2015 Hall of Fame Inductees

Sabrina Guenther has been an associate at Jenner & Brooke in Chicago, Illinois for the past five years. Guenther is well published in her field, and she advises businesses, including many Fortune 500 clients, on many issues concerning privacy and information governance. She was named a Rising Star for 2015 by Illinois Super Lawyers. After Guenther graduated in 2003, she attended the University of Missouri- Columbia. She served as a justice (then chief justice) on the Greek Judicial Board, was a member of the Honors College, and studied abroad in Paris. Guenther graduated from MU magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in four years with two undergraduate degrees after majoring in journalism. Following that, Guenther was accepted into the University of Virginia School of Law and at that time served as the Production Editor for the Virginia Tax Review. In 2010, she received her juris doctor and moved to Chicago. From 2012 to 2015, Guenther participated in her firm’s involvement in tutoring third graders at Fairfield Academy in Chicago. She administered for this program for her firm by providing donations and monetary assistance in 2014. Guenther graduated from Rockwood Summit in 2003 and was voted by her peers “Most Likely to Succeed”. She was the Copy Editor of The Pinnacle yearbook and in Quill & Scroll during her time at Summit. She was a member National Honor Society, the French National Honor Society, and Teenage Health Consultants.

Matt Helbig owns and runs the Big River Running Company in St. Louis. Helbig was a co-founder of Big River, a specialty running store, and started this business from scratch after college. In seven years, Big River was able to open four locations and has been on the Top 50 Running Stores in the Country list annually since 2008.

Additionally, Helbig has created a community for runners in the St. Louis region. He hosts and sponsors many runs, including ones that serve high schoolers. Regular runs that he hosts include races for weekend warriors, social runners, elite athletes, and the St. Louis Blazers club running team for elementary and middle school aged kids. Big River is also involved in running timing systems for high school and college meets in Missouri, fitting high school athletes from all over St. Louis for proper running gear, and running/hosting fitness clinics for runners in the community.

Helbig is a inductee in the Rockwood School District Hall of Fame as well as the Rockwood Summit Sports Hall of Fame. He has coached at Rockwood Summit after graduating in 1998. He is also a member of the Rockwood Summit Sports Hall of Fame. During his time at Summit, Helbig was on the track & field and cross country teams. He was the first Summit student to ever win first place at a State competition, winning the 800 meter run at the Missouri Class 4 State Track & Field Championships at the conclusion of his senior year.

Rachel McLaughlin is the Senior Manager at SunEdison, the world’s largest renewable energy company. She also leads SunEdison’s involvement in the U.S. Department of State’s TechWomen Program which aims to increase involvement of women in STEM fields in the Middle East and Asia.

McLaughlin attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and was a two time Presiding Officer over the Duke Baldwin Scholars Program, which focused on improving the campus’s culture through the cultivation of confident female leaders. She also served on the Sanford School of Public Policy’s Majors Union Board, taught an undergraduate house course, studied abroad in Barcelona, and wrote a weekly column for the Chronicle.

After graduating with honors from Duke in 2008, she moved to Malang, Indonesia, on a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Fellowship where she was a U.S. Ambassador and taught 400 twelfth-graders at a local school.

McLaughlin graduated from Summit in 2004 and was the Student Council President her senior year (and freshman class president, then vice-president), the Copy Editor of The Talon newspaper, a member of Quill & Scroll, and Student Council President. She was also in Renaissance, in Youth in Government, in National Honor Society, and the Director of Premiere and lead in the musical Bye, Bye Birdie. McLaughlin was honored with the Falcon Award in 2004 and the YMCA of St. Louis named her its “Future Leader”.