This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Paul Corsaro R’07. Following in the footsteps of his athletic parents, Greg R’83 and Susan (Kuntz) Corsaro, R’83, Paul entered Roncalli as a decorated athlete and student his freshman year. He would not disappoint, leaving four years later as a football state champion, a football state runner-up and the all-time leading scorer for the basketball team, among many of his accolades. All this was accomplished while overcoming a serious bout with cancer early in his high school career. Paul was recently named the new head men’s basketball coach at the University of Indianapolis.Read the full transcript

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Rebel 5ive with Paul Corsaro

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Paige (Weber) Tapp R’07. This St. Mark Lion entered Roncalli High School in the fall of 2003 and almost immediately began to make her mark on our volleyball program. Four years later, she graduated and traveled out west to play for the Arizona Wildcats, but not before earning the IHSAA Mental Attitude Award, a 3A Volleyball State Championship and being named Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year. These accolades don’t even scratch the surface of all Paige’s accomplishments. This summer, she is finishing her third year of law school at the University of Chicago. This Rebel dynamo is sure to do great things as she contemplates her future in law.Read the full transcript.

Rebel 5ive with Paige Weber

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Dr. Chad Huck R’77. In the mid 70’s, Roncalli High School was widely known for our outstanding marching band while athletic success was modest. That reputation changed in a big way when the Fountain Square native, Chad Huck, would quarterback the Rebels to the school’s first of 20 football sectional championships at the end of the 1976 season. Dr. Huck still has a significant presence in the Rebel football record book, holding six offensive records. He would graduate from Roncalli and head to IU to play for Lee Corso and the Hoosiers. Today, Dr. Huck is the Clinic Director at The Eye Center of Southern Indiana. He and his wife, Dr. Patricia Henderson, have two children and reside near Bloomington.Read the full transcript.

Rebel 5ive with Chad Huck

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Phil Anderson. The Franklin Central alum came to Roncalli in 1998 after graduating from Anderson University, and he’s been creating magic on the Roncalli stage ever since. The limitations of staging productions on the old gym stage were nothing more than opportunities to overcome challenges for Phil and his students. With the opening of the “new” auditorium in 2006, the bar was raised even higher, and we Rebels have been the beneficiaries of wonderful theater productions ever since. The Roncalli theater department has made stars on the stage and behind the scenes under Phil Anderson for 22 thrilling years.Read the full transcript.

Rebel 5ive with Phil Anderson

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Phil Milroy. Raised in Columbus, Indiana it was a Roncalli alumna who introduced Phil to our school as his youth minister. Thirteen years later, after graduating from Notre Dame and serving in its 2-year ACE program, Phil is celebrating his eleventh year at Roncalli. His devotion to his students, his faith and Roncalli are unique and undeniable. This week we discuss E-learning, anticipating fatherhood in June, forming young minds, reflecting on the Roncalli pilgrimage and the significance of his senior retreat contributions.Read the full transcript

Rebel 5ive with Phil Milroy

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Gerard Striby. His voyage toRoncalli began over 28 years ago, talking to Dr. Joe Hollowell around a campfire in Colorado on Summer Field Study. Gerard’s career at Roncalli coincides with the school’s exemplary service programs, which he helped to implement, including mission trips to Appalachia and service as part of the curriculum. He coached in our softball program for 17 years and has been awarded Roncalli’s most prestigious trophy, the St. John XXIII Award. Listen this week to Gerard Striby’s inspirational journey from Little Flower Trojan, to Latin School Cougar to Roncalli Rebel.Read the full transcript.

Rebel 5ive with Gerard Striby

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Ben Stallings R’81 and Ben Briggeman R’92. This week’s episode is a story about overcoming great personal tragedy at a very young age, taking life’s opportunities and sharing them with the community, making Roncalli and the Southside a better place. Both of these Rebels took on life’s challenges and didn’t blink. We are fortunate to call them our own and appreciate their contributions to our school and community.Read the full transcript.

Rebel 5ive with Ben Briggeman and Ben Stallings

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Lori Paul Taylor. This 1999 Roncalli graduate has been building an empire as the founder and CEO of Produce Moms. She’s a lobbyist, blogger, podcast host, cook, and most importantly of all, mom to her two sons Joe and Mac. She routinely sits in Fortune 500 boardrooms, visits national and international growers all over the western United States and South America and has been to the White House twice, advocating for the fruit and vegetable industry. Listen this week to our very inspirational story Lori Paul Taylor.Read the full transcript.

Rebel 5ive with Lori Taylor

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Joey Mulinaro. Since graduating from UIndy three years ago, this 2012 Roncalli graduate has been working at local media outlets. He’s produced weekend radio shows for Emmis Broadcasting, worked high school basketball wrap-up shows on AM-1070 The Fan and worked for the Colts. He hosts a local podcast with his dad Joe and also produces sketch youtube videos, but recently Joey has gone national with his viral videos that include impressions of Ed Orgeron, coach of the LSU Tigers and Nick Saban, coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. We finish this week’s episode with the Rebel 5ive questions.Read the full transcript.

Rebel 5ive with Joey Mulinaro

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with the Science Department Chair, Ben North. Eighteen years ago, Ben began teaching at Roncalli, developing his craft to where he is now one of the most respected teachers in the building. Listen this week as he discusses hobbies a chemistry teacher is likely to have, developing young minds while inspiring our youth, keeping an open mind to change and planting the seed of success for so many Rebels he has taught over the years. We finish this week’s episode with the Rebel 5ive questions.Read the full transcript

Rebel 5ive with Ben North

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with the "Queen of the Kitchen", Lani Cummings. Over her 22-year career leading the cafeteria at Roncalli, she and her hard-working cafeteria ladies have been responsible for lovingly preparing over 4 million delicious school lunches. Her motto is, "We shall not rest until we are the world's finest school cafeteria,” and she means it. Listen this week as Lani discusses her appreciation for her Our Lady of Grace education, the work ethic instilled in her at a young age, her passion for feeding people and her Italian heritage.Read the full transcript

Rebel 5ive with Lani Cummings

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is a very special episode. We visited with Vic Sahm, Sarah (Hurrle) Kegerreis, Kevin Kirkhoff and Stan Benge to discuss the life and coaching career of Bob Kirkhoff. Documenting the 50 year history of Roncalli would not be complete without interviewing Hall of Famer Bob Kirkhoff. He was the longtime girls basketball coach of the Rebels, Roncalli parent and honorary alum. Unfortunately, a year ago this week, Bob passed away before we could interview him. He and his bride Susie have both passed from this earth, but we wanted to remember the Kirkhoffs this week. They were both wonderful Rebels and great examples to follow.Read the full transcript

Rebel 5ive Bob Kirkhoff Roundtable

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with two very familiar faces at Roncalli, Jan and Chick Lauck. Chick shares some memories from his playing days at Notre Dame under the tutelage of coach Ara Parseghian, and Jan discusses how fortunate she is to have taught at Roncalli for 21 years. Their gifts to the Roncalli community are many, but they are most proud of their 5 children, all Rebels, and their 19 grandchildren.Read the full transcript

Rebel 5ive with Chick and Jan Lauck

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is a brief 15 minute bonus episode with Bill Kuntz and Ed Tinder. We had a few minutes between their individual episodes recently and took a moment to visit with both of these former Roncalli teachers and head football coaches to talk family, Butler connections and football program traditions. Read the full transcript.

Ed Tinder and Bill Kuntz

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Kerrie Schludecker. This St. Jude Raider is a member of Roncalli’s second state championship softball team that won the title in 2001. She would leave Roncalli for St. Joe’s College but after just one year, she would make a name for herself as a Marian Knight where she graduated three years later playing softball for the Knights and finishing her degree. Wanting to be an Athletic Director after graduation, her first stop was Michigan City, Marquette High School and then off to Boone Grove High School where Kerrie would be noticed by the IHSAA for her creativity and determination. Today she is the Assistant Commissioner of the IHSAA traveling the state promoting high school sports. We conclude this week’s Rebel 5ive episode with Kerrie’s final thoughts and what it means to represent not only the IHSAA but Roncalli High School all over the state. Read the full transcript.

Rebel 5ive with Kerrie Schludecker

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