Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Sports Boosters Men's Reverse Raffle

Annual Holy Name Athletic Boosters Men’s Reverse Raffle

When: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Doors Open: 6:00 pm
Dinner: 7:00pm

Where: Brennan's Party Center
13000 Triskett Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44111

The Holy Name Athletic Boosters invites Parents, Alumni and Friends of Holy Name to attend our annual Reverse Raffle. Bring a friend or organize a table for this night out.

The cost is $70.00 per person and includes a Prime Rib Dinner, Open Bar and a Ticket for the $1,500 Main Board Prize. Sideboards will also be sold the night of the event. Checks can be made payable to Holy Name High School.

For ticket information, please contact:

Jim Joyce (216) 548-5905 jjoyce323@hotmail.com
Frank DiMarino (440) 884-9425 demo8844@yahoo.com
Joe Mannion (216) 701-6248 brokenjoe@aol.com
Jack Richardson (440) 886-0300 ext 155 jrichardson@holynamehs.com

Click here to download the flyer.

Monday, February 27, 2012

2012 Summer Grade School Sports Camp Dates

The dates for the 2012 Summer Grade School Sports Camps are as follows:

Girls Basketball Monday, June 11th - Thursday, June 14th
Football Monday, June 11th - Thursday, June 14th
Fine Arts - Monday, June 11th - Thursday, June 14th
Volleyball Monday, June 18th - Friday, June 22nd
Boys Basketball Monday, June 25th - Thursday, June 28th
Soccer (girls & boys) Monday, July 9th - Thursday, July 12th
Cheerleading Monday, July 9th - Thursday, July 12th

Stay tuned for more details....

Sunday, February 26, 2012

WEEKLY WAVE: February 27, 2012

WEEKLY WAVE: February 20, 2012

Monday 02/27:

3:00pm Drivers Education

Tuesday 02/28:

9:00 John Carroll University meeting w/ Students
3:00pm Drivers Education

Wednesday 02/29:

3:00pm Drivers Education
7:30pm Varsity Boys Basketball vs Bay
(at Westlake HS, Sectionals)

Thursday 03/01:

3:00PM Drivers Education

Friday 03/02:

Saturday 03/03:

8:30am CYO Basketball

Sunday 03/04:

1:00pm CYO Basketball
3:00pm Winter Concert

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Dennis Markiewicz '71 is "Coach of the Year Award"

Dennis Markiewicz '71 receives G.C.B.C.A.
"Coach of the Year Award"

Coach Markiewicz, Greater Cleveland Baseball Coaches Association 2011 Coach of the Year Award

Congratulations to Head Baseball coach Dennis Markiewicz, Holy Name HS for being awarded Greater Cleveland Baseball Coaches Association “Coach of the Year G.C.B.C.A.” Holy Name went down to the Final Four in the State Championship last year.

Holy Name’s record was 19-4 overall, and 8 and 2, 1st Place in the North Coast White Division. Coach Markiewicz overall record is 220-161 in 16 years of coaching.

Markiewicz’s Titles:

7 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS
5 SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
5 SEMI-FINALS DISTRICTS
3 DISTRICT RUNNER UPS
1 DISTRICT CHAMPS
1 REGIONAL CHAMPS
1ST FINAL FOUR

Coach Markiewicz retired from Garfield Heights High School Baseball in 2010, and went back to his Alma Mater, Holy Name High School, where he graduated in 1971.

“I want to thank, my fellow colleagues, and my coaching staff, and especially the talented team we had last year.”

“I also, want to thank Mr. Farmer, Principal, and Mr. Richardson, the Athletic Director of Holy Name High School, for hiring me and giving me the chance to guide these young men.”

Holy Name Winter Sports Updates

HN Basketball
Boys
Friday, February 24th last home game vs Villa Angela St. Joseph (senior night)

Sectionals
Wednesday, February 29th at 7:30 p.m. vs Bay Village at Westlake High School

Girls
Sectionals
Wednesday, February 22nd vs MLK High School at Elyria High School (new building)

HN Wrestling
Division II sectionals were held last weekend. Holy Name ended up 8th overall.
Five young men will be going to districts in Marion, Ohio this weekend Friday February 24th and 25th. At the Division II sectionals, Jim Klosz placed first in the 145 weight class, Nick Foster placed fourth at 120, Alex Verhiley placed fourth at 132, Frank Shaffer placed fourth at 138, and Alex Veltre placed fourth at 182.

HN Hockey
After beating Brooklyn High School 9-0 last week the varsity hockey team moved on in the State Tournament and played Brecksville High School this past Saturday. Unfortunatly, lost by one goal 6 to 5. Congratulations on a fine season. The team ends up16 wins 15 losses and 1 tie..

HN Bowling
The 2011-2012 bowling season ended with a 8 - 3 match play record. The team placed 10th out of 24 teams in the sectionals. James Gravley shot a 299 and will be advancing to the district finals on Saturday, February 25th in Kent, Ohio.

Outstanding Music Success

Jazz, Choir & Symphonic Music Tour and The Winter Concert

Holy Name Saxophone Ensemble (Matthew Brown, Laura Bednar, Don Le, Ethan Yates, Shawn Zubek)

On January 28 over 700 students from area high schools participated in the Ohio Music Educators Solo and Ensemble event. In this event, student performances are rated by music educators with expertise in their area of adjudication. There were thirty Holy Name students who participated and fifteen received the highest rating possible. Most of the remaining students received the second highest ratings and are looking forward to next year where they hope to improve their performance and revive the highest rating. Selected student performers who received the highest rating possible will perform as part of the music department's Winter Concert on March 4 at 3:00pm in the Manning Auditorium. The concert is FREE.

Congratulations to the following students who received the highest rating possible at this years Solo and Ensemble event:

Alyssa Bean, Gregory Boldin, Christina Churavy, Maria Churavy, Rebecca Ciarrone, Nate Hahn, Sean King, Grace Loehmann, Vira Pavlish, Therese Thomason.

Monday, February 20, 2012

WEEKLY WAVE: February 20, 2012

Monday 02/20:

Presidents Day: No Classes

Tuesday 02/21:

3:00pm Drivers Education

Wednesday 02/22:

Ash Wednesday

10:30am School Mass

3:00pm Drivers Education

7:30pm Varsity Girls Basketball at MLK Jr High School

Thursday 02/23:

WOMEN’S REVERSE RAFFLE

3:00PM Drivers Education

Friday 02/24:

LACROSSE FUNDRAISER

3:00pm Drivers Education

6:00pm JV Boys Basketball vs Villa-Angelo St.Josephs HS

7:30pm Varsity Boys Basketball vs Villa-Angelo St.Josephs HS (Senior Night)

Saturday 02/25:

8:30am CYO Basketball

12:00pm Bowling James Gravely-Twinstar Lanes Kent

Sunday 02/26:

1:00pm CYO Basketball

2:00pm Youth Baseball – McDonell

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Eight HN Seniors sign letters of intent:

HOLY NAME HIGH SCHOOL EIGHT ATHLETES SIGN:

Football, Soccer, Wrestling and Cycling

(PARMA HEIGHTS, OH) – Holy Name High School is proud of our 2012 Senior Athletes who have signed with top colleges and universities. Once again Holy Name students demonstrate an impressive accomplishment not only athletically, but also with academics, character and faith.

Dan Cunningham - Football

Lake Erie College

Independence

St. Francis Parish

Dan Dreher - Football

Princeton University (Division I)

Westlake

St. Bernadette Parish

Joe Duff - Football

Hillsdale College

Fairview Park

St. Bridget of Kildare Parish

Jim Klosz - Wrestling

Eastern Michigan

Parma

St. Bridget of Kildare Parish

Taylor Krusinski - Basketball

Mercyhurst University

Parma

St. Charles Borromeo Parish

Nicole Miranda - Soccer/Cycling

Brevard College, NC

Valley City

Emmanuel UCC

Erin O’Toole - Soccer

Cleveland State

Parma Heights

St. John Bosco Parish

Haliegh Shingary - Soccer

Cleveland State

Brunswick

St. Columbkille

WEEKLY WAVE: February 13, 2012

Monday 02/13:

Hockey State Tourney: TBA

Tuesday 02/14:

4:30pm FR Boys Basketball at Midpark HS

6:00pm JV Boys Basketball at Midpark HS

7:30pm Varsity Boys Basketball at Midpark HS

Wednesday 02/15:

1:00pm Early Dismissal

Thursday 02/16:

Friday 02/17:

6:00pm Wrestling Sectionals at Medina HS

6:00pm JV Boys Basketball @ Cleveland Central Catholic HS

7:30pm Varsity Boys Basketball @ Cleveland Central Catholic HS

Saturday 02/18:

TBA Track at Akron Rubber City Open

8:30am CYO Basketball

10:00am Wrestling Sectionals at Medina HS

Sunday 02/19:

1:00pm CYO Cheerleading

Friday, February 10, 2012

Girls basketball: Holy Name clinches NCL White Division crown

Bob Fortuna, Plain Dealer Reporter, February 10, 2012 9:25 a.m.

Holy Name (13-6, 9-0 North Coast League) clinched the NCL White Division crown despite losing sophomore Kim Cook early in the season to a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

"Shannon Day and Rachel Kucharczyk are scoring 6.5 points a game and have picked up the scoring in place of Cook," Holy Name coach Kim Jones said. "Erica Davis has picked up the rebounding with 5.6 boards a game.

"Rachel's a sophomore and Erica's a freshman and that will only help us next year after Day and Taylor Krusinski graduate."

Krusinski, a Mercyhurst recruit, is averaging 19.2 points and six rebounds per game and they'll need her to step up even more if the third-seeded Green Wave is to survive the Division II sectional/district tournament at Elyria, where Keystone and Rocky River are the top two seeds.

"Our division in the NCL is pretty competitive," Jones said. "Teams come to play, and play hard every night."

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Big Creek Parkway Run

The Holy Name Big Creek Parkway Run

Sunday, May 6, 2012.

When:

Sun, May 6, 2012
Race Day Reg. - 7:30AM
5K Run- 8:30AM
1-Mile Run/Walk - 8:45AM

Where:

Holy Name High School
6000 Queens Highway
Parma Hts, OH 44130

Entry Fees:

Prereg. - $20
Race Day Reg. - $25
Mail-in forms must be received by Wed, May 2nd.

Checks Payable & Mail to:

Hermes Sports & Events
1624 St. Clair Ave
Cleveland, OH 44114

Info: Call 216-623-9933 or log onto www.hermescleveland.com

Click here to download the entry form

Monday, February 6, 2012

Parma Heights Holy Name High School opens new library media center

Published: Sunday, February 05, 2012, 8:30 AM

By Mark Holan, Sun News

PARMA HEIGHTS -- In an era when students have to compete on a global scale, Holy Name High School has taken a giant step in that direction.

The newly opened Ferrante Library Media Center, named after Tony Ferrante (class of 1948), provides the school’s 651 students with 33 new laptop computers and 10 iPads.

In addition to the computers, the center, built at a cost of $225,000, will have an instructional classroom and a soon-to-be-completed TV production room and control room for in-school broadcasts.

Sister Paul Greggila, the library media specialist, has seen the school’s library evolve from shelves of books to include this latest technology, which puts the world literally at the students’ fingertips.

“The availability of technology — iPads, laptops, Nook e-readers and iMacs — offer students the opportunity to access current information for research as well as topics of interest,” Greggila said.

“The adjacent library media center classroom offers a flexible environment in which tables can be reconfigured for group work, instructional activities on the SMART board or individual projects on laptop computers,” she said.

“This classroom can be used for library media instruction or by teachers needing a more flexible setting than the standard classroom,” she said.

Kim Luthman-Jones, head girls basketball coach and a history teacher at the school, is thrilled with the new “tools” at her disposal as a teacher.

“We live in a technological world,” Luthman-Jones said. “Kids would much rather read and look up information on an iPad than read it in a book, in my opinion.

“With the iPads, apps have been created specifically for student use. Many apps are even free, and if they aren’t free, they are still a lot cheaper than buying a book.

“This is particularly true for (advance-placement) world history, which I teach. If students don’t have an iPad or purchased study materials, they are accessible here in the media center.”

The funds to build the center were donated by alumni in a capital campaign that raised approximately $260,000.

Holy Name High School will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2014, and this is certainly a way to prepare for its future as a college preparatory school.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Sports Boosters Need Volunteers, please help!

Hosting CYO BBall is a major revenue generator for the HN Athletic Boosters. As a result of alot of peoples hard work, HN has been awarded additional CYO BBall playoffs games this season. Staffing for the concession stand for the regular season has gone very well and thanks to DeeDee Koenig for her help on that but we seem to be a bit short on volunteers for the CYO BBall playoff games.

We are looking for volunteers to staff the concession stand (in the new gym) on the following days:

Saturday, 2/4 - 12PM to 4PM. This is the last of the regular season weekends.

Sunday, 2/12, 4 games: Concession staff and gate workers (gate workers - usually 1 or 2 at a time, may also be taking money for CYO tee shirts)

Saturday, 2/18, 8 games, begins at 09:00: Concession staff and gate workers

Sunday, 2/25, 6 games, begins at 10:00: Concession staff and gate workers

Saturday, 2/26, 4 games: Concession staff and gate workers

Saturday, 3/3, 6 games, begins at 10:00: Concession staff and gate workers

Please contact DeeDee Koenig at ddkoenig@zoominternet.net if you can help.

Thanks.

Mike Zawalski '76

President - Holy Name Athletic Boosters

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Alumni Basketball Tournament March 9-11

The 2012 Holy Name Alumni Basketball Tournament will be held over the weekend of March 9-11, 2012.

Teams must have at least 4 players (all alumni) & will play at least 2 games. Alumni can sign up as a team or as individuals. Open to female and male alums of all ages.

<Click here> to download the registration form.

Sponsorship opportunities again available

Contact: Bill Hartman 440-886-0300 x 123

or email bhartman@holynamehs.com

WEEKLY WAVE: February 6, 2012

Monday 02/04:

Hockey Baron Cup Tourney: TBA

4:30pm FR Girls Basketball vs Padua Franciscan

6:00pm FR Boys Basketball vs Padua Franciscan

Tuesday 02/04:

Hockey Baron Cup Tourney: TBA

6:00pm JV Boys Basketball vs Bay HS

7:30pm Varsity Boys Basketball vs Bay HS

Wednesday 02/06:

Hockey Baron Cup Tourney: TBA

Thursday 02/07:

Hockey Baron Cup Tourney: TBA

3:00pm Ski Club

4:30pm FR Girls Basketball vs VASJ

6:00pm FR Boys Basketball vs VASJ

6:00pm Wrestling vs Parma HS

Friday 02/08:

Hockey Baron Cup Tourney: TBA

6:00pm JV Boys Basketball vs Trinity HS

7:30pm Varsity Boys Basketball vs Trinity HS

Saturday 02/09:
Hockey Baron Cup Tourney: TBA

8:00am ACT Testing

8:30am CYO Basketball

6:00pm JV Girls Basketball at Trinity HS

7:30pm Varsity Girls Basketball at Trinity HS

Sunday 02/10:

9:00am Boys Varsity Bowling @ Lorain Sectionals

March for Life

Colleen Corrigan Day '88

Tuesday March 24, 2012

Thirty-nine students from Holy Name High School attended the 39th annual March for Life in Washington D.C. on Monday Jan. 23, 2012. After traveling all night the students attended the 7:30 Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception where thousands of Catholics joined Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan (Archbishop of New York and President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) to pray for the end to abortion and a renewed focus on a culture of life.

After Mass, students joined Catholics from all over the country at the site of the National Pro-Life Rally and listened to speakers and testimonies on the importance of the dignity of the human life and defending those with no voice. Students marched approximately two hours from “the Mall” to the Supreme Court building joining other Catholics as witnesses to life.

Holy Name Junior Caitlyn Welsh said this about the experience “It was amazing to see so many people in Washington willing to do God’s will and defend life. It is so important for all of us young and old to speak for the unborn and promote the fact that all life is worth defending.”