The Shawano boys basketball program is set to begin a new era under veteran coach Rick Rosinski after finishing 4-12 in the Bay Conference last season and 9-16 overall.
The Hawks will begin the 2026-27 season at Denmark High School at 4:45 p.m. Nov. 20. The team’s first home contest will be at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 28 against Clintonville.
Rosinski comes to Shawano after coaching the past three seasons at Green Bay Preble. Prior to that, Rosinski coached 20 seasons at Green Bay East and led East to a WIAA Division 1 sectional appearance and 19 victories during the 2021-22 season.
Rosinski takes over a team that has two capable senior scorers in Jackson Nordin and Will Verkuilen. Nordin, at 6-foot-7, averaged 17 points a game last season while Verkuilen (5-11) averaged 15.4.
Whereas Shawano often was able to put up points on the scoreboard last season, it frequently came up short in many of its 16 losses due to defensive shortcomings.
Rosinski’s initial goal this season is to get the Hawks to become a hard-working, physical defensive team.
Along with Nordin and Verkuilen, Shawano has a group of promising players with varsity experience in senior guard Grayson Swedberg (5-10), junior guard Collin Dieck (5-11), senior forward Austin Heling (6-4) and senior guard Tristan Lawe (6-0).
Dieck and Swedberg both averaged five points a game last season.
