Mascot Rory the Lion
joins the Sacred Heart
Lions as the team prays
before a basketball game.
Coach Fr. Ryan Ford leads
the prayer as he does
before each game.
Grant Eternal Rest
to These Sacred
Heart Alumni
Kenneth Reigner
SHHS 1967
R.I.P August 8, 2015
Joseph Oullette
SHHS 1964, SHS 1968
R.I.P. September 21, 2015
Alexander Morrison
SHHS 1964, SHS 1968
R.I.P. October 10, 2015
Fr. Loren O’Dea
SHHS 1946, SHS 1950
R.I.P. October 14, 2015
Seven Wins and Lessons for Life
Fr. Ryan Ford, first-time coach, led the
eighteen men of the 2015-16 Sacred Heart
Lions basketball team to a more-than-commendable 7-6 record. The record includes
competitive runs at the tournaments at Mundelein Seminary in January and the Pontifical College Josephinum in February.
Msgr. Todd Lajiness asked Father Ford, Sacred Heart alumnus (2011) and priest of the
Diocese of Marquette, if he would coach the
team after former coach Fr. Charles Fox was
assigned to Rome last summer to study for a
doctorate in theology. Father Ford had just
returned to Sacred Heart to earn his Licentiate in Sacred Theology and serve as a seminarian spiritual director. “I was happy to do
it,” Father says of the short-notice invitation.
Father Ford credits the Lions’ winning
record to the seminarians’ “teamwork and
hard work.”
“Basketball is great for learning how to be
unified as a team,” Father believes, while the
virtue of teamwork learned on the hardwood
translates into the virtues required of priestly
ministry. “In the heat of battle, the men gain
something even in failure. There’s always
another ‘game’ down the road; another spiritual battle to wage.”
Bardeleon “Bardy” Jaddou says one of
the great blessings of playing on the basketball team is the “fraternity with my brother
36
seminarians.” Basketball, says the third-year
theologian from the Chaldean Eparchy of
St. Thomas, provides a great opportunity for
team-building.
“Basketball is by no means incidental to
our seminary formation,” Jared Holzhuter
maintains (Theology III, Madison). “Few
things push a man to be his best—or discover
his own weaknesses—than striving together
with your brothers.”
Cory Baumgartner, a second-year collegian
from the Diocese of Madison, respects Father Ford’s emphasis on collaboration. “We
leaned on him and he leaned on us throughout the season. He was always open to suggestions as well as making the calls as coach.”
“We grew as brothers through healthy
competition,” Father Ford says. “We had to
work together—which we did.”
Bishop Joseph Imesch
SHHS 1949, SHS 1953
R.I.P. December 22, 2015
Msgr. Edward Baldwin
SHHS 1947, SHS 1951
R.I.P. January 8, 2016
Fr. John Canavan
SHS 1951
R.I.P. January 19, 2016
Theodore Zerwin
SHS 1959
R.I.P. February 2, 2016
Joseph Janes
SHS 1959
R.I.P. February 10, 2016
Fr. Louis Grandpre
SHHS 1953, SHS 1957
R.I.P February 20, 2016
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Fr. Edward Konopka
SHHS 1938, SHS 1942
R.I.P. February 27, 2016
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Msgr. Russell Kohler
SHS 1967
R.I.P. March 25, 2016
Sacred Heart Major Seminary | Mosaic | Spring 2016