New goal: Pro soccer player to study for priesthood here

By Tom Dermody

BLOOMINGTON -- Professional soccer player Chase Hilgenbrinck is changing fields to pursue greater goals.

The Bloomington native on Monday announced his retirement from the New England Revolution team of Major League Soccer to begin studies for the priesthood as a seminarian of the Diocese of Peoria.

"More than anything, I am excited to administer the sacraments, and to be with people at the most important times of their lives like baptism, marriage, and death," Hilgenbrinck, 26, told The Catholic Post on Tuesday from the Bloomington home of his parents, Mike and Kim Hilgenbrinck, members of Holy Trinity Parish.