Loyola Catholic School
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Loyola Catholic School is located in Mankato
, Minnesota
. Located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona
, the school has two campuses, the Fitzgerald Campus, housing grades four through eight, and the Good Council Campus, which houses grades K-3 and 9-12. The school is also known as MACS, because of its former name, and also by LCS, which is the new official acronym from the new name. Each class averages about 50 people per class. The current principals are Sister Mary Beth Schraml, SSND, who is the elementary principal, Mr. William Schumacher, the intermediate principal, and Mrs. Bette Blaisdell, who is the high school principal and the President of Loyola Catholic School.
and Spanish
are offered). There are five Advanced Placement (AP) classes offered at LCS. They are AP Calculus, AP Biology, AP Spanish, AP Government, and AP English. All of the AP courses offer students the chance to gain college credit. The high school also is a member of the Minnesota State High School League
(MSHSL).
) and the State Champions of the Division A Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet
. For more information on the MACS activities, sponsored by the MSHSL, visit the website below. Also, the school produces one three act play in the fall, usually a musical. 2010's production was "A Tale of Cinderella" staring Riley Buley as the prince, Sarah Weber as Cinderella, Matthew Fink as Cinderella's Father, and Christine Ohenewah as the evil stepmother. 2009's production was Grease
. It was performed at the Fitzgerald Campus little theater. Past performances include "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
", "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
," "Fiddler on the Roof
", and other famous plays and musicals.
Athletics at Loyola are always competitive. Track and Field consistently sends athletes to the state meet year annually. Their last appearance was in 2008 in the mile and two mile. In the mile the Loyola runners were seeded 1-2. Currently three Loyola Alumni are on active Division I NCAA Track and Cross Country rosters. Football's last appearance at state was in the first round of the 2007 season while boy's basketball last season was the 2003-2004 season. In the 2002-2003 season the boy's basketball team set a state record for the best record all time at 32-0; two players from that team played college ball. Bret Brielmaier played for the University of Arizona and Tyler Westman played for South Dakota followed by Saint John's University (Collegeville, MN). The girl's softball team's more recent appearance at the state meet was a third place finish in 2006
The girls softball team continues to be the outstanding sport at Loyola. Having made many state appearances, the most recent was a third place finish in 2006. The last state tournament appearance for football was 2007 and for basketball was the 2003-2004 season. The basketball team won the state tournament with a record of 32-0.
The school has produced one professional athlete. Ben Brielmaier
was signed by the Cleveland Browns
as an undrafted free agent, and played in several leagues including NFL-Europa with the Frankfurt Galaxy
, the CFL
, and the UFL
.
Athletics include:
Boys Fall:
Football
Soccer (co-op with Lake Crystal High School)
Cross-Country
Girls Fall:
Volleyball
Soccer (co-op with Lake Crystal High School)
Cross-Country
Swimming/Diving (co-op with East High School)
Tennis (co-op with East High School)
Boys Winter:
Basketball
Hockey (co-op with East High School)
Swimming/Diving (co-op with East High School)
Skiing (co-op with East and West High Schools)
Wrestling (co-op with St. Clair High School)
Girls Winter:
Basketball
Dance Team
Hockey (co-op with East High School)
Skiing (co-op with East and West High Schools)
Gymnastics (co-op with West High School)
Boys Spring:
Baseball
Track and Field
Tennis (co-op with East High School)
Girls Spring:
Softball
Track and Field
The original Loyola High School was located next to Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Mankato, which had been founded by Jesuits. The school was named for Saint Ignatius of Loyola
. The Fitzgerald Middle school currently is located near the Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The Good Counsel Academy was located on Good Counsel Hill
, the location for the School Sisters of Notre Dame
mother house for the province of Mankato. The Academy closed in 1980. The Loyola High school moved to the Good Counsel Hill location.
Mankato, Minnesota
Mankato is a city in Blue Earth, Nicollet, and Le Sueur counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 39,309 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth largest city in Minnesota outside of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The county seat of Blue Earth County, it is located...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. Located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona
Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona
The Diocese of Winona is the Roman Catholic diocese which ministers to the people of southern Minnesota. The diocese includes Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Jackson, Martin, Mower, Murray, Nobles, Olmsted, Pipestone, Rock, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonowan,...
, the school has two campuses, the Fitzgerald Campus, housing grades four through eight, and the Good Council Campus, which houses grades K-3 and 9-12. The school is also known as MACS, because of its former name, and also by LCS, which is the new official acronym from the new name. Each class averages about 50 people per class. The current principals are Sister Mary Beth Schraml, SSND, who is the elementary principal, Mr. William Schumacher, the intermediate principal, and Mrs. Bette Blaisdell, who is the high school principal and the President of Loyola Catholic School.
Good Counsel Campus
The Good Counsel Campus is located on Good Counsel Hill in Mankato, MN. The hill is located on the eastern side of Mankato, and the water tower on the Hill can be seen from most parts of town. The elementary part of the school is located in a wing of the building, while the high school occupies the rest of the building. One section in the back is rented out by Coughlan Companies, a publishing company in Mankato. There are about fifty students in each class. The curriculum of the school includes four years required of religion and English and three years of math, social studies, and science. The curriculum also requires two years of foreign language (FrenchFrench language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
are offered). There are five Advanced Placement (AP) classes offered at LCS. They are AP Calculus, AP Biology, AP Spanish, AP Government, and AP English. All of the AP courses offer students the chance to gain college credit. The high school also is a member of the Minnesota State High School League
Minnesota State High School League
The Minnesota State High School League is a voluntary, non-profit association for the support and governance of interscholastic activities at high schools in Minnesota, United States. The association supports interscholastic athletics and fine arts programs for member schools...
(MSHSL).
Activities
The school has placed high in many Knowledge Bowl events, including a visit to the 2008 State Meet and a 5th place finish at the 1999 State Meet, and the band has received a Superior rating several times, which is the highest rating for a band in Minnesota. The school has also had much success in the activity of Speech. In the 1980s, the school had many champions in various categories, and in 2011 it had three medalists at the state speech meet: Wes Otto who placed 3rd in the category of Discussion, Stephanie Wolf who placed 2nd in the category of Poetry, and Christine Ohenewah who placed first in the category of Drama, making her the school's most recent two-time state speech champion.(for more information, visit Minnesota High School SpeechMinnesota High School Speech
Minnesota High School Speech refers to the competitive forensics system in the state of Minnesota. These activities are currently coordinated and organized by the Minnesota State High School League, otherwise known as the MSHSL....
) and the State Champions of the Division A Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet
Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet
The Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet is an annual, two-day event sponsored by the Minnesota Service Cooperatives, which is Minnesota's governing body of Knowledge Bowl...
. For more information on the MACS activities, sponsored by the MSHSL, visit the website below. Also, the school produces one three act play in the fall, usually a musical. 2010's production was "A Tale of Cinderella" staring Riley Buley as the prince, Sarah Weber as Cinderella, Matthew Fink as Cinderella's Father, and Christine Ohenewah as the evil stepmother. 2009's production was Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
. It was performed at the Fitzgerald Campus little theater. Past performances include "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts...
", "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
," "Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
", and other famous plays and musicals.
Athletics at Loyola are always competitive. Track and Field consistently sends athletes to the state meet year annually. Their last appearance was in 2008 in the mile and two mile. In the mile the Loyola runners were seeded 1-2. Currently three Loyola Alumni are on active Division I NCAA Track and Cross Country rosters. Football's last appearance at state was in the first round of the 2007 season while boy's basketball last season was the 2003-2004 season. In the 2002-2003 season the boy's basketball team set a state record for the best record all time at 32-0; two players from that team played college ball. Bret Brielmaier played for the University of Arizona and Tyler Westman played for South Dakota followed by Saint John's University (Collegeville, MN). The girl's softball team's more recent appearance at the state meet was a third place finish in 2006
The girls softball team continues to be the outstanding sport at Loyola. Having made many state appearances, the most recent was a third place finish in 2006. The last state tournament appearance for football was 2007 and for basketball was the 2003-2004 season. The basketball team won the state tournament with a record of 32-0.
The school has produced one professional athlete. Ben Brielmaier
Ben Brielmaier
Ben Brielmaier is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2006...
was signed by the Cleveland Browns
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
as an undrafted free agent, and played in several leagues including NFL-Europa with the Frankfurt Galaxy
Frankfurt Galaxy
The Frankfurt Galaxy was a professional American football team that originally played in the World League of American Football and later in the resurrected NFL Europe. The team was based in Frankfurt, Germany and played in the Commerzbank-Arena, formerly called the Waldstadion.-History:In 1991, the...
, the CFL
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
, and the UFL
UFL
UFL or UFl may refer to:Chemistry:* Upper flammable limit, the flammability limit describing the richest flammable mixture of a combustible gasColleges and universities:...
.
Athletics include:
Boys Fall:
Football
Soccer (co-op with Lake Crystal High School)
Cross-Country
Girls Fall:
Volleyball
Soccer (co-op with Lake Crystal High School)
Cross-Country
Swimming/Diving (co-op with East High School)
Tennis (co-op with East High School)
Boys Winter:
Basketball
Hockey (co-op with East High School)
Swimming/Diving (co-op with East High School)
Skiing (co-op with East and West High Schools)
Wrestling (co-op with St. Clair High School)
Girls Winter:
Basketball
Dance Team
Hockey (co-op with East High School)
Skiing (co-op with East and West High Schools)
Gymnastics (co-op with West High School)
Boys Spring:
Baseball
Track and Field
Tennis (co-op with East High School)
Girls Spring:
Softball
Track and Field
Name
Before the 2005-2006 school year, the school board changed the name from Mankato Area Catholic Schools, which was a district controlling Loyola High School, Fitzgerald Middle School, Holy Rosary Intermediate School, and Notre Dame Elementary, to Mankato Area Catholic School, which combined all of these into one school. In December, 2005, the board changed the name of the school again to Loyola Catholic School because they wanted to have Catholic in the name of every school. The high school is most commonly called Loyola.The original Loyola High School was located next to Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Mankato, which had been founded by Jesuits. The school was named for Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and was its first Superior General. Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation...
. The Fitzgerald Middle school currently is located near the Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The Good Counsel Academy was located on Good Counsel Hill
Good Counsel Hill
Good Counsel Hill is a notable location in Mankato, Minnesota. This hill is located off US Highway 14 and is home to Loyola Catholic School, Capstone Press, and a motherhouse for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who arrived in Mankato in 1865. It's easy to find because of its location just off...
, the location for the School Sisters of Notre Dame
School Sisters of Notre Dame
School Sisters of Notre Dame is a worldwide order of Roman Catholic nuns devoted to primary, secondary, and post-secondary education. Their life in mission centers on prayer, community life and ministry...
mother house for the province of Mankato. The Academy closed in 1980. The Loyola High school moved to the Good Counsel Hill location.