AHS Soccer Players Named to Chicago Fire All-Academic Team

Date Posted: Tuesday Nov 25, 2014 
 

Chicago Fire announces 2014 Boys All-State All-Academic Team
High school soccer’s best and brightest to be recognized at IHSSCA Honors Banquet
CHICAGO, IL (November 17th
, 2014) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced today the 2014 Boys All-State All-Academic team.
These student athletes represent a group of talented, intelligent, hard working and community oriented people. While it is academic
achievement that qualifies the Boys for this award, to which we received over 130 nominations, we also look very closely at how they
performed on the field, are they involved in other activities at their schools and what they are doing in their communities.
This year we had Sixteen Valedictorians that were nominated of which eight made the 1st team. Par for the course was that
defenders led all nominations with 54, followed by midfielders who had 45 nominations. A total of 48% of the nominations scored 30 or
higher on their ACT test. Four students scored a near perfect 35 of which only 3 of them made the 1
st team and 18 other students
scored a 34. In addition, many players were giving back to the game as 40% had coached soccer and 44% had been a referee. Finally,
62% of the nominees were team captains, a very good sign of their leadership abilities. The Chicago Fire is extremely proud of these
tremendous selections.
Grant Community HS was the only school to have 2 players on the 1st team and they were joined by Mattoon HS & Moline HS
with 3 players on the first 2 teams. Four schools, Edwardsville HS, Lake Forest HS, Maine South HS and Naperville Central HS each
placed 2 players on the first 2 teams. Other top schools this year were Alton HS, Bradley-Bourbonnais HS & Herscher HS.
The Chicago Fire will be recognizing these students for this accomplishment in two different groups. All 1st team members will get
recognized at the IHSSCA Honors Banquet on Thursday, November 20th at the Diplomat West Banquet Hall, 681 West North Avenue,
Elmhurst, IL 60126.
The rest of the team along with 1st team members will also be recognized at a Chicago Fire game @ TOYOTA PARK
sometime in June or July of 2015. In addition to being recognized on the scoreboard during the game, these student
athletes will be brought down on the field after the game for a group photo. After that, they will participate in a private postgame
autograph session.
2014 Chicago Fire Boys All-State All-Academic 1st Team:
Goalies: Drew Hasse – Rockton Hononegah HS; Drew Smith – Charleston HS
Defenders: Tyler Anderson – Barrington HS; Jonathan Gutierrez – Glenbard South HS; Samuel Harres – Columbia HS; James
Jones – Oswego East HS; Daniel Lee – Grant Community HS; Mitchell McGuire – Naperville Central HS; Christian
Monte – Lockport Township HS; Hunter Moore – Lake Forest HS; Colin Peddycoart – Riverton HS; Alex Solberg –
Maine South HS
Midfielders: Fernando Aguirre – Crete Monee HS; Harrison Engoren – Oak Park-River Forest HS; Michael Glick – University High;
Chris Jin – Glenbrook South HS; Kevin Peralta – Grant Community HS; Michael Rogalski – Willowbrook HS;
Nathaniel Stoll – Mattoon HS
Forwards: Suleman Bazai – Edwardsville HS; Jakub Celinski – Metea Valley HS; Stefan Harris – Crystal Lake South HS; Mason
Homsey – Mundelein HS
2014 Chicago Fire Boys All-State All-Academic 2
nd Team:
Goalies: Michael Brand – Mattoon HS; Miles Joseph Brunk – Belleville East HS; Alex Karmin – North Shore Country Day
School
Defenders: Zachary Armstrong – Mattoon HS; Jason Carlquist – Kaneland HS; Jeremy Drobushevich – Moline HS; Justin
Ehrenhofer – Grant Community HS; Michael Gabel – Maine South HS; Adrian Gubala – William Howard Taft HS;
Raymondo Muro – Lincoln-Way West HS; Spencer Norwick – Bradley-Bourbonnais HSMidfielders: Micaiah Arriaga – Rich South HS; Nicholas Coon – Naperville Central; Thomas J. Gibbons – Beecher HS; Trent
Hawkins – Granite City HS; Emmett Kornfeld – Bloomington Central Catholic HS; Zach Morrisey – Edwardsville HS;
Brody Ryan – Herscher HS; Nathan Vande Casteele – Moline HS
Forwards: Andy Brill – Moline HS; Kyle Kenagy – Benet Academy; Brad Leonard – Alton HS; Paul Passalino – Lake Forest HS
2014 Chicago Fire Boys All-State All-Academic 3rd Team:
Goalies: Mitchell Buerck – Freeburg HS; Nicholas Turk – O’Fallon Township HS
Defenders: Nathaniel Clough – Glenbrook South HS; Jared Collier – Bloomington HS; Daniel Ferguson – Mattoon HS; Joe
Haight – Warren Township HS; Joseph Hilger – Notre Dame College Prep; Joe Kezon – Marist HS; Zach Oslund –
Wheaton North HS; Matthew Pikowski – Brother Rice HS
Midfielders: Edan Armas – Lake Park HS; Seth Boswell – Rockford Boylan Catholic HS; Tom Cyberski – Lakes Community HS;
Thomas Furlong – Antioch HS; Anthony Gulli – St. Joseph HS; Matthew Metzler – Downers Grove North HS; Nick
Murphy – Braidwood-Reed Custer HS; Garrett Short – Beecher HS
Forwards: James Bowen – Seneca HS; Patrick Duncan – Lyons Township HS; Dylan Grammer – Farmer City Blue Ridge HS;
Garrett McCue – Bradley Bourbonnais HS; Joey Mudd – Grayslake Central HS
2014 Chicago Fire Boys All-State All-Academic Special Mention Members:
Jacob Alexander-Hildebrand – Bradley Bourbonnais HS; Faris Al-Ghussain – Belleville East HS; Stephen Binstock – Warren
Township HS; Shane Bollini – Alton HS; Andrew Coop – Lincoln Community HS; Aaron Deeke – Wheaton North HS; James
Denemark – Lockport Township HS; Luke Egeler – Illinois Lutheran HS; Chris Enright – Glenbard South HS; Joe Galeaz – Herscher
HS; Riley Guttosch – Naperville Central; Luke Hanselman – Monticello HS; Samuel Herrera – De La Salle Institute; Lucas Hoepner –
Wheaton Academy; Kevin Johnson – Notre Dame College Prep; Robert Judka – Reavis HS; Patrick Kilgallon – Wheaton Academy;
Zach Kohn – Highland Park HS; Nick Konopacki – Batavia HS; Jared Liddle – Morton HS; Isaac Longenecker – Grayslake Central;
Matthew Luetzen – Geneva Community HS; Cameron MacPherson – North Shore Country Day School; Cole Montejano – Wheaton
North HS; Wade Pritchard – Herscher HS; Andrew Reinholz – Waterloo Gibault Catholic HS; Raudel Rojas – Lane Tech HS; Brian
Roper – Lake Forest HS; Blayne Zeigler – Farmer City Blue Ridge HS
2014 Chicago Fire Boys All-State All-Academic Honorable Mention Members:
Bailey Beard – Rockford East HS; Michael Caltry – Charleston HS; Hoff Campbell – Dundee-Crown HS; Austin Coleman –
Dunlap HS; Gabino Coss – De La Salle Institute; Scott Dent – Lake Forest HS; Destin Garst – O’Fallon Township HS; Lyes Ghezali
– Amundsen HS; Gabe Grassle – Alton HS; Austin Grzebieniak – Barrington HS; Andrew Hays – Alton HS; Brendan Heins –
Belleville East HS; Douglas Hui – Naperville North HS; Derek Kerbs – Naperville North HS; Francesco Mariani – Lake Park HS;
Lorenzo Mariani – Lake Park HS; Parker Marsh – Lake Forest HS; Jack McKearnan – Warren Township HS; Austin Morgan –
Granite City HS; Dylan Nelson – Sycamore HS; John O’Connor – Lake Forest HS; Andrew Pederson – Hampshire HS; Alex Piazza
– Alton HS; Grant Robison – O’Fallon Township HS; Omar Rodriguez – Highland Park HS; Zach Rueter – Waterloo Gibault Catholic
HS; Charlie Ruff – Crystal Lake South HS; Kye Schlosser – Sycamore HS; Casey Slingo – Barrington HS; Carl Stradal – Alton HS;
Trent Stauart – Herscher HS; Chris Travis – Warren Township HS; Jake Volkman – Illinois Lutheran HS; Sam White – Charleston
HS; Nathan Wisbey – Rockford Boylan Catholic HS; Micah Wrigley – Alton HS
ABOUT CHICAGO FIRE SOCCER CLUB
The Chicago Fire Soccer Club is a premier franchise of Major League Soccer (MLS). We provide an engaging and authentic soccer
experience for the city of Chicago and for all of our supporters around the world. The Fire enters its 17th season in 2014 looking to
continue its winning legacy both on and off the pitch. The Club proudly embodies the spirit and diversity of our sport, and since its
inception in 1997, the Fire have captured an MLS Cup in 1998, and remains the only MLS team to have won the Lamar Hunt U.S.
Open Cup four times. The Fire's home venue is Toyota Park, a world-class soccer stadium located minutes from downtown Chicago in
Bridgeview, Ill. For more information on the Fire and to purchase tickets, please visit the Club's official website at www.Chicago