Bishop Heelan Weekly: Recent Episodes
Zachary James
This is a place where the Bishop Heelan Catholic community can learn about the good things happening in our schools.
Country music drummer Max Miller '17 came home for a surprise visit in May, and Zach James caught up with the Heelan grad to see what life is like with Bailey Zimmerman.
In this episode, Zach recaps the girls winning the state soccer championship, a full recap of the state track and field meet last month and an interview with softball co-head coach Lexie Stolen '07.
Zach talks with boys soccer coach Pat Herbst and girls soccer coach Shawn Mansfield on how the Crusaders got to the state tournament!
The Heelan band announced over the weekend that it will play in the Peach Bowl on Dec. 29 in Atlanta!
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After a long break due to preparing for the Heelan Auction, we're back! To watch the Locker Room Shuffle, click here.
In this episode, Zach James talks with Disney director Ron Clements about coming back to Heelan and Sioux City. To watch the surprise singalong, click here.
Crusaders boys soccer coach Pat Herbst also joins the show to talk about the hot start to the season.
Heelan '90 alum John Osborn returns home for a special concert with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra this weekend at the Orpheum Theatre. He also visited Heelan on Monday, and reminisced about his time as a Crusader.
Tickets for Saturday's concert available here: https://www.orpheumlive.com/events/detail/john-osborn-a-legend-returns-home
For the first time since 2012, the Crusaders boys basketball team is headed to state!
Listen to our three seniors — Carter Kuehl, Sam Skinner and Mason Streeter — about how they feel about going to state and how they've turned the program around in two seasons. #iahsbkb
Before the Heelan girls basketball team left for the state tournament in Des Moines, Zach sat down with coach Darron Koolstra and senior Jada Newberg about what makes this trip different. The Crusaders' first opponent is Cedar Rapids Xavier, a fellow Catholic team that Heelan has faced twice in the last calendar year.
Zach and other local media chat with the four state wrestling qualifiers at CYO before they leave for the state meet later this week.
The four state qualifiers are Nico Venturi, Ben Walsh, Sir Brandon Watts and Ethan DeLeon.
Catholic Schools Week is in the rearview mirror, but before it ended, Zach chatted with Fr. Travis Crotty and Lexi Ricke '17 to talk about how powerful the faith is inside the Heelan High School building.
Happy Catholic Schools Week!
In this week's podcast, Zach sits down with BHCS Enrollment Director Laurie Dougherty, to discuss enrollment numbers, what we know about Education Savings Accounts and what Laurie's favorite things are about #CSW2023.
January is National Mentoring Month, and this week, Zach chats with Ashley Denton from the TeamMates Mentoring Program to find out how many mentors are needed and how you can get involved.
Then, Zach brushes off a couple sound clips from Heelan junior Sir Brandon Watts, as he earned his 100th wrestling match win last week.
Back in April, Crusaders boys basketball coach and Morningside grad Matt Hahn had expectations of how he wanted the team to look. After a 7-1 start through the first week of January, Hahn is pleased with how the Crusaders have played, but still has a challenge for the Heelan boys.
While she is stepping away from a full-time role at Bishop Heelan, Janet Flanagan sits down with Zach to discuss what her role is going forward and what Heelan has meant to her since graduating from here in 1971.
We hope that everyone had a joyous and fun-filled Christmas with friends and loved ones.
Zach sits down with BHCS President Dr. John Flanery to review the success Heelan had in 2022.
To end the night, the Bishop Heelan High School vocal department sung a rendition of "Silent Night." The singers surrounded the crowd and sang a wonderful, beautiful version of a Christmas classic.
In this week's podcast, Zach interviews junior Ava Moravek, junior Elias Flanery and senior Jacob Oldenkamp about the Bishop Heelan vocal department holding its annual Madrigal Dinner.
The dinner will be held this Thursday through Saturday at Mater Dei-Nativity Center Gym.
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We start the new podcast by previewing the winter sports seasons that include girls basketball, boys basketball and wrestling.
BHCS Director of Communications and Marketing Zach James speaks with girls basketball head coach Darron Koolstra, boys basketball coach Matt Hahn and wrestling co-coach Jordan Langley.