A Suring High School athlete is one of the Wisconsin students named to serve on the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) inaugural Student-Athlete Leadership Team in 2024-25.
Ginger Gerndt, a Suring junior, will be one of three District 2 members. In total, there are seven districts with 27 students.
The purpose of the team is to serve as ambassadors for their peers and the WIAA while learning more about the sports industry. Their involvement will provide a student-athlete voice in the WIAA and will assist in supporting, educating and advancing the purpose of interscholastic athletics. The team will engage in an advisory role without rule-making authority, but their input will be conveyed and have an impact at the various levels of the committee process.
Additional benefits to being on the leadership team include instilling leadership skills; compiling diverse ideas and perspective from different areas of the state; learning more about the career opportunities in sports professions; getting a better understanding of how the WIAA functions; sharing the positive, life-enriching experiences the association creates each season; and creating the interest and growth of student-athlete leadership groups at local schools.
Student-athletes submitted an application form and a short introductory video to express their interest in serving on the team. The WIAA received 289 applications.
The number of representatives from each district is determined by a percentage of member schools in each of the seven districts.
It is anticipated that student-athletes on the team will engage in four meetings per year, attend WIAA State Tournaments each season, plan and participate in the Fall Area Meetings for student-athletes, as well as organize and participate in an Annual Student-Athlete Leadership Conference that will merge with and envelop the Sportsmanship Summit beginning in 2025.
The Leadership Team’s orientation virtual meeting is scheduled for Aug. 18.
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