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Call News recap at Lakeside

Lutheran in February:

• We’re thrilled to share that Mr. Justin Gut accepted our call to teach upper level science beginning next fall!

• We’re thankful to report that Lakeside Guidance Director Andy Rosenau returned a call he received in January to serve as the Director of Student Services at Wisconsin Lutheran High School.

• On Feb. 8, social studies teacher and coach Mr. Andy Asmus received a call to serve as varsity boys basketball coach and instructor at Luther High School, Onalaska, Wis.

• On Feb. 14, voters issued divine calls to Mrs. Kim Gartner to serve in the Extended Learning Center (after Miss Johnson resigned to marry and move this summer). Mrs. Gartner teaches first grade at St. Paul, Lake Mills. We also called Mr. Craig Sonntag to teach Math and English. He teaches gr. 7-8 at St. Matthew, Janesville.

Ø Late in Jan. we welcomed over 200 7th graders to “Warrior for a Day.” They headed to different classes—religion, art, history, videography, science, tech ed, phy ed, STEM—to see what life is like as an LLHS student. After pizza, they socialized with roller-skating.

Ø February 17-19 we were privileged to host 335 elementary basketball players to our 21st annual A-team Warrior tournament. Hundreds of federation families were on campus to see which of the 18 girls and boys teams persevered to take home trophies!

Ø The very next Monday we welcomed 240 kindergartners plus teachers and parent chaperones to our annual Kinderfest, where Jesus’ little lambs frolicked with FFA sheep, Pastor Yahnke puppets, lazerbeam obstacles and 10 other stations to educate and entertain.

Ø Warrior FFA teens tied fleece blankets for some of our newest wee Warriors babies born to teacher Jason Fry [St. Peter, Helenville], bus driver Wenzell Butler [St. Andrew, Middleton], ELC Director Shelly Coron [St. John, Juneau] wrapped up the week with a casual dance Saturday night.

Ø The boys bowling club team qualified for state competition in Weston March 3-5. Congrats to Manuel Iglesias [St. Mark, Watertown], Garret Parkhurst [St. Luke, Watertown], Aaron Hirsch [St. John, Watertown], Caleb Studnicka [Peace, Sun Prairie], Christian Collins [St. Paul, Lake Mills] who also qualified as an individual, Nathan Walker [St. Paul, Fort], Elijah Grow [St. Andrew, Middleton], Caleb Bittorf [St. John, Waterloo], Zach Erickson [St. Paul, Fort].

Ø At the end of January, Cyber Safety Consulting founder Liz Repking gave four critical presentations—to our student body, to groups from 10 grade schools, and to parents. She presented real stories of how cyber behavior can forever impact lives, and offered tools to help teens protect themselves On Feb. 15, Lake Mills Resource Officer Jessica Johnson and Detective Ben Miller (LL ‘08) shared important facts and stats about e-cigarettes and vaping, both nicotine and THC and how to talk to teens about it. Both parent presentations are available at livestream.com/llhslive.

Ø The gym was packed with 110 dancers for our K-8 winter pom dance clinic. High school dancers each led groups of 10, coordinating and arranging girls in formations. The K-4th graders learned an Disney Encanto mashup, while girls in gr. 5-8 learned our Unstoppable Warrior Dance routine.

Ø Pops Concert popped the doldrums of winter with contemporary and upbeat music, featuring all bands and choirs, including Jazz and Percussion Ensembles, Swing Choir, plus solo/ensembles. We also hosted our annual grade school Visual Arts Fair featuring 100s of entries from 15 grade schools. Visit llhs.smugmug.com for photos of both events.

Ø Winter Carnival—Feb. 6-10—lived up to its name with a snow day on Thursday! Other days held dress up fun, a National Guard obstacle course, and more. We

Ø On Feb. 6, Warrior Forensics won 1 13th straight conference championship! Coached by Steve Lauber [St. Paul, Lake Mills], they finished with 299 points, 129 points ahead of second place. Placing first in their individual categories were Rose Hissom [St. Matthew, Oconomowoc], in Extemporaneous; Trey Lauber [St. Paul, Lake Mills], in Moments in History; John Loest [St. Stephen, Beaver Dam], and Joseph Metzger [Immanuel, Johnson Creek], in Playacting; Ruby Langille [St. Paul, Lake Mills], in Prose; Elsa Johansson [Zion, Columbus], in Solo Serious; Sophia Starkenburg [Holy Cross, Madison], in Solo Humorous; and Caleb Wensel [St. Paul, Lake Mills], in Special Occasion.

Ø Freshman Colten Schultz [St. John, Juneau] earned a conference championship in wrestling at 170 lbs, the first conference championship for LLHS since 2019! At regionals, Schultz and junior Sam Schmidt, 152 lbs) [Peace, Janesville] advanced to sectionals

Ø Freshman Chloe Barganz [White Stone, Oconomowoc] won a t-shirt design contest for this year’s Fort Atkinson Regional Science Fair!

Ø Junior Ava Stein [St. Paul, Lake Mills] broke the school single-season rebound record on Feb 10. The record had been 232, held by Rachel Maenpaa from 2001.