Annual Highlights

2020-21

Senior Alisa Kasabyan did something no other Judge student had done before. She served as the editor of “Catharsis,” the Literary Magazine, for three consecutive years.

Showing its creativity, the Drama Department proved the spring musical “show must go on” with a montage of songs from Broadway classics such as “Kiss Me, Kate,” “Bye, Bye Birdie,” “Chicago” “Rent,” “Tommy” and “Les Miserables.”

The boys swimming team ran away to capture the 3A state championship. Nico Morton and Alex “Buddy” Yannelli each won two individual crowns while Benji Gillespie collected a fifth for Coach Sage Maaranen.

The girls swimming team fell just short of matching the boys’ state title, but the 4x100-meter relay team (Lanee Farr, Emmy Hardin-Reynolds, Grace Sherman and Olivia Cowan) won its race in dramatic fashion.

Just 27 seconds into the second half of a scoreless state final boys soccer game against Morgan, Nahuel Batalla scored his first goal of the season off on assist from John Chadwick and goalie Kolbie Sessions made it stand in a 1-0 win.

2021-22

Judge received the U.S. Department of Education’s “Blue Ribbon” award for the fourth time, meaning it was in the top 1 percent in the country. No other Utah high school has ever gotten the honor once.

Olivia Cowan sprinted to state titles in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle races and was part of two winning relay teams as the Judge girls swimming team won the 3A state championship running away, compiling 316 points to 210 for runner-up Carbon.

The boys swimming team made it back-to-back state 3A championships, outdueling Canyon View in a meet determined by the Bulldogs’ depth. Judge had only one individual titlist, Nico Morton, who captured the 500 freestyle.

Teya Sidberry wrapped up a superlative high school career as the leading scorer in Utah history (2,534 points), including 27 in the 3A championship game where she led the Judge girls basketball team to a 43-37 victory over Richfield.

2010-11

Edited by Emily Andrews and Matt Kierkegaard with Chris Sloan’s oversight, the Bulldog Press was named the state’s top high school newspaper for the third straight year by the Utah Press Association.

After two years of reconstruction, the Judge football field was rededicated in mid-August. The Salt Lake Tribune later deemed it to be the second most scenic stadium in the state – behind Monument Valley.

The Utah House of Representatives passed a resolution and gave a standing ovation to the Judge girls swimming team after the Bulldogs won the Class 3A championship for the eighth time in nine years.

2011-12

The Bulldog Press wanted new students to be hip on Judge lingo, offering “essential vocabulary lessons” so newcomers knew what it meant to go to “The Beach,” especially if it was for a game of “Non Dom.”

City Weekly newspaper gave Judge its “Best School Spirit Award” in its annual “Best of …” edition, citing the enthusiastic performances of the Sixth Man Club, particularly when Moses parted the Red Sea.

Sophomore Amelia Wolfgramm had three first-place finishes and a second and Kaley Banyai had a strong meet to lead the Judge girls swimming team to its fourth straight state title, ninth in 10 years.

Seniors Alyssa Corbett and Ali Clayton were No. 2 doubles champs, securing the 3A state crown for the girls tennis team, which also had titlists at No. 2 singles (Whitney Weisberg) and No. 3 (Katie Iwasaki).

2012-13

Teacher Darin Hathaway was the 3A “Drama Coach of the Year,” with Nick Markham finishing first in dramatic monologues. Charlie Howard was “Best Character Actor” in a one-act play.

On Senior Night for the girls basketball team, Cathryn Hunt sent the crowd into a frenzy when she said genetic disorder be damned and drained five of eight three-point shot attempts against Union.

The hockey team made it back-to-back state championships under Coach Anthony Musci, with transfer student Nick O’Cain scoring four goals and senior goalie Marshall Wallace thwarting Viewmont, 5-2.

2013-14

Photographs by students Ben Harvey and Sean Liston were part of the “My Hometown” slideshow on a New York Times blog looking at modern America from a high school perspective.

The first Judge football state championship in 30 years was won in a blizzard at Weber State, 36-22 over Manti, on the running of Kaden Ellis, Michael Kearns, Henry Garcia and Max Barnett.

Junior Paul Oliver won the “most inspirational player” award for the boys golf team, overcoming surgery for a brain malformation and a bout of meningitis to keep on playing.

2014-15

Judge students wrote 700 letters of appreciation to Utah military veterans who participated in the Utah Honor Flight, which flew the vets to the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C.

Max Barnett ran through Juab defenders for four touchdowns and Michael Kearns raced past them for two more in a 63-15 rout that gave Judge its second straight 3A football championship.

Freshman Anna Shum extended the legacy of success for the girls swimming team, racing to victory in the 100-yard breaststroke and leading Judge to a fifth-place finish in the 3A meet.

2015-16

Answering a call from teacher Dasch Houdeshel, Tribune columnist Robert Kirby helped engineering students test the strength of concrete beams by firing bowling balls at them.

The Utah High School Activities Association named 1956 alum and former football coach Gil Cordova the 2015-16 Super Fan for his “extreme longevity in supporting high school activities.”

2016-17

Directed by Ellie Cordova, the Interact Club raised funds for Orphan Relief and Rescue, which helped children subject to “child trafficking, abuse and needless suffering” in Benin and Liberia.

Hayley Auer’s game-winning shot at the buzzer of the 4A quarterfinals against East propelled Coach Paul Shiramizu’s girls basketball team to the title game, where it lost in OT to Skyline.

2017-18

Junior Rebecca Dau Manyiel Akec advanced to the national Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington, D. C. – her first long trip since coming to the United States as a child from Egypt.

Judge’s only hope for winning the 3A girls tennis title was to claim victories in both doubles matches, which it did, with Veronica Start and Ellie McCoy ultimately securing the crown for the Bulldogs.

Joe Paul took a pass from Cameron Lundy and fired it into the back of the net to give the Judge boys soccer team the 3A state championship with a 1-0 double overtime win over Morgan.

2018-19

Ahead of mid-term elections, Judge students Anna Drossos, Lexi DiGregorio, Emma Graham, Lindsay Morton, Alex Soran and Grace Lee promoted voter registration during lunch breaks.

The girls soccer team lost in the 3A finals but on-field success was of secondary importance to what team members experienced off it, rallying behind Coach Scott Platz after his bike accident.

Katherine MacPhail and Olivia Anderson were individual champs, Janna Bredehoeft and Hannah Gose won a doubles title, and the girls tennis team captured its second straight championship.

After trailing 2-0 early, the boys soccer team forged a tie just before halftime, then used an Anthony Galindo goal to beat Summit Academy 3-2, giving it back-to-back 3A state titles.

2019-20

The coronavirus pandemic threw a giant kink into the school year, but Judge students responded with ingenuity and discipline. Graduation was held outdoors, with pictures of seniors lining the parking lot.

Spring sports were canceled because of the pandemic, but Judge crowned some state champions in boys swimming, where Alex “Buddy” Yannelli won two individual crowns and was part of two winning relay teams.

Legendary basketball coach Jim Yerkovich passed away in June. After playing basketball and baseball at Judge, he came back to coach for 44 years – 1966 to 2010 – and to amass 634 wins, sending four dozen players to college.

2000-01

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson gave Judge students a “Transportation Ovation” for their diligence in working with the city to resolve parking problems, ultimately providing 233 spots near the school.

Lacrosse goalkeeper Jake Morrison rejected several shots in the final minutes to give Judge a 12-11 win over Waterford and a second consecutive state title. The Bulldogs rallied from an 8-4 halftime deficit.

2001-02

Taking advantage of Salt Lake City’s role as host of the Winter Olympics, Judge created an “Olympic Odyssey” program to encourage students to examine the history, legacy and culture of the Games.

Three weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, 67 Judge students, faculty and parents made a long-planned trip to New York, visiting a fire station that lost people in the World Trade Center collapse.

Before the first Judge-Juan Diego football game, a half dozen Judge students carried American flags around the field to honor victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks two weeks earlier. Judge won 28-18.

Junior Kathleen Smyth won the 100, 400 and 800 meter runs at the 3A state track meet, then anchored the 1,600-meter relay team’s decisive victory in the meet’s final event to give Judge the girls state title.

2002-03

Judge was one of a few high schools in the U.S. allowed to stage a “school edition” of “Les Miserables.” Directed by Tom Delgado, the play starred Jesse Dornan as Jean Valjean and Nicholas Zaharias as Javert.

Judge was “3A Sports School of the Year” with state championships in girls soccer, boys cross country, girls track and girls and boys swimming. Kathleen Smyth, Liz Caravati and Samantha Gaffney dominated.

Tragedy enveloped Judge Memorial a few weeks before Christmas. Sophomore Demi Candelaria died of meningitis, a day after developing flu-like symptoms following a basketball tournament in St. George.

2003-04

The girls soccer team, described by longtime Coach Wayne Voorhes as his best ever, won its second straight 3A state championship with a 3-0 victory over Ogden. Kato Mayeda was the state’s top player.

Judge’s sports dominance continued from 2002-03 with back-to-back state crowns in girls soccer and girls and boys swimming. Both track teams took state, as did golfers Nick Carter and Natalie Stone.

2004-05

A team of Judge “attorneys” advanced to the National Mock Trial Championships after winning the state title. Its toughest opponent – a second Judge team. Laura Burchett was named top attorney at nationals.

Judge ruled the 3A world in swimming – Liz Caravati starred as the girls and boys won their third straight titles – and cross country, led by back-to-back champions Samantha Gaffney and Patrick Smyth.

2005-06

Judge’s Interact Club became the first high school group to be awarded a Rotary Club charter membership, in part because of its public service project, which involved helping the people of Sudan.

Dean of Students Dan Quinn oversaw student athlete “volunteers” and Judge alumni as the football field was cleared of underbrush and trash trees in preparation for the installation of an artificial turf surface.

Coach Jim Yerkovich’s boys basketball team captured the 3A state championship – his third – with a 40-29 win over Tooele, led by big men Daniel Deane and Noel Hollingsworth and guard Jaxon Myaer.

The girls track team took the 3A state championship for the fourth time in five years, with Samantha McMillan sweeping the three distance events.

2006-07

Seniors Andrew Scott and Brendan Garlinghouse made a 750-mile drive to Globe, Ariz. to distribute school supplies collected from Judge students to children on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation.

The drama department performed “Dead Men Walking,” based on a book about a nun’s encounter with capital punishment, a few months after Judge students met the author herself, Sister Helen Prejean.

The new Judge football field, McCarthey Stadium, was dedicated on Sept. 29 with skydivers and a ribbon-cutting ceremony before a crowd that filled the stands and ringed the artificial playing field.

Judge made state swimming history when the Carter sisters swept the top three spots in breaststroke at the 3A meet. Junior Alex Carter won the event, followed by freshmen twin sisters Kenzie and Carolyn.

2007-08

While doing research for the “Judge History Project,” senior Sarah Fitzpatrick learned her grandmother picked Judge’s school colors, red and gold, in the 1920s when she knitted caps for fall football games.

The Salt Lake Tribune recognized Judge as the top boys “Sports School of the Year,” in all classifications, based on state championships in basketball, track and field, tennis and baseball (which was undefeated).

Luke Puskedra and Hailey Knettles won the individual cross country championships at the 3A state meet. Knettles had the fastest time of the day for all girl runners, including those in 4A and 5-A.

2008-09

Vice Principal George Angelo was named “2009 Educator Hero” by the Greater Salt Lake Chapter of the American Red Cross for his stellar development of the sports medicine athletic training program.

Freshman Scott Treiman won the Utah Junior High School Chess Championship. The two-day competition at the University of Utah featured 136 sixth through ninth-grade students.

2009-10

Despite objections that the play “Rent” promoted homosexuality, Judge put on the play nonetheless, receiving stellar reviews for its insight into “homelessness, helplessness and hopelessness.”

Jim Yerkovich wrapped up a 44-year career as Judge’s boys basketball coach with a run to the Class 3A state championship game, but Bulldogs could not give him a fourth title, losing to Wasatch in his finale.

The boys tennis team dedicated its season to teammate Sean McCoy, who died in a tragic fall during the summer. McCoy’s initials, SM, were stitched into the left shirt sleeves of the team uniforms.

1990-91

Kate Baron posed next to a sign saying “The People Want A Nuclear Freeze” in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., which she visited as part of social studies teacher Peter Van Orden’s Close-up trip to the nation’s capital.

Three Judge runners – Ted Hansen, Danny Nowicki and Gary Green – placed in the Top 10 to lead Coach Eric Houle’s Bulldogs to the 3A state championship at Sugarhouse Park.

Freshman Mari Hrebener won a state title at No. 3 singles and Judge had second-place finishers in Chelsea Deakins and Stephanie Tonin, leading the Bulldogs to second place in 3A girls tennis.

1991-92

Principal John McGean, who had graduated from Judge in 1964 and returned as an English teacher in 1968, departed after 23 years as a teacher and administrator.

Tennis player Peter Matus capped an undefeated high school career with his third straight state championship at No. 1 singles, while the doubles team of Gary Green and Justin Henderson also won a title.

Coach Eric Houle’s boys cross country team won its second straight 3A state championship, led by Ted Hansen, while the girls team finished second at the state meet, led by third-place finisher Katie McHugh.

Ashley Smith won two 3A titles and Corina Smith a third to lead the girls swimming team to second place at the state meet, while Joey Zone was the boys “3A Swimmer of the Year” and Carter Young won a state title.

1992-93

Tom Delgado joined the Judge faculty as drama teacher, vowing to “blow the doors off the auditorium and establish Judge as a school that delivers professional quality performances.” He did that.

For the second straight year, the Bulldog Press newspaper was judged to be the best in 3A. Emily Sanford was editor-in-chief of the newspaper, whose production was overseen by Chris Sloan.

Author Stephen King was on the Judge campus, where he was interviewed by Bulldog Press reporter Abigail Sanford about the filming being done on his book, “The Stand”, for a TV mini-series.

Led by Bryan Banks, Katie Bayer, Sean deFour, Kim DeRushia, the Mock Trial team took the 3A state title for the second straight year, defeating Layton High 209-199 in the finale.

More than 100 former players turned out as Judge honored boys basketball coach (also academic vice principal and AP Calculus teacher) Jim Yerkovich on completing a quarter century of coaching.

Individual titles for Ashley Smith, Lisa Book, Liz Laney and Corina Smith lifted the girls swimming team to the 3A state crown, while Joey Zone and Carter Young won state championships for the boys.

Matt Wolach’s goal with seven minutes left gave the Judge hockey team a 3-2 lead over Highland in the state championship game, and senior goalie Jackson Adams made it stand as the Bulldogs took the title.

1993-94

Linda Simpson took over as the moderator in charge of producing Judge’s literary magazine. The effort was aided by the acquisition of two computers, ending the need to share space as the computer lab.

Mike Klass and Sam Chipman earned All-State honors to lead Coach Dan Quinn’s boys cross country team to a second-place finish in the 4A state meet at Sugarhouse Park.

1994-95

A Bulldog Press survey found that 19% of students had experienced discrimination because of ethnicity, 31% had faced bias because of gender and 39% felt discriminated against due to “social class.”

Judge students Christopher Camp, Curtis Brand and Gabe Medina were part of a Cathedral Choir that sang “You Are Peter” in Rome for Pope John Paul II, who “blew a kiss of approval to us” afterward.

Groundskeeper, cook and maintenance man Roy Okamoto, who spent 42 years at Judge, died on May 30 at age 95. He passed away at St. Joseph’s Villa, where he often was seen in his Judge letterjacket.

Legendary Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne visited Judge to recruit punter Andy Bilanzich for the Cornhusker program weeks before Dan Ruettinger, subject of the movie “Rudy,” spoke at an assembly.

Led by Dominic and Topher Patillo, the boys cross country team captured the first of several state championships that would be won under the direction of Coach Dan Quinn.

State championships were earned by Liz Laney in swimming (breaststroke), discus hurler Paul Northway in track and the boys lacrosse team, which used three late Wilson Thorpe goals to beat Alta 9-7.

1995-96

The Internet came to Judge. Computer teacher Pam Mayeda and library-media specialist Charlene Furano established Internet stations around the school and trained teachers and students on its use.

Student Body President Pyper Thaller was part of a Judge contingent that spent months negotiating with Salt Lake City transportation officials and neighborhood leaders over a never-ending problem: Parking.

One of the best athletes Judge ever produced, Gary Barber from the Class of 1972, was killed along with seven other Coca Cola officials and their advertising team in an airplane crash in southeastern Idaho.

Nobody threw the discus like senior Paul Northway. At a meet in St. George, he threw his discus out of the course, over a fence and into a street – 214 feet, 9 inches – 32 feet longer than the previous record.

1996-97

Marty Jemison, Class of 1996, became the first Utahn to compete in the Tour de France bicycle race. He was the U.S. National Road Race champion in 1993 and had competed extensively on the European tour.

A front-page picture in the May edition of the Bulldog Press showed Nick Teseros posing for a picture surrounded by Los Angeles Lakers cheerleaders. The newspaper labeled him “a traitor to the Jazz.”

Unbeknownst to basketball coach Jim Yerkovich, the school handed out masks of his face for Judge fans to wear at a home contest against West, one game after Yerkovich notched his 400th career victory.

Led by Tonie Carl, Jason Costa, Rebecca Farr and Suzanne Itami, Judge’s “A team” won the state Mock Trial competition and qualified for the national competition in Albuquerque, N.M.

After coaching the girls soccer team for a decade, Wayne Voorhes also took over the boys soccer team, which was led by captains Chris Kennedy and Ryan Regal and goalie Nick Clark.

1997-98

Jeanette Sawaya was named “Dance Educator of the Year” by the Utah Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance after directing the program “By Wind and Water, an environmental impact.”

Student Amador Guzman was one of six youth testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on “What Works: The Efforts of Private Individuals, Community Organizations and Religious Groups to Prevent Juvenile Crime.”

Sophomore Pete Stone shot a 1-under-par 70 to win the individual title and to lift the boys golf team to a three-stroke win in the 4A state tournament over Spanish Fork. Teammate Justin James was second.

Stephanie Coppa won the No. 2 singles title while Jennifer Kelleher and Danielle Henry claimed the state championship in No. 2 doubles to lead the girls tennis team to fourth place at the 4A state tournament.

1998-99

Judge student Toni Carl was one of six American teens who were in Northern Ireland when a bomb planted by the “Real IRA” exploded in the town of Omagh, killing 29 innocent people.

Junior Pete Stone defended his individual medalist title, shooting a three-under-par 68 at East Bay Golf Course in Provo, but the Bulldogs were unable to repeat their Class 4A golf title, slipping to sixth.

1999-2000

Talk about brainiacs. The Class of 2000 had 10 students attain National Merit Finalist status, the highest honors going to Bashira Chowdhury, who was designated a National Merit Scholar.

Renee Genereux, who was departing after serving as Judge principal since 1997 and a teacher for 16 years, was one of seven honorees by the Alumni Alliance of Judge Memorial and St. Mary’s of the Wasatch.

Junior Duncan Lindquist won the 3A individual cross country championship and the 3,200-meter run in track while senior Pete Stone became just the third Utah prep golfer to win three consecutive state titles.

Mary Chris Yerkovich was hired to coach the Judge girls basketball team. Together with her dad Jim, the boys coach, the Yerkoviches became “Utah’s first father-daughter tandem at the same school.”

Patrick Zimmerman scored three late goals and Brendan Ross added two more to lift the Judge lacrosse team to a come-from-behind 11-8 victory over Waterford in the state championship game.

1980-81

Graduate David Martin and his friend Ted Fields, both African-Americans, were shot and killed by avowed racist and serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin as they jogged with white women near Liberty Park.

Bishop Joseph Lennox Federal recited a prayer, the band played enthusiastically and speeches were given before Coach Frank L’Etoile’s football team played its first home game in 20 years, beating South.

1981-82

The Judgeonian was the best newspaper in the 3A ranks, led by the editorial quartet of John Byrne, Leland Cowan, Lisa Carricaburu and Yolanda Valdez. They also changed its masthead to Bulldog Press.

Wearing purple socks in honor of Coach Frank L’Etoile, the football team captured the 3A State Championship, trouncing Jordan 52-13 on four Mike Curtin touchdown passes and six takeaways.

A first in Judge history: Senior Jose Azarcon recorded a hole in one for Coach Pat Clark’s golf team, connecting during the region tournament with a seven iron on the par 3 14th hole at Davis County.

1982-83

Judge got computers. “Everywhere a person turns in today’s society, he or she comes into contact with computers,” was the opening sentence in the lead story of the first edition of the year’s Bulldog Press.

Margaret Traub won the No. 1 singles title at the Class 3A tennis tournament, Sydney Green won a state championship in gymnastics and junior Lynn Baldwin competed in the North American Ski Series.

Coach Jim Yerkovich had a plan to build an all-purpose gymnasium, covered by a dome, west of the longtime gym on the hill overlooking the football field. The facility was projected to cost $8-12 million.

Teacher Chuck McKenna set up a table tennis tournament, attracting 40 players. He defeated senior Matt McLaren for the boy’s singles title. Junior Peta Owens beat her sister Maggie in the girls division.

1983-84

A Bulldog Press editorial praised the front-office contributions of Helen Eugster, then in her 31st year at Judge, and Rae Ann Eck, who was in the third year of what would be a 40-year stint at the school.

The Salt Lake Diocese looked at expanding Judge with a new gym, auditorium and a few new classrooms because enrollment was up to 860, about 60 more than the building could accommodate comfortably.

Judge junior Lisa Meyers had two scenes as an extra in the movie “Footloose,” filmed in Lehi. She is seen early on dancing, then looking like a bored high school student. “That part wasn’t hard to do,” she said.

Paul Barbiero ran the opening kickoff back for a touchdown, leading an underskilled “Team of Heart” to an improbable 26-21 victory over highly favored Jordan in the 3A state championship football game.

Judge fielded a wrestling team for the first time in seven years, the boys golf team won the region title led by Nicky Danforth and the baseball team won a state tourney game with Danny Auer striking out 11.

1984-85

For the first time in office secretary Helen Eugster’s 34-year career at Judge, school closed when an Oct. 18 storm dropped 19 inches of snow. “I watched TV all day in my pajamas,” said senior Kendra Peters.

Tragedy struck in March when two students, Brenda Deegan and Vallencia Chavez, were killed in a car crash near Steamboat Springs, Colo. The pair “traveled life’s roads together,” said Deegan’s obituary.

Yet another plan emerged to expand the Judge gym. This $4.3 million plan would boost capacity from 1,000 to 2,500 and replaced the auditorium. There was one problem: not enough money to pay for it.

For the first time in school history, two students completed their school careers with perfect 4.0 grade point averages. That made Noel Marie Yerkovich and Colette Hanson co-valedictorians at graduation.

Freshman Chrissie Volla captured the state title at No. 2 singles player to lead the girls tennis team to second place in 3A. Finishing second were Elke Schaumberg in No. 1 singles and Wendy Bevan in No. 3.

Frank L’Etoile retired after nine seasons as football coach, amassing two state championships, five region titles and a 72-28 record. He was replaced by John Colosimo, a member of the Class of 1974.

1985-86

Sandy Seiner performed the lead role in Judge’s production of “The Fantastiks,” one of two plays directed that year by Marcia Hepps. She also oversaw the student presentation of “Listen Under Milkwood.”

Tennis player Wendy Bevins claimed a state championship in No. 3 singles while the hockey team wrapped up a 16-2-1 season with an 8-4 victory over Alta in the title game, led by goalie Sean Murphy.

1986-87

With Sen. Orrin Hatch in attendance, along with Bishops William Weigand and Joseph Lennox Federal, ground was broken for a new auditorium. The student council donated $2,000 toward construction.

Cheryl Bylsky won a state championship in diving to lead the girls swimming team at the 3A state meet. Coach Mike Lovett’s boys team finished seventh, carried by two second-place finishes for Nick Satovick.

The girls tennis team finished second at the state 3A tournament, led by individual champion Lisa Paal. The Bulldogs were coached by Bob Juhasz.

1987-88

Principal John McGean announced in November that “students at Judge Memorial sold more magazine subscriptions than any group has ever done in the state of Utah.”

Led by co-captain Jean Gomez, five Bulldogs finished in the top 16 to lead the Judge girls cross country team to the 3A state championship. Swimmer Nick Satovick also won an individual state title.

1988-89

The U.S. Department of Education named Judge an “exemplary school,” one of only 47 private secondary schools in the country receiving the designation. Judge also was singled out in 1983-84.

Judge was dominant in 3A tennis. On the girls side, Lisa Paal won the No. 2 singles title for the third straight year. Boys Gordon Gibbs and Peter Matus also claimed state championships.

Senior Jimmy Soto and junior Chris Jones led Coach Jim Yerkovich’s boys basketball team to the 3A state finals, where the Bulldogs lost to Timpview 88-81 despite making 35 straight free throws.

The girls track team won the 3A state title, led by sisters Jana and Trisha Dilley and a record-setting mile-relay team, while Toby Sausedo captured first place in pole vault at the state meet.

The boys soccer team won its second 3A state championship in three years, beating Jordan 2-0 in the title game. Nathan Semerad and Nat Hildebrand scored the decisive goals for Judge.

1989-90

Tim Clark took an all-expense paid trip to Hawaii, his reward for selling more than $2,000 worth of magazine subscriptions in a fund-raising campaign that netted $60,000 for the school over two years.

Two Judge athletes earned individual state championships during the year – No. 3 singles player Stephanie Tonin in tennis and swimmer Nick Satovick, who set a state record in the 100 backstroke.

In the first year that girls soccer was a sanctioned sport in Utah, Judge outscored its opponents 118-8 en route to a trip to the state championship game, where the Bulldogs lost 3-2 to Ben Lomond.

1970-71

Judge recovered seven fumbles, the last by junior Gary Barber, who also broke up a two-point conversion and swatted away a potential TD pass in a 10-7 win over Payson for the Class A football title.

Girls returned to Judge, which formally added the word “Catholic” to the school’s name. The consolidated administration was led by Principal Fr. Ivan Cendese and Dean of Girls Sr. Ann Veronica.

1971-72

Dealing with real world issues, Judge presented “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine,” a drama about Catholic activists who burned draft cards to protest the Vietnam War, starring George Del Hoyo.

Coach Gil Cordova’s football team faced Payson in the state finals for the third straight year, but the Lions took the rubber match, 14-7, despite the efforts of Gary Barber, who was All-State in three sports.

1972-73

Perhaps the best Judge football team ever, Coach Gil Cordova’s squad had speed, size and toughness. It went undefeated, beating Davis 34-22 for the Class A title, as well as the AA finalists, Kearns and Provo.

Fr. Thomas McNamara took over as the third principal in four years, replacing Fr. Ivan Cendese. The faculty also was joined by Palmer DePaulis, a former St. Mary’s teacher and future Salt Lake City mayor.

1973-74

Teacher Dave Disorbio, “Coach D,” expanded his weightlifting program to include girls, explaining in a Salt Lake Tribune article that “girls are moving away from the idea that physical activity is unfeminine.”

Senior basketball star Tad Mancini got his picture in Sports Illustrated attempting to block a shot by Bingham’s Bruce Hardy, who the magazine was focusing on as the country’s top high school athlete.

1974-75

The girls tennis team swept to the Class A state championship in glorious fashion, taking titles in all five events. Susan Schovaers, Jane Schovaers and Cathy Corbett all won singles titles for Coach Lew Baker.

A burglar broke into the cafeteria, cutting himself and leaving a trail of blood through the school halls, and got away with $10 in change from an ice-cream machine that was hit again eight days later.

The “Marty Mates Fan Club” established itself as the Sixth Man Club that all other student cheering sections would aspire to rival, stealing and bringing a Colonel Sanders statue to a basketball game.

1975-76

Gov. Calvin Rampton issued a proclamation in September honoring the Sisters of the Holy Cross for 100 years of service in Utah. The nuns who arrived in 1875 taught some of Brigham Young’s children.

The Judgeonian credited Margaret Brennan’s “just run ‘em over” defense and quarterback Barbara Timper’s running for leading the senior girls to a 12-6 win over the freshman for the flag football title.

1976-77

Judge students participated in a Bicentennial Mass at the Salt Palace, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the country’s founding and the passage of the Dominguez/Escalante Expedition through Utah.

As Coach Jim Yerkovich took his boys basketball team to the state tournament for the eighth straight year, The Tribune wrote a story about the towel he held during games to keep control over his nerves.

1977-78

The lay faculty submitted a proposal to improve salary and benefits, having forgone increases for a year due to “budgetary difficulties.” Since 1972, teacher salaries grew 9.5% compared to 34.7% statewide.

Led by high-scoring junior Billy McKenna, the hockey team lost in the state finals to Viewmont. Coach Mike McCormick’s team reached the title game when Andy Deiss’s hat trick topped Highland 7-3.

1978-79

Seniors Joan O’Brien and Bill Hurley coordinated a 72-hour fast, finished by 26 students, which raised $820 for a mission in Mexico and a mission the Sisters of the Holy Cross operate in Bangladesh.

Judge freshman Denise Gaztambide shattered the state record in the high jump, clearing 5-feet, 10 inches on her second try at the 3A state meet at Weber State. That broke the old record by five inches.

Basketball coach Jim Yerkovich unveiled the “WE Shirts,” celebrating unselfishness. “Love and togetherness on a team is a valuable life experience,” he said, “more important than winning games.”

The girls tennis team tied Timpview for the 3A state championship, with both doubles teams claiming titles. Cathy Meyer and Jackie Moore won No. 1 doubles, Joanne Williams and Anne Watson No. 2.

1979-80

Mary Roney became Judge’s first female student body president), defeating good friend Andy Cier in the election. She was not, however, the first girl to lead the school. Emma Angelmo Veltri did so in 1929.

Hopes of having the football field ready for the fall season were dashed by construction problems (workers hit a sewer line, spreading waste on the field) and the failure to obtain a building permit.

The boys basketball team won its first state championship in school history. The backcourt duo of Aaron McCarthy and Joel Rotta led Judge to a thrilling 64-61 win over defending champion American Fork.

Dan Rodman did a jig on the ice after scoring the winning goal with 41 seconds left in the second overtime as the hockey team beat Highland 3-2 for the state title before 2,500 fans at the Salt Palace.

1960-61

Judge fielded its first swimming team, mostly freshmen and sophomores, who trained at Wasatch Plunge. Paul Johnson was the only Bulldog to make the All-State football team in the Deseret News.

Bishop Joseph Lennox Federal “tapped a bit of mortar into place” to symbolically complete construction of the new Judge school building, accompanied in the ceremony by senior Jim Yerkovich.

1961-62

Frs. Thomas P.O’Neill and Thomas Gillespie are the first priests from the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales to arrive at Judge. After six years as principal, Sr. M. Leo Anthony was replaced by Sister Anna Teresa.

Leone Small retired after 22 years of running the cafeteria. “I remember the little children – now I meet them on the street and those little children have gray in their hair and children of their own at Judge.”

1962-63

“To cut down on distractions and to encourage concentration,” religion, biology and English classes were divided into girls and boys sections. Girls entered classrooms on one side of the hall, boys on the other.

Led by All-Stater Greg Gardner, the basketball team went to the Class B state finals before losing to BY High 58-51. Guard Sonny Tangaro made the Deseret News’s “Little All-State team” for shorter players.

1963-64

Bishop Joseph Lennox Federal announced at Sunday masses that Judge would become an all-boy school with 425 students the next year, following the departure of 300 girls to St. Mary’s of the Wasatch.

The baseball team reached the Class B state finals thanks to a 15-innining pitching performance by senior Pat Clark in a 4-1 semifinal win over Uintah. Judge lost 3-0 to American Fork in the title game.

1964-65

George Trosper and Christopher Trentleman were National Merit Finalists, while Alan Crandall won the Mick Riley Memorial Award as the “outstanding athlete, scholar and Catholic gentleman” of the class.

A seventh period was added to the school day so that classes in journalism, speech and glee club could be taught three days a week, while the other two days were set aside for Mass and singing practice.

1965-66

Three Judge students – lead guitarist John Perri, rhythm guitarist Dan Cook and drummer Eddie Rudman – were members of the Malibus, an award-winning rock group that played at the Homecoming dance.

Frank Klekas left Judge to become the football coach at newly opening Kearns High School. Two Judge graduates were named as his replacements: Gil Cordova in football and Jim Yerkovich in basketball.

1966-67

While 92% of Judge students said they favored U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, student Ed Rudman wrote in the Judgeonian about the Peace Corps and Vista being alternatives to military service.

Running back John Pezely was one of Utah’s top football players, shot putter Sam Aloia led the track team, Pat Kelly and Tim May were the leading basketball scorers and baseball relied on Jerry Jefferies.

1967-68

The Vietnam War came closer to home for the Judge community with word that 1966 graduate John Barbury had died of shrapnel wounds. Richard Wood previously had been killed in a 10-hour gun battle.

Sophomore Dan Rigdon was working as a watchman at the Cathedral in January when “a long-haired, hippie-type gunman” fired a shot at him and forced him to turn over his wallet – and the $1 it contained.

1967-68

Tennis player Bob Schovaers received a U.S Junior Davis Cup tryout, Sam Aloia was state champion in shot put and Dennis Bearden finished in a four-way tie for the Class A golf title but lost in a playoff.

1969-70

With a gusty south wind at his back, junior placekicker Ross Caputo booted a 60-yard field at Hillcrest to give Judge a 3-0 victory, in a season when the football team lost to Payson 14-7 in the Class A title game.

Led by sweet-shooting senior guard Jeff Hansen and ball-hawking sophomore guard Gary Barber, Coach Jim Yerkovich’s Bulldogs reached the Class A basketball finals before losing to Dixie, 91-77, at BYU.

After two detailed studies, the Salt Lake Diocese announced in March that St. Mary’s of the Wasatch would close at the end of the school year due to financial difficulties and girls would return to Judge.

1950-53

Diversity was displayed early in Judge’s history. In the 1950-51 school year, Margy Gonzales was Homecoming queen. In 1952-53, Gilbert Martinez and Richard Lobato were football team co-captains.

1950-51

New principal Sr. Claire Antoine Rozier played a vital role improving the football program. She started clearing the field of rocks and got equipment from a Catholic school in California that bought new gear.

The highlight of the football season for Coach Thomas Mares’s 2-6 team came on Homecoming when running back Kelly Moffitt scored four touchdowns, reaching paydirt on runs of 90, 55, 11 and 15 yards.

1951-52

Judge students Ann McDonough, Bernadette Walz and Patricia Houghton joined ZCMI models in a fashion show that reflected “a national chorus of protest against excessive décolletage in formal dress.”

Gilbert Martinez and Richard Lobato were football team co-captains. “Both of Spanish-American extraction, the new co-captains offer proof that a fine American tradition is very much alive at Judge Memorial,” the Judgeonian reported.

1952-53

George Melinkovich, who played football at Notre Dame under Coach Knute Rockne, took over the Judge program. His initial assessment of his first team was pessimistic: “They’re too small and cocky.”

The General Excellence Award went to Mary Catherine Smith, the yearbook editor, whose poem “Remembrance” had been published in the annual national Anthology of High School Poetry.

1953-54

After a delay because of funding problems, construction was completed on a new basketball gym capable of seating 750 and providing “much-needed facilities for athletics [as well as] classroom space.”

1953-54

The Judgeonian newspaper made its debut, a four-page edition put out by co-editors Sally Allen and Tom Black. The paper retained that name until a 1980 student vote changed it to the Bulldog Press.

1954-55

Bishop Duane Hunt dedicated the new gymnasium, praised for its “huge basketball court, six classrooms and other facilities,” on Sept. 10. He solemnly blessed all of the rooms on the ground and second floors.

Junior quarterback Gil Cordova and running back John Webb teamed up to score on a classic Statue of Liberty play in a 25-7 victory over Grantsville during the first football season under George Melinkovich.

1955-56

Judge fielded a girls basketball team for an Inter-Church Basketball League with Rowland Hall, St. Paul’s Episcopal, Wasatch Presbyterian and the Greek Orthodox churches. Sophomore Vera Daily was captain.

A photograph with a newspaper article about a civil defense training program at Judge showed junior Gil Cordova being hauled down a ladder by a Salt Lake City firefighter as a circle of students looked on.

1956-57

Foreseeing an enrollment surge, Bishop Duane Hunt urged parents to send their high school-age girls to St. Mary’s of the Wasatch, adding the idea of Judge becoming an all-boy school was “not farfetched.”

Frank Klekas arrived at Judge as head basketball coach. Two years later he took over the football program and ran it for a successful decade. At one point, he coached every sport Judge offered.

1957-58

Lyn Cosgriff, whose grandfather’s name graces St. Ambrose’s grade school, made a name for herself by winning the Cosgriff Award for general excellence and a slew of academic honors in individual subjects.

Judge shared the Class B state title with Notre Dame High School of Price after rain disrupted two efforts to play the championship game. The second ended in a 2-2 tie. Bob Lucero was Judge’s ace pitcher.

1958-59

Fundraising was fully under way to build a new $1.4 million school – pledges began at $540 – designed to hold 1,000 students and provide fourth-floor accommodations for 22 Sisters of the Holy Cross.

Judge fans at the Class B football semifinals were irate after a critical two-point conversion was wiped off by an official who, after being accosted by hometown Millard fans, changed his initial call of good.

1959-60

Jay Gamble was one of four Judge football players named All-State after the Bulldogs captured the Class B title with a 31-9 victory over Uintah. Larry Eagan, Mike Allem and Kelly Moore also were picked.

Nancy Crowder won the general excellence award for the last class to graduate from the old Judge school. She was one of three National Merit finalists, along with Michael Mulcahy and Douglas Slawson.

1940-41

Judge became the first school in Utah to have a fencing program, under the tutelage of Virginia Westlake. One of the first state champions was a 1944 graduate, Norinne Maher (later Kunzweiler).

1941-42

Patricia Kavanagh and John Hurley formed the Harlequins, a dramatic group that organized a Halloween party at St. Mary’s and entertained Army draftees at Fort Douglas. Judge fencers exhibited their skills.

1942-43

Pat Reeves won the annual Oratorical Contest with a “well-organized piece of work, delivered with earnestness and conviction,” about Fr. Bernard Hubbard, the “Glacier Priest,” who explored Alaska.

Under new coach Paul Patten, a former Notre Dame football player who took over for Wally Morse, Judge snapped a 20-game losing streak with a 21-13 victory over North Summit and finished 2-4.

1943-44

A fundraising campaign was launched in January by “fathers of Judge students” seeking to raise $10,000 to grade and sod the field, put in bleachers along the terrace and purchase better football equipment.

Senior Gerda Sirstins died in March of a heart ailment, just a month after she was one of eight Judge girls who modeled at a fashion show to raise money for the purchase of a papal flag for the auditorium.

1944-45

Competing against 10,000 students nationwide, senior Walter Miller received a war-stamp prize in the 8th annual international bookkeeping contest sponsored by the magazine Business Education World.

Led by Ed Hill and Joe Cronin, the Judge football team posted its first winning record, 4-3, and was on the top end of a lopsided score when Coach James Powers’ Bulldogs pounded South Summit 45-0.

Eight Judge graduates made the ultimate sacrifice and died in World War II – Jack Haire, William Carter, Edward McChrystal, Robert Scarborough, James Riley, Leo Shields, Patrick Maher and Paul Purcell.

1945-46

Sr. Mary Veronique became principal as enrollment rose from 460 to 550, straining the building’s capacity. Fr. James Kenny became the third priest to help the Sisters of the Holy Cross run Judge.

Tom Carey took over the football and basketball programs after graduating from Regis College in Denver. His football team went 2-3 with a 14-man roster while the Bulldog basketball team was 3-10.

1946-47

Already the first native-born priest in Utah, Class of 1925 graduate Robert Dwyer gave up his teaching position at Judge to become the first Salt Laker to lead a parish, Cathedral, after a diocesan shuffling.

William Moran’s arrival changed Judge. A 14-letter athlete at Loras College in Iowa, his first football team went 1-4 but as later coach Frank Klekas noted, Moran provided “a new philosophy – to win.”

1947-48

Class of 1929 alumnus William McDougall, a United Press International reporter, published “Six Bells Off Java” about his WWII experiences -- a ship sinking, hiding in the jungle and becoming a Japanese POW.

Judge fielded its first baseball team. Under Coach Bill Moran, the Bulldogs finished 3-6 and swamped Morgan 21-8. Moran’s football team posted a 1-3-1 record while his basketball squad broke even at 8-8.

1948-49

Ground was broken for a new elementary school at the Cathedral to relieve pressure on the Judge building, straining under an enrollment of 150 high school students, 570 counting the grade school.

Judge won its first state football championship, defeating Cyprus for the Class B title. The coach was Bill Moran, who was in his third year. Tragically, he drowned the following summer in the Mississippi River.

1949-50

Bob Hill ran three yards for a touchdown with less than two minutes remaining to give Judge an 18-12, come-from-behind victory over Payson for its second Class B football championship in as many years.

One of 32 graduates, Dolores Ann Carey won the General Excellence Award in the first year Judge was only a high school. The diocese shifted responsibility for the grade school to Our Lady of Lourdes Parish.

1930-31

A graduating class of 29, easily the school’s largest to date, included banker, rancher and philanthropist Walter E. Cosgriff. Phil Purcell and Joe Cronin were key players on a winless football team.

1931-32

Sports programs were suspended indefinitely because of financial hardships stemming from the Great Depression, but not before the Bulldog football team suffered a 157-0 loss to Tooele.

1932-33

Without sports due to the Great Depression, Judge’s focus on academic and religious training impact the life of senior Lawrence Vaughan, who went on to become a Maryknoll priest for 52 years.

1933-34

The school building was evacuated and students were “standing around [outside] in breathless suspense for it to collapse” after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake produced shock waves in the Salt Lake Valley.

1934-35

The seniors put on a spring program mockingly comparing their upcoming graduation to a funeral, with valedictorian Charlotte Knight offering a sermon while class poet Martha Ross recited a dirge.

1935-36

Ken Larsen, a University of Utah football, basketball and track athlete, was hired to coach Judge athletic teams. The school also expanded its music offerings, starting a band and orchestra under M.J. Edelman.

1936-37

Fr. Joseph Keefe left Judge after 14 years as the school’s administrator because of impaired health. He was replaced by Fr. Thomas Butler, a native of Ireland, and Sr. Teresa Clare, who became principal.

1937-38

Student body president Mac Williams and James Reilly delivered a bronze plaque to Jordan High School to express the condolences of Judge students after a bus-train accident killed 24 Jordan students.

1938-39

Senior Edward McChrystal took second place in a national essay contest sponsored by Duquesne University but the letter announcing the award was lost in the mail until delivered to teacher Linda Simpson in 1998.

1939-40

Graduates John Brennan (1931) and Bob Murphy (1932) passed the Utah State Bar, prompting a school official to say: “Judge Memorial makes no idle claims to superior scholarship, but stands on her record.”

1924-25

The initial graduating class of 10 included Robert Dwyer, the first native Utahn ordained as a priest in the Salt Lake Diocese. Dwyer was also the first local to be a parish pastor, taking charge at the Cathedral in 1946.

1925-26

Fr. Joseph Keefe oversaw Cathedral School for the second year, presiding over a graduation ceremony in which diplomas were presented to 13 seniors, including nine boys and four girls.

1926-27

The graduating class of 13 included two future journalists – William McDougall, who was a United Press International reporter during World War II, and Salt Lake Tribune reporter Marlowe Branagan.

Lee Richards replaced Bob Gorlinski as football coach and posted a 4-2-1 record. He also coached the basketball team, which was discontinued after a winless season and financial difficulties at the school.

1927-28

Larry Brennan was captain of the 21-player football team, which was coached this year by Harold White, a graduate of Northwestern University who had been a University of Utah assistant.

1928-29

Emma Anselmo – married name Veltri -- was elected to be Judge’s first female student leader, president of a senior class of 24. The school song was to the tune of “When it’s Springtime in the Rockies.”

1929-30

Helen Pruss, who in 1984 was named “Parish Mother of the Year” in St. Ambrose Parish, was one of four girls and 10 boys who graduated at the Ladies Literary Club, followed by a reception in Memory Grove.

The Salt Lake Diocese took over Cathedral High School and changed its name to Judge Memorial in recognition of the financial support that Mary Judge and her late husband provided to get the school going.