ALUMNI EDITION
The Seattle Prep Panther October 19, 2018
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Volume 74 No. 2
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Then & Now
Alumni Service Corps Members Find Common Ground While Re-establishing Roots at Prep LILLY THOMPSON ‘19 Online Editor
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t this point in the school year, students have most likely seen the newest members of the Seattle Prep staff in their new classes, clubs or sports. For four new Alumni Service Corps (ASC) members, however, Seattle Prep is a familiar space. “It feels like I’m back at home” said Emma Johnson ‘14, a Santa Clara grad who is back at Prep this school year. For those not familiar with ASC, “It’s like the best booster shoot for mission” said director and science teacher Brian Meza ‘92. “Students get to see ‘Grad at Grad’ live in front of them. The teachers get to see that they had a hand in formation, which keeps us going. It brings a purpose to what we do.” The ASC brings four Seattle Prep alums that have recently graduated from college back to Prep to live and work at
the school. The program was created three years ago by Meza and Seattle Prep President Kent Hickey after researching similar programs in other parts of the country. Meza explained that “the program match[es] the school’s needs, which change year to year, with the ASC volunteers expertise and passion.” This year Charles Shafer, Caroline Cacabelos, Max Hanson and Emma Johnson from the Seattle Prep class of 2014 joined the program to work in various areas of student life. Shafer ‘14, a graduate of Boston College, works with Mr. Othman in his film classes, Frau Khouri in German, and will be helping out with the play and the musical this year. When asked why he returned to Prep, Shafer said that, “I had a really good experience here at Prep, and I wanted to take a personal break from the high intensity stuff of marketing and business jobs … so it fit well with the timing.”
Johnson added that she “needed another year to figure out what I wanted to do for [her] career… and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work at Prep.” The concept of a buffer year between college and professional life is a common thread running through each of the ASC member’s motivation for joining the program. Meza explained that in the ASC program “Deferment is a big [factor], I’m already seeing that for next year’s group, that there’s a possibility of deferred grad school.” Hanson ‘14, a Whitman College grad who is working in the AP Environmental Science classroom as well as coaching the rowing team, also expressed this sentiment: “I wanted a year of volunteering or something to help with that transition after college. I didn’t want to go straight into a program that I would maybe end up asking myself why I did this.” He also explained that connect-
ing with religion was another factor influencing his desire to return, “Whitman is non-religiously affiliated, and I felt like I had unintentionally distanced myself from the Jesuit religion which was so important to me, especially here at Seattle Prep, and that I grew to love.” For Cacabelos ‘14, a graduate of Creighton University, gratitude towards Seattle Prep was a big part of her decision to join ASC. “ I have always dreamed about coming back to prep to somehow work and to be able to give back to the community that left me with so much.” She added that in high school her friends predicted that she would return to Prep and become “Bei Bernal 2.0,” which Cacabelos takes as a compliment. Her favorite part of being part of back at Prep has been living in community with the other volunteers, saying, “we have definitely become a family.”
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ALUMNI PROFILES
PANTHER STAFF Editors-in-Chief Gabriella Jeakle ‘19 Katharine Leahy‘19 Managing Editor Audrey Frigon '20 Photo Editor Abby Arthur '19 Online Editors Chloe Saharic '19 Lilly Thompson '19 Sports Editor Myles Nowak '19 Social Media Editor Joe Robinson '20 Staff Writers Katarina Conces ‘19 Owen Hendricks ‘19 Moses Kent ‘19 Quinn Losse ‘19 Abby Malzewski ‘19 Mimi Parent '19 Sophie Piacentini ‘19 Noah Pingul ‘19 Kellen Carr ‘20 Walid Cruz-Vanegas ‘20 Lauren Day ‘20 Maddie Deasy ‘20 Danica Dytioco ‘20 Sophie Jurion ‘20 Milo Pepper ‘20 Grace Weiand 20 Cece Brown '21 Caroline Casey '21 Tia Flores ‘21 Clara Malone ‘21 Natalie Nowak '21 Paige Stanley '21 Tessa Zink ‘21 Will Thompson '21 Hobbs Hegedus '22 Beni Jurion '22 Freelance Staff Sofia Simon ‘20 Adviser Micah Richardson
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EDITOR: CHLOE SAHARIC '19
Walker '08 Takes Helm of Boys’ Cross Country Program
CHLOE SAHARIC '19 Online Editor
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lumnus Andrew Walker '08, has become the new head coach of the Boys’ cross country team. Throughout Walker’s running career on the cross-country team at Prep, his main inspirations included his coaches, Doc Robinson and Ben Sauvage. Robinson was the “mad scientist,” Walker says, “he was in sports medicine and was always trying to perfect the science of how to become a great runner.” Sauvage, who retired as head coach last year after coaching for Prep for over a decade, was also a big inspiration for Walker as he was “always there training with [the team] in runs and workouts and was responsible for [Walker’s] mastery of the little things in training.” Between 1997 and 2012, and during Walker’s time at Prep, the boys crosscountry team placed top four in the Washington state meet 15 out of 16 years, a very impressive team accomplishment. As a sophomore in 2006, Walker says Mr. Barmore was his favorite teacher. He recalls one time in class, when Mr. Barmore caught a student doing his math homework in Collegio. Barmore took the paper and lit it on fire in front of the whole class. “No one ever tried to finish homework in Collegio after that.” Reflecting on his senior year of high school, Walker said his favorite memory on the team was at the Jim Danner Invite, now called the Nike Portland XC Invite, where Prep swept the meet by beating many good Washington cross-country teams as well as a Colorado team. “It was a great team win and I remember posing with the trophy with the top seven [runners] and just having a big cheesy smile on my face,” Walker says. After graduating from Prep, Walker enrolled at Gonzaga University and ran for the cross-country team there. His coach,
Photo: Paige De'Ora Andrew Walker '08 coaches runners during a recent meet. Walker returned to Prep as the head coach this year after working at East Valley High School and Gig Harbor High School in previous years. Pat Tyson, who previously coached at Mead Kirkland. high school in Spokane, was also a big in- This year, as head coach for Prep, spiration for Walker. “His motto was ‘don’t Walker wants to focus on making sure the over-coach’ and he let me find how to train team learns all the mini-aspects to running a race: “There are a million different tiny “My goals are all about decisions in races, in practice and between getting kids to buy in to runs that need to be made in order to be a great runner. Our guys are getting better at the process of becomdoing that and it’s exciting to be a part of!” Walker added “My goals are all ing good runners.” about getting kids to buy in to the process of becoming good runners. Can we get enough Andrew Walker '08 people excited about what the team is doing to have them show up and put some big and race in a way that worked for miles in during the summer? Can we mold me.” leaders on the team year after year so that Walker says that this experience with Coach when freshman show up they know exactly Tyson was the reason he wanted to become what it takes to be good? Can we learn to a cross-country coach himself. trust ourselves to know what to do and com After college, Walker worked as pete in high pressure situations? If what we the head coach for the East Valley High do this year helps strengthen the program School cross country team in Spokane and for the years to come I'll consider it a sucthe Gig Harbor High School cross country cess,” Walker says. “[Sauvage] always used team. He also currently works as a 6th grade to tell us that Prep kids were different, that Humanities teacher and middle school tech- they worked harder and cared more about nology teacher at Holy Family School in the team and I think that is still true.”
Fr. Sullivan Alumni Fun Run Unites Alums with Current Students
ABBY ARTHUR ‘19 Photo Editor
With the beginning of the school year, the cross-country team kicked off it’s season by paying attribute to its former coach and years of alumni through the Father Sullivan, S.J. Fun Run. This two-mile time trial took place on an early Saturday morning on the first day of September and was the perfect kick off to the ten-week season. In this event, current Prep runners compete to make it to the top ten alongside parents and alumni as a way of bringing generations together. Although Fr. Sullivan, S.J. is no longer with us or part of the current coaching staff, his legacy and profound methods of coaching are reflected through Prep’s current team as they are constantly
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striving for greatness. Though many alumni have run this event throughout the years, two alums that have felt the everlasting impact of Prep cross country gave their input after participating this year. Willie Richardson '91, recognized the memorable and outstanding coaching techniques from Sullivan that have been passed down through the years. Richardson recounted that even though Sullivan was never directly his coach, he was still heavily influenced by him and stated: “I run the Fr. Sullivan Run to memorialize his charismatic coaching practices that Prep athletes and coaches continue to exhibit. Running blistering paces on the hills of Lower Woodland Park brings out the best in the human spirit.” A message continually taught and practiced by Fr. Sullivan was that anyone can run. Cross country is a physically and mentally demanding sport that requires dedication, strength, mental toughness, and much more. Sullivan realized this and made sure to help runners and coaches alike feel comfortable in strengthening their abilities and pushing themselves to their limits as athletes.
Richardson supports the inclusivity and added that “Fr. Sullivan believed in the potential of each athlete, regardless of their initial abilities.” Richardson is just one of many alums who participate and have been influenced by the former coach. Another participant in the event is Jack Lovejoy '97. Lovejoy runs to show how much he continues to support the team even though his four years of running in high school are up. From former Prep runner to members on the current team, Lovejoy gives a message: “I want the athletes on the team to know that they have a community behind them that values all of their hard work and will even share in it for a few miles.” With support throughout the generations, the Seattle Prep cross country team felt the love from their teammates, coaches, and alumni as they crossed the start and finish line of the painful Lower Woodland course. Although no longer with us, the messages from Father Sullivan are still present in the current team and his teachings are reflected in each individual athlete.
ALUMNI LIFE EDITOR: ABBY ARTHUR ‘19
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Bloomsday Lilac Run Brings Back Fond Memories
PATRICK IRWIN ‘67 Seattle Prep Alumnus
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or the 40th anniversary of the Bloomsday Race in Spokane started by Prep alum, Don Kardong ‘67, I joined Brian Gough ‘67, Tom O’Leary ‘67 and Jim Merrill ‘67 to recognize our classmate and lifelong friend’s remarkable achievement. For the uninitiated, Bloomsday is one of the largest road races in the United States, barely trailing the Peachtree Road Race, the New York Marathon and the Bolder Boulder. Not bad notoriety for Spokane, a city whose population hovers around 210,000 citizens. How did all this begin? The Spokane Spokesman Review, the Bloomsday website, Wikipedia and countless other publications will take you back to 1977. They will recollect how Don Kardong, running with another Prep alum, Dan Leahy ‘68, were scoping potential paths for a civic road race that’s “challenging but not too tough”. I believe that the history for Bloomsday began 12 years earlier at Seattle Preparatory School in Seattle, Washington. The year was 1965. Seattle Prep was still an all-boys Catholic High School and the halls of Adelphia were filled with black clad Misters and Fathers. Lay teachers are the exception, not the rule. Fr. Goebel, S.J. was beginning his first year as VicePrincipal, Mr. Brady Twohy, S.J. displayed the Jesuit collar and was a first year English teacher and Fr. Joe Small, S.J.’s office on the
second floor was a haven for advice seekers overwhelmed by high school or students pondering college admissions. In the basement locker room, a small group of 17 or so runners shared the space with Prep’s top-rated football team. It’s not hard to tell which group is which. This is the first year of cross country at Prep, Mr. Larry Eason is at the helm and sophomore Don Kardong is speculating that this might be a good way to stay in shape for basketball. I’d been friends with Don since grade school and following his lead into cross country seemed like a safer activity than getting annihilated as a member of Prep’s powerhouse football team. I mean…how tough could this possibly be? Clad in gray cotton sweats and tennis shoes, this fledgling cross country team traversed the hills surrounding Seattle Prep to build stamina and speed. Training courses included a two-mile stretch meticulously hand surveyed in Volunteer Park and the dreaded interval mile Mondays at Green Lake. Shortcuts home at dusk in the Seattle drizzle included forays through the Volunteer Park cemetery and a quick climb over a chain link fence to run across the unopened express lanes of the Ship Canal Bridge. Training was short lived as the first meet loomed at the Seward Park loop. Scenic, hilly and 2 long miles, the race was much different than the lazy runs through Capitol Hill. As I struggled across the finish line, I wondered where Don had placed in
Don Kardong ‘67 (number 002) leads runners out at the start of the first Bloomsday Race in 1977. the race. Surveying the finishers, I noticed written books on running, he was instrumenthe coaches whispering, smiling and glanc- tal in forming the Association of Road Racing toward their fledging phenom, Don Kar- ing Athletes and opening up prize money for dong. He hadn’t won his first race but he runners as well as scholarships for runners, he is head of the Professional Road Running was at the top of the pack. The running bug had grabbed Don Organization and he is a leading citizen in and the days of getting in shape for basket- Spokane. I marvel at the enormity of this ball were done. Running became as much a part of his life as breathing. Don won the spectacle that Don has created. I am thankCity Catholic Meet in the coming months ful to have had this time to celebrate with and after that, went on to win more races Don and our group of friends for 50 years. I now know exactly what enticed me to than one can count. But his real legacy will be to the come to Spokane for this 40th anniversary sport of running, even more than winning – it was our friend Don, founder of the Liraces. Don is synonymous with running lac Bloomsday Run, Olympic marathoner, throughout the world; he placed fourth in Spokane city leader and Seattle Prep Hall of the 1976 Olympic Marathon, he has jogged Fame member. at Camp David with U.S. Presidents, he has
high school careers at Prep to the beginning of their collegiate careers at Harvard. The transition from high school level soccer to Division 1 collegiate playing is no joke. Hirst explained that she is always with the team, “spending countless hours at practice, film, in meetings, and recovering.” However tiring this may be, it has actually led to a closer team bond and elevated level of team chemistry. This closeness, combined with the natural chemistry
both Nielsen and Hirst brought to Harvard from their four years together at Prep allow the duo to know each other well on and off the pitch. Hirst elaborated saying, “We really know how each other play and complement each other very well. I was so lucky to start something as different as college with someone I’ve gone to school with for 4 years.” This complementary style of play Nielsen and Hirst have established does not go unsupported. The duo have a combined
Nielsen and Hirst Excel at Next Level
MYLES NOWAK ‘19 Sports Editor
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ith dominant regular season records, and multiple state titles, it is no secret that Seattle Prep soccer is a force to be reckoned with. Every year, a new lineup cycles through and every year a few continue their sport at the colligate level. Sophie Hirst ‘18 and Taylor Nielsen ‘18 are two players which have continued their soccer experience from their
four goals and four assists only six games into the season. Their impact has been unparalleled as they have applied their progress and success on Lower Woodland over the past four years to Ohiri Field in Cambridge in the past few weeks. Both direct praise towards their former coach, Andy Hendricks’83 of Seattle Prep. Both players explained that his impact was significant on their development as individual players and as part of a team.
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EDITOR: LILLY THOMPSON ‘19
Alumni Service Corps Year One: Where are they now?
AUDREY FRIGON ‘20 Managing Editor
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he Seattle Prep Alumni Service Corps is entering its second year of existence. After the great success of last year’s group, it looks like the ASC will be a Prep tradition that will continue for many years to come. Seattle Prep students will be seeing a new set of faces around the school, taking on the roles of those who have moved on from Seattle Prep for the second time, but some may wonder what the members of service corps past are doing now. Recalling her time leading up to the Alumni Service Corps, Hannah O’Brien ‘13 didn’t know what to expect. “We were the first cohort, so we didn’t really get to see what the program would be like before it started” she said. She expected to form a community in Seattle Prep but didn’t know how the year would go. Similarly, Kathryn Barth ’13, did not have any distinct expectations for the program. She, however, was prepared for a lot of self-reflection and community building as is fundamental to a Jesuit community. O’Brien was happily surprised with not only the community she became a part of, but by how much she learned about herself. She said of her newfound self-
awareness that “It taught me that I need to incorporate intentional time in my week to seek out community in whatever form that is taking in my life.” She said the program teaches you a ton about communication and valuing others. O’Brien is very grateful for her unique experience and the lessons she has received from it: “I am a more reflective person for having gone through the ASC program and strive to seek the magis in all areas of my life”. O’Brien is currently teaching biology at Archbishop Murphy High School in Everett and hopes to complete a master’s education in the years coming. After her time at Prep Emily Aleinikoff ‘13 moved to San Juan Island over the summer to continue living out the Jesuit message. She is currently coaching girls cross country at Prep and will lead the crew for the Freshman Retreat. Aleinikoff has hopes to work on international health and to do so is traveling internationally this winter and is applying for nursing classes. Since leaving Seattle, Kathryn Barth has been attending a graduate program Yale University. She aims to get a PhD in Biochemistry and gain additional lab and teaching experience. She is testing out different labs to see where she may want to work in the future.
17 Questions with Dr. Barrymore Rossellini Photo: Abby Arthur Dr. Barrymore Rossellini '05 (left) meets with students during a recent freshmen group lunch. Rossellini returned to Prep as a guidance counselor this year after working in his own private practice.
GABRIELLA JEAKLE '19 Editor-in-Chief Where are you from? Born and raised in Seattle Washington Any siblings? I have a twin brother (fraternal), one older sister and one younger sister, all of whom went through Prep.
When did you graduate Prep? 2005 What activities did you participate in at Prep? Tennis and Football Favorite quote? The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. – Carl Rogers
Kathryn Barth ‘13 coaches Seattle Prep Crew members during her year as an Alumni Service Corps Member. Barth is currently studying at Yale University, but is thankful for her year serving as a member of the ASC. Alec Meden ‘13 is currently working at Seattle Nativity School. He teaches art, PE, and helps in other aspects around the school. His ultimate goal is to become a writer and is working on screenplays with colleagues and a book in his free time.
These four incredible people had a life-changing experience at Prep and are well on their way to their goals. They will always be a part of the Seattle Prep community and the Seattle Prep community is so excited to see where life takes them.
First job? Working at a carwash Where did you attend college? USC And after college? Took a year off after college and then traveled to Nepal and stayed in a monastery in the Himalayas for about a month meditating and exploring the mountains. Studied at University of Denver for my doctorate in Clinical Psychology. What brought you back to Seattle? Came back to Seattle and worked at UW Athletic Department counseling student athletes, and then at an eating disorder clinic at Seattle, before accepting this job! What are some of your favorite things? I love nature, space (like stars, planets, string theory), superhero movies, sports, reading, old school R and B, and having meaningful conversations Why did you want to come back to Prep? The number one reason I came back is because I wanted to work with Prep high school students. What do you think makes Prep so unique? The Prep experience for a student is unique in that you have a competitive academic environment, a great community, and the chance to learn and grow in so many ways including spiritually. I love that I now have a chance to be a part of this journey, hear your stories and help in whatever way I can.
What’s your favorite part of the Prep community? Talking to students, connecting with other faculty/staff, going to games/ matches, helping out with retreats, even hearing the morning announcements makes me feel part of something awesome. What are you looking forward to most about being back at Prep? Really looking forward to being part of the Prep community, getting to know all of you students, and being involved in the retreats and events each year. And Olympic Week. What change have you noticed in students since you attended Prep (attitudes, priorities, stressors)? More social media, which seems like a priority and a stressor. More stress – especially about balancing school/social/spiritual life. Also seems like there is more worry about getting into college (you all will get into college!) More creative More openness to seeking help and talking about feelings which is awesome Any advice for us students? Have fun, don’t sweat the small stuff, be genuine, find out what you love to do and go for it, be open to new experiences and new people, learn how to acknowledge and accept uncomfortable emotions instead of run from them, and live in the moment. What is one piece of advice you’d give to your high school self? Be more yourself and stop focusing on what you think other people think of you.
36th annual Alumni Basketball Tournament March 22-23, 2019 Thomas C. McHugh Gymnasium
Mark your calendar now, then tell your Prep friends and classmates! We welcome mens and womens teams, plus family and friends on the sidelines. Food and beverages will be provided in the PACCAR Commons. Start recruiting your team now. It’s going to be fun! Contact: kkrueger@seaprep.org for details