Four years ago, the New Trier boys lacrosse program saw one if its best players, Ben Connelly, graduate and head east to play at Tufts University. That following season, a
new No. 32 (Connelly’s New Trier jersey number) arrived on campus — freshman Henry Scherb. Fast forward four years and Scherb will once again be following in Connelly’s footsteps, as he goes to Massachusetts to play for the Jumbos starting in the fall.
A year after taking a backseat to Katherine Gjertsen in their senior year at New Trier, Isabelle Sennett was looking to go out and make a name for herself during her freshman
year on Amherst College’s women’s lacrosse team.
And make a name for herself she did.
Ask most people what makes being a member of the Loyola Academy community a great one and the majority will have a similar answer: family.
Whether it be with returning alumni, family, friends or the athletes following the school’s motto of being “Men and Women for Others,” there’s something that stands out about the school.
That was none more evident this spring when the Loyola girls lacrosse team embraced the presence of Ryan O’Connor, 3-year-old son of Loyola alumna, and a lacrosse All-American, Elizabeth O’Connor and her husband Ben.
The recent Loyola graduate could have stayed in the Midwest and gone to Marquette, joining a handful of other North Shore players, or Colorado, the two other schools that
really recruited her, but she chose to go down a different path.
Brynn Holohan wanted to a new experience when it came to choosing where she’d play college lacrosse.
Michael Wojtychiw 