Alumni Spotlight – Brendan Reidy ’17
The Crusader community is like a family: close-knit, influential, and united by a love for Brother Rice High School. Family members move away, explore greater opportunities, and create their own paths, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t catch up once in a while! “Alumni Spotlight” will highlight some of [...]
Brother Rice Makes Room for eSports
Last fall, as current Brother Rice High School senior Mateo Zarate navigated his way through a school year marred by a pandemic, he noticed an announcement for a new club on a hallway bulletin board. “I was hanging out with friends, saw the flyer, and thought it’d be cool [...]
President’s Update – 9.7.21
Dear Members of the Crusader Family, Greetings from Brother Rice High School! On behalf of all of us, we hope the summer was enjoyable and safe for your family. I am pleased to say we are off to a great start at Brother Rice. We have 100% of our [...]
Brother Rice Launches Crusaders Care Fund
Brother Rice is excited to launch the Crusaders Care Fund. Brother Rice High School is committed to making a high-quality Catholic education affordable to students by allocating funds for need-based financial assistance. With that said, this year, we are introducing the Crusaders Care Fund. This fund will provide need-based [...]
Brother Rice High School Receives National Recognition for Engineering Program
Brother Rice named a distinguished school for STEM and career learning program Chicago, IL – Brother Rice High School announced on July 22, 2021, that it has been recognized as a 2020-21 Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Distinguished School. Brother Rice is one of just 204 high schools across [...]
2020-21 Honor Roll (Semester Two)
Congratulations to the following students for making the Semester 2 Honor Roll! ALVAREZ, CARLO S Superior CARDINAL JOSEPH BERNARDIN ARUNDEL, MICHAEL F Superior ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA BAHENA, DIEGO Superior ST MARY STAR OF THE SEA BOWEN, GAVIN JOSEPH Superior ST DANIEL THE PROPHET BROWN, KEVIN M Superior MOST [...]
Brother Rice Hires Casey Quedenfeld as the 2022 Head Football Coach
Brother Rice High School is proud to announce the hiring of Casey Quedenfeld as the 2022 Head Football Coach. Quedenfeld has served in two of the nation’s top high school football programs, most recently as the Defensive Coordinator and Recruiting Coordinator at Episcopal High School in Bellaire, Texas, where [...]
Exciting Changes this Summer as Brother Rice High School “Heeds the Call” for the Future
As it closes the Chromebook on one of the most unique and memorable school years in its history, Brother Rice High School in Chicago looks forward to a summer full of improvements. As Chicagoans know, with summer comes construction season, and, this year, the corner of 99th and Pulaski [...]
New FOCUS for Brother Rice High School
Brother Rice High School is proud to announce Mrs. Amy Guzek as the new Director of the FOCUS program. Guzek will take over the reins from longtime FOCUS Director, Mrs. Christina Forbes, who is retiring this spring after 38 years of service. “Words cannot express the impact that Ms. [...]
New Brother Rice Head Swimming Coach Mike Murphy ‘89 Dives In
Competitive swimmers know a boatload of techniques to keep their race-times down, and they apply many of these before they even hit the water. A clean, high-velocity entry into the pool off the block is one important aspect. On the initial dive, swimmers attempt to propel themselves the optimal [...]
The Standard: Seniors Today, Alumni Tomorrow
By Matthew Quattrocchi ‘21 I’ve always been told four years of high school would go by in the blink of an eye, but I never fully realized the truth in that until now. It felt like yesterday I pulled a maroon and orange shirt out of a bag to [...]
The Standard: My Senior Article
By Anthony Lundy ‘21 Looking back on my time here at Brother Rice, I have been waiting my whole high school career to become a senior. Watching them as a freshman, seeing them being leaders of the school was so cool to me. Four years later, I am sitting [...]
The Standard: The Last Dance
By Quinn Clifford ‘21 In “The Office” finale, Andy Bernard said, “I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.” These past four years at Brother Rice have been undoubtedly the best four years of my life. It [...]
The Standard: My Senior Year
By Dan Zapata ‘21 Going into this year, I didn’t know what to expect, but it was already clear that the senior year I had envisioned when I was a freshman wouldn’t be happening. Yes, I knew we were still in a pandemic. However, I thought the damage had [...]
The Standard: Senior Year Reflection
By Jack Kelly ‘21 I write my final article for this class with mixed emotions. I say this not to sound special; I would almost guarantee that every senior journalism student feels the same way. But “mixed emotions” perfectly sums up how I feel right now. When I first [...]
The Standard: My Senior Year
By Garrett Greene ‘21 As an eighth grader, I was very skeptical about where I wanted to go to high school. I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to go to Marist, Brother Rice, or St. Laurence for the next four years. I ultimately decided to go to Brother Rice [...]
Coach Badke Announces Final Season
Coach Brian Badke recently announced that the Fall 2021 season will be his tenth and final as the Head Coach of the Brother Rice football program. In the past three years, Chicago Catholic Blue Division Brother Rice has been a high school football powerhouse, finishing as state Finalist and [...]
The Standard: All Rise for the Class of 2021
By Kevin O’Connell ‘21 Three hundred sixty-five days ago, I wasn’t sure if I would be having a senior year. COVID-19 had ended junior year abruptly, and the future was uncertain. It was a complicated summer, but thankfully, Brother Rice reopened for my senior year--and what a year it’s [...]
My Senior Year: A Tale Unlike Anything Before
By Devlin Harris ‘21 As 8th grade Devlin walked through the North Gym doors for an Open House, he never could have imagined what would transpire in the coming years. I did not want to go to Brother Rice. I went to a summer camp at Brother Rice when [...]
The Standard: Senior Year Wrap-Up
By Sean Deane ‘21 As senior year comes to an end, I cannot help but think about how different it would have been without COVID-19, but not in a bad way. The pandemic forced me out of my comfort zone. I had been hanging out with the same group [...]
Brother Rice Boasts an Exceptional 36 Illinois State Scholars for 2021
Brother Rice High School is pleased to announce that 36 Brother Rice students from the graduating Class of 2021 have been recognized as Illinois State Scholars. On average, approximately 10% of graduates from approved high schools are announced as Illinois State Scholars each year. This year, Brother Rice boasts [...]
The Standard: Turning The Page
By Danny Wallace ‘21 The dreaded reality I have been fearing for years has finally arrived. Two weeks from now, I will have officially graduated from Brother Rice, my second home for the past four years. And I can confidently say that I loved every single second of it. [...]
The Standard: Four Years of a Lifetime
By Matt Murphy ‘21 Without a doubt, it is easy to say that I have had the four best years of my life so far. From walking through the door as a freshman to making my final exit in a Brother Rice uniform, the memories I endured will forever [...]
The Standard: My Senior Year – Baseball Glory Days
By Nick Cipriani ‘21 Some of my fondest memories from high school have been on the baseball field. Although there have been many ups and downs in my high school baseball career, I would not trade this time for anything. My freshman and sophomore seasons were great. We won [...]
