As a member of the first-ever all-female 4-Way Dynamic Indoor Skydiving team, Gianna Keuer, 15, will represent Team USA at the April 2022 World Cup competition in Belgium. She and three teammates from Colorado, Oregon and New York won a silver medal at the 2021 U.S. Indoor Skydiving Nationals, qualifying them for a spot in the world championship event. Gianna is a sophomore at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls college-prep high school in Lake Forest. “One goal of my team is to inspire girls to work hard and follow their dreams, and I believe that my experience at Woodlands has helped me learn to do just that,” she says. “Being in an all-girls school has helped me build a self-confidence that’s enabled me to accomplish so much more than I could have imagined.” (Gianna is on the far right in the photo.)

Abby Moravek, who played a vital role in the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart softball team’s highly successful 2021 season, has signed a National Letter of Intent to continue her athletic and academic journey at Amherst College in Massachusetts. She was one of the pitchers named to the 24-member 2021 Illinois Coaches Association Class 1A All-State Softball Second Team. That distinction came on the heels of Moravek being named the Independent School League’s 2021 Softball Player of the Year for the second consecutive time. [Pictured: Abby's mother, Janelle Moravek, looks on during the signing ceremony at Woodlands.]

On four occasions during the school year, the Woodlands Academy community comes together to acknowledge two girls per class and one member of the adult community for living the Sacred Heart Goals and Criteria in a most visible way. The second quarterly Sacred Heart awards of the 2021-22 school year were announced Dec. 8. Those recognized for living out Goal V were, pictured L-R, (front row) Judith Koukol ‘24, Karishma Bhatara ‘24, Laly Castillo ‘23, Natalie Vela ‘23 and Yotsuba Ito ‘25 (back row) math teacher Shao-Yun Guo, Pascale Ricketts ‘22, Skyler Oldenburg ‘22 and Claire Smylie ‘25.