Fourth Graders Help Bring Home A Varsity Basketball Win

The Ladue Lady Rams had dedicated supporters rooting them on Monday night.

There’s a very good reason why Reed School fourth grade teacher Karla Rigdon skipped grading papers and spent the evening cheering for the Ladue High Rams’ basketball team. A real simple reason for certain. Seems that star guard senior Kate Holloway is a Cadet teacher in her class. Ladue seniors get a chance to go into the classroom to see if a future in teaching might suit them. Frankly, Holloway adores her grade schoolers quite a bit. She put on the chalk board a schedule of home games in the new year. The students voted to attend Monday night’s game with the Summit Falcons. Armed with Skittles, Ropes, Twix, Laughy Taffy, bags of popcorn and canned soda, 15 fourth graders sat in the front rows of the bleachers and cheered heartily for No…

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Ladue Wins 11 of 12 Pool Events Over Lindbergh Flyers

Eudal Swimmers ready to score in the state meet next month.

High school students are known for different things. It could be the track star, or the actress, or the class president. Senior Maddie Wall will forever be known at Ladue High School as The swimmer. Wall has taken the Eudal swimmers to new heights. She has forged her name onto the swim display board in the hallway and into the record books. Ladue won 11 of 12 events and racked up a 106-78 victory over the Lindbergh Flyers. Wall had her name attached to four first place finishes in the dual meet. Wall was first in the 200 yard freestyle in 1:59.48; first in the lengthy 500 yard freestyle in 5:24.81; and anchored the the first-place 200 yard freestyle relay (1:49.12) and the 400 yard freestyle relay in 3:52.22. In both relays, when she got …

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Defensive Pressure Proves Too Much As Parkway North Knocks Off Ladue In Boys Hoops

Senior Darrell Johnson’s 13 points and 12 rebounds help carry Vikes to their fourth straight win to start the new season.

LADUE – With a number of other area teams receiving much of the early-season boys basketball hype, a pair of unbeaten teams flying just under the hype machine’s radar hooked up Friday night at Ladue High’s Nielson Gymnasium. The host Rams came in with a 3-0 record, after impressive wins over John Burroughs, Brentwood, and Normandy, while the visitors from Parkway North came in having swept all three games it played in the Parkway Tip-Off Classic. Something had to give. And something turned out to be the home team’s calm nerves, as Parkway North pushed and pressured Ladue into a night full of bad shots and turnovers, which eventually led the Vikings to a 41-31 win on the road. “What we’ve been winning on all year is because we defend,” …

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An Affair Almost as Big as the Royal Wedding

Homecoming at Ladue High School is much different than those at schools in small town Oklahoma.

Saturday, I went to the Ladue High School homecoming game. I was working and gathering information for a story on both the football game and the homecoming court when I noticed some unusual happenings. Coming from the south, I had very different ideas about what I would see at the Ladue homecoming game. I expected a lot of pomp and circumstance. As Caleb Ellis put it in his bio, I thought it would be an event “likely be bigger than Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding.” To high school students in small towns in the South, homecoming is arguably one of the biggest events of the school year. When I arrived at the field, I searched for the homecoming queen contestants. From my experience, they were identifiable by the fancy dresses …

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Rhonda Weiche

1:18 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011

I always loved seeing the girls dress up for homecoming. But the way Ladue does it makes sense when the game is midday and the dance is at night. Either way, the girls still get to dress up in a frilly dress. I think most girls like that!   more ›

Sheperd Leads Parkway Central Past Ladue in Opener

Heavily recruited senior receiver Brandon Sheperd accounts for three scores in Central's 31-14 victory.

At least for one night, Brandon Sheperd was the greatest show on turf. As Parkway Central broke in its new artificial turf field Friday night with a 31-14 victory over visiting Ladue, Sheperd was spectacular. Click here to listen to the archive audio from the game, courtesy of Patch and Prepcasts.com. When told of his stats – nine catches for 114 yards and three runs for 30 yards with three combined touchdowns – Sheperd said, “That’s not bad at all.” “He’s pretty good,” Central coach Mark Goldenberg said before a long pause and a big smile. Even Ladue coach Mike Tarpey had to recognize Sheperd’s performance. “He’s obviously a very talented player and lived up to the hype,” Tarpey said. “People have been talking about him and when your best…

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Creve Coeur Patch Teams Featured In Inaugural Prepcasts-Patch Game Of The Week

Find out how you can listen live to all the action between Parkway Central and Ladue Football on Friday.

Patch is pleased to announce that we are partnering with Prepcasts.com to help you follow your local high school football teams this season through live online audio streaming. Don’t miss the battle between the Ladue Rams and Parkway Central Colts this Friday at 7 p.m. in the first Prepcasts Patch Game of The Week. Each week, Prepcasts will broadcast games of interest to Patch readers around the St. Louis area. Creve Coeur specifically will want to tune in for Pattonville's homecoming game, as well as the bragging rights clash between Ladue and Clayton. Other games will be added throughout the season. Tell us which games you want to hear! NOTE: As of Wednesday, construction at Parkway Central's new field has progressed to the point where …

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Prep Football Preview: Ladue Rams Reloading, Relying On Chesson

The team hopes to build off last season's 11-2 record, and find a new crop of linebackers and linemen.

The Ladue football team has some formidable challenges ahead in the 2011 season. First up for the Rams is a road game at Parkway Central on Friday, Aug. 26. “That’s all the further we are willing to look ahead,” new quarterback Brandon Carr said. Carr, a 6-fooot-4-inch senior takes over from three-year starter Kortland Webb. Webb racked up gaudy statistics at Ladue, including 2,445 all-purpose yards last year. He passed for 1,511 yards and 17 touchdowns and rushed for 935 yards and 18 touchdowns. He is currently a walk-on quarterback for the University of Missouri Tigers. Carr, who saw limited duty in 2010, clicked on 17 of 36 passes (47.2 percent) for one rushing TD and six passing. “We’ve stuck together. We’ve been in camp, we did 7-on-7…

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Former Ladue Standout Jordan Hammerman MVP of Collegiate All Star Game in Texas

The Saint Louis University Junior is a hit on the summer circuit.

Saint Louis University Billiken baseball rising junior Jordan Hammerman, graduate of Ladue High School was named the MVP of the 2011 Texas Collegiate League All-Star Game this summer. Hammerman, who plays for the Brazos Valley Bombers, started the contest in the outfield, went 2-for-2 and scored the game's first run. He helped his South squad to a 7-4 victory over the North team in the game, which was played in Bryan, Texas. Billiken teammate Damian Rivera (Miami, Fla. / Braddock High School) joined Hammerman on the South team. Rivera came out of the bullpen and retired all three batters he faced. In the TCL, Hammerman ranks sixth with a .320 batting average. Rivera, a rising sophomore, has a 4-0 record, one save and a team-best 2.04 ERA …

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SLU Hopes To Tap Creve Coeur Talent To Regain Glory Days

Coaches hope Whitfield, Chaminade and Ladue grads can bolster the NCAA soccer program.

The 2010 season was a forgettable one for the Saint Louis University men’s soccer program as the Billikens went 9-7-3. That’s not a bad record for most schools, but not good enough for a program that’s won 10 national championships and has produced some of the best soccer players in America. “Obviously, as most people can see, our last season was pretty disappointing,” junior goalkeeper Mark Pais said. “Based upon how SLU normally performs, how we’re accustomed to performing and what our standards are, it was a very disappointing season for us. “(We’ve) still got a bitter taste in our mouths from that, and unfortunately (we) lost some good guys to other places. But we’re also getting in a lot of good guys. We’re looking to have a really …

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The Week Ahead: Smoking Shelters, TDDs and The National Spotlight

A look ahead at what you'll be reading about here on Creve Coeur Patch.

We're in the middle of the hot dog days of summer, but there's plenty to keep Creve Coeur Patch busy in our community. Monday, Creve Coeur City Council meets at 7 p.m. Among the items up for discussion are a proposal to establish "smoking shelters". The Council will get a report on costs associated with having metal detectors in place for Council and Planning and Zoning Commission meetings. The agenda also includes discussion over a recent Creve Coeur Patch opinion piece regarding Municipal Court. This week is a big one for a pair of athletes who brought national attention to their teams while they played in Creve Coeur. Sunday night, former Westminster Christian Academy pitcher Jacob Turner appeared in Major League Baseball's Futures Game…

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