Kyle Wassom graduated from Parkview Baptist as a member of the Class of 2006 and went on to get his undergraduate degree in Business Management from LSU in 2010. After graduation, he enrolled in New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and earned a Masters of Divinity degree from NOBTS in 2014. During his time in college and in seminary, he had the privilege of serving as a member of the Youth Ministry staff at The Chapel on the Campus. After leaving the Chapel, Kyle served as Student Pastor of First Denton (TX) for 4+ years before moving to his current position of Student Pastor at Bear Creek Church in Katy, TX in 2019. While at Bear Creek, Kyle has seen a powerful movement of God and is honored to be a small part of something huge that God is doing in Katy, Cypress and Houston. Bear Creek has been named one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Churches in America the last 2 years and student ministry is such a joy for Kyle. He serves to help students know Jesus and make Jesus known wherever they are.
He married his high-school sweetheart, Kelli, in January of 2011 and they have two beautiful girls, Harper Grace and Hadley Kate. Kyle enjoys time with his girls, pickup basketball games, Boba tea and traveling the world. While at PBS, he was involved in multiple clubs and organizations, he was on the basketball and track teams, and served as sophomore, junior, and senior class president. Kyle wants to personally thank all of his teachers for the foundation they helped set for his future, as well as his parents for sacrificing so that he could attend such an incredible school.
Academics – Sarah Gregoire Salpietra, 2009
Sarah Gregoire Salpietra was recognized as a 13-year senior when she graduated having attended Parkview from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Sarah then went on to attend Southeastern Louisiana University for the next 6 years, earning a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education and a Master of Education in Educational Leadership. For 7 years, Sarah taught in Livingston Parish and became the district-wide Math Content Leader. With a stirring in her heart for the spiritual welfare of the next generation, Sarah returned to Parkview in 2020 in her current role as the Flex Program Director.
Throughout her 13 years at Parkview, Sarah experienced Christ’s love, life change, and spiritual growth. Sarah is humbled and honored to bring Brother Bob’s mission for Parkview Baptist School into our current age by preparing students to communicate, live, study and work in our technologically advanced world.
Arts – Cadie Jordan Bryan, 2011
Cadie begins the 2024-2025 season in a return to The Atlanta Opera, singing Musetta in the company site-specific production of La bohème followed by additional tour dates as a guest soloist alongside celebrated Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in 9 cities across the United States. She bows in the Santa Fe Symphony’s performances of Handel’s Messiah, led by conductor Gary Thor Wedow, and debuts with North Carolina Opera, returning to the central role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.
The autumn of 2023 brought her New Orleans Opera debut as Susanna in Chas Rader-Shieber’s new production of Mozart’s timeless classic, followed by an engagement with the New York Philharmonic, covering the role of Tovah Odesska in the premiere of Émigré. The spring of 2024 also featured tour dates alongside celebrated Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, performing as soprano soloist in eight concerts across the North America. During the summer, she returned to The Santa Fe Opera as Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore, also covering Zerlina in Don Giovanni.
In the 2022-2023 season, she returned to Arizona Opera to debut the role of Maria in The Sound of Music opposite her husband, baritone Jonathan Bryan (Captain Von Trapp) and to The Atlanta Opera for a role debut as Woglinde in Tomer Zvulun’s new production of Das Rheingold. During the summer, she joined The Santa Fe Opera, covering the title role in Pelléas et Mélisande, while fall 2023 brings her New Orleans Opera debut as Susanna in Chas Rader-Shieber’s new production of Le nozze di Figaro.
Ms. Bryan’s 2021-2022 season featured multiple house and role debuts, including: in concert with The Dallas Opera for the Hart Institute for Women Conductors; Opera Las Vegas as Addie Mills in the west coast premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The House Without a Christmas Tree, The Atlanta Opera as Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Arizona Opera, reprising the role of Despina in Così fan tutte.
In the summer of 2021, she debuted the roles of Clarine in Rameau’s Platée under the baton of Gary Thor Wedow, and Prilepa in Queen of Spades as an Ensemble Artist at Des Moines Metro Opera. Prior to the COVID-19 shut down, she was slated to sing the role of Naiade in Ariadne auf Naxos at Arizona Opera where she completed two years as a Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist (2018-2020). In her final season, she performed four mainstage roles including Bess in Craig Bohmler’s Riders of the Purple Sage, Musetta in La bohème, Lucy in Fellow Travelers, and Maid in the Taliesin West Premier of Daron Hagen’s Shining Brow.
Previously, she made her mainstage debut at Arizona Opera as Chan Parker in Daniel Schnyder’s and Bridgette Wimberly’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, as well as Annina in La traviata, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. As an apprentice artist at Des Moines Metro Opera, she made her mainstage debut at as the Second Wood Sprite in an Emmy Award-winning production of Rusalka (2017).
Cadie is an alumnus of Ravinia’s Steans Institute for singers (2017, 2018) where she studied and performed in a variety of art song and Lieder recitals with world-renowned pianists and coaches. Other career highlights include Clara in Jake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s It’s A Wonderful Life (2017), Marian in The Music Man (2017), Zerlina in Don Giovanni (2014), and Lisette in La rondine (2014).
She received a Master of Music and a Performance Diploma from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the tutelage of soprano Heidi Grant Murphy and her Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University with baritone Dennis Jesse.
She has now been asked again to perform with Andrea Bocelli for his upcoming December tour. She is married to Jonathan Bryan and resides in New York.
Athletics– Calob Leindecker, 2010
Calob started on Parkview’s football team as a sophomore and was Cornerback and Wide Receiver. His team went 15-0 and won a state championship against West Lake. During the summer of 2008, he was pinned between two trucks and had to have his left leg amputated. Calob went back to Parkview for his senior year and did held kicks with a prosthetic leg. That year, the team went back to the state championship. After graduation, he won a college scholarship as the Most Inspirational Football player in the Nation by Rudy Ruettiger (the Rudy award). He was also picked as a Young Hero of the state of Louisiana.
After college, Calob continued with his love of football by becoming a coach. He still coaches today at The Dunham High School, as the Defensive Coordinator. He is married and has two kids, Stevie and Bodhi Leindecker. His wife, Hailey Leindecker will be accepting the award on his behalf.
Achievement– Craig Saucier, 1999
Although skydiving has not been a full-time career for Craig, it has been a passion that has evolved into a professional status. Throughout his skydiving career, he has amassed over 3,500 skydives and represented the United States at the World Championships in Russia. He also holds 15 State Records, 1 National Record, and acquired his first World Record this year.
Craig has orchestrated and completed several crazy and death-defying stunts. The videos of these stunts have been utilized by popular sources such as GoPro, The Discovery Channel, Outrageous Acts of Science, and even Ridiculousness. Throughout his journey, Craig feels like the Lord has used skydiving as his biggest platform to share the love of Jesus with others, often the most unlikely candidates.
He and his wife, Amy, have two beautiful girls: Quinn and Emi Kate who are continuing the Parkview legacy.
