Catching Up With Some Old Friends

Earlier this week,. She was a soccer standout for the Chargers and now works at her alma mater. She also plans to attend medical school.

Some other Stagg alumni are playing at the next level in their sports. The list includes T. J. McFarland, Justin Ringo and Andy Leonard.

Ringo has come off the bench in spots for the Stanford baseball team in 2011. He and the Cardinal were 32-30 overall heading into NCAA regional play against Kansas State. Ringo was hitting .125. He slugged one home run in 13 games. And, on defense, he was the lone member of the team without a fielding error.

McFarland was a fourth-round draft pick of the Cleveland Indians in 2007. So far, in his second season pitching at AA Akron of the Eastern League, he is off to a slow start at 1-4 with an ERA of 5.01. 

Leonard, a senior infielder for UIC, doubled home the winning run for the Flames in a very long first-round game of the Horizon League tourney in Dayton, Ohio. The game started on a Friday ... but the hit came on Saturday. Unfortunately for Leonard, his season and collegiate career came to an end later on that same Saturday as the Flames fell to Youngstown State 12-7 despite a valiant comeback effort.

Shepard Alumni

Ron Mahay, a 1989 graduate of Shepard High School, recently was released from the Arizona Diamondbacks farm system. He last was working as a reliever for the AAA Reno Aces of the Pacific Coast League. He had not seen game action since May 5, according to the Aces' official site. He was 0-2 with a high ERA in his 20 years in the minors and majors.

Mahay made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox in 1995. His last big league action came with the Minnesota Twins in 2010.

Mike Recchia, a 2007 graduate of Shepard, spent three years at Eastern Illinois before being signed by the New York Yankess in 2010. Some career highlights include being the Ohio Valley Conference's all-star game starter in 2009 and 2010.

He now is with the A Charleston (S.C.) Riverdogs of the South Atlantic League working as a reliever. He has appeared in 10 games with a 0-0 record and an ERA of 3.24 in 16.2 innings.

Stats come teams' official websites and are current as of June 3. Player names initially came from the baseball cube website.