Blue Knights Shine at State Track Meet!

Fred Willis Earns Journal Sentinel Athlete of the Week Honors for Performance at State Track Meet

Willis, a senior track athlete, won three events at the Division 3 state meet Friday and Saturday, repeating in the 100 and 200 meters as well as the 400 relay. Willis won the 100 in 10.82 seconds and took the 200 in 21.81 to break the nine-year-old record of 21.89 set by Howards Grove's Marcus Ver Duin in the 2002. The Wisconsin football recruit also joined juniors Ethan Jaynes and Max Wrenn and freshman Ryan Send to win in 42.51 to beat the record of 43.32 the same team set in the preliminary round Friday.

Two State Records in Two Days
La Crosse - Another day, another state record for the Brookfield Academy boys' 4x100 Division 3 relay team. "The more the better, right?" said junior Max Wrenn. Wrenn and junior Ethan Jaynes, freshman Ryan Send and senior Fred Willis set a state record of 43.32 seconds in the event Friday, They finished in 42.51 Saturday. "We wanted it and we went after it," said Wrenn. The key to the over-night improvement, according to Wrenn, was that the team worked on their handoffs. "We really worked on our handoffs," he said. "Especially me, in the third leg with Ryan, we definitely improved there. That did it, I guess. Yesterday we knew we had to work on the handoffs, so we focused on that and knew if we did it right and got it to Fred (for the anchor leg), we could win it." Two state records in two days? "They're both pretty exciting," said Wrenn. "But this (second one) is definitely a bonus."

BA girls' 400 relay takes second in state!

l to r: Bailey Vipond-junior, Mary Liz Kim-sophomore, Mackenzie Bonk-freshman, Catherine Courchaine-senior

What is at the core of a Brookfield Academy education?

by Dr. Robert Solsrud, Head of Brookfield Academy

During a Memorial Day Celebration, I heard the words, “We should honor those who honor us.” This statement brought to light how BA, through its understanding of a Liberal Arts Education in a Free Society, so meaningfully “honors those who honor us.”

Georgetown University Professor James V. Schall explained that “The terms of liberal education and free society arise out of the same source, out of the classic notion that we can and should first rule ourselves and that such rule is in our personal power.”


BA School Goal #1 - Character: Learn to act responsibly in a free society realizing the moral consequences of our actions.
To learn to act responsibly in a free society requires us to understand the need to rule ourselves for some purpose. We must teach our students the difference between an evil purpose and a noble purpose.


BA School Goal #2 - Individuality: Learn to appreciate their unique talents and to exercise these gifts responsibly.
To learn to act responsibility in a free society requires us to seek the truth because that is the highest power we have – to know the truth of things.


BA School Goal #3 - Truth: Recognize and pursue transcendent, objective truth.
To learn to act responsibly in a free society requires us to be a learning community that nourishes wonder, provides curiosity, stimulates creativity, and inclines the minds.


BA School Goal #4 - Intellect: Understand that learning is a goal in itself, and perfection of the intellect is the purpose of a liberal education.
To learn to act responsibly in a free society requires us to bring our students to an understanding that self-rule is at the heart of civil order.


BA School Goal #5 - Heritage: Understand the traditions of western civilization and particularly the United State of America.
At Brookfield Academy, we do “honor those who honor us” by graduating responsible, constructive, free people.”