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36 LakeForestLeader.com | June 13, 2019 | The highland park landmark sports SPORTS the Lake Forest Leader | June hplandmark.com 13, 2019 | 29 BoyS VolleyBall Welcome to 22nd Century media’s All-Area team: Team 22. Thanks to help from area coaches and the eyes of 22nd Century Medis staff, the best players were selected from six high schools — Glenbrook North (GBN), Glenbrook South (GBS), Highland Park (HP), Lake Forest (LF), Loyola Academy (LA) and New Trier (NT) — in our coverage area. FirST Team Outside hitter Jack Howard, LA senior • 406 kills, 130 digs; The Penn State signee ended his career with 1,154 kills, ranking 14th all-time in IHSA history. The Chicago Catholic League All-Conference honoree helped Loyola to the sectional final. Outside hitter Jack Shampine, GBS senior • 374 kills, 134 digs; The Central Suburban League Player of the Year was the heart of the Titans, adding 40 aces and 40 total blocks. Outside hitter Peter Brown, NT junior • 305 kills, 130 digs; Brown, who will play for the University of Southern California in two seasons, earned an All-CSL honor and powered the Trevians to third place at state. Middle BlOcker Gavin Elliott, LA senior • 115 kills, 99 blocks; Elliott’s 99 blocks were the most by a Rambler since 2009 and the second-highest total in the last 15 years. Second Team Outside hitters Kevin Lamp, LF senior • 280 kills, 95 digs; Lamp missed 10 games this season to play for the U.S. Junior National Team in Peru, then two more with an ankle injury in the playoffs, which hurt his season numbers. Regardless, the Stanford signee made the All-Conference team and was one of the top volleyball players in the state. Spencer Capps, LF senior • 271 kills, 264 digs; When Lamp was away, Capps stepped up to carry Lake Forest, adding 41 aces and earning All-Conference honors. The senior was the Scouts’ best player during their run to the regional final. Henry Clemons, LA senior • 271 kills, 139 digs; The All- Conference selection was a key contributor to a Ramblers team that reached the sectional final. setter Justin McCartney, LF senior • 978 assists, 68 digs; Coming just short of 1,000 helpers on the season, McCartney made the North Suburban Conference All-Conference team and even had 46 kills and 30 aces for the Scouts. liBerO Aaron Schatz, NT senior • 409 digs, 92 assists; Leading all local players in digs, Schatz earned All-Conference and All- Tournament recognition for the Trevians. Honorable mentions: Ethan Brodell, GBN junior OH; Paul Wyszynski, GBN freshman libero; Alex Brafford, GBN junior MB; Joe Masloski, GBS senior OH; Will Langas, GBS senior OH; Thomas Cavallaro, GBS senior S; Jeff Siegel, HP senior L; Josh Rohn, HP junior OH; Jack Hartline, LF junior L; Connor Pochetti, NT senior OH; Zach Salberg, NT senior S; Colin Heath, NT junior OH Middle BlOcker Brennan Marzella, LF junior • 68.5 blocks, 128 kills; The versatile junior earned an All- Conference Honorable Mention after leading the Scouts in blocks and ranking fourth on the team in kills. setter John Hitt, LA junior • 850 assists, 130 digs; Hitt showed a well-rounded game, as he also accumulated 49 kills and 40 blocks en route to All-Conference honors. liBerO Ryan Merk, LA sophomore • 373 digs, 47 aces; The only sophomore to make either our First or Second team, Merk was named to the All-Conference team after helping Loyola reach the sectional final.
hplandmark.com sports the highland park landmark | June 13, 2019 | 37 Boys Volleyball Player of the Year Howard’s confidence leads to success Michael Wojtychiw Contributing Sports Editor Loyola graduate Jack Howard is 22nd Century Media’s 2019 Boys Volleyball Player of the Year. 22nd Century Media file Photo Loyola has had a number of successful outside hitters in its boys volleyball history. David Wieczorek and Adam Toren are both top 15 all-time in career kills in the state of Illinois. Well they’re joined now by recent Loyola graduate Jack Howard, who had more than 400 kills this season en route to his fourth all-conference honor and finished his career with 1,154 career kills, which places his 14th all-time in Illinois. For his great season, Howard was named 22nd Century Media’s Player of the Year. Joining a list that includes college All-Americans and former Olympians is something Howard isn’t taking lightly. “It’s a great feeling seeing it on there but it’s just indicative that I still have a lot of work to go,” Howard said. “If I’m going to end up as collegiately successful as these players, they were great high school players, but that’s got to translate to the next level.” Howard made the varsity squad as a freshman, but for someone who ended up being successful, it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it was quite the opposite. “I walked on the courts absolutely petrified. I was so scared as a freshman, I basically didn’t talk for the whole first month,” he said. “I actually got the team in trouble a couple of times because I didn’t communicate. So it was over the course of really getting into the gameplay because we have those three weeks at the beginning of the season just with our team practicing all the time. “Once we really started to loosen up and I was pretty solidly on the starting lineup, and I was able to actually connect with them in game time situations, that’s when I started to open up and get over this massive fear.” This past season, Howard helped lead Loyola to the top seed in its sectional, as well as a second consecutive trip to the sectional final, a place the Ramblers hadn’t been in a number of years, especially after having fallen in the regional finals his first two years. Howard missed a good portion of the beginning of his junior season with an injury, but returned in a big way, helping the team end on a successful note. Even with the success the Ramblers had last year, this year was up in the air, as they lost a good number of players from last year’s squad, namely their middle hitters. “Something that I will take away from this is after our first actual practice walking up the stairs, because we have to shag on the balcony, and walking up the stairs with the other captains and all of us sort of turning to each other and saying ‘I have no idea what this year’s going to look like. I am confused out of my mind whether we will be good, whether we’ll be terrible,’” he said. “It ended up well and I’m proud of what we’ve done.” Next season, Howard will be playing at Penn State University, a consistent power in the sport of men’s volleyball. Interestingly enough, the Northbrook resident wasn’t even sure if he was going to play in college as recently as March before he made the decision. “Primarily I chose it for the academics,” Howard said. “My interest right now is in general biology, maybe a pre-med focus, I don’t know at this point, but they are very highly ranked in that regard so having those opportunities with such a large research school and great sciences, that’s why I liked Penn State so much.” Full story at HPLandmark. com Boys volleyball Coach of the Year Haak’s team culture helps Trevians shine Michael Wojtychiw Contributing Sports Editor Every season, every year, every team is different. The players, the formations, maybe even the plays. But for New Trier boys volleyball, the one thing that’s stayed the same is the coaching staff and its methods. “I think our coaching style as far as our executions for how kids act in our program and how they work and their level of commitment, that never changes,” Trevians coach Sue Ellen Haak said. “The way we treat our players, we have kind of a calm, confident instructional style. They know what to expect from us emotional ly and I don’t think they’re NORTH SHORE surprised by us and that helps create a good learning environment. So that stuff never changes. “We definitely change our strategies and the things that we’re going to practice and which coach is going to take on which elements of the game based on where we see areas of need for that team. So we do definitely change it up. I’m actually not a creature of habit. I get bored with routine. We do, which is probably unlike most coaches, but we do definitely change up our practices, the things we emphasize strategically. And we kind of mentor our players. But our personality, style and environment doesn’t change.” The consistency is what FIND THE VARSITY: NORTH SHORE ON SOUNDCLOUD, ITUNES OR HPLANDMARK.COM/SPORTS A 22ND CENTURY MEDIA PRODUCTION New Trier’s Sue Ellen Haak is 22nd Century Media’s 2019 Boys Volleyball Coach of the Year. Photo submitted helped the Trevians win their sixth consecutive sectional this year and is what also helped Haak earn 22nd Century Media’s Boys Volleyball Coach of the Year award. Full story at HPLandmark. com EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS AND INTERVIEWS about your favorite high school teams. Sports editors Michal Dwojak, Michael Wojtychiw, and Nick Frazier host the only North Shore sports podcast.
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