Willowbrook Athletic Booster Club hosts annual Senior Athletic Banquet

On May 13, the Willowbrook Athletic Booster Club hosted its annual Senior Athletic Banquet.

During the event, 2025-26 highlights and successes of each athletic team were shared, and student-athletes from the class of 2026 were recognized for their accomplishments on the field and in the classroom.

• To watch the awards presentation, click on the video above.
  
  
• To view a photo gallery from the event, click on the link below. 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW A PHOTO GALLERY FROM THE EVENT

Award winners and scholarship recipients also were named, and a list of the honorees can be viewed at www.dupage88.net/WBSeniorAthleticBanquet2025-26.

Two coaches also received special recognitions.

• Willowbrook Girls Flag Football Head Coach Rachel Karos was honored with the Semper Fi Coach Award. That award recognizes a high school coach who exemplifies the United States Marine Corps motto: Semper Fidelis – Always Faithful – and who models the Marine Corps values of honor, courage and commitment. Read more about Karos and her contributions to and successes with the sport of flag football at https://www.dupage88.net/site/page/17124.
  
  
• Coach Vic Wisner, who will retire at the end of the 2025-26 school year, was honored and celebrated for his contributions to and achievements with the Willowbrook Football Team and the Willowbrook Baseball Team. Below is Wisner’s retirement bio.

Wisner’s connection to Willowbrook runs deeper than most. A proud graduate of Willowbrook himself, Wisner went on to student teach at the school in 1999–2000, before joining the faculty fulltime for the 2000–01 school year – the only school where he has ever worked. His grandmother worked in the cafeteria, his siblings attended as students and his own children eventually walked the same halls. For Wisner, Willowbrook has never just been a workplace; it has been a lifelong home.

Before entering education, Wisner spent 10 years at Harting Connector Manufacturing working with electronic components. A baseball standout at Saint Joseph's College in Indiana (where a conflict with his college baseball schedule actually delayed his student teaching), he eventually earned teaching credentials through National Louis University and his Master’s in Education degree, determined to build a career doing what he loved most: teaching and coaching.

For more than 26 years, Wisner taught social studies (from freshmen to seniors), with a primary focus on U.S. History and Government for the last 15 years. He also served as an assistant football coach for all 26 years and as head baseball coach for 16, accumulating more than 300 career victories – the most in Willowbrook baseball history. A personal highlight: his son was behind the plate as catcher the day Wisner earned win number 300.

In retirement, Wisner plans to spend time in Eugene, Oregon, visiting his son at the University of Oregon. He and his wife, Lisa, a Willowbrook graduate herself, look forward to this next chapter together.