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Christieʼs Galleries in New York. Her photograph,<br />
“New York at Night” recently appeared<br />
in the New York Sun newspaper, where<br />
it was chosen to announce the 5th annual Insider<br />
Art exhibition for Christieʼs Galleries in<br />
Rockefeller Plaza.<br />
2000s<br />
Ben Fleisher (SHPʻ00) is living in Boulder<br />
and working as an EMT for Pridemark<br />
Paramedic. He is still working as a SCUBA<br />
and CPR/ First Aid Instructor.<br />
Rebecca Zigterman (SHPʻ00) lives in<br />
Lafayette, Colorado, and is managing the<br />
RE/MAX real estate office there.<br />
Laurie Cronin (SHPʻ01) just graduated<br />
from the University of San Diego with high<br />
honors in Political Science and French and a<br />
minor in Peace and Justice. Currently, she is<br />
studying law at USF in San Francisco. She is<br />
thrilled to be back in the Bay Area.<br />
Sara Griner (SHPʻ01) recently graduated<br />
from the University of Oregon and is<br />
currently on scholarship to attend Florida<br />
State/Asolo Conservatory for professional<br />
actor training.<br />
Jeff Jackson (SHPʻ02) is completing an<br />
internship in the political section of the U.S.<br />
Mission to the United Nations, where he has<br />
been working on security affairs in the East<br />
Asia Pacific and in Europe.<br />
Christopher Sartor (SHPʻ03) is attending<br />
Orange Coast Community College and<br />
studying Business and Finance. He has many<br />
memories about a class trip to Ashland and<br />
“can you hear a tree fall in the forest, or next<br />
to a bridge, or a road” Recently Christopher<br />
took a road trip to visit fellow alums Eric<br />
“Hoss” Van Resselaer (SHPʻ03) and Marissa<br />
Dacay (SHPʻ03).<br />
Stephanie Neidig (SJSHʻ00, SHPʻ04),<br />
a sophomore at Princeton University, is a<br />
member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and<br />
a photographer for The Daily Princetonian.<br />
This fall she ran for office to become a Director<br />
of El Dorado Countyʼs Community District<br />
Board.<br />
Laura McKenna (SJSHʻ05) is now living<br />
in Lake Forest, Illinois with her parents<br />
and brother Michael.<br />
Brandon Child (SHP‘04)<br />
laying water polo at the Division One level has been an<br />
“Peye-opening experience,” said Brandon Child (SHP‘04).<br />
“I never really understood the amount of work it would take<br />
until I myself was in the water getting yelled at by three different<br />
coaches to speed up on what seemed like a never-ending<br />
amount of swimming and leg sets.”<br />
Obviously, those practices are paying off big-time. A sophomore<br />
on the USC water polo team, Brandon scored seven goals for the<br />
Trojans in his first season, and in his second season achieved a<br />
team-high of four goals in one game, helping his team win the 2005<br />
NCAA Championship. But scoring points isn’t the most important<br />
thing to Brandon. “While the topic of individual goals scored represents<br />
personal achievement to some, for me it is really unimportant<br />
as long as my team is successful in the end,” said Brandon. “On<br />
our team we really have enough scorers, and although my position<br />
as hole man is traditionally an offensive position, I have tried to<br />
concentrate on setting other players up, and being a defensive force.”<br />
During his years at SHP, Brandon thrived on the Gators water polo team, earning such accolades<br />
as All-America second team honors, All-Central Coast Section first team honors, and<br />
all-league first team honors. “The team experience I had at <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> was unlike anything<br />
I have ever experienced,” said Brandon. “We were all super good friends and remain so to<br />
this day.” Now times have changed a bit, and Brandon says he feels shocked when he looks<br />
up in the weight<br />
room and sees athletic<br />
super-stars like<br />
Matt Leinart or Reggie<br />
Bush working<br />
out next to him.<br />
Just as he balanced<br />
athletic and<br />
academic excellence<br />
at SHP (earning<br />
honors as a<br />
National Merit Commended<br />
Scholar),<br />
Brandon has kept<br />
this equilibrium at<br />
USC, with his major<br />
in Mechanical Engineering. “The schedule combination is difficult, fitting in classes and labs<br />
between daily morning practices, daily afternoon practices, and lifting weights three times<br />
a week.”<br />
And his advice for Gator athletes as they look toward college “When examining your<br />
college options, imagine you get hurt and are unable to play. Then make your decision,”<br />
said Brandon. “There are so many outside factors with collegiate athletics, so just make sure<br />
you don’t choose a school simply because of athletics, but because it is a place you can see<br />
yourself successful and happy for the next four years.”<br />
BRIDE Mary Judson Bennett (SHP‘98), center, with her husband<br />
Bradley and the wedding party, including Christy Hiller Myronowicz<br />
(SHP‘98), far left; Michelle Cummings (SHP‘98), fourth from left;<br />
Jennifer Judson (SHP‘01), to the right of the groom; and Jeremy Miller<br />
(SHP‘96), third from right.<br />
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