A true star multi-sport talent at St. Ursula Academy, Chrissy Donovan earned 11 varsity letters and was named first team all-city in volleyball, basketball and softball during her stellar prep career. Her outstanding level of play earned her recognition as the LaRosa's Female Athlete of the Year in 1998-99.

Chrissy was an outside hitter and defensive specialist in volleyball during the Bulldogs' run of six straight state championships. She was even more dominant in basketball and softball, where she earned four varsity letters in each sport.

A two-time first team all-Ohio selection in both basketball and softball, Chrissy holds St. Ursula's career record for most points in basketball (1,114). She was named Player of the Year in basketball by The Cincinnati Post as a junior. As a senior, she was named MVP of the Ohio-Pennsylvania All-Star Game and a member of the Ohio Basketball Dream Team/Elite Twelve. She was named honorable mention All-American by USA TODAY and PNC/Scholar Athlete of the Year in basketball.

Chrissy excelled in softball as well, combining hitting (.533, 45 RBI as a junior) with speed (city leading 39 stolen bases). She finished her career with eight school single-season and career records, including 119 RBI and a career batting average of .508.

Her overall athleticism was recognized by the Greater Cincinnati Women's Sports Foundation where she was named High School Sportswoman of the Year. She went on to play basketball on scholarship at the University of Dayton, where she scored 894 points in her career and was named the team's MVP in 2001-02 (junior season). She ranks in the Top 10 all time in three-point field goals made (136-of-392), in three-point goals attempted and all-time three-point field goal accuracy. As a senior, Chrissy was given the Ann E. Meyers Award of Excellence for Athletics and Academics in Women's basketball and volleyball.

Currently, Chrissy Donovan Waleskowski lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Keith, and children Donovan, Lola and Lucy. She is working as a substitute teacher and coaches the Guardian Angels elementary basketball team with LaRosa's Hall of Famer Beth Osterday.

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A national champion runner by the time she was a senior in high school, Stephanie Edgar enjoyed an incredible high school career that included 14 state championships in cross-country and track. She began competing on the state level in track as a seventh grader, then became a state champion in cross-country as a high school sophomore. She earned 13 varsity letters in track and cross-country.

Stephanie specialized in the distance runs – coming out strong right away as she captured the Kentucky Class A state title in track in the two-mile run as both a seventh and eighth grader. She went on to add five straight state titles in the mile run from 1986 through 1990, plus she was a member the state championship mile relay team (1989 and 1990), the 800-meter relay team (1990) and the 400-meter relay team (1990).

She added Class A cross-country state titles to her list of achievements with three straight championships from 1987-89. Her time in the 1989 state championship was the fastest in the state in any class. The Kentucky girls' cross-country team went on to capture the National AAU Championship in Hagerstown, MD in 1998, and she was honored by the Kentucky State General Assembly as a member of that team.

Her accolades throughout her career were amazing – she was named Kentucky Post Runner of the Year five times, Kentucky Post Female Cross-Country Runner of the Year three times, first team all-state in track five times and first team all-state in cross-country four times. Stephanie has been inducted in to the Northern Kentucky Athletic Directors High School Hall of Fame (2003), Dayton High School Hall of Fame (2008) and the Kentucky Track and Cross-Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2016).

Her amazing career continued on scholarship at the University of Louisville, where she won seven Metro Conference championships. At one time, she held five U of L school records (4x400 outdoor), distance medley relay (Indoor & outdoor), 800-meter run (outdoor) and 1500-meter run (outdoor).

Stephanie currently lives in Louisville with her husband, Michael Kuntz, where she is a Nurse Manager/Systems Support and Programs for Anthem. They have three children – Cullen (who ran for Bellarmine College), Jacob (who ran for Wittenberg) and Emma, who ran in the NCAA Cross-Country championship this past fall for Furman.

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The finest tennis player to come out of Greater Cincinnati in more than 25 years, Audra Falk dominated her sport both in high school and college. Audra is the first athlete in CHCA history to win a state championship. In fact, she won the state tennis tournament three straight years and is one of only seven women to win the Ohio state tournament at least three times. Combined with winning three state team titles, Falk wound up with six state titles all together.

Going undefeated as both a junior (36-0) and senior (32-0), Audra compiled a 128-6 career record and was the Ohio Class II state champion from 1998-2000 As a high school amateur, Audra was ranked 14th in the nation as an 18-under player. She won five national singles tournaments and four national doubles tournaments and was twice named Greater Cincinnati Tennis Association Player of the Year. She was selected by The Cincinnati Enquirer as the Cincinnati Division II Player of the Year and was the Miami Valley Conference Player of the Year four straight years.

Audra attended Vanderbilt University -- earning both Bachelors and Masters degrees -- where she was All-Southeastern Conference four years and a two-time All-American. She reached the 2004 NCAA quarterfinals in singles.

She achieved a No. 5 singles' ranking in college women's tennis and helped lead Vanderbilt to a Final Four appearance and a team ranking of No. 2. Audra was asked by the USTA to participate on the USA College Team (awarded to top 5 U.S. women's collegiate players in the country) to compete on the pro circuit with an opportunity to win a wild card into the 2004 U.S. Open Qualifier, achieving WTA pro rankings in both singles and doubles.

Audra Falk Billmeyer and her husband Peter (an Academic All-American soccer goalkeeper at Oregon State who later played for Dallas FC), currently reside in Winnetka, IL with their three sons – Hunter, Bennett and Liam. She works as Chief of Staff at Novum Pharma in Chicago.

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One of Cincinnati's most decorated football players, Colerain's Jefferson Kelley is one of only two players in Cincinnati history to be regarded as the nation's No. 1 offensive lineman – selected in 1996 by SuperPrep magazine. He was named to five different high school All-America teams, including the prestigious Parade Magazine team and the USA TODAY team.

Jefferson, who was selected as the 1996 LaRosa's Male Athlete of the Year, was named Player of the Year in Ohio by Gatorade Circle of Champions and was selected as the National Football Foundation's “That's My Boy” Award winner. He was a two-time first team All-Ohio selection and a two-time all-city and all-league selection (Queen City Metro Conference).

During his career, Jefferson was credited with 400 career knockdowns as a guard. He was a key member of the 1995 undefeated team that went 13-0. His off-the-field accomplishments were also quite impressive – he was selected as an Olympic Torch Escort Runner, carried a 3.7 GPA, was a member of the National Honor Society, was named a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete and was picked for the Ohio High School Athletic Association Scholar-Athlete award.

Jefferson went on to letter two seasons at The Ohio State University, but a debilitating shoulder injury prevented him from playing for the Buckeyes. He graduated with a 3.8 GPA.

Jefferson and his wife, Christy, have four children – Elizabeth, Jackson, Reagan and Parker -- and still live within walking distance of Colerain High School. Jefferson is a Systems Analyst with Prosource Technologies.

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Elder 1996 grad Kyle Rudolph was a dominating athlete both in football and basketball during his remarkable high school career. He earned seven varsity letters for the Panthers -- three in football, four in basketball.

In football, Kyle was named to four different high school All-America teams, went on to enjoy a stellar career as tight end at the University of Notre Dame, was selected as the 43rd pick in the NFL Draft where he has become a two-time Pro Bowl selection with the Minnesota Vikings.

Kyle was named Maxwell Award winner as the nation's No. 1 high school tight end and was named first team All-America by USA Today, Gatorade, Rise Magazine and U.S. Army All-America. In his career at Elder he had 37 receptions for 623 yards, 11 touchdowns and even had a 37-yard punt average.

As a high school basketball star, the physical Rudolph owned the inside for Elder. He was only the second player in Greater Cincinnati League history to be named Basketball Player of the Year three times. He set the Panthers' school record in rebounding and ranks No. 2 all-time in scoring.

A Cincinnati Enquirer Player of the Year, he was also tabbed as the Southwest Ohio Basketball Association District Player of the Year and the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame Division I Player of the Year.

Following high school, Kyle played three seasons at Notre Dame where he started 28 games with 90 pass receptions, 1,032 yards and 8 TDs. He then became the second highest drafted TE in Minnesota history. He entered the 2018 season with a franchise record 37 touchdowns by a TE and ranked fifth all-time in Vikings history. He was selected to the NFL Pro Bowl in 2013 and was named game MVP. He was selected for the Pro bowl again in 2017.

Off the field, Kyle was named the 2017 Minnesota Vikings Community Man of the Year. He is also still quite active with Elder High School. Kyle, and his wife, Jordan, have twin daughters – Andersyn and Finley.

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One of the finest girls' cross-country and track coaches in Northern Kentucky history, Dave Schuh has led his teams to eight Class A state championships during his 38-year career at Bishop Brossart High School. His teams have also recorded six Kentucky Indoor track state championships for a total of 14 state titles in his career.

His overall coaching accomplishments are remarkable in their scope. His 1997 track team captured the Class A state title earning the Mustangs' their first-ever girls' state title in any sport. It was just the start of something special as Schuh's track team ran off five more state titles.

The six straight team titles tied the most consecutive wins by any school in Kentucky state history. Those teams included stars Stephanie Dierig and future LaRosa's Athlete of the Year and Kentucky Miss Basketball – Katie Schwegmann.

Overall, Brossart's girls' track team has placed in the top three in the state 14 times. They have won 11 regional championships, 15 Northern Kentucky Athletic Conference titles – including nine straight – and have won 172 major invitationals.

In cross-country, the Lady Mustangs captured back-to-back state titles in 2017 and 2018. They have placed in the top three in the state meet 15 times and have won 50 major invitationals during Schuh's career.

He has been a two-time finalist for National Track Coach of the Year (2002 and 2008). He was National Federation of Interscholastic Coaches Association Kentucky Coach of the Year in 1999. Coach Schuh has been named Northern Kentucky Coach of the Year in track and cross-country numerous times by The Kentucky Post and Kentucky Enquirer. He was a Kentucky Track and Cross-Country Coaches Association Coach of the Year several times and was picked by the Greater Cincinnati Women's Sports Foundation as All Sports Coach of the Year in 2003.

Dave Schuh has been inducted into the Kentucky Track and Cross-Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2001), the Northern Kentucky Athletic Directors Hall of Fame (2005), named by the Behringer-Crawford Museum as one of the “All-Time” Best Coaches (2006) and the Bishop Brossart Hall of Fame (2013).

A 1972 graduate of Covington Catholic High School, Schuh ran track and cross-country as well as being a swimmer for the Colonels. He currently lives in Northern Kentucky where he is a teacher and coaches track and cross-country at Bishop Brossart.

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