FedCon Monthly News Updates

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon September 2026 update
📌 Our 69th school year began for 537 students on August 18.
📌 Freshmen numbered 126 for orientation a day earlier. See the Freshman 1st day video or What’s New at Lakeside on our YouTube channel -- @llhstechclub
📌 K-8 students, find the prize table or Mr. Lauber at home varsity events to get or show your 26/27 FedCred card for free admission & scratch-offs that could mean fun prizes!
📌 Another new face on staff! Mr. Joel Schaalma (St. John, Juneau) is our new full-time Maintenance Assistant.
📌 Join us for Homecoming on Friday, October 9 | 5p downtown parade | 5:30p Alum Zone | 7p varsity football v. Portage | Halftime feat. Marching Band & Dance team Go to llhs.org/apps/pages/alumzone

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon August 2026 update

💪🏼We were blessed to work with more than 600 elementary athletes across the 7 sports camps we hosted this summer. We look forward to seeing these runners, jumpers, tacklers, kickers, shooters, grapplers, passers and spikers show what they learned! See and save camp pics on our smugmug photo archive site ⤵

🚧 Interior remodels of the Foods and Consumer Science classroom and construction of a new Extended Learning Center classroom and office within the Media Center are wrapping up and will be ready for the first day of classes Aug. 18. Read the article on our blog and stay up-to-date at llhs.org/apps/pages/ConstructionNews

👋🏼 In July we welcomed two new faces to campus: Mr. Jared Rathje, our new Director of Curriculum and Instruction, who will also teach some algebra, and Mrs. Rachel Richart, our new Administrative Assistant to the Principal. Keep an eye on the blog to read more about our newest staff members!

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon July 2026 update

🌎Operation GO 2026: 2 trips in, 2 to go! Warriors GO and share their gospel lights: Team Idaho Falls ~ Truth in Love Ministry | Team Alaska, Faith Lutheran in Anchorage - Soccer Camp | Team West Bend, Shepherd of the Hills ~ Soccer Camp | Team NOLA at Trinity, Abita Springs, La ~ VBS Camp 👁Watch @OperationLakesideGO on Facebook

🏆 Spring sports wrapped with 2 conference championships (both T&F), 3 regional titles (#2 seed softball & T&F), 3 T&F events to state (Jack Thiele 6th in 300 hurdles; Sophia Bostetter 11th in discus; girls 13th in 4x4 relay), boys golf team made sectionals, soph Jack Pucci to state (finished 37th). What a record-breaking spring!

📽 In May & June, our LLHS campus was blessed to serve as a set for part of the film under production by Salty Earth Pictures, “Run for Glory - The Don Beebe Story.” We look forward to seeing the finished biopic of this faith-filled celebrity! See more at @SaltyEarthPictures on Facebook

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon June 2026 update

Academic Awards Night, Prom, Commencement Concert, Graduation ... there‘s so much to celebrate at LLHS. Read all the newspaper releases about honors & awards on our blog. Many event pics are archived on our Smugmug photo site, free to share and download at llhs.smugmug.com as well as social media, Facebook & Insta: @yourllhs | YouTube @llhstechclub

Join our A Cappella Choir at Brewers v. Mets when our choir sings the National Anthem on July 21. Nice outfield loge tix & super fun fellowship! Details & tickets at bit.ly/LLbrewers26

Stay in the loop with BY HIS design construction, expected to run from June ‘26 to August ’27 when you subscribe to the monthly update at llhs.org/bhd/

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon May 2026 update

Congrats to our Academic Top 10, including valedictorian Grace Zhou (Eastside, Madison) and salutatorian Linc Foskett (St. John, Jefferson). Remaining members in rank order are Violet Larson (Peace, Sun Prairie), Ella Taylor (St. Paul, Lake Mills), Tyler Dretske (Eastside, Madison), Brady Wolfram (St. Paul, Fort), Katherine Abel (St. Paul, Fort), Cameron Vogel (Holy Cross, Madison), Gabriel Weidner (Zion, Columbus), and David Mews (St. Paul, Lake Mills). Look for bios and more graduate stories on our blog (llhswarriorstories.wordpress.com) throughout May.
Grand Event was a lovely night of fiesta and fellowship, and our generous sponsors, donors, attendees and online participants raised over $163,000 (before donor matches)! See pics at llhs.smugmug.com
Our $9.2 million building project—By His Design—has launched. See a 5-min. video on llhs.org, then see plans & pics at llhs.org/bhd/

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon April 2026 update

🎶 Catch the 🐝 on recent blog posts: 11 Warriors chosen for WELS Band Fest; MLC student teacher arrives; elementary spelling bee at LL; 29 WSMA solo/ ensembles qualify for State Festival, honor roll ... & more

📖🔮 Onstage at Lakeside April 24-26: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical tells of an extraordinary girl, with a vivid imagination, who dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results. Tickets 4/6 at llhs.org/drama

✝🎉 Grand Event has many ways to enjoy and support the mission from home: bid the auction, learn about exciting projects (🪴house, 🦾🧑🏽‍💻, OpGo📣) you can help come to life, buy-it-now giftcards & more | llhs.org/grandevent

🍰 Enjoy making fancy desserts? Our April 18 Grand Event needs them! See details & sign up at bit.ly/GEdessertdash

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon March 2026 update

🏆 Warrior forensics team retook the Capitol Conference championship at Waterloo when 9 schools competed in 19 different speaking categories. The win marks Lakeside's 15th conference championship in 16 years. Read at Warriorstories blog

🏀🤼‍♂️ Girl power! #3 seed Lady Warrior basketball are Capitol champs (unbeaten in conf). 1st year Lady Warrior wrestlers took regional team championship via ind. champs jr. Lucy Kuchta, fr. Gwendolyn Forster; runners-up Lamayra Schmidt, Bridget Schilling, Haylie Reese; and 3 more in 3rd place.

🙏🏼📞 Mr. Glen Pufahl returned a call to Mt. Olive, Overland Park, KS. Mr. Andy Rosenau is deliberating a call to serve as Dean of Student Life at Divine Savior Academy in Sienna, TX. Please keep him and his family in prayer.

Don’t forget our smugmug photo gallery—recent additions include Kinderfest, elementary art show, Pops Concert, 7th gr Warrior Day 💙

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon Feb. 2026 update

🫶🏼 Operation GO mission teams have been set for summer 2026! 28 teens will share gospel love on 4 trips: to Idaho Falls for Truth in Love Ministry; to Faith in Anchorage, AK; Shepherd of the Hills, West Bend, WI; and Trinity in Abita Springs, LA. Support their gospel work at givebutter.com/opgo.

🫶🏼 A brand-new Winter Art Show featured 100s works of art by 98 1st semester art students, organized by 1st-year instructor Mandi Hoeppner.

➡️The 9th annual “Top 10 stories” is on our blog, chosen from among our 71 stories & 785 Facebook posts shared in 2025. See which you remember! 💖

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon Jan. 2026 update

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon Jan. 2026 update
❄️ In December, Mr. Jared Rathje accepted our call to be Director of Curriculum & Instruction next fall, Principal Schultz was called to be a mission pastor in Altoona, Wis and Mr. Phil Dretske to teach engineering and coach at Manitowoc Lutheran High School. Please keep them all in prayer.
❄️ Our wrestler boys earned the championship at the Iron Sharpens Iron Invite at Lake Country Lutheran with 6 medals; the same day, our girl wrestlers made school history, taking to tournament mats as a team. The next weekend saw senior Haylie Reese take 1st in weight at West Allis Central!
❄️ Milestones were recently reached ... a fun one in that our @llhstechclub YouTube channel reached 1 million views, and even more amazing, by December, our favorite thrift store, Twice is Nice in Jefferson, had gifted Lakeside Lutheran over $9 million since its opening. Thank you for shopping, donating & volunteering!
❄️ Read the always-uplifting 2-min. post-holiday blog read by Pastor Don at llhswarriorstories.wordpress.com

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon December 2025 update

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon Dec. 2025 update

🎁 Warrior Academic Bowl team are back-2-back Conference Champs! 4 teens were top medalists in their categories (Maya Damm (Peace, Sun Prairie) in Eng 10, Lexi Krahn (Eastside, Madison) in Eng 11, Violet Larson (Peace, Sun Prairie) in Eng 12, and Elias Schreiber (Bethany, Fort) in Geography) for the overall highest score in their respective categories.

🎁 Girls Cross Country won Conference, were runner-up at sectionals, earning a state spot! Finishing 8th/16, it’s their best finish since winning state in ‘07.

🎁 "Career Day” saw 50 professionals (25 alum) from 30+ fields on campus to share career descriptions, stats, and personal experiences. Each of our 563 Warriors chose 3 sessions to attend. See pics at llhs.smugmug.com

🎁 Announcing the Lakeside Alum & Friends Business Directory—coming soon for our extended family to connect & support each other. Alum, parents & friends can network & support businesses that share a connection to our mission. Add your biz online here!
🎁 Join us at LL for joyful Christmas music! Concert Dec. 14 at 4 pm

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon Nov. 2025 update

See and read about our new “Forever Warrior Wall of Honor” when you go to llhswarriorstories.wordpress.com. Inclusion is open to LL alum who have or are serving in the U.S. military. Help us spread the word! If you know a Lakeside alum veteran, share the link so they can add their info (at no cost to them): llhs.org/alumvetwall/ or call Jess 920-648-2321 x2230

Fall Grandparents Day saw 275 grands loved on 175 freshman/junior Warriors. Truly, "Children’s children are a crown to the aged." (Prov. 17:6) See pics at llhs.smugmug.com

Congrats to soph Lydia Alvarado (Eastside Madison), artist of the winning design for the 2025-26 Cultural Awareness Club theme button contest!

On Oct 15, our General Board called Mr. Paul Patterson, currently Associate Director of WELS Commission on Lutheran Schools, to be our Director of Curriculum and Instruction.

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon Oct. 2025 update

🍁 With higher enrollment comes the blessing of more diversity, in backgrounds as well as in interests among our students. We look forward to seeing the fruits and fun of new co-currics, including Art Club, Crocheting & Knitting Club, Equestrian team, Trap Shooting team (2nd year) & a WIAA Girls Wrestling team 🎉
🍁 Shepherds from 30 churches came to spend time with their teen lambs at the 1st of our quarterly “Pastors Days” on campus. 💙 See pics at llhs.smugmug.com
🍁 As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, come to LL Oct. 8 (open house 6-8 pm) to gather, learn & celebrate, featuring authentic food sampling & more. Free event, but RSVP for planning at llhs.org/apps/form/HHN
🍁 New faculty are settling in and ready to get to know you! Read about them and catch up on all the latest news and features on our blog we call Warrior Stories. There’s a permalink to the blog from our home page or tap the link here and search on "faculty"

Lakeside Lutheran High School FedCon Sept. 2025 update

Our 68th school year began for 567 students on August 18, a 6th straight year of enrollment increase, up 6.2% since the last day in May.

We had 161 freshmen at orientation the Thursday before. Check out the Freshman 1st day video or What’s New at Lakeside on our YouTube link on the llhs.org homepage.

K-8 students should look for a prize table or find Mr. Lauber at any reg. season home varsity event to get or show their 25/26 FedCred card for free admission to the event & have fun with a scratch-off that could mean a treat at concessions or cool Warrior swag.

Homecoming is October 3 and features a downtown Lake Mills parade at 5 pm, an Alum Zone party that starts at 5:30 and 7 pm football v. Mt. Horeb with halftime shows by the Marching Band and Dance team. Alum should register at llhs.org/apps/pages/alumzone by Sept 26.

Prior to September 2025, FedCon was an emailed newsletter that threw the spotlight on upcoming events and included a message from the Principal along with staff and student news and features. See past issues on our publication archive Issuu site here.