News Archive

On Wednesday, Nov. 11, 19 Shattuck-St. Mary’s student-athletes made their commitment to play their respective sports at the next level as they signed their NCAA National Letters of Intent to play at the Division I or II levels.

Claire Wisdo ’27, an avid mountain-biker with the Cannon Valley Composite Mountain Bike Team, has received the Racer with Heart Award for the 2020 Minnesota High School Cycling League season.

After historic voter turnout and one of the most intense and in some cases still undecided election nights we’ve ever seen, Shattuck-St. Mary’s School alum Esther Agbaje ’03, a member of our Board of Trustees, has won her campaign to represent House District 59B in the Minnesota state legislature.

Shattuck-St. Mary’s own Pete Schleif, Director of the Vocal Performance Program Center of Excellence, was recently featured on KYMN’s “Musician Talk,” in which Northfield artist Pauline Jennings interviews local musicians.

Though the usual pomp and circumstance of a filled arena and big, bold displays had to be done in a more creative way this year due to COVID-19, the 2020 NHL Draft still held a great amount of excitement for 217 young men looking to take one step closer to the NHL, including four former Shattuck-St. Mary’s Sabres.

Lotte Aga ’22, a student in Shattuck-St. Mary’s The Major Center of Excellence program, has partnered with the Faribault Diversity Coalition (FDC) to help prepare for this October’s International Festival. Lotte, who moved to Faribault with her family from Belgium last fall, was contacted by newly appointed FDC Project Manager, Peter van Sluis, for help.

Last week, Faribault’s River Bend Nature Center (RBNC) celebrated its 39^th Annual Fundraising Event, called Ramble Week, which was filled with virtual and socially distanced in-person events and several testimonials from Shattuck-St. Mary’s School community members.

Four of this year’s seniors have been named National Merit Commended students by the National Merit® Scholarship Program.

Eri Isomura, percussionist and pianist, and Dr. David Crittenden, guitarist, have joined James Zabawa and Dr. Luke Williams as faculty of Shattuck-St. Mary’s School’s new community Music Academy.

Michael Vang ’18, a graduate of the Shattuck-St. Mary’s Soccer Center of Excellence Program, made his professional debut with Forward Madison earlier this August, becoming the first Hmong man to play professional soccer in the U.S. Michael punctuated this milestone by scoring his first professional goal less than ten minutes into his first game!

This past weekend, Shattuck-St. Mary’s Middle School students Kate Bittenbender ’25 and Claire Wisdo ’27 competed in a mountain biking race in Brophy Park in Alexandria, Minn. with their team, Cannon Valley Composite. The team placed third overall, a huge accomplishment.

Ao (Amber) Lu ’21, a member of the Shattuck-St. Mary’s BioScience Center of Excellence Program, was recently elected to be Vice President of Public Partnership in the Chinese chapter of student-organization, Future Health Professionals­.

Wynnm Murphy ’14, an alumna of the Vocal Performance Program, has spent the past few months releasing singles off of the new EP album that she’s been working on for the past year. The first song, “Fire on the Moon” was released in February with three more having been released since then.

Zoie Reams ’10, graduate of the Vocal Performance Program Center of Excellence, received the Nathan M. Pusey Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award from Lawrence University last week, for her “exemplary opera career.”

Earlier this month, the Mural Society of Faribault finished a project several years in the making; a mural featuring the first Episcopal bishop in Minnesota, Bishop Henry Whipple.

Matt Cavellier, Head of School, shares the impact that the wrongful death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis Police Officer has had on the students and employees of Shattuck-St. Mary’s School.

A member of the Boys Soccer Center of Excellence, Adolfo Diaz ’22 kept himself extra busy this school year by creating his own YouTube channel to document his journey through Shattuck-St. Mary’s and the rest of his soccer career.