Selke selected for spot in IADA's Hall of Fame

John Selke couldn't have asked for a better honor to cap his 16-year career as an athletic director at Schaumburg.

On May 2, Selke was one of four inductees into the Illinois Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame in Springfield.

"It's the exclamation point to a fantastic career," said Selke, who retired from the position in 2005. "It's just hard to describe what a tremendous honor that really and truly was.

"When I think of all the athletic directors through the state of Illinois, it's amazing and mind-boggling my name would get called."

Selke student-taught and spent another year at Rolling Meadows and had an excellent role model in Tom O'Driscoll. He came to Schaumburg in 1973 and coached football and track and returned in 1989 after a three-year stint as an assistant principal at Conant.

Selke followed in the footsteps of John Paul, who was in the first IADA Hall of Fame class, and Gary Scholz. Schaumburg was one of the state's premier athletic programs under Selke.

"It was something I always wanted to do and I always wanted to provide opportunities for kids to be successful," Selke said. "That was my main philosophy and main goal and the success of our athletic programs reflected that. The kids were the most important part."

Baseball

Carthage College was rewarded for another spectacular year where it takes a 32-6 record into the NCAA Division III Central Regional in Moline starting today.

Senior catcher Mike Hughes (Round Lake) was named the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin "Co-Hitter of the Year." Hughes is at .353 with 13 doubles, 8 home runs and 48 RBI.

Junior Trace Ruffie (Hersey) was named CCIW "Pitcher of the Year" at 5-1 with a 2.73 ERA and 8.05 strikeouts and 1.56 walks per 9 innings.

Hughes and Ruffie were also first-team all-CCIW picks. and sophomore pitcher Mario Perez (Warren) was second-team all-CCIW.

Also making the CCIW second team were Augustana senior outfielder Myles Kurnick (Buffalo Grove), Illinois Wesleyan outfielder Mike Morrissey (Carmel) and North Park utility man Trevor Popp (Antioch).

• Vince Saisi (Prospect) started and got the victory for the University of Indianapolis against top-ranked Southern Indiana in the Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament.

Saisi had an ERA of 3.86 in the GLVC, averaged a strikeout an inning and had a .245 batting average against him. Indianapolis finished second in the tourney and qualified for the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional.

• Kyle Gaedele (Rolling Meadows) and Ryan O'Gara (Buffalo Grove) are both hitting .292 as Valparaiso is 27-21 and guaranteed of its first .500 season in 10 years. Gaedele has 3 homers, 12 doubles and 19 RBI and O'Gara has 2 homers and 17 RBI.

Steve Godawa (Buffalo Grove) is 3-0 with 2 saves and a 4.03 ERA.

• Zach Scipione (Conant) was the CCAC Player of the Week for Judson College after hitting .545 with 8 RBI in 4 games.

• Hoffman Estates High School coach Todd Meador is hosting his second annual baseball marathon Saturday. The all-day event concludes with an alumni game at 2 p.m. and 23 former Hawks have signed up to play. The event raises money for the Walter Payton Cancer Fund.

Softball

Concordia (Wis.) pitcher/designated player Sheri Weidner (Prospect), was named to the Northern Athletics Conference all-freshman team. Weidner was among the team leaders in wins, innings, ERA, homers, slugging and runs scored and hit .308 to lead Concordia to a team-record 25 wins, the conference championship and an NCAA tournament bid.

• Dayton junior Molly Meyer (Elk Grove) is ranked 25th in the country in NCAA Division 1 softball in runs per game and broke the school's single-season (46) and career (91) records.

Meyer was sixth in the Atlantic 10 in hitting .364 and was named to the academic all-conference team, was ESPN Magazine honorable mention academic All-American and was Dayton's MVP.

• Central College (Iowa) sophomore pitcher Kiley Lythberg (Prospect) was named to the all-Iowa Conference softball team.

Lythberg is a second-team pick at 16-4 with a 1.37 ERA, 21 walks and 100 strikeouts in 133 innings. Central is 36-6 and qualified for the NCAA Division III tournament.

• Aurora junior Anna Snyder (Grayslake) was named the Northern Athletics Conference Pitcher of the Year for the second straight season. Snyder was 22-4 with a 1.52 earned run average and 251 strikeouts in 1601/3 innings.

Track and field

Jack Howard (Libertyville) helped Notre Dame win its second straight Big East Outdoor Championship. Howard qualified for the 800-meter finals in 1:50.19 and finished fifth in the finals at 1:51.83.

Howard anchored the third-place 3,200 relay which took third in 7:26.65.

• Carthage senior Nate Hughes (Antioch) took second in the javelin (173-5) and sophomore Brad Fortney (Antioch) took third in the shot put (48-51/4) in the 2009 CCIW Outdoor Track and Field Championship.

For the Carthage women, sophomore Shacuána Gaines (Warren) finished second in the triple jump (36-9 1/2).

• Illinois State freshman Tori Ziegler (Grant) won the shot put with an NCAA Regional qualifying 49-01/4 at Butler's Stan Lyons Invitational. Ziegler also had personal bests to finish third in the discus (148-4) and 18th in the hammer (153-0).

• East Carolina senior Danielle Eiler (Grant) broke her own school record in the discus (157-1) and qualified for the NCAA regionals.

Golf

Senior Tyler Wollberg (Mundelein) tied for sixth place to earn all-conference honors and help Carthage finish second in the 2009 CCIW men's golf championship.

Volleyball

Ian Peckler (Vernon Hills and Ball State University) was one of 12 players selected to the USA Maccabi men's team that will play in Israel. The opening ceremony is on July 13 and goes until July 23.

Lacrosse

Mary Handrahan (Lake Zurich) earned Trine University women's lacrosse "2009 Rookie of the Year" award. The freshman had 27 goals and 17 assists for a program record 44 points.

Running

The Prospect Athletic Booster Club will host its 11th Annual 5K Race/2 Mile Walk on May 25 at 8:30 a.m. All ages are welcome and the cost is $15 per entry, which includes an even T-shirt.

Registration can be completed on-site at the Prospect at 7 a.m. or by downloading forms from www.ProspectKnights.com with questions to TomZiegenfuss@aol.com.

Football

Libertyville will host its 14th annual Wildcat Football Skills Camp for ages 8-13 on June 30, July 1-2 at Butler Lake Park. The non-contact camp will run from 9 a.m. to noon each day and is staffed by current members of the Libertyville coaching staff and past and current players.

Registration is $70 and for more information, please call Randy Kuceyeski at (847) 549-6149.

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