NEW ORLEANS – The Johns Hopkins women’s track and field program had 19 student-athletes receive All-Region honors for the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field season, as announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Wednesday.
 
Lorna Arcese, Sara Bartlett, Carter Brotherton, Cooper Brotherton, Adriana Catalano, Jaclyn Donoho, Erika Ezumba, Annie Huang, Mirra Klimov, Emma Kothari, Storrie Kulynych-Irvin, Clarissa Newman, Claudia Ouimet, Lauren Phillips, Lianne Saussy, Harrinee Senthilkumar, Jamie Stelnik, Phoebe Williams and Anna Zinsser received All-Region Honors for their performances in their respective events.
 
The top five individuals in each event from each region earn All-Region honors, in addition to each of the members of a top three ranked relay team.
 
All-Region Honors
 
4x100m
Klimov, Saussy, Zinsser, Phillips
 
4x400m
Phillips, Huang, Arcese, Saussy
 
100m & 200m
Klimov
Phillips
 
400m
Phillips
 
800m
Huang
 
1500m
Huang
Kothari
Senthilkumar
 
5000m
Ca. Brotherton
Catalano
 
10,000m
Kulynych-Irvin
Stelnik
 
400m Hurdles
Saussy
 
3000m Steeplechase
Co. Brotherton
 
Triple Jump
Bartlett
 
High Jump
Donoho
 
Pole Vault
Newman
 
Shot Put & Discus
Ezumba
 
Hammer
Ezumba
Williams
 
Heptathlon
Ouimet
 

Prospect High School boys volleyball coach and math teacher Mike Riedy, right, is set to retire after this school year. The Knights boys head coach the past 30 years, he has 607 victories entering tonight’s Mid-Suburban League championship game against Barrington. Riedy also won 344 matches as Prospect’s girls coach for 20 seasons. In the foreground is assistant coach Peter King, who will succeed Riedy as head coach.
Courtesy of Scott McDermott

Time is winding down for retiring Prospect High School boys volleyball coach and math teacher Mike Riedy.

“For the most part it just seems like a natural progression,” he said.

First, there is work still to be done.

Prospect (25-8) hosts Barrington Thursday for the Mid-Suburban League championship, before the Knights’ state playoff opener Saturday against Chicago Academy at the Lake Park regional.

Riedy, who turns 60 on June 17, enters the Barrington match with 607 victories over 30 seasons as head coach, among the most wins in state history. He also won 344 matches in 20 seasons coaching Prospect girls.

Former athletic director Dave Good initially asked Riedy to be the head girls coach, though back in 1994 Riedy didn’t think he was ready for it. Good then told Riedy he’d also be coaching the boys team in the spring, Riedy said.

“Like an idiot I took it and ran with it,” he said, displaying his self-deprecating wit.

That first girls team went 2-32, according to Illinois High School Association records. By his fourth season he flipped that to 23-13.

The boys program made an even more smashing turnaround — 11-17 in 1995, 26-9 and fourth in state in 1997.

Riedy is not motivated by trophies. “The epitome of the program,” he said, are the sportsmanship awards given his teams by the IHSA and Zebras of Northern Illinois (ZONI), a volleyball referee organization.

Riedy himself gives back as a girls volleyball referee, which he’ll continue to do in retirement. He introduced Volley for the Cure to Prospect, raising tens of thousands of dollars toward breast cancer research, much of it donated to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.

He’s written curriculum used in math classes and has taught in Prospect’s educator pathway program for students interested in teaching, producing many college education majors.

Likewise, by creating positive experiences in volleyball, Riedy has inspired former players to enter coaching themselves. Peter King, Riedy’s 11-year assistant, is a former Knight who will succeed Riedy as head coach.

“I’m incredibly proud of everything I’ve done here, but a lot of people helped me along the way,” Riedy said.

One in particular. Mike and Maria Riedy have been married 32 years.

“She is my rock, she is the one who put up with being a coach’s wife,” Mike Riedy said. “There’s a lot of stuff I’ve missed being a double head varsity coach, and she kept the house in order and raised two wonderful children, and I would be a complete mess without her.”

Riedy soon will make up for lost time. Sort of.

“I’m going to sit around and do nothing and love every minute of it.”

That’s how it’s done

The IHSA championship badminton match in singles went to extra points May 17 at DeKalb High School.

Needing a 2-point margin in the decisive third set, Neuqua Valley freshman Ishi Reddy won 21-13, 18-21, 23-21.

She beat her Wildcats teammate, senior Hannah George.

“Ishi won and Hannah went over to her and gave her a high-five, and then they both embraced in a hug,” said Neuqua sixth-year head coach Nick Benson.

“Then they went over and shook both referees’ hands. Pure class by both the girls.”

Neuqua already had its third state badminton title in hand, Reddy clinching it with a semifinal win over sophomore Adalyn Shum of runner-up Stevenson. Neuqua won with 22 points to Stevenson’s 21.5.

It was only the third time teammates played for the singles title. It was George’s second second-place finish to go with two third-place finishes.

Reddy (41-2) lost one match during the season to George (46-3), who took two losses against Reddy.

“Obviously they’re competitors on the court,” Benson said, “but they are terrific friends and teammates immediately after the match.”

Next level

Orlando Pride defender Kerry Abello, a 2017 Benet Academy graduate from Batavia, earned her first call-up to the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.

On Tuesday she was among 24 women named to the team that will play China PR in St. Paul, Minn., on May 31; and Jamaica in St. Louis on June 3.

The first player in Pride history to play 50 consecutive games, Abello has extensive Youth National experience with six prior call-ups, 10 combined caps, and a U-23 camp in 2022.

Regarding U-23, 2024 Olympic gold medalist Korbin Albert of Grayslake was among 20 call-ups Wednesday to the U-23 Women’s National Team. They will camp in Germany from May 26-June 3 and play Germany twice while there.

A midfielder, Albert was a difference-maker for Team USA in Paris. The former Notre Dame All-American scored the eventual winning goal in a 2-1 decision over Australia to become the first United States woman to score her first international goal in the Olympics. She now plays for Paris-Saint Germain.

Chicago Stars forward Jameese Joseph also was called up to the U-23 squad, her third international camp of 2025.

doberhelman@dailyherald.com

11 Blue Jays Receive USTFCCCA Regional Honors
 

NEW ORLEANS – The Johns Hopkins men’s track and field program had 11 student-athletes receive All-Region honors for the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field season, as announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Wednesday.
 
Oluwademilade Adeniran, Alex Colletti, Emmanuel Leblond, Josh Lee, Thomas Li, Connor Oiler, Ethan Oluwole, Fisayo Omonije, Brady Ott, Sebastian Tangelson and Spencer Ye received All-Region Honors for their performances in their respective events.
 
The top five individuals in each event from each region earn All-Region honors, in addition to each of the members of a top three ranked relay team.
 
All-Region Honors
 
4x400m
Colletti, Ye, Omonije, Lee
 
100m & 200m
Colletti
 
800m
Omonije
 
1500m
Ott
 
5000m
Leblond
Li
 
3000m Steeplechase
Oiler
 
Triple Jump
Adeniran
Oluwole
 
Decathlon
Tangelson
 

Melissa Humana-Paredes warms up with her volleyball partner Brandie Wilkerson on Delray Beach.

The two know each other well — they won a silver medal together at the Paris Olympics last summer. Now, they’re teaming up again for a tournament this weekend at the Delray Beach Tennis Center.

WATCH: Olympic medal winners to play in Delray Beach

Humana-Paredes says she’s often described as a scrappy player.

“When it gets down to the mix, I will be a little bit of a killer. They call me the smiling assassin because I will take you down and smile while I do it,” she said.

The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP), the premier professional beach volleyball league in the world, kicks off its 2025 season this week in Delray Beach. This style of volleyball is quite different from the typical college or Olympic format, where matches are played to 21 points and follow a best-of-three format.

“This game’s to 15, only one side switch, so things are happening really fast. There’s not a lot of time to make huge comebacks or huge momentum swings. You get to see high-level action from the first point,” Wilkerson said.

Both players admit the pro life is tough but say it’s absolutely worth it.

“I get to be a student of life and love everything I’m doing every day, there’s nothing more I could ask for,” Wilkerson said.

Humana-Paredes agrees with her partner.

“It’s everything I thought it would be and more, because it pushed me in ways I never thought I could overcome,” she said.

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PELLA — Ten student-athletes from Central College men’s and women’s track and field squads were recognized as All-Midwest Region performers for the outdoor season by the USTFCCCA Wednesday.
           
To be named All-Region, an athlete must either be ranked in the top five of an individual event in the region or be part of a top-three relay team.
           
Three Dutch men were cited in two events: Jack Brown (sophomore, Norwalk) in the 1,500 meters and 3,000-meter steeplechase; Kale Hobart (sophomore, Mason City) in the decathlon and 400-meter hurdles; and Grant Miller (junior, Norwalk) in the 110-meter hurdles and javelin throw. Gage Huyser (junior, Pella) and Reid Pakkebier (senior, Cedar Rapids, Kennedy HS) both earned a spot in the decathlon. Kale Purcell (senior, Holton, Kan.) secured a spot in the triple jump. Gunner Meyer (junior, Fairbank, Wapsie Valley HS) was honored in the 110-meter hurdles.  Kaleb Brand (fifth year, Mount Vernon) was recognized in the 400 meters.
           
Peyton Steffen (junior, Marion) was an all-region honoree in the 1,500 meters, 3,000-meter steeplechase and 5,000 meters while Olivia Bohlen (junior, Belle Plaine) earned the nod in the heptathlon.
           
Central’s national qualifiers will compete at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Geneva, Ohio this weekend.