Jim Grabowski Professional Football
Green Bay Packers Super Bowl I & II Championship Teams | 1st Round Draft Pick – Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins | Chicago Bears |2X All American , All Academic & All- Century Team, University of Illinois | Rose Bowl MVP | Academic All American Hall of Fame | Chicago Sports Hall of Fame | National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame | Illini Football Radio

Rich Gannon Professional Football
18 NFL Seasons | Super Bowl Oakland Raiders | 2002 NFL MVP | 4 ProBowls, 2 X All Pro | New England Patriots, Minnesota Vikings, Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders | 16 Year CBS Sports Commentator

Father Smyth Award: Deacon Steve Javie Professional Basketball
20 Year NBA Referee | ESPN NBA Commentator | Baltimore Orioles Minor League | Temple University Baseball | Permanent Diaconate

Hugh Brown All Star Catholic High School
School Founder and Head Football Coach, 2019 VISAA Division III State Football Champion, St. Michael the Archangel Catholic High School, Fredericksburg, VA | Executive Vice President American Life League

Dave Pishkur All Star Catholic High School Coaching Lifetime Achievement
Indiana All Time Wins Leader with 1014 | Andrean High School Varsity Baseball | Maxpreps top 100 Coaches in High School Sports | 7X State Champion

Catholic Memorial High School Varsity Soccer
All Star Catholic High School Lifetime Achievement
Most Wisconsin State Championships – 14X , 6 of which were Consecutive | Academic All American Team 21X | TOPSoccer Participant

Joe DeLamielleure
NFL Hall of Fame |NFL All-Decade Team |6X Pro Bowl | 6X First Team All-Pro |Buffalo Bills |Cleveland Browns | The Electric Company |Michigan State All-American | 2000 Mile Bike Ride to Benefit Shinksy Orphanage…

Elvis Grbac

NFL San Francisco 49ers Championship Quarterback | University of Michigan |Sammy Baugh Trophy | Permanent Diaconate Candidate

John Shinsky, Ph.D

Michigan State Academic All-American |2015 Dungey-Thompson Humanitarian Award |Orphan | Cancer Survivor |Founded Shinsky Orphanage, Mexico

Benedictine College Football
Team
Atchison, KS -2018 NAIA Championship Finalist |#2 Ranking |
Mentorship Programs |Weekly Rosary Leaders

Rev. Martin Luboyera
International Soccer Star |Priesthood Over Sports |Coach of St.Joseph’s, Libertyville, IL Championship Soccer Team |Legion of Mary Spiritual Advisor |Associate Pastor

Honorable James Ryan

Perseverance Through Extreme Hardship | Chicago Golden Glove Award |Illinois Attorney General and State’s Attorney |Virtue in Adversity

St. Catherine’s High School Football Team
Racine, WI
2018 WIAA Division 4 State Champions |First Undefeated State Championship Team in Racine, Wi History |Angels in the End Zone

John Johnson Professional
5 Years National Football League |Chicago Bears Championship Team | NY Football Giants

Lauren Bauer Olympic
Olympian | Softball | 4 Time All- American, Arizona State,U.S. National Softball Team All-State Catholic Athletes For Christ Loyola University, Chicago, Men’s Basketball Team College

2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four | Worship, Work, Win
University of St. Francis, Ft. Wayne, IN, Football Team College 2016, 2017 NAIA Championship | Pope John Paul II’s New Evangelization

All-Star Catholic High School Hall of Fame

Frank Amato, Lifetime Achievement, 47 Years Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL | 25 Catholic League Championships |AMDG

Virtue of St. Paul Award

Cardinal Newman High School, Santa Rosa, CA, Football Team
Perseverance Through Extreme Hardship due to Northbay-Tubbs Fire

Marin Catholic High School, Greeenbrae, CA, Varsity Football Team

$25,000 Assistance Raised for Rival School Fire Relief

Team of the Year:
Varsity Football Team, IC Catholic Prep, Elmhurst, IL, 2016, 2017 Class 3A State Champions Character, Commitment, Passion, Leadership & Honor

Bill Wennington, Three-time Chicago Bulls World Champion. Wennington, who played thirteen years in the NBA, is now entering his thirteenth year as the color commentator for all Chicago Bulls broadcasts and currently is in partnership with Chuck Swirsky…

Nick Rassas, a graduate of Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, and University of Notre Dame All American and College All Star, played for the NFL Falcons…

Zygmont “Ziggy” Czarobski was the starting right tackle for the University of Notre Dame in their back-to-back National Championship years of 1946 and 1947 in which they trounced their opponents 17-1 and outscored the opposition 562-76…

Tom O’Hara (born 27 May 1942) was the first native of the U.S. state of Illinois to break the four-minute barrier for the mile run. He accomplished this feat in 1963 when he ran the mile in 3:59.4…

2015-16 Sports Faith International College Team of the Year: Marian University Football, Indianapolis, IN.

2015-16 Sports Faith International High School Team of the Year: Loyola Academy Football, Wilmette, IL.

Valeria Tkacik, an Annapolis resident, is the 2016 recipient of the Virtue of St. Paul Award bestowed on an athlete, coach or team with the most inspirational personal story…

All Star Catholic High School Coaches of the Year

Michael Fitzgibbons has been on the faculty of Carmel High School for the past forty years. He has been a Campus Minister since the fall of 1982, and has been a member of both the Religion and English Departments in his time there..

Michael Zunica is the Athletic Director and head baseball coach at St. Rita’s High School
The most incredible thing about baseball is the amount of failure you have to endure…

2015-16 Sports Faith International Hall of Fame Inductee: Lauren Hill, Basketball Player, Mount St. Joseph University

Lauren Hill was a starting forward on the 2013-14 girl’s basketball team at Lawrenceburg High School in Indiana. Like many high school players, she had dreams of playing at the collegiate level…

Bear Woznick, Two -Time World Champion Tandem Surfer and Deep Adventure Radio Catholic Evangelist and Author

Bob Cousy, National Basketball Association Boston Celtics and Cincinnati Royals

Bonnie Blair Cruikshank, NBA Hall of Fame

Cardinal Stritch, Four -Time Olympian with five gold medals and one Bronze Medal, Author of Wellspring of Hope

Chris Ledyard, University 2013 National Championship  Basketball Team

George Connor, Athletic Director at Franciscan University in Steubenville, NFL Hall of Fame

Jesse Romero, Boxing and Kickboxing Champion and Catholic Evangelist

John Holocek, Former NFL and Varsity Football Coach of Loyola Academy

John Lattner, University of Notre Dame Heisman Trophy Recipient

John McKenna, New Jersey Coaches Hall of Fame and  a Catholic Athletes for Christ

The Saint Viator Varsity Lacrosse Team in Arlington Heights in Illinois is the recipient of the Prayers for Life, Pro-Life Award

Frank Allocco, Head Basketball Coach at DeLaSalle High Schoolin Concord, California, has received Sports Faith International’shighest honor, and wasinducted into its Sports Faith Hall of Fameas2012 Coach of the Year. Each year, thisaward is presented to an outstanding coach who is an exemplary role model. The ceremony took place on February 26, 2012,at the Chicago Bears’Halas Hall as part of the Fifth Annual Sports Faith Hall of Fame Celebration.

Tom Benson, Owner and President of the NFL New Orleans Saints

Mike McCoy, eleven-year NFL veteran and University of Notre Dame Consensus All American

Dr. Audrey Zavodsky, record-breaking professional race car driver and honorary USAF Thunderbird

Darrell Miller, Major League Baseball Vice President and former California Angel

Gregory K. Ketcham, Fighting Illini ChaplainMsgr. who also serves as Chaplain of the St. John’s Newman

George Stanley Halas, the legendary founder of the Chicago Bears, led the team for more than a half-century. “Papa Bear” was considered “Mr. Everything” of pro football and was one of the most enduring personalities in sports history. Halas served as the head coach of the Bears for 40 years while leading the team to six NFL titles. He amassed 324 coaching wins, an NFL record which stood for nearly three decades….

Danny Abramowicz is a Catholic evangelist extraordinaire who travels across the country inspiring men and speaking to Catholic groups about his faith in Christ…

Christopher James Godfrey is the President and Founder of Life Athletes, a fellowship of world class athletes who protect life by knowing, building and giving the best of themselves particularly in relationships with the opposite sex…