Mr. Lorenzo Nuñez, Mount Carmel’s newest theology teacher and football coach, is no stranger to being a champion. As a student Nuñez was a football state champion along with being a part of seemingly every sport or club available at his high school. Nuñez competed in baseball, track and field, sang tenor in the choir, played saxophone, participated on the speech and debate team, and served as president of both the National Honor Society and student body.

Nuñez, who grew up in Muleshoe, a small town in Texas, came to Chicago shortly after graduating from Benedictine College with a degree in Youth Ministry and Theology. Before coming to Mount Carmel, Nuñez taught at Depaul College Prep, but was considering relocating  until he stumbled across Mount Carmel. After interviewing  at Mount Carmel he knew this was a place that he belonged.  He appreciated the  better job security and the opportunity to teach young men, and he believes that the all-boys environment has a positive effect since “iron sharpens iron.”

His role at Mount Carmel includes teaching freshman theology classes, coaching freshman football, and helping to coach the speech team. In his classes Nuñez’s goal is to create an environment that allows open discussion about faith and God.  He also will be involved in the school’s service program through JPIC (the “Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation” club),

Nuñez’s own faith journey, in which he came to a deeper relationship with Christ after high school, put him on the track to his career as a theology teacher and youth minister. Now Nuñez tries to help his students find Christ and experience the same deepening of their spiritual life.