The Latones are an all male a cappella group which practices twice/week in the mornings before school and performs at a minimum of two concerts per school year.
Soloist, December 2019 | In the Still of the Night
The Jewish Student Connection is a student-run club for students that identify as Jewish.
Club Head | 2020-2021 School Year
Roman-2-Roman provides a space for students to discuss their individual goals both academic and otherwise, support one another in their endeavors in and out of the classroom, and create strong, genuine relationships. Each school year, Roman-2-Roman strives to help ease the transition for freshmen by creating a more inclusive high school community. The expectations of a mentor are simple but require dedication and involvement.
As a Roman-2-Roman mentor, I try and help my mentee adjust to the educational and social landscape of high school, regardless of whether or not they are new to Latin. I regularly check in with my mentees, even if it is a quick “hello” in the hallways. Understanding that everyone is busy, these check-ins do not have to be long, I am required to create a dynamic where conversations occur fairly regularly. In addition to scheduled check-ins -- I text, email and talk to my mentee about midterms and finals, Project Week, Homecoming, and other large school events.
Roman Radio, launched in 2021, is a student-run radio station currently focused on pre-recorded podcast content. During the 2021 Spring Semester I am working with several peers to create and record a podcast entitled "The Latin Sports Network Podcast" designed to mimic ESPN Sports talk shows. www.romanradio.org
The Sports Debate & Discourse Club is a student-run club that provides peers with a forum to discuss various sports in a debate type setting.
Club Co-Founder & Head | 2019 - 2020
14U Assistant Coach/Camps & Clinics Coach
Umpire
Umpire
Every Monday, a team of volunteers of all ages and from all walks of life put together packs of food for Chicago’s homeless, hungry, and disenfranchised. Volunteers help prepare the meal, serve the meal restaurant-style, and mingle with guests. I participate when my schedule permits.
Service was an important part of the LABC USA Team experience. Members of the LABC USA Team were asked to bring old baseball equipment to donate to Dominican players who desperately need these items. I worked very hard during the summer on this project which entailed: sending emails to all the people I know asking for donations, arranging pick-up of equipment with each person individually, driving (with my mom because I only had my driver's permit at the time) to pick up equipment, keeping an inventory of what I collected, organizing the items, packing everything up to take to the Dominican Republic, and sending thank you emails to everyone who donated. In the end, I collected 4 duffle bags of baseball equipment and school supplies (approximately 200 lbs) which included: 21 bats, 16 mitts, 63 baseballs, 3 bay weights, 2 sticks of pine tar, 12 helmets, 12 cleats, 4 baseball bags, 11 batting gloves, 3 training shorts, 3 sliding shorts, 8 bases, 3 sets of catchers gear, 26 jerseys, 2 sleeves, 1 headband, 1 pair of sunglasses, 19 pairs of socks, 21 pairs of baseball pants, 4 belts, 2 bags of school supplies and a check for $500 for school supplies.
This trip taught me a lot about baseball, but more importantly it opened my eyes to life in a third world country and how fortunate I am to live in the states, go to a good school, have the opportunity to go to college, and play the sport I love.
Sponsored by my high school, the Annual Misericordia Baseball Dance brings residents of Miseracordia to our school gym to celebrate the Cubs, the Sox, or whatever team you love. My peers and I are responsible for interacting with the guests, all of whom are adults with physical or intellectual disabilities who look forward to this dance every year. In addition to dancing with the guests (who want to dance), we help them get snacks, get their coats on/off, and sit and talk with them.
Since 2018, I have volunteered at the annual Halloween Party for kids that are a part of Chicago's KEEN program. KEEN is committed to providing free recreational opportunities to children and young adults with disabilities by pairing them with trained volunteers for fun, noncompetitive activities. KEEN seeks to develop each athlete's self-esteem and confidence, as well as recreational skills and talents, and to increase each athlete's ability to participate in a broader range of recreational activities and environments.
Working through my old baseball club, I taught kids with developmental disabilities the rules of baseball and played actual games with them. The Little League Challenger Division was founded in 1989, and is Little League’s adaptive baseball program for individuals with physical and intellectual challenges.
An important part of participating in the JCC Maccabi Games, an Olympic-style sporting competition held each summer in North America and the second largest organized sports program for Jewish teenagers in the world, is JCC Cares. JCC Cares is a program designed to enhance participants experience at the Games by taking a few hours out of the competition schedule to participate in a community service project. The basic American concept of community service is closely tied to the basic Jewish value of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), which urges us to make a difference in the lives of others who may be less fortunate than ourselves. Athletes take part in different JCC Cares projects depending on which set of Games they attend.
In 2018 my team put together Simcha Shabbat boxes to bring a bit of joy to Jews who are spending Shabbats in hospitals and in 2017 we participated in "Sole Hope" Shoe Parties, where we took our old jeans and traced and cut the patterns for a pairs of shoes that were then sent to Uganda where tailors and shoemakers completed the shoes which were given to the children served by Sole Hope to stop foot related diseases.
Each year from 2014 through 2018, I volunteered at least on day at Bernie's Book Bank helping to prepare books to be donated to kids less fortunate than me. Bernie’s Book Bank sources, processes and distributes quality children’s books to significantly increase book ownership among at-risk infants, toddlers and school-age children throughout Chicagoland.