Alumni Hall of Fame

Father Mark Murphy is a 1998 graduate of Regis High School. Following high school, Fr. Murphy attended Iowa State University where he participated in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps. Fr. Murphy graduated from Iowa State with a degree in Chemical Engineering and was commissioned as an officer in the US Navy. He served in the submarine force for five years. Upon completion of his military service, he entered seminary for the Archdiocese of Dubuque. Fr. Murphy was ordained to the priesthood in 2014 and has since served as an associate pastor in Dubuque, as well as a pastor at parishes in Chickasaw, Howard, and Mitchell Counties in northern Iowa before returning home to serve as the pastor at Xavier’s partnering parish of St. Jude in 2018 where he continues to serve today. In addition to serving as the Catholic chaplain of the Cedar Rapids Fire Department, Fr. Murphy appropriately serves as the chaplain for the commissioning committee of the USS Iowa SSN 797, an under-construction Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarine.
 

Chelsea (Zaugg) Raymond is a 2006 graduate of Xavier High School. While at Xavier, Chelsea was a standout star on the Xavier Softball team where she earned numerous accolades. She was named 1st Team All-State, as an infielder and 1st basewoman, in 2004, 2005, and 2006. She was also named to the Iowa Girls High School Atheltic Union Elite Team in 2006. Chelsea helped lead the Saints to State during the 2004, 2005, and 2006 seasons. She earned All-Metro and All-District honors in 2004, 2005, and 2006, and was named to the All-Tournament Team in 2004 and 2006. Chelsea also received Academic All-State honors in 2006. After her successful softball career here at Xaiver, Chelsea went on to attend Coe College where she graduated with a nursing degree in 2010. While at Coe, Chelsea played on the softball team where she earned All-Conference honors in 2008 and 2010. Today, Chelsea works as a labor and delivery nurse in the Denver, Colorado area. She is married and has two daughters.

Josh Lorenson is a 2007 graduate of Xavier High School. During his time as a Saint, Josh earned a number of athletic honors. He was a three-year varsity letter winner in wrestling and a three-year starter in varsity football. In football, Josh was named 2nd- and 3rd-Team All-State as an underclassmen before being named 1st-Team All-State and Elite Team All-State as a defensive lineman his senior season. After high school, Josh went on to Northwest Missouri State where he was a four-year starter on the football team where he was a two-time All-American. He was named the 2008 MIAA Conference freshman of the year and unanimously selected 1st-Team MIAA All-Conference twice. Josh was a member of the Northwest Missouri State 2009 national championship team. Currently, Josh and his wife, Sarah, live in Kansas City, Missouri and have two children: Roman and Sofia. Josh is a Social Studies teacher at Staley High School where we he also serves as a football and wrestling coach. His team won the Missouri State Wrestling Championship under his leadership as coach in 2017.

Dave Schemmel is a graduate of Monticello High School and was a letterwinner for the baseball team at the University of Iowa. His teaching career began in 1976 as a typing and business instructor at Regis High School. Dave took a brief detour from education when he got his pilot’s license and pursed a career in the flight industry, but returned as a guidance counselor at LaSalle in 1986, and then moved to Regis in 1987, serving in that role until retirement in 2020. Coach Schemmel began his coaching career as a freshman boys basketball coach at Regis in 1976 and a varsity baseball coach from 1977 through 1979. Dave also coached softball for Regis in 1985 and varsity baseball at LaSalle in 1987. In 1990, he picked up freshman boys basketball 3 and continued that through 2012. Schemmel was the head baseball coach at Regis/Xavier from 1991-2015 with a 2006 State Championship and 6 state tournament appearances. Dave Schemmel is a pillar of Catholic education in Cedar Rapids. He is married to wife Barb and together they have four children who all graduated from Xavier High School, and four beautiful grandchildren.