FEATURE
18 JESUIT PERSPECTIVES • SPRING 2021
Paper balls.
Mike Scicchitano ’01 became
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looseleaf paper in his freshman theology
class with a Jesuit faculty legend, Tom
Kranz. He remembers vividly, from the
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played in Coach Kranz’s class to prepare
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If you got a question right, you could
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question. If he dropped the ball, he was
out of the game.
“That experience in that class, as well
as many others that year, made me
realize that going to school at Jesuit is
different,” he said. “It was like no other
school that I had been to before.”
Scicchitano returned to Himes Avenue
and Loyola Lane four years after
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history teacher. He played similar types
of review games with his students, such
as Review Football, a game he adapted
from one of his former teachers, Mike
Boza ’78.
“I have great memories playing those
games with my classes,” Scicchitano
said. “The teachers whose classrooms
were next to mine probably hated it
a lot of the time because my review
games could get pretty loud and pretty
intense.”
Scicchitano, 37, has held a multitude of
roles since his return to campus almost
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teacher/wrestling coach, later adding titles
of Social Studies Department Head,
Head Wrestling Coach, and Director of
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into the role of Assistant Disciplinarian
before advancing to the role of Assistant
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Scicchitano’s ascent up the Jesuit High
School ladder will take a most noteworthy
step, as he becomes its next
Principal. He will succeed Barry Neuburger
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years during a transformative decade of
growth, development, and achievement.
FROM STUDENT TO
PRINCIPAL: Mike
Scicchitano ’01’s
Extraordinary Jesuit
High School Journey
Mike Scicchitano ’01
has done it all on Himes
Avenue, from student
to teacher to moderator
to coach to department
head to Director of
Student Activities to
Assistant Principal. Next
up: Principal. With Barry
Neuburger retiring from
Jesuit after 10 years,
Scicchitano will be
taking over this summer.