Naperville Central Recognizes Wrestlers, Coaches, Managers and Parents at Awards Banquet

February 23, 2015

Naperville Central recognized their wrestlers, coaches, managers, and parents at the 2015 wrestling awards banquet.  Coaches Chris Nutt, Mike Curley, Noah Fitzenreider and Rob Porter each spoke about every kid about how they contributed to this year’s success.

Managers Cathy Harrington, Re’Jahnique Matthews, Hanna Donofrio, Alyssa Kasper, Keley Villanova, Lydia Twaddle and Cassie Minter were thanked for their contribution to the program with taking stats and running scoring tables.  Special thanks to Cathy Harrington for organizing the girls all year.  Both Cathy and Re’Jahnique are seniors.

Videographer Tom Hamill was brought up for his fine work behind the camera all season.  Tom did an excellent job this year.

Pat Murphy, our resident director of operations was recognized.

Iron Man winners were Kyle Hildebrand, Luc Jandt, Rick Marciniak, Shuji Mizoguchi, John Szczap, Derek Wilke, and Ben Williamson.  These wrestlers never missed a practice or a meet all season.

Captains were Ben Williamson and Derek Wilke.

All Conference winners will be announced at a later date, but Ben Williamson will automatically be all-conference as he won the DVC tournament.

The freshman wrestler of the year was Derek McDaniel.

The JV wrestler of the year was Cam Baumgartner.

The most improved wrestler award was Cam Hayes.

The hardest worker award went to Cam Baumgartner.

The most inspirational award winner was Rick Marciniak.

The most valuable wrestler of the year was Ben Williamson.

The Red/White winner was Riley Guttosch.

Special Thanks all parents and especially to Mrs. Stacey Wilke as our parent rep, social organizer, hospitality room (merchandise) along with Maureen Chobak, Maureen Guttosch, Melissa Jandt, Cindy Marciniak our social fee director, and Mrs. Mizoguchi.  My apologies to anybody I missed!  A shout out to Mrs. Martins who helped with our Feed My Starving Children fund-raiser and volunteer work.  Thanks to all parents and contributors for their general support from all parents (training tables, help with breakfast, and help with running clocks)

Thanks to those behind the scenes who help make our wrestling program so successful.  The school administration including Andy Lutzenkirchen, Debby Adams, Jeff Nudera and Bill Salintine.  Thanks to Dr. Quoc and Dr. Weithman for all their help.  Thanks to the Naperville Kids Wrestling Club, especially Gary Hunt, for their contributions to our team.

Coaches Noah Fitzenreider, Chris Nutt, Mike Curley were excellent this year and had a positive impact on our wrestlers.  High regards to our volunteer coaching staff who are Justin Tardy, Jake Sandborn, Nick Mondek, Ryan Burns, Tony Schlorff, Jim Graeber, Jim Caudill, Chris Dublinski, and Jeff Burdorff.  They work many hours with our program with no pay.  We could run a wrestling program without their help.

We lost our long-time friend and fellow coach this year, Bill Young.  Coach Young will forever be known as Mr. NCHS Wrestling and he will be very much missed.  We raised a banner this year in our wrestling room in his honor.

Finally this writer would like to personally thank Dena Porter and Tommy Porter.  Dena is more than just the wife of the head coach.  She understands the large time commitment it takes to run a successful high school wrestling program and did everything she could to help at home while the head coach is away.  More than that, she is and has been a part of the program, volunteering her time to help tournaments run smoothly, organizing pre-meet breakfasts, working with statisticians, helping with fundraisers, and much, much more.  Anybody who thinks that being the wife of a head coach is easy should spend 10 minutes in Dena Porter’s shoes.  Thanks to Tommy Porter who at age 11 understands why his dad is so busy in the winter.