News Archive

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.

Despite the distance, the end of the 2019-2020 school year has been packed with presentations, projects, and awards, as our students finish out the last week of classes strong!

Earlier today, Major League Soccer (MLS) announced that Shattuck-St. Mary’s School, along with other former U.S. Soccer Development Academy clubs, will join MLS’s existing club academies in a new partnership that will transform youth player development in the United States and Canada.

The inaugural Shattuck-St. Mary’s Arch Madness Bracket Challenge is heating up as Round III, Father’s Final Four, begins! See who’s made it so far in the competition.

While everyone had the choice to bring their own dessert for this virtual installment of the weCreate® Center’s Deep Dive & Dessert series, the online setting couldn’t diminish the talent Jonah Kagen ’18 brought to everyone’s screens.

Over this past weekend, seniors Keren (Lily) Chen ’20 and Chenxi (Steven) Song ’20 shared their accounts of the global COVID-19 situation with ABC News, since they both have the unique insight of facing the crisis from both China and the United States.

In a recent report published by topdrawersoccer.com, Shattuck-St. Mary’s girls’ soccer program had the “most currently rostered NCAA Division I players” in the nation with 25 former Sabres playing at the top collegiate level.

Last week, Uyi Omorogbe ’15, a graduate of the Boys Soccer Center of Excellence, visited the weCreate center – despite not being able to go inside.

Today, Head of School, Matt Cavellier shared an update with the SSM community about plans for the remainder of the year and beyond. It was with a heavy heart that he shared we will be unable to have students return to campus this school year.

While our current Shattuck-St. Mary’s students have had their world turned upside down, they’re certainly not the only ones. All over the world, SSM alumni have also had to adjust to the recent pandemic, especially as the number of confirmed cases rises in the United States.

Around the world, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is in short supply. The nurses at Shattuck-St. Mary’s Kramer House infirmary found a way to help.

With our students now spread out all over the world, The Spectator asks the question, “Where are you now?”

Yesterday, the Shattuck-St. Mary’s School Board of Trustees and administrative team announced to its school community the decision to start transitioning all classes to distance learning through April 30^th to help play its role as global citizens in mitigating the possibility of acquisition and transference of the virus that causes COVID-19. Students will have a week to return home from campus and classes will resume via distance learning on Monday, March 23^rd.

Cate Carson ’20 has won the YPSCA Concerto Competition.

Along with the final term of the school year comes the final Fesler-Lampert Performing Arts Series event of the season, which this year features a return from James Sewell Ballet, a Minnesota-based ballet company that focuses on innovative and contemporary ballet.

Each year, members of our Vocal Performance Program Center of Excellence have the opportunity to audition for and perform with Project Opera.

Today marks National Girls and Women in Sports Day, an annual day of recognition that celebrates the accomplishments of female athletes and the positive influence of participating in sports for girls and women.

Cate Carson ’20 has been selected out of hundreds of submissions as a 2020 Featured Artist in the Minnesota Varsity competition!

This past week, a group of our Upper School girls traveled to Hawaii in order to attend the Women’s Leadership Summit.