The Boerne Independent School District announced Boerne’s Best Distinguished Alumni Class of 2022 inductees. This year’s honorees are Michelle Beadle (BHS ’94), Joseph A. Bergmann (BHS ‘63), Rachel Seewald (BHS ’88) and Robert “Rob” Bradley (BHS ’80) with the Benefactor Award being presented to Carol Mathews.
This is the third class of Boerne’s Best inductees, with the first being enshrined in the Class of 2020.
Boerne’s Best inductees are individuals who have graduated from Boerne ISD at least 10 years ago, have achievements that set them above and beyond the standard in their profession and have achievements that set them above and beyond the standard in community service.
“We are extremely proud to honor this year’s Boerne’s Best class,” Boerne ISD Athletic Director and Boerne’s Best Chair Stan Leech said. “This year’s honorees exemplify what Boerne and Boerne ISD are all about. Their accomplishments speak for themselves and show the very best of our community. When we first started our distinguished alumni program we strived to induct the very best of Boerne. This year’s class is just that.”
Michelle Beadle
Beadle is a nationally recognized sports broadcaster, having worked at ESPN and NBC, as well as other networks. Beadle currently serves as a special correspondent on the San Antonio Spurs broadcast team.
She spent nearly 10 years at ESPN, where she was a host of NBA Countdown, was a co-host on SportsNation and appeared on many other radio and television shows for the network.
While with NBC, Beadle covered the 2012 Olympics, was a correspondent for Access Hollywood and hosted various events on NBC Sports Network.
During her career Beadle has also hosted shows on The Travel Channel, Animal Planet and People Magazine, as well as served as a red carpet reporter for the Golden Globes, Grammy Awards, SAG Awards and the Tony Awards. She has appeared on The Today Show, The Early Show, Extra, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Law and Order: SVU and Sharknado 3.
Beadle is a 1994 graduate of Boerne High School and attended UTSA.
Joseph Bergmann
Joseph A. Bergmann served his country with the Navy and Air Force. Bergmann was drafted and began his career with the Navy, where he was assigned to teach within the Naval Hospital Corps School Program. Before his time with the Navy, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio.
Bergmann’s professional life was spent working with the U.S. military developing personnel measurement and assessment instruments, analyzing and delineating the data needed to accomplish tasks within specialties, deciding how and when to teach specific skills and even hiring and promotion requirements within all levels of military personnel and civilian employees. He was a personnel research scientist at Kelly Air Force Base, industrial-organizational psychologist and occupational analyst for the Air Force’s Human Resource Department and at the Academy of Health Sciences for the Army.
His work took him to locations throughout the United States, including the Pentagon and Air Force One, among others, and encompassed a wide range of specialties and personnel levels as varied as intelligence officers, combat controllers, navigators, U.S. Air Force Reserve nurses, weapons systems specialists, fighter pilots, hospital workers and Department of Defense financial managers.
A 1963 graduate of Boerne High School, Bergmann also published several articles in the Texas Journal of Science and became a top expert in the field of malacology. As a professional malacologist for 40 years, he studied terrestrial snails and freshwater mussels, identifying several species which had never been reported in Texas. His knowledge has been valuable to TxDOT engineers, Texas A&M educators, Texas Parks and Wildlife and private companies
Rachel Seewald
Seewald is a nationally recognized athletic administrator with nearly 30 years of experience in the field. For the past 12 years, she has worked at the NCAA, where she currently serves as a director of championships and alliances, playing rules and officiating.
In her role at the NCAA, Seewald manages and leads the entire playing rules staff and oversees the playing rules process for women’s volleyball, women’s basketball, cross country and indoor/outdoor track and field. She also serves as the primary liaison to the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel, which oversees all 13 NCAA playing rules committees.
Prior to her time with the NCAA, Seewald worked for the University Interscholastic League (UIL) in Austin for 16 years. The UIL oversees all high school extracurricular activities in Texas and governs more than 1,500 high schools and 800,000 student participants.
Seewald, a 1988 graduate of Boerne High School, earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s degree in educational administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Bradley
Bradley is a well-known orthodontist, Boerne ISD supporter and community volunteer. He practiced orthodontics and lives and worships in his hometown of Boerne for 37 years.
After graduating from Boerne High School in 1980, Bradley completed his undergraduate requisites at the University of Texas in Austin and went on to attend the Health Science Center in San Antonio. After finishing dental school, he went on to complete his master’s degree in orthodontics at St. Louis University.
In 1989, he returned to Boerne with his wife (and fellow BHS graduate) Darla and their two daughters, Kayleigh and Ansley. He practiced in Boerne and San Antonio and became involved in the Alamo Heights and Boerne Noon Rotary clubs. It was here that he was involved with the “First Knights” and “Early Act” clubs at several Boerne elementary schools, and, as president of the club, participated in the donation of books to various libraries in the district.
Through his office, Bradley donated thousands of walk-a-thon and “STAARS Party” t-shirts to various BISD schools, and he sponsored many athletic teams and programs in the community. He volunteered to do dental screenings at the schools and provided orthodontic work to needy children who were referred to him by school nurses and counselors.
With the birth of third daughter, Lindley, and the opening of his first Boerne office, Rob continued to commit himself to the Boerne community, his church and BISD. He served as president of the Kendall County Women’s Shelter board when its facility was in the planning stages. He served as president and Sunday school teacher at St. John Lutheran in Boerne, and he was president of the Boerne Noon Rotary and Boerne Education Foundation in its early stages.
Carol Mathews
Mathews is the recipient of the 2022 Benefactor Award for her tireless efforts helping to make Boerne ISD what it is today. She has been engaged in supporting excellence in education since 1967 when the school district was known as the Boerne County Line Independent School District.
Mathews began her service to the district first as a room mother then as treasurer in the Boerne Elementary PTA. She volunteered in the elementary school library under the leadership of Ann Tibbett.
She was a kindergarten teacher at St. Mark’s Presbyterian in Boerne before BISD offered kindergarten. Using that experience, she worked closely with Principal Charles Curington to align instruction to prepare future Boerne ISD first-graders.
In 1976, Mathews was elected to the Boerne ISD school board and served 19 years. While on the school board, she served one term as secretary and two terms as president.
Continuing her heart’s passion for serving the children of Boerne ISD, Mathews was a founding board member of the Boerne Education Foundation and served on two BISD bond committees.
The BISD Boerne Writing Project award for writing excellence was named “The Carol Mathews Award of Excellence” in honor of her immutable passion for educational excellence.
Mathews is a graduate of Harlendale High School in San Antonio. After high school she worked in civil service for the U.S. Army before meeting the love of her life, Tom Mathews, and ultimately moving in 1967 to Boerne to raise their three children.
She is a long-time Greyhound football season ticket holder and former Greyhounds Booster Club member, having attended Boerne Greyhound football games since 1967, with COVID being the only thing to interrupt her “streak.”
Information
The Boerne’s Best Class of 2022 will be honored with a luncheon on Friday, April 22, at The Clubs of Cordillera Ranch. A limited number of tickets are available to purchase. Contact the Boerne ISD Athletic Department for ticket information.
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