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Friday, November 9, 2012

Bengals Coaches Honored for 20 Years of Leadership

Dawn Sasek and Lorrie Campea, the girls golf and badminton coaches respectively, were recently honored by Oak Forest High School for their 20 years of service to their teams, their sports and the school.

Oak Forest High School took time recently to honor several coaches and activities sponsors for their dedicated work to students at the school. School administration specially honored two longtime coaches, Lorrie Campea and Dawn Sasek. Campea was honored for her work as the girls golf coach at the high school for the last 26 years, while Sasek has coached badminton for the past 20 years. Campea, a retired physical education and health teacher in District 143, said that her time with the golf team was always special to her. She said that she makes sure her team takes things seriously on the course, but that she makes sure they have fun. “When I took over the golf team, I just devoted myself to that,” she said. “Basically it's something I …

Jeff Janes

4:52 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012

Congratulations to both and to a wonderful school -- the little gem on the south side that nobody outside of OF knows about!   more ›

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Oak Forest's Johnson, Luciano Prepare for Whirlwind Weekend

Bengal seniors will play doubles in state badminton tourney, then race home to attend prom.

For Oak Forest’s Kelly Johnson and Sammie Luciano, the end of the high school badminton season will signal the beginning of the next chapter in their young lives. A trip downstate also will act as a celebration of a successful partnership that brought the two together on the court this season and taught them lessons that will serve them well in life. Johnson and Luciano will be playing together for the final time on the IHSA’s biggest stage Friday and Saturday in the state tournament at Lantz Gym on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Then, before long, it’s off to college for the two Bengal seniors. Luciano will attend St. Ambrose University in the fall. Johnson is headed to Saint Xavier. Both are National Honor …

Lorraine Zielinski

10:28 pm on Friday, May 13, 2011

Any news on how the girls did??? I hope they did well and made it to prom safely !!!   more ›

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