Four inducted into Blue Streaks Athletics Hall of Fame

Woodstock High School is pleased to welcome four new individuals to the Blue Streaks Athletics Hall of Fame for their outstanding contributions to Blue Streaks sports. This year’s inductees include coach and state champion football player Mike Brasile, veteran coach and multisport athlete Tom Mitchell, multisport football MVP Mason Sutter, and pioneering sports administrator Sandra Fendley Theriault. The honorees were inducted at halftime of the Blue Streaks varsity home basketball game on Friday, Jan. 16.

Mike Brasile
Head football coach Mike Brasile is a 1999 Woodstock High graduate who played baseball and football for the Blue Streaks. On the gridiron, Brasile was a three-year varsity starter and a member of both the 1996 Quarterfinal and 1997 State Championship teams. He was a team captain and MVP, earned All-FVC and All-Area honors twice, and was selected to the Chicago Tribune All-State team as a senior.

Brasile earned a scholarship to play football at Ball State University in 1999, before transferring to Augustana College in 2000. At Augustana, he was a four-year starter, a three-time All-CCIW selection, a member of the 2001 playoff team, and a captain.

In 2006, Brasile returned home to begin his teaching and coaching career. In 2007, he and a group of parents launched the Woodstock Youth Thunder football program. He also served on the varsity coaching staff in 2009, helping the Streaks reach the IHSA 5A Semifinal.

After two years and a playoff appearance as an assistant coach at Leyden High School, Brasile took over as head coach at Hampshire, leading the Whip-Purs to a playoff appearance and earning the Semper Fi Award in 2015. 

In 2018, Brasile returned to the sidelines at Larry Dale Field. In 2025, Brasile’s Streaks ended a 16-year playoff drought by qualifying for the IHSA 4A State Playoffs.

Brasile has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Augustana, a bachelor's in secondary education from the University of Colorado, and a master's in Positive Coaching and Athletic Leadership from the University of Missouri.

 

Tom Mitchell
A 1974 graduate of WHS, Tom Mitchell was a three-sport athlete, lettering in football, basketball, and tennis. He also served as senior class officer and was a member of the National Honor Society.

While attending Carroll College, Mitchell walked onto the football team and, as a senior, he lettered as a defensive back. He earned a degree in elementary education with a master's in administration and retired from teaching in 2016 after 38 years.

Mitchell’s coaching career at WHS began in 1979 as a wrestling assistant to Jim Patton. The following year, he began coaching freshman boys basketball, a position he held until 1987.

From 1980-1997, he served as an assistant boys tennis coach to his father, Jim Mitchell. During that time, the Blue Streaks won two consecutive Fox Valley Conference and State Sectional tournaments and placed 15th in the State tournament, the highest finish in school history.

Mitchell joined the Blue Streak football coaching staff in 1981. As an assistant for more than 40 years, he has been a part of over 20 playoff-qualifying teams, four quarterfinalists (1990, 1991, 1996, 2000), two semifinalists (1989, 2000), and two State champions (1983, 1997).

 

Mason Sutter
Mason Sutter is a 2015 Woodstock High School graduate. He was named Most Valuable Football Player his senior year, when he also earned offensive and defensive All-Conference honors, as well as Academic All-State recognition.

Sutter also earned All-Conference honors and MVP awards his junior and senior years on the Blue Streaks boys basketball team. He was a starter on the 2013 Regional championship team as a sophomore and was one of the most prolific rebounders in WHS history.

Sutter also earned three letters on the boys tennis team, where he represented the Streaks as part of the top doubles team at the Sectional his senior year.

In addition to his athletic accomplishments, Sutter was in choir, the National Honor Society, and the Spanish Honor Society. He was a recipient of the Chris Foat Scholarship, the D200 PRlDE Award for athletic excellence, and the 2015 WHS Outstanding Male Athlete award.

Sutter's academic and athletic success continued at Valparaiso University, where he competed for the Crusaders football team at the Division I FCS level. He started 42 games and earned four varsity letters at tight end between 2015 and 2019. 

Sutter had 83 catches, 911 yards, and six touchdowns during his career. He was also a four-time member of the Pioneer Football Academic Honor Roll and entered the National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society upon his graduation in 2019. After earning his undergraduate degree in biology from Valparaiso, Mason earned a master's degree in neuroscience from the
University of Illinois-Chicago in 2022.

 

Sandra Fendley Theriault
Sandra Fendley Theriault's athletic career began in Bement, lL, where she excelled in volleyball, basketball, and cheerleading.

She continued her pursuits at Millikin University as a member of the volleyball and cheerleading teams, and as an assistant coach for the women's track program. Her professional journey continued at Sullivan High School (1980-1987), where she immediately made an impact, leading her volleyball teams to three conference championships and guiding the girls' track team to numerous meet championships.

In 1987, Theriault arrived at Woodstock High School, where she was hired as a physical education teacher and girls' Sports Coordinator/Assistant Athletic Director. Over the next 26 years, she worked tirelessly to create and expand opportunities for female athletes in District 200.

She was the first female athletic administrator in McHenry County and one of only a handful in the state of Illinois. Her wide-ranging contributions included 17 years as assistant girls' tennis coach, as well as roles as D200 sex equity and Title IX hearing officer; physical education, health, and driver education department chair; and D200 curriculum area specialist.

Theriault also served as WHS Dean of Students for three years and D200 summer school Principal for 14 years, mentoring numerous coaches and teachers along the way. 

Theriault is now an instructor at Aurora University and a member of the Harvard CUSD 50 School Board. Her visionary leadership has shaped generations of female athletes in our community, as she is undeniably the matriarch of girls' sports in District 200.