lakeside good news E notes

Wrapping up the school year

▶ Graduation was again outdoors on the competition field. In this class, 41 seniors reported over $3 million in renewable and one-time scholarship offers from individuals, foundations, organizations, and the schools they applied to attend. Of the 98 grads, 80 have indicated plans to continue education at 4-year colleges or tech schools, one plans to enter the military, one to an apprenticeship, and 16 expect to enter the workforce.

▶ Warrior TechEd students took 2nd of 6 teams at Metal Mania at Madison College in Fort. The theme was “Wisconsin Wildlife” and our teens got creative with a turkey Congrats to Sydney Schultz [St. John, Watertown], Brayden Luebke, Alex Isham [Trinity, Watertown], Landon Smillie, and Beckham Quamme [Bethany, Fort].

▶ For Mental Health Awareness Month, 50+ Warriors were involved with info sharing and homeroom conversations about topics facing teens today. School counselor Hannah Uher [Peace, Sun Prairie] and teacher Jenny Krauklis [St. Paul, Lake Mills] facilitated, which was featured on the Varsity Brands Student Empowerment Summit online

▶ Summer Operation Go teams are out and about! Our 8-student team in Utah were part of a group of 70 people from around the country participating with Truth In Love Ministry. Ten more spent a week at Shepherd of the Hills in West Bend to run a soccer camp with former LLHS teacher Pastor Clark Schultz. 120 young campers learned that Jesus saves— and had some soccer fun too.

▶ Warrior Band is marching proud! After seven local parades in June, they’re off to Mt. Rushmore and the Calgary Stampede in Alberta, Canada, July 1-15. Follow their travels at llhs.org/apps/ pages/summerband

▶ We have a jobs board on our website. Visit llhs.org/apps/jobs/ to find out all the info. On it you’ll find a listing of openings at Lakeside as well as at ministry partners throughout the area.

Spring Sports Report

▶ Track boys were champs for conference, regionals, and sectionals (for the 1st time in school history). Sophomore

Ben Krauklis [St. Paul, Lake Mills] won conference male athlete of the year.

10 boys advanced in 8 events to state, where with a score of 45 points, the boys won the D2 State Track and Field Championship—also for the first time in school history! The top six finishers in each event earn a place on the podium. Though they didn’t score in every event, every athlete earned a medal and a place on the podium. 1st place—Ben Buxa [Abiding Shepherd, Fort] shot put; 2nd place—Mark Garcia [Bethany, Fort], Tyler Gresens [Peace, Sun Prairie], Karsten Grundahl [Blackhawk, Madison], Cameron Weiland [Zion, Columbus] 4x800 relay; Grundahl, 800 meter; Buxa discus; 3rd place— Krauklis, Tyler Dahlie [Our Redeemer, Madison], Grundahl, Alex Reinke [St. Luke, Watertown], 4x400 relay; 4th place—Jay Yahnke [Trinity, Watertown], Issiah Sampson [Eastside, Madison], Reinke, Krauklis, 4x200 relay. The boys team also broke 7 school records this year. Technically, because the boys kept breaking their own records, they set 14 school records in those 7 events!

▶ The girls track team placed 5th at conference and 4th at regionals.

▶ Boys golf placed 6th at the Conference meet and 6th at the Regional Meet.

▶ Baseball ended the season 12-13.

▶ Softball went 14-10 for the season, earned a regional championship (the first since 2009) and made sectional finals, further than any team in program history. Jenna Shadoski [St. Matthew, Janesville] played in the Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association All-Star games June 12-13 in the Dells. Matt Doering coached!

▶ Soccer ended the season 12-7-4 in the winningest season in program history, the most goals scored in regular season, the longest win-streak in program history (7), a #5 ranking in D4 state, and hosted the first-ever regional final at home.

▶ See athlete names for this spring’s All-Conference (& more!) awards at llhswarriorstories.wordpress. com/2023/06/20/spring-sports-wrap-up

Looking forward to fall

▶ LLHS freshman class of 2027 currently has 133 enrolled. Total enrollment for 23/24 is currently stands at over 540

▶ Faculty is fully staffed at 41 for 23/24 with the addition of 2 full-time faculty: instructor, Mr. Craig Sonntag [St. Matthew, Janesville] for Math and English, and Mrs. Denice Burger [St. John, Newville] as an Extended Learning Center aide.

Our recent alum & friends magazine says goodbye to faculty alum Mr. Damon Tracy, shares school news, plus features on a ‘14 World Racer and teams that made it all the way to WIAA state events, tribute gifts, reunion news and more.

Find a hard copy on campus or read online at issuu.com/llhs/docs/lllink23

See the “Design a Sticker” contest llhs.org/advantagecontest