issue of Elevate magazine about RJ Boys Basketball Coach Ken Shaw following his 800th career win. Read the article at www.regisjesuit.com/ShawTribute
Katherine Sanderson '10 was recently hired as the Coordinator to the President of scripted TV at MGM Studios in Beverly Hills, California, where she helps oversee all television series in production and in development, as well as all content produced for their premium network Epix. She had previously held positions at Walt Disney, Universal Pictures and the Jim Henson Company.
Ashlyn Frederick '11 has been named the executive director of the Mission Project in Kansas, which enables capable adults with developmental disabilities to live independently and safely in community with individualized support.
Marcus Rinedollar '11 is a cybersecurity analyst for Deloitte Consulting.
RIGHT: Andrew Warren '11 celebrated his medical school graduation, his United States Air Force promotion to the rank of Captain and his selection into the pediatric residency program at Walter Reed
National Military Medical Center. Dr. Andrew Warren will begin his career as a medical doctor taking care of infants and children in Bethesda, Maryland.
Lindsay (Masters) Wyss '11 is putting her business degree in entrepreneurial leadership and supply chain operations to good use as the chief of staff for Unbridled Companies in Canon City, along with being a partner in a new restaurant, Fremont Provisions, and an upcoming boutique hotel, Hotel St. Cloud.
Marquelle Dent '12 was named an assistant coach for the University of Denver Women's Basketball Team.
Micah Flores '12 was ordained to the priesthood on May 14, 2022, by Archbishop Samuel Aquila at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver. He has been assigned to serve at Most Precious Blood Parish.
Jonathan Sollender '12 was recently promoted to Aircraft Commander in the United States Air Force.
Sarah Anderson Whittom '12 wrote two articles—one on nearsightedness and the other on lunar samples collected during the Apollo 17 mission—featured in recent issues of Discover Magazine
Jess Zielinski '12 is an environmental engineer working at Weston Solutions, Inc.
Maryam Moghaddam '13 graduated this spring from University of the Pacific Dental School and is now Dr. Maryam Moghaddam, DDS.
Laurel Teal '13 was featured by her college alma mater Hastings College for her work in putting her education in resource management into action at Chatfield State Park here in Colorado.
Joe Bozeman '14 and Gabe Feiten '14 launched Tips Golf Company, a golf apparel company featuring hats, t-shirts and, soon, towels, in August of last year. They also plan to expand into golf shirts, golf gloves and more next spring. The founders extend a warm thank you to the Regis Jesuit community that has been so supportive to this point.
Chris Korte '14 continues to elevate his game on the links as he shot a nine-under-par 62 in the qualifying round at Highland Meadows Golf Club, earning a spot in the third annual TPC Colorado Championship at Heron Lakes on July 8-11. He went 75-69 in the tournament, missing the cut by only one stroke. As part of the Korn Ferry Tour, this elite tournament is considered a springboard to the PGA Tour. Korte has been a member of the PGA Tour Latinoamérica since 2019 and is a recent graduate from the University of Denver.
Nicholas Stofa '14 graduated this spring from Regis University with a juris doctor from the University of Colorado School of Law. Following the bar exam in July, Nicholas will begin work as an Associate Attorney at Falgien Warr and Iyer, P.C. in Wheat Ridge, CO.
RIGHT: Ryan '14 and Katherine Allbritten Tapp '15 welcomed their first child, Charlotte, on November 11, 2021.
Matthew Houghtaling '15 recently received his master of science degree in healthcare policy and regulatory leadership from the University of Denver.
Robert Iriye '15 is a Control Dynamics Engineer at United Launch Alliance.
Pam Potzer '15 recently visited RJ choral classes to present her perspective on music therapy and its effects on one's psychological, emotional, physical, spiritual, cognitive and social well-being. Potzer shared her experiences helping Colorado community members who struggle with depression and anxiety, as well as victims of stroke and cognitive/ emotional disabilities, through music therapy.
Emma Braun '16 graduated in May from the Colorado School of Mines with a master's degree in civil/geotechnical engineering.
Madilyn Emerson '16 is a student registered nurse anesthetist at the Boston Medical Center.
Erika Manilla '16 is back-to-back National Racquetball
Doubles Champion and placed third in singles this year. She will represent Team USA traveling to compete later this year in the Pan American Championships in Bolivia and World Championships in Guatemala.
Jack Stoll '16 defied the odds and made the 2021 Philadelphia Eagles 53-man roster as a tight end.
Following graduation from the Air Force Academy, Brielle Bajak '17 is now serving as a lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
Sydney Pulver '17 was drafted in the second round of the National Women's Soccer League and will play for the San Diego Wave FC.
Eliseo Esparza '18 and Grae Patterson '18 were both chosen from a select group to participate in the Colorado School of Mines episode of The College Tour, which dropped on Amazon Prime Video in April. The show offers an inside look at around a dozen U.S. colleges and universities each season.
Cal McCoy '18 continued to play at the top of his game for the University of Denver Pioneers Men's Golf Team. The team won its second-consecutive Summit League title and earned a berth to the NCAA Regionals. While at Regis Jesuit, McCoy and his teammates on the Boys Golf Team won three consecutive 5A State Championship crowns in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Fran Belibi '19 partnered with Denny's to raise $25,000 in her name for the Women's Sports Foundation through their Super Slam breakfast.
Daniel Carr '19 has been making his presence known on the hardwood of Augustana College in Illinois where he was recently named to the First Team All-Conference.
RIGHT: Alexander Gomez '19 recently signed his letter of intent to play Division I hockey at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Sunaina Kabadkar '20 has earned two named scholarships at Baldwin Wallace University where she is majoring in creative writing.
BELOW: Olivia Baptiste '21 was recently awarded Outstanding Fish (freshman cadet) of the Corps, the Commanding Officer's award and Guidon (flag bearer) for the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University.
Quinn Henninger ' 21 earned two medals at the inaugural Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia in November, taking gold in the Men’s Three-Meter Springboard event and earning a bronze medal in the mixed team event.
Alec Willis '21 was picked by the St. Louis Cardinals in the seventh round of the 2021 Major League Baseball Draft. The first Colorado player picked and drafted 211th overall, the right-handed pitcher finished his senior season with an impressive 0.72 ERA and 54 strikeouts throwing between 92-96 mph this year.
Though they were not able to gather in person for the annual Raider Legacy Appreciation Mass & Breakfast, we celebrate our graduating seniors from the Class of 2022 and their legacy parents and/or grandparents who help to carry the flame of Regis Jesuit’s enduring mission forward.
Caroline Armistead ’22 , parent Mark Armistead ’80
Ryan Beatty ’22 , parent Charles Beatty ’91
Will Bradac ’22 , parent Michael Bradac ’91
Caroline Byrne ’22 , grandparent C. Richard Byrne ’59
Emma Davisson ’22 , parent Brian Davisson ’94, grandparent Michael Davisson ’66
JD Doyle ’22 , parent Kevin Doyle ’92 , grandparent James Doyle ’60
Soren Freund ’22 , parent Joseph Freund ’84
Victor Guzman ’22 , parent Victor Guzman ’76
Peter Houtsma ’22 , parent Matthew Houtsma ’96
Bennett Kittleson ’22 , parent Blair Kittleson III ’91 , grandparent Blair Kittleston, Sr. ’62 , grandparent Gregory Frank ’66
Kylie Maretech ’22 , parent Kyle Maretech ’88
Abby McBournie ’22 , grandparent Vincent† Schmitz ’44
Anna Neff ’22 , parent Andrew Neff ’96
Collin Quinn ’22 , grandparent Thomas† Quinn ’42
Jack Quinn ’22 , parent Michael Quinn ’85
Bella Robertson ’22 , grandparent Victor Robertson ’60
Evan Telgenhoff ’22 , parent Eric Telgenhoff ’87
Colby Whitehouse ’22 , grandparent William Wagner ’62
Karson Williams ’22 , parent Chad Williams ’90
If we have accidentally omitted a legacy family from the Class of 2022, please accept our apologies and contact alumnioffice@regisjesuit.com to help us ensure we have our family legacy relationships updated in our database.
Iwas fortunate to get my high school education at Regis High School, but I went to Regis by accident. A friend of my mom and dad, Mrs. McCabe, asked where I was going to high school. Like every other thirteen-year-old male, I answered with an eloquent “I dunno.” At that moment it became Mrs. McCabe's quest to save both my spiritual and intellectual soul! She was the mother of two Jesuits, and I think she aspired for a third.
I was the oldest of seven children, and my dad worked two jobs. When I asked if I could go to Regis, he told me we could not afford the tuition. “If you want to go to Regis, you will have to earn the tuition.” I did have a paper route and it was supposed to clear $20 per month, but I never collected more than $12! I did a couple of lawns in the neighborhood, which only added $3.00 per lawn. Sometimes I could get a corner lot and could negotiate it to $4.00 or $5.00 per mowing.
How many lawns did I need to mow each week to reach the $330 annual tuition? It turned out I needed to mow about eight lawns each week, but I could only talk six neighbors into joining. They were all friends of my mom and dad, and they were going to “give me a chance.” With my paper route, I made tuition that summer, and it felt good to pay my own way.
As it turned out, about 60% of my class paid all or part of their tuition by working in 1962. This story would not work today with tuition as high as it is. Earning your own way is a hard taskmaster, but it leaves an indelible grade of ‘E’ for Earn. It leaves you with the confidence and courage to earn your own way throughout your life.
Regis High School was also a formidable taskmaster, and I was an average student. At times I struggled, but Mr. Kellogg, Guy Gibbs and Rev. Robert Stowe, as well as others, are remembered
fondly as academic guides. The more I worked, the better student I became.
I have spent much of my life learning. I went to UNC for my undergraduate degree and combined courses at CU and UNC to complete a master’s degree. I completed my formal teaching education at The University of Denver. These educational advancements not only provided a base for a 30-year career teaching science, but also an ethical and practical knowledge base for starting several family businesses and having the courage to know they could succeed.
My wife, Sandy, and I took the risk of diving into the entrepreneurial pond in 1977. Ironically, our first venture had its seeds in my first year of high school. We began as a small landscape maintenance company. We named it Emerald Isle Landscaping after the country my Irish immigrant grandparents left to find a better life. The company grew the harder we worked, and it allowed us to “earn our own way” for 44 years. Emerald Isle Landscaping provided us with the resources to build several other businesses, share our prosperity and credentials working with nonprofit organizations and contribute to causes in which we believe.
We have chosen Regis Jesuit High School, among our other philanthropic causes, as one of our focused educational donations and legacy gift recipients. Knowledge provides a path for people to boost themselves out of ignorance. Funding education is the best way to make a lasting, positive difference in a person's life. It certainly did mine.
“Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.” - Meyers Jr Bill '66 and Sandy Lamberton
The St. John Francis Regis Legacy Society is comprised of alumni, current parents, parents of alumni, grandparents and friends who have made provision for Regis Jesuit High School by means of a planned gift.
To become a member, simply advise the school of your intention to make a gift to the school in your will or living trust. If you would like more info on making a legacy gift, please contact Mary Zimmerman, Director of Philanthropy and Legacy Giving at mzimmerman@regisjesuit.com or 303.269.8077.
In this feature of The Raider, we list milestone occasions and awards or events for members of the faculty and staff.
1. On August 23, 2021, Director of Donor Engagement & Events Kelsey Greiner and her husband Joe welcomed their second child, Olive.
2. English teacher Megan Langfield ’10 and her husband Justin welcomed baby girl Helen Leonie to their family on September 8, 2021.
3. On October 15, 2021, theology teacher Josh Coleman and his wife Leah welcomed baby Walker Carey, their second child.
4. Classical & Modern Languages department chair Lindsay Cummings and her husband Matt welcomed Maggie Elise, their second daughter, on November 29, 2021.
5. On March 3, 2022, college counselor Cari Maciolek and her husband Michael welcomed baby girl Sylvie Mae to their family.
6. Math teacher and Girls Field Hockey head coach Spencer Wagner and his wife Amelia welcomed their second child, Cora Everly, on March 29, 2022.
7. On March 30, 2022, baby Rayla Gene Marie arrived as the first child of Microsoft Cloud systems administrator Ryan Kemp and his wife Kristina.
With the end of the 2021-22 school year, several faculty and staff members called it a career and moved into retirement. We thank them for their years of selfless service in sharing their many gifts with the students and in supporting the mission of Regis Jesuit. The blessings of our community go with them as they transition to continuous dress down days.
LaRae Onorato taught math for 32 years, 22 of them at Regis Jesuit. She also taught in Texas, Georgia and Kansas as well as in Germany, teaching soldiers in the Army when her husband was stationed there. Though she has taught all levels of math from Algebra I to AP Calculus BC, her favorites have been AP Calculus AB and Honors Geometry because they are new to the students taking them and present a good challenge. In addition to teaching, LaRae served as the department chair for five years and as sophomore class moderator for several years back when the school had that structure. She also participated in multiple faculty committees through her tenure. Her favorite things about RJ are the sense of community and being able to incorporate her faith into her work life. She looks forward to spending more time with her two grandchildren and traveling with her husband to their bucket list destinations.
Skip Jensen loves history. He has taught AP European History (his favorite to teach), AP and Standard U.S. History and Human Geography over the course of his 51-year teaching career. He spent 30 years in Cherry Creek schools and four at Metropolitan State University before spending the last 17 years at Regis Jesuit. He recalls fondly the early years working alongside the close-knit faculty and administration who were dedicated to getting the new Girls Division up and going. Skip plans to travel with his wife, Cindy, to the places that he has taught about for so many years.
Learning Services Coordinator Tami Hogan has worked at Regis Jesuit for the last 13 years but began her career in education in 1981 as the only English teacher for the 56 7th-12th graders in Kim, Colorado, a town on the southeastern plains. She also worked in Texas and Ohio and was the gifted and talented coordinator for the Sheridan School District for 15 years prior to coming to RJ. Tami has enjoyed being an advocate for students with learning differences during her tenure here and will remember the students’ smiles when they experienced success. She most looks forward to not having to awaken at 4:30 am and being able to stay up past 8:30 pm, along with more time with family, traveling, reading and volunteering.
Long before being hired as the Raider Shop Manager nine years ago, Cindy McNamara was the Raider Shop Manager. She ran the shop as a parent volunteer–two years in the Girls Division and four years in the Boys Division–and was brought on as an employee to manage the shop when it was consolidated to one in the Steele Center. Prior to volunteering at RJ, Cindy was an equally avid volunteer at St. Thomas More. New Raider Night and seeing all the incoming students’ excitement getting their first RJ gear will be the memory she cherishes most. Recently returned from a trek to Antarctica, their seventh continent to visit together, Cindy looks forward to even more traveling with her husband, working on her golf game and trying her hand at fly fishing.
Cindy’s partner in crime, Dee O’Neill, the Raider Shop Assistant Manager who worked at RJ for five years is retiring as well. Dee also started working in the Raider Shop as a volunteer while her four children were in high school before being hired to help manage the store. She looks forward to more time making memories with family.
Spending the last seven years teaching social studies at Regis Jesuit, Rick Werbylo capped off his 42-year career in education. He has taught U.S. History, AP U.S. Government, AP Micro and Macroeconomics, and claims to have no favorites, though will admit that he finds it especially rewarding to work with students who challenge themselves with Advanced Placement classes. In addition, Rick coached football, helped with Kairos Retreats and participated in four immersions to Belize during his tenure here. Once upon a time, he also helped the Drama Club with some set building, ensuring all student fingers were left intact. Rick states that he has learned much from his colleagues, especially from their dedication and genuine personal interest in the students. He looks forward to having more time with his wife, traveling and volunteering, but especially to the birth of his granddaughter in August.
Thank you for your contributions to Regis Jesuit! They are as indelible as are the deep and long-lasting relationships you made here. We wish you the best as you transition into retired life. Know that you will be missed!
The entire community of Regis Jesuit extends its sincere sympathy to the family and friends of loved ones who have died recently. The following are remembered in our prayers:
Listed in ascending order by year of graduation
Raymond L. Coursey '45, father of Stephen '69
George H. Brown '49
J. Russell (Russ) Campen, Jr. '52
Grant C. Gibbs '52, brother of Guy '47, uncle of Geoffrey '79 and Gregory '79
Robert R. (Bob) Seno '53
Harold J. (Harry) wanebo '53, brother of Clifford '55, James '61 and Dennis '65
Paul F. Doherty '54, brother of Dennis† '52
David P. (Dave) Lancaster '54, brother of Donald† '53
Frederick H. (Fred) Pepper '54
Daniel (Dan) Porreco '54, father of Michael '75, Vincent '81 and Daniel '83
william P. (Bill) wollenhaupt '55
Ronald A. (Ron) Carlson '56
Richard D. (Dick) Murphy '56, brother of Bruce '59, Thomas† '61 and Roger '62
George R. (Joe) Boersig '57, brother of Thomas '74
Thomas M. (ODO) O'Dorisio '61, brother of Rick† '70, cousin of Fred Diss '79
Marshall Crouch III '62, father of Scott '87
Thomas M. Mutz '64
Thomas E. (Tom) Robinson '64, father of Malik '92 and husband of Council of Regents member Cleo Parker Robinson
Gerald A. (Jerry) Mornin '65
John L. (Arch) Archambault '67, brother of William '56 and uncle of William '83
David L. Harris '69, brother of Paul '71, Mark '75, Vincent '78 and Thomas '80
Mark J. Kenney '70
Eugene P. (Pete) O'Meara '70, son of Eugene '43
Timothy J. (Tim) Thornton '73, brother of Patrick† '68
John T. Hanley '74, cousin of Michael '68, uncle of Alexander '99, Matthew '17, Lauren '19, Joseph '21 Hanley and Benjamin Gelfand '20
Michael J. (Mike) Schoenecke '74, father of Bryson '99, Damian '01 and Cody '03
Jeffrey S. Forman '81
Bret J. weller '89, former faculty member at Regis Jesuit High School
Kenneth L. Chodil '04, brother of Jeffrey '03
Pierce O. Hopkins '15, brother of Tyler Moffitt '07 Amber S. Rainsberger '21, sister of Jacob '23
Listed alphabetically by last name
Shirley Anderson, mother of theology teacher and Boys Head Golf Coach Craig Rogers, grandmother of Bennett '16 and Matilyn '20
Kevin P. Archambault, son of William ’56, nephew of John† ’67 and brother of William ‘83
James A. Canino, son of Facilities Manager Mark Canino, brother of Christina Troksa '14, cousin of Scott Alcorn '99, Neal '03 and Cole '24 Canino
Dana Coles, father of Shane Coles, Maintenance Technician
Sally Turner Crawford, mother of former Raider Shop Assistant Manager Dee O'Neill, grandfather of Christopher '08, Emily '09, David '16 and Anne '17 O'Neill
David B. Dyer, father of Fr. Kevin Dyer, SJ, Board of Trustees member and former RJ theology teacher
Regina M. (Gina) Fales, mother of David '24
Frank (Joe) Giardino, father of Frank '66 and John '67, great uncle of Colin '18, Olivia '20 and Liam '23, great grandfather of Sophia Wolf '21
Brian Greenwood, father of John '12
Jill R. Kegler, mother of Jordynn '26
Eileen M. Love, mother of Daniel '01, Brendan '04 and Matthew '08
Carol Lyberg, mother of Boys Learning Specialist Kristen Hayton Janice M. McVicar, mother of Tom† '72, John '74, Michael '75, Daniel '76, Kevin '82 and Christopher '87
Heinz (Henry) Meyerrose, father of Fine Arts & Media Technology teacher Jennifer Meyerrose, grandfather of Casey '13, Jackson '15 and Nora '17 Devlin
Marilyn A. Naes, mother of Tony '80, grandmother of Anthony '06, Annemarie (Hofmeister) '09, Luke '11, Christian '13 and Daniel '16 Naes
Elizabeth J. (Betty Jane) Novak, mother of John '74, Charles '77 and Joseph '80
Robert E. (Bob) O'Haire, Jr , father of Robert '82 and Brian '86
Mary Paiz, wife of Bernard '57, mother of Mark '80, Christopher '84 and Jeffery '90
Dan A. Sdrulla, father of Ryan '22 and Kelly '25
Michael J. (Mickey) Tomczak, father of John Michael '08
John L. weakland, father of Mark '98, Bryan '00 and Andrew '02 Jack M. wojewski, father of Benjamin '24
Donald E. (woody) woods, father of Controller Kristen Batcho
we have been informed recently that the following alumni are also deceased and extend our sympathies and prayers to their loved ones. Listed in ascending order by year of graduation
Francis P. Byrne '47
Kenneth V. Gartrell '47
Leo P. Dolan '49
Joseph L. Kolb '51
Leo I. Stevens '53
John F. Patsey '59
Harry w. Scoby '60
Richard L. McBeth '61
Herbert L. Plemel '62
Stephen D. Poth '62
James R. willey '67
Michael F. Spera '70
Paul M. Thompson '79
Nathan R. (Nate) McGregor '00, son of Robert '66
Joseph P. Powers '98
The Regis Jesuit community mourns the loss of Tom Robinson ’64 who passed away on April 4, 2022. Throughout his distinguished 31-year tenure at Regis Jesuit, Tom served as a faculty member in the math department, coached football, basketball, track and golf and helped to establish the Diversity Program at the school. He then served on the Regis Jesuit Board of Trustees followed by the Council of Regents after he moved to work as the assistant commissioner at CHSAA. Affectionately referred to as “Coach” to many who knew him, he will forever be remembered for his calm and poised leadership, his dedication and commitment to youth education and athletics and his continual support of Regis Jesuit. Tom at his core was a leader who truly embodied what it means to be with and for Others. His memory will live on in Regis Jesuit!
Read tributes to Tom from his RJ colleagues at www.regisjesuit.com/ RememberingTomRobinson
You can support Tom’s commitment to education by making a contribution to an endowed scholarship in his name at www.regisjesuit.com/endowment-giving
NOVEMBER 4 | 7:30 AM
At this special First Friday Mass, we pray for those members of our community who have passed away during the past year in a special celebration of the Eucharist. More details will be shared closer to the event.
The names recorded in this section represent those made known to us between June 1, 2021, and May 31, 2022. Any deaths occurring after that date will be listed in the 2023 issue.
We make every effort to account accurately for the passing of any alumnus/a, student, faculty or staff member as well as that of any of their parents, spouses, siblings or children including those who may not be RJ alumni. If we are aware of other relationships the deceased had to members of our community, we do our best to list them as well. We also share news of the deaths of all members of our extended community on the In Memoriam page of our website (www.regisjesuit.com/InMemoriam). We sincerely regret any oversights or errors that may occur.
