Loras College Athletics

• A four-year starter/letterwinner for the men's basketball team at Loras College. He played from 1974-78 and was co-captain his junior and senior years. He was a member of the 1,000-point club, playing in 111 games and having 1,128 points, placing him 19th in school history.
• Currently holds men's basketball records for best field goal percentage for the season, (61.5%) and career, (55.1%). He also finished his career with 527 rebounds and is 11th on the all-time list.
• Graduated with a triple major in accounting, business, and finance. He did this while married for three of the four years in college, playing basketball and working 30 hours a week.
• He now works for McKesson as a senior vice-president of field operations. He is on the Dupaco Community Credit Union Board of Directors, the Jamie Barwick Hills and Dales Foundation Board, and the Hills and Dales Board of Directors. Skemp is also on the Board of Directors for Morf Management Services Group in Costa Mesa, California, and was listed in Who's Who in America Business publication in 1994 and 1995.
•             It is refreshing to know that a team knew the Loras Fight Song. Often the college van was the means of transportation. The vans were usually 15 passenger vans, so with the coaches, trainers, manager, and players, there were usually 15 people in these vans, along with all of the equipment, duffel bags, books, etc. It was always hilarious to watch everyone back into the van each trip. One particular trip was in the middle of January. Now in this van, the manager had to sit in the back on a card table chair with all of the equipment packed around him. Of course, the only way out was through the back door or to climb all the way over everyone. As we were driving, the manager had to go to the restroom. Now, we are in the middle of nowhere, it is snowing and we are driving slowly. So almost everyone else had to go to the restroom as well. So on a lonely highway in Illinois, the basketball team piles out of the van to take care of Mother Nature, and someone starts singing the Loras College Fight Song. So all the players are standing in the cold singing their hearts out, in the freezing temperatures. And all because of their manager, Chuck Reilly!

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It is refreshing to know that a team knew the Loras Fight Song. Often the college van was the means of transportation. The vans were usually 15 passenger vans, so with the coaches, trainers, manager, and players, there were usually 15 people in these vans, along with all of the equipment, duffel bags, books, etc. It was always hilarious to watch everyone back into the van each trip. One particular trip was in the middle of January. Now in this van, the manager had to sit in the back on a card table chair with all of the equipment packed around him. Of course, the only way out was through the back door or to climb all the way over everyone. As we were driving, the manager had to go to the restroom. Now, we are in the middle of nowhere, it is snowing and we are driving slowly. So almost everyone else had to go to the restroom as well. So on a lonely highway in Illinois, the basketball team piles out of the van to take care of Mother Nature, and someone starts singing the Loras College Fight Song. So all the players are standing in the cold singing their hearts out, in the freezing temperatures. And all because of their manager, Chuck Reilly!