Rhianna Sieben brought home the seventh-place medal in the 100 Free.
The Summer USA Club swim season has come to an end this weekend with the Senior State meet (for swimmers 15 and older) in Rochester, Minn. The previous weekend was the Age Group State meet (for swimmers ages 8-14) in Rochester, which allowed our swimmers to compete against the top swimmers in the state. St. Joseph and Sartell swimmers included Kaitlyn Lysen, Rhianna Sieben, Claire and Isabelle Westling, and Eduardo, Oscar and Melisa Zertuche who compete with the St. Cloud YMCA Gator Swim Team. The season ended with the Minnesota Regional Championships in Austin, Minn., with Sieben, and Eduardo and Oscar Zertuche representing the St. Cloud Gator Swim Team. Sieben brought home a medal for seventh place in the 100 Free.
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St. John’s University School of Theology and Seminary received a $525,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to continue its support of the Lilly Youth Theology Network. The grant is under the direction of Jeffrey Kaster, director of the School of Theology and Seminary’s Youth in Theology and Ministry program and an adjunct faculty member in the College of St. Benedict/SJU Department of Theology and School of Theology and Seminary.
LYTN is a network composed of 34 theology programs for high school youth that engage young people in study and other learning experiences to explore theological traditions and examine the ethical and moral dimensions of contemporary challenges.
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Tanya Gertz has been named executive director of Fine Arts Programming at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University. She will assume her new role beginning in September. She replaces Brian Jose, who served as executive director from 2008 to 2015.
