graduated from
Marquette University and will begin
studies at Saint Francis de Sales
Seminary, entering into more intense
discernment and formation to become
a Catholic Priest in the Archdiocese of
Milwaukee.
Austin Smith ’17 is a student at Ave Maria
University and has been accepted into
seminary studies with the Diocese of St.
Petersburg.
24 JESUIT PERSPECTIVES • SPRING 2020
Byrne Litschgi ’16 had the nation’s fastest
time among Division III swimmers
in the 100 and 200 backstroke while
serving as captain of the University
of Chicago swimming & diving team.
the All-Academic team by the UAA
athletic conference, and was named a
CLASS OF 2015 MAKES NOISE
Justin Gonzalez ’15 is an up-and-coming hip hop artist
anticipating the release of his second album, “Private
Property,” later this year. Under the name JAWNZA, his
single “FACEDOWN” has eclipsed 450,000 listens on
on SoundCloud during his senior year at Jesuit. “There
was somebody in the car with their mom, blasting my
song,” Gonzalez said. “I was like, ‘No way. People really
like this.’” Based
in Los Angeles,
Gonzalez released
“FREERADICAL,”
in 2019, and in
February he
opened for the
L.A. rap collective
grouptherapy
at The Echo on
Sunset Blvd.
formed while three members, Matt Rodriguez
’15, Joe Cadrecha ’15, and Conor
Lynch ’15, were students at Jesuit. They
all attended Belmont University and
has played at Tampa’s Gasparilla Music
Festival and venues in Nashville, New
York, and Atlanta. The band has more
than 1 million listens on Spotify on its
2017 collaboration with Callaway Martin
with the planned release of a single and
a four-song EP titled “Higher Love.”
Daniel Paskert ’15 played drums, guitar, bass guitar,
and piano from middle school through his time at Jesuit.
While on a snowboarding trip to Breckenridge in 2017
kind of music he wanted to make. Paskert translated his
piano skills onto a keyboard and began making electronic
music under the name MorN. Since January 2017, he has
released singles and EPs on Spotify, SoundCloud, and
and moved to Nashville, working as an audio engineer
intern at Dark Horse Recordings, where Taylor Swift and