Benet Basketball Summer Updates

Benet has hosted three separate basketball camps in the last two weeks, and I assisted at all of the camps.  Two of the camps involved incoming freshman who hope to make the team, while the other hosted 1st-4th grade students who could be in the Benet class of 2024.  Questions: Will Coach Heidkamp coach these kids, and how many championships will he have won by then?  Answers:  I hope so, and, on average (3 every 4 years) 8-9 more conference championships.

Best Year Ever for Benet Athletics?

The question had to be asked after Benet won conference championships in baseball, boys’ basketball, boys’ and girls’ cross country, football, boys’ soccer, girls’ tennis, boys’ and girls’ track, and boys’ volleyball.  The hockey team won the Kennedy Cup, the football team advanced to the state Class 7A Semifinals, the boys’ basketball team advanced to the 4A Sectional, the boys’ soccer team reached the 3A Sectional Semifinals, and the girls’ volleyball team, which finished third in the East Suburban Catholic Conference, won the 4A State Championship.  Benet also produced 53 All-Conference athletes, 9 ESCC Coach of the Year awards, 14 ESCC Player of the Year awards, and 5 Naperville Sun All-Area football players.  Pat McInerney was named Naperville Sun Area Basketball Player of the Year, and Sean O’Mara was an Honorable Mention for the All-State Basketball Team.  Approximately 40 Benet graduates will play athletics at the collegiate level.

Six football players will play in college.  Junior QB Jack Beneventi still has to wait two more years until he steps on to a Division I field, though.

The football and volleyball seasons will be particularly hard acts to follow, but we all forward to the start of next season.  Go Redwings!