Alex Alcantara was recognized at the IHSA All-State Academic Award

Alex Alcantara was recognized at the IHSA All-State Academic Banquet in Bloomington on Monday night, April 15. Alex was honored as one of 26 seniors (13 boys and 13 girls) to receive this distinction throughout the state of Illinois. He was accompanied on Monday night by his parents as well as Dan Hardwick, Director of Athletics and Jesse Pierce, Assistant Athletic Director. The program consisted of excerpts from each student-athletes' interviews with all recipients receiving a $1,000 college scholarship provided by Caterpillar. Alex is the first student in St. Francis High School history to receive this honor! Congratulations Alex!

Positive Coaching Alliance

Successful athletic departments are run the same way as successful teams. These teams identify common objectives and goals then get every member of the team and sport’s community working toward achieving these goals. In order for the athletic department to be successful as a whole, we must identify common goals for all members of its “team;” coaches, athletes, parents, community members, faculty, and administrators, and then work toward achieving them.

St. Francis High School has a unique and exciting opportunity to do this. Through a partnership with “Positive Coaching Alliance,” we have set up seminars (90 minutes) for parents, coaches and athletes. These seminars will be held as follows:

• Parent: Saturday, April 20, 4:00 pm, Rosmonowski Room.
• Coach: Saturday, April 20, 7:00 pm, Rosmonowski Room
• Athlete: Monday, August 12, 6:00 pm, Kuhn Theater

I hope to see you all here for these special seminars and I want to thank you in advance for helping me take the athletic department here at St. Francis High School to the “Next Level”.

Dan Hardwick, Director of Athletics

Athletic Announcements

Congratulations to Jon Mifsud for signing with Bradley University to play soccer this fall.

Congratulations to McKenna Kelsay for signing with Illinois to play volleyball this fall.

Bob Ward was named Kane County Chronicle Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year.  Congratulations coach Ward!

Congratulations to Andrew Kimball and Tim Zettinger for being named to the Mysuburbanlife All-Area West Team and to Jason Pisarski for honorable mention.

Dan Hardwick, Director of Athletics

St. Francis High School Athletic Complex Information Booklet

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InformationNOW Parent Portal Login Page Changing Soon!

The login page of InformationNOW is changing with the winter release that is currently scheduled for February 11 th. This change only affects the login page. After the update is installed, when you go to log in to Information NOW, the login page will look different. Your user name and password will remain the same - it's just a new look to streamline the login process for users of all platforms. Even the mobile login got a new look.

Click here to see the new look: http://support.sti-k12.com/documentation/INOWLoginFlyer.pdf

Also, STI is pleased to announce that the Parent Portal of InformationNOW is now certified for use with Internet Explorer v10, which was released with Windows 8 this past October. The Parent Portal is the module used by guardians/parents as well as students to access information such as student attendance, grades, discipline, and more.

If you have any questions related to the Parent Portal or need assistance with usernames or passwords, please email portalhelp@sfhsnet.org.