Meet Maya Wilson, a determined soccer player who faced the challenges of an ACL injury but emerged stronger and more resilient than ever - physically and mentally. How did your injury impact your daily life? My ACL injury significantly impacted both my physical and...
• Fenwick Varsity Girls Lacrosse, #6 • Team Illinois Hockey Player, #6
Three months and two weeks after shoulder surgery with Dr. Steven Chudik, Len Serwat hit a 130-yard hole-in-one on #4 at Flagg Creek in Countryside, Illinois, during his first golf outing of the year. A hole-in-one for any golfer is an accomplishment, but for Serwat...
• Recruited by Villanova University in 2012. Played four years in 157 games with 121 career starts with 50 behind the plate, 30 as the designated hitter, 25 in right field and 16 in left field • A .266 (118-for-444)...
• Recruiting class of 2015, committed to University of Wisconsin • Skipped senior year at UW to enter NFL draft • Drafted 2019 by Los Angeles Rams in 5th round, 169th pick overall • #73 Rams offensive tackle David Edwards,...
• Graduate class of 2009 • Indoor 55m and 200m hurdles, outdoor 110m and 300m hurdles • Team record 2009 outdoors, 110m 39” hurdles 14:87 sec. and 300m, 36” hurdles 39:57 sec. • Ashford College track and field 2010 Midwest Collegiate...
• Graduated 2018, committed to University of Missouri—Kansas City • 2017-18 Illinois 3A High School State Championship, 2017-18 All-Area Selection and 2017-18 All State • Competed in AAU circuit with Midwest Elite Marissa Metz,...
• Recruiting class of 2013, committed to Northwestern University • Four-year wide receiver and team captain senior year, All-Big Ten 2015 and two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree • Northwestern career stats: 37...
• IHSA Sectional Championship, fifth place in IHSA Individual State Tournament, won two and placed in two national regional tournaments • Northern Michigan University 2002-2006 • University Nationals Champion, University World...
• Graduate class 2015 • Back to back Illinois High School Association State 5A Champions in2014 and 2015 Josh Santi, Nazareth High School, #34
• Lyons Township High School place kicker class of 2013 • University of Memphis, All American and All-Academic Team place kicker class of 2017 • Cincinnati Bengals 5th Round 2017 NFL Draft selection, 153rd overall draft pick, first place kicker chosen • Signed with...
• Class of 2019 • Center for Mustang varsity Nicholas Sostak, Downers Grove South High School, #66
Class of 2017 recruit Signed with Oklahoma City University, No. 2 wrestling program in 2016 Kerr earned five all-American honors, including placing seventh at 172 pounds in the Junior Folkstyle Girls Nationals at Abe Lemons Arena as a sophomore Three-time Fargo...
Committed to Tufts University for football and played freshman through sophmore years. Named LTHS football team MVP, two-time All Conference & Team Defensive MVP. Two-time US Lacrosse All-American, three-time All...
Committed to University of Michigan in 2014 2015-16 Academic All-Big Ten Four years as tight end for University of Michigan and one year at University of California as a graduate transfer Undrafted rookie free agent for the Chicago Bears in 2019 Picked up in October...
Four-star high school recruit class of 2015-No. 6 prospect in Illinois and among the nation’s top 30 offensive high school tackles-Committed to Michigan in 2013, recruited in 2016 class-Recommitted to University of Oklahoma after Michigan release in early 2016-Senior,...
Committed to Lehigh University and recruited in 2016 class Senior 2019, #79 OL guard College of Business and Economics Taylor Curlin, Lyons Township High School, #73
“Dr. Chudik, Thank you. I was able to finish a memorable high school lacrosse season, scrimmage against the USA U19 Women's National Team and start at Marquette.” Graduated in 2019 and committed to Marquette University Lacrosse All State...
Imagine slamming into a tree going more than 20 miles per hour with only the protection of a helmet. Imagine that same scenario, but as a petite downhill skier getting hit so hard by a snowboarder that you are lifted off the snow and thrust into a pine tree becoming a...
Emmanuel Morris was anxious for his sophomore year at Hinsdale South High School to begin. After all, he earned Most Valuable Player and All-Conference baseball honors his freshman year so his future appeared to be on track to achieve his dream of playing Division I...
Returning home after a vacation is never fun. For Susan Swanson, though, leaving her Michigan vacation with friends changed the next year of her life. Leaving the hotel lobby, Swanson slipped on the hotel atrium floor and crumpled to the ground with her left leg bent...
After sitting at a desk all day managing insurance investments, Scott Edwards looks forward to his recreational activities of running and playing hockey. However, Edwards is not just a casual participant. He plays on several hockey clubs, as well as pick-up games when...
Steve Quirk admits he hasn’t always been a model patient. Like the time he was running within days of his first knee surgery because he had less than one month to prepare for the New York Marathon. Just so happened he ran past the home of Dr. Steven Chudik who had...
If you ask Greg Beggs, patent lawyer, gardener, golfer, former Downers Grove Village Zoning Board and Plan Commission member, Downers Grove Chamber of Commerce enthusiast and grandfather of 10, success throughout his life came because he was in the right place at the right time. His legal career began in a modest way.
No good deed goes unpunished according to the adage. Unfortunately, Robert Kmoch experienced the maxim firsthand when he and fellow fishing club members were setting a pier as part of their fishing club’s membership obligation. Kmoch slipped while carrying a shovel...
You may know a little girl who always wanted a pony, or maybe you were that girl. Sarah Lewensohn was. At a young age, she took lessons and participated in local competitions, but that is as far as her riding went. However, she carried her love of horses and dream of...
Since 2008, participation in hiking and backpacking in the United States has increased 62 percent to more than 47 million people. Mark Frantz is one of them having backpacked since the early 1990s among the beauty of the Rockies, Sierras and Teton mountains, as well...
Next time you take an escalator, think of Jim Dombro. He rides one at least twice a day in Chicago’s Union Station on his way to and from work. However, one rainy October day on his way home Dombro was walking, not riding, down the escalator when his foot slipped and...
Kathy Irwin’s weekends are filled with swimming and gymnastic meets, and basketball, soccer, hockey and baseball games. However, they weren’t before Dr. Steven Chudik with the Steven Chudik MD Shoulder, Knee and Sports Medicine Injury Clinic replaced her two arthritic...
If you’ve never seen a rugby game, the best way to describe it is football without helmets and pads. As a full-contact sport without protective gear, rugby players are prone to orthopaedic injuries—just ask Shawn Bastic, former University of Illinois—Chicago (UIC) and...
Robert Nutt says he is retired, but his daily planner paints another picture. As president and managing director of Paceline Advisors, a strategic business and financial consulting firm Nutt created after 30 years in corporate finance and operations, he travels...
Most people in Northern Illinois will remember the winter of 2011 for the Ground Hog Day blizzard. Tony Santi, founder and president of J2 Santi, Inc. custom homebuilding, youth athletic coach and weekend athlete from Western Springs, Ill., recalls it differently. In...
One minute 8-year-old Matt Cesario was sitting atop a swing set with a neighbor and the next he was hanging from the side support brace by his right knee—a twist of fate that spared Matt’s spine and changed the course of his young life for the next five years. Matt...
With barely 5 minutes remaining in the Illinois Class 8A state championship final, the No. 2-rated Bolingbrook High School Raiders trailed the No. 1-rated Loyola Academy Ramblers from Wilmette, 17-14. Junior Bolingbrook quarterback Aaron Bailey was in the toughest...
Teaching your children to snowboard should be a fun and rewarding experience, or so Nick Nagel thought until he found himself planted face down in a snow bank with a shoulder injury. However, it would be a year later with many league hockey games in the record books,...
The last thing a highly recruited high school athlete wants to hear is they are going to miss playing their senior year and potentially lose a Division 1 opportunity because of an injury. That is what Lyons Township (LT) High School football and All American lacrosse...
Kevin Kucera is among the countless people who suffer aches and pains after they move, lift, push and pull things. However, the day after Kucera moved a heavy display on his own at work, his shoulder was exceptionally sore. Kucera, an customer service representative...
Imagine being a young mother and not able to lift or hold your baby, reach into the clothes dryer, back your car out of the driveway, or even reach for a cup in a cabinet without the fear of a shoulder dislocation. For Debbie Brand, those were just some of the daily...