St. Bede Academy inducted its 2025 Hall of Fame class during homecoming festivities on Saturday, Oct. 4 in the Abbot Vincent Gymnasium.

The inductees are:

The 2005 sectional tennis championship team – The Bruins were the first and only boys tennis team to win an IHSA Sectional Championship. Team members included state qualifiers Matt Morse, Thomas Sitterly, Dylan Slupianck, Kyle Entwistle and Peter Faletti and John Sitterly.

Lainie (Schweickert) Smyk – The record-setting pitcher led the Bruins softball team to its first-ever state appearance as a senior in 2013. She had 57-21 career record with a 1.47 ERA with a 20-strikeout, 10-inning sectional finals game and was named as the BCR Softball Player of the Year.

Some of her fondest memories include making it to Class 2A State for the f

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