Benedictine High School

Bishop Roger Gries '54 was honored at this year's St. Andrew Abbey Benefit to commemorate his Silver Jubilee-25 years as a Bishop!

Guests joined the monks for Vespers, followed by food and fellowship in the Student Commons of Benedictine High School.

Representatives of the Diocese of Cleveland were in attendance, including Bishop Malesic and Auxiliary Bishop Woost to honor the years of service from Bishop Roger. Many came from near and far to celebrate and we were honored to host them for this fantastic evening event.

You can read more about this top news story from the Diocese here: https://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/news/newsroom/2026/08/05/st-andrew-abbey-diocese-celebrate-bishop-gries-25th-episcopal-jubilee

Congratulations to Bishop Roger! Thank you for your years of service to Cleveland and to Benedictine High School!

Congratualtions to August Stromann, BHS Class of 2027, for earning the rank of Eagle Scout with his capstone service project of building a cooking shed at Benedictine. August was featured in the Geauga County Maple Leaf recently. You can read more about his time as a scout and the project itself in the link below. We are proud of you, August, and appreciate your improvement to campus! https://www.geaugamapleleaf.com/news/russell-teenager-spreads-wings-as-eagle-scout/

Official practices are starting this week and now is the time to see the results from the work put in over the summer.

Here are some shots from our Football Combine Camp. We held a 5th and 6th grade session followed by a 7th and 8th grade session earlier this summer.

Thanks to our players and coaches for all your great work preparing these guys for thier upcoming seasons.

Best of luck to all of our combine attendees this fall!

Good luck in your new role Fr Finbar!

Today we welcome Fr. Finbar as he begins his first day with our parish community!!

Please join us in praying for him as he begins his time at Church of the Assumption. We are grateful to have him with us and look forward to the many ways he will share his faith, guidance, and compassion with our parish and school families.

Welcome, Fr. Finbar! We’re blessed to have you here.

This past week, rising senior Patrick Lloyd ‘27 participated in Sports Broadcasting Camp at John Carroll University. Director of Media and Content Production Brian Devers ‘08 and Asst. Football Coach Aubrey Ward ‘17 worked at the camp as counselors as SBC (est. 2001) took place for the first time in Cleveland.

The camp was led by John Fanta (NBC Sports), who has called college basketball Big East and Big Ten games, along with working as a sideline and dugout report for NBA on NBC and Sunday Night Baseball. Fanta, St. Ignatius Class of 2013, was a fantastic lead instructor for the camp and brought a ton of energy and expertise.

This year's most notable virtual guests were Scott Van Pelt (Sportscenter) and Mike Tirico (NBC’s Sunday Night Football). Both spoke and answered questions for close to an hour with the camp. Tyler Danburg (The Ohio State Radio) also spoke virtually and answered many questions about the Buckeyes.

This camp attended Thursday's Guardians vs Twins game, and heard from Twins TV’s Cory Provos, Zach Miesel (The Athletic), Guardians TV’s Andre Knott, and also radio’s Jim Rosenhaus and Tom Hamilton!

In-person guests included 92.3 The Fan’s Ken Carmen and Anthony Lima appearing with Cayleigh Griffin (Guardians TV). Members of The Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, Adam “The Bull”, Garrett Bush, and Jason Lloyd (The Athletic), came to camp with their producers. WKYC’s Nick Camino, Fox 8’s John Telich, and Big Ten Network broadcaster Brendan Gulick all spoke to the camp as well.

Other lead instructors were Dave Popkin, play-by-play analyst for Seton Hall Basketball and Brian Tripp, play-by-play lead analyst for Penn State Hockey and Sideline Reporter for Penn State Football on the Big Ten Network.
The camp was heavily supported by John Carroll staff and campers got to utilize JCU’s TV Studio and WJCU.

This was a great experience for Pat Lloyd, who enters his senior year having called over 70 games on BSBN including Football, Basketball, Wrestling, Lacrosse, and Baseball. Mr. Devers learned from his experienced colleagues and Coach Aubrey Ward got great experience as he continues to work towards MFA in Sports Journalism at St. Bonaventure University.

Some Scenes from the Jerome Baker Benedictine Football Camp on July 10th

It was great to have our participants out there on Bossu Field!

Special thanks to Jerome Baker ’15, the coaches and players in our football program, and all the operations staff that pitch in and make a great night like this happen!

Photos by Brian Devers ’08 and Patrick Lloyd ’27

Join the Monks of St. Andrew Abbey as they celebrate their Annual Benefit! This year, we are celebrating the Silver Jubilee of Bishop Roger Gries '54 in honor of his 25 years as a Bishop.

Join us by registering here: https://linktr.ee/BenedictineHS