Former Pioneer great and Marist High School junior, Jimmy Rolder, is a standout on both the baseball and football field. Jimmy announced his verbal commitment to play baseball at the University of Illinois this summer. Jimmy is also an exceptional football player and will make a big impact on the field this season. Most importantly, Jimmy excels in the classroom maintaining a 5.44 GPA on a 5.0 scale while taking honors classes and being a two sport Power Five athlete! https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/sports/ct-sta-spt-football-marist-jimmy-rolder-st-100920-20201008-zzavzropvrgrrkx6zfweirj7oe-story.html

Former Pioneer legend Jadon Thompson made his college debut for the 13th ranked University of Cincinnati today. In his first ever college football game Jadon came down with his first catch of his young career for 18 yards. 

Congratulations to Pioneer legendary QB Hayden MIkesell who will be playing football for the Western Michigan Broncos next fall. During his youth playing days Hayden was a Pioneer Award Winner having won 39 games in a row and back to back Championships.  Hayden also led the 2015 Pioneer team that was our first to win a National Youth Football Championship in Daytona FL defeating the Wichita KS Aztecs 24-13.  Hayden led the Marist RedHawks this past season to the 8A semis where they lost to eventual Champion LWE HS.  We wish Hayden the best of luck next season! 

Flag Cheer, LW, JV and Varsity all took home a 1st Place Trophy tonight. SLW advances to Day 2 and took 3rd. We are SO proud of all our cheer teams!!!

Thank you to our 2018 Pioneer Families on a great year end banquet as well as we say farewell to our President John Stefanos and Athletic Director Mark Mikesell. Thank you for so many years of leadership, volunteering and guiding our program to achive our goals in football and cheerleading. Pioneer Alumni returned for this special event to say farewell.  It was great to have them all there. 

03 Dec, 2018
A Best Friend Partnership On and Off the Field
By Pat Z. McGavin

Only connect, the writer E.M. Forster famously asserted. Those connections take different forms and shapes, at once random and peculiar and yet somehow always of a piece. About three hundred miles separate the hometowns of John Stefanos and Mark Mikesell. Their lives and careers became entwined through a curious blend of fate, circumstance and chance. Together the two have achieved considerable achievement and recognition...Read More

Congratulations to our Pioneers National Youth Football 13U Champions! The team outscored their opponents 74-0 to defend thier championship from last year! 

Below are some pictures from the tournament!

Jadon Thompson former Pioneer and Marist sophomore  starting on Varsity for the undefeated RedHawks has been selected to the 2018 National Combine by the US Army All-American Bowl selection committee! Congratulations!

Ryan Welch was chosen as The Orland Park Prairie’s Standout Student because of his academic accomplishments.

Standout Student: Ryan Welch, Jerling Jr. High seventh-grader

Former Chicago Bear and current University of Illinois head coach Lovie Smith and his staff stop by to visit former Orland Park Pioneer and current Marist Redhawk linebacker Micah Awodiran. Also pictured are Micah's parents and Marist head football Coach Pat Dunne. Micah has recently received his 28th Division 1 scholarship offer

We would like to congratulate former Orland Park Pioneer and current starting right tackle of the AFC Champion Denver Broncos #79 Michael Schofield on his trip to Super Bowl 50. We wish Michael the best of luck as he prepares for the big game. Michael graduated from Sandburg High School and played for the Michigan Wolverines before being drafted in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft. 

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