2010 Marinda Batzlaff Kimmel is a licensed marriage and family therapist at Five Rivers Mental Health Clinic in Mankato, Minnesota. Ryan Ruzich was promoted in March from special investigator with the Office of Special Investigations to state police fugitive investigator with the Department of Corrections Office of Special Investigations. Andrew Amys was promoted to senior vice president of investments at Wells Fargo Advisors. 2011 Anya Russom received the 2022 Hong Rost Memorial Leadership Award for Innovation in International Education Student Services from the Wisconsin Association of International Educators, Inc. 2012 Taylor Gombos is a visiting assistant professor in the Social Inquiry Department at UW-Superior. 2013 Kristen Vake is now the executive director of the Iron Mining Association of Minnesota. Lori Danz was named a 2023 Wisconsin Teacher of the Year. Lori is a biology teacher and school forest coordinator at Superior High School. 2014 Tyler LaRose teaches Spanish at South St. Paul High School and is head coach of the volleyball team, the South St. Paul Packers. Meghan Jenson is a senior lecturer for Teacher Education at UWS. 2015 Brandon Haling is living in Cave City, Arizona, where he has been teaching film and television as well as coaching the cross country and track programs for the past five years. In the last year, he accepted promotions as station manager for TV Channel 6 as well as social media coordinator for the school district.
Angela Mertes Blegen works in case management at Inclusa. Sally Linzmeier teaches math at Chippewa Falls High School (Wisconsin) and is an assistant basketball coach for both the high school and UW-Eau Claire. 2016 Stacy Desmond is now the assistant director of Student Health and Counseling Services at UW-Superior. Alexis Landherr is the athletic director for McDonell Area Catholic Schools in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Tony Willette is an assistant coach for UWS Track and Field.
Marquise Slay ’17 was the featured speaker
at Gogebic Community College's
commencement ceremony in May.
2017 Efim Kolobov and Ethan Freel ’17 started a film production company based in Madison, Wisconsin. They released their debut film in 2022. Marie Williams opened Reclaim Creative Reuse, an arts and crafts store that operates like a thrift store in Superior. Byron Klimek is a senior lecturer in the Music Department at UW-Superior. Kaitlyn Knutson Mahlen is an IT data scientist with Cirrus Aircraft. She is married to Charles Mahlen ’17. 2018 Erik Simula is the executive director of the Minnesota Canoe Museum and was featured in the National Geographic TV show "Called to the Wild" in 2021. Brady McDonough is an account manager in e-commerce at Ad Advance in Duluth. He loves working with the most amazing work crew of his entire life and thanks the Comm Arts department of UWS for aiding his success.
Ryan Pikka ’16 and his wife, Alissa, welcomed a son, Bentley Kenneth, on June 14.
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