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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

UWM Assistant Athletic Director Tapped to Head Up SHS Sports

After fielding more than 100 candidates, the district chose LeVar Ridgeway to fill retiring district Athletic Director Bill Haury's shoes next school year.

LeVar Ridgeway — current assistant athletic director at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee — will head up Shorewood athletics next school year after the School Board approved his hiring Tuesday night.  Ridgeway will oversee Shorewood High School and Intermediate School athletics next year, with a salary of $50,000, not including a fringe benefits package. The School Board budgeted $45,000 for the position, but Superintendent Martin Lexmond said as the district has gone through the hiring process for other staff members in recent months, salaries have balanced out. Athletic boosters had asked for school officials to consider boosting the budgeted salary to attract more talented candidates.  Ridgeway has spent the past 11 years in UWM …

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Shorewood Booster Club Art Fair Returns This Sunday

The annual arts & crafts fair held by Shorewood's Booster Club is this Sunday and there will be no shortage of goods in support of local athletics

It is not often that the arts and athletics crowds help one another, but this Sunday, they will do just that. The Shorewood Booster Club’s 33rd Annual Arts & Crafts Fair is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Shorewood High School. Something new to the fair this year is that organizers are providing a shuttle from Atwater Elementary School to the high school. Organizers are hoping for 2,000 people to attend the fair so the shuttle service will help relieve congestion in the high school’s parking lot. Bonnie Adams is in her 13th year with the fair and is serving as the contact for any information needed on the fair this year or years past. She said that the Shorewood High School Athletic Director in the late 1970s, Fred Rebholz, and his wife, …

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Arts and Crafts Fair Sunday Will Benefit Shorewood Athletics

Organized by the booster club, the fair could bring in $20,000 for the school district.

At the 32nd annual Arts and Crafts Fair Sunday, 130 artists will sell their wares at Shorewood High School in the biggest Shorewood Booster Club fundraiser that goes toward the salary for the athletic trainer, sports uniforms and other supplies. Booster Club Fundraiser and Membership Chair Bonnie Adams said she hopes the event this year will bring in about $20,000. They have already collected more than $11,000 in rentals from the vendors, and hope to have over 2,000 people paying admission into the fair at $4 each. A Culvers lunch, silent auction and spirit wear sale will also bring in revenue. The wide variety of vendors from throughout the Midwest will sell clothing, artwork, food, furniture and other items. "There's something for …

Friday, September 30, 2011

Greyhounds Fall to Saint Thomas More in Boy's Soccer

Shorewood came up short in a 0-1 loss to the Woodland Conference foe Wednesday.

Shorewood fell to Woodland Conference foe Saint Thomas More Wednesday 0-1. The Greyhounds sits at third in conference standings with a 4-2-3 record and 6-6-3 record overall with Pewaukee in first. Saint Thomas More improves its conference record to 5-4 and 10-7-1 overall. Their next match is Monday at the 0-12-1 Cudahy/St. Francis Packers.

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