After competing early in her career as a hurdler, Kasia has recently made an impact as a sprinter, sprint relay member, as well as a long and triple jumper. Kasia worked hard in the weightroom this past off season, which would have paid huge dividends this season. Kasia would have been a returning member of both speed relays. Last year her 4 x 100 relay made sectionals along with Emily Tess, Elena LeRoy (jr), and Alysha Nelson and her 4 x 200 relay missed sectionals by one place along with Elena LeRoy (jr), Ashley Hansen and Alexa Nelson (so). She looked to become dominant in the triple jump as well this year and coaches were relying on her in the 200 meter dash as well. Her “Can Do” attitude will be greatly missed next year.

Highlights from her final year

Long Jump

Triple Jump

4 x 100M Relay

4 x 200 Relay

Full Stats from Klotz's career

Fifth time was the charm for the Sturgeon Bay soccer team when they finally captured the Gold Ball in 2015.

The Clippers captured their first-ever state title in the sport with a 2-0 win over University School of Milwaukee in front of several dozen supporters at Uihlein Soccer Park in Milwaukee. It had not even scored a goal at the state tournament before they won their state semi-final a few days before against Barron. Robbie Hohlfelder got the Clippers on the board first on a one-timer after a crossing pass in the match's first 25 minutes. Alessandro Nora added an insurance goal on a header in the 56th minute to put the team away. Trent Maas tied a state record for fewest goals in the state tournament with zero goals against. That is not a big shock for a team that outscored its opponents 28-1 during their 2015 playoff run.

It may look a little different than in years' past, but Sturgeon Bay seniors will get the spotlight one last time this spring.

In cooperation with the coaches of Sturgeon Bay's baseball, softball, track and field, and girls soccer teams, DoorKewauneeHighSchoolSports.com will highlight one senior athlete a day with short biographies co-written by their coaches. Thirty-three student-athletes will be featured leading up to their graduation at the end of May.  Beginning on Wednesday, we will begin highlighting the boys and girls track teams. Below is an introduction by track head coach Mike LeRoy.

With the global pandemic at hand, the 2020 Clipper track and field season got cut short after only a couple weeks of indoor practice and the hopes of better weather and upcoming indoor invitationals that were soon to be canceled. The Clipper girls looked to defend their 2019 Packerland Conference Championship - the first in a decade, while the boys team looked to regain the dominance they had on a three year run ending last season. With the season, school, and basically our lives on hold we can only hope that the sacrifices we are asked to make will lead to a return of normalcy and hopefully our 2020 track and field season. It’s very much like an eye exam, you look forward as hard as you can, and although some things are fuzzy and not very clear, you just keep on going.

High school seniors have been robbed of so many last memories of their high school careers, including being the influential leaders they have turned out to be.  I couldn’t be more proud as the Head Coach of Sturgeon Bay’s Boys & Girls Track & Field. I am also blessed to have great assistant coaches. Coaches John Rosenthal, Troy Hasenjager, Leanne Pinkert, and Nathan LeRoy all care not only for the athlete, but also for each and every one of the young men and women who they have had the honor to coach. I am especially grateful for the opportunity to have led such an amazing group of hard-working, caring, and devoted athletes who celebrate each other’s accomplishments more than their own. They are a true team which was developed by the leadership and dedication of this year’s senior class of 2020. Although the certainty of their senior season is unclear and blurred, my thoughts of them are not. In fact, in my eyes, this team would have been like having perfect vision as they are of course 20/20.

Before the school's "futbol" team took center stage, it was Sturgeon Bay's football team that had the community talking.

The Clippers won their state championship in 2004, approximately 11 years after the team came up just short of bringing the gold football back to Door County after a four-year drought. The team went 11-2, losing only their season opener to Little Chute and a mid-season against Olympian/Packerland rival Luxemburg-Casco. The Clippers defense held their opponents to single digits in eight of their 11 games, including never more than a touchdown in the playoffs until they reached Madison. In that game against St. Francis, the Clippers scored two second-quarter touchdowns to take a 14-7 lead into halftime. After giving up the lead in the opening moments of the fourth quarter, quarterback Shane Phillips scored the game-winning touchdown with under five minutes left in the game from four yards. It capped off a drive that took 7:01 off the clock, which is the fifth-longest drive in WIAA State Football Championship history at Division 4. Before they beat St. Francis in the state final, the Clippers beat New Holstein, Denmark, Ripon, and Xavier as a number three seed.

BOX SCORE FROM WIAA.ORG

Former Sturgeon Bay football star Chris Greisen will be on the sidelines for a new team this fall when he coaches West De Pere this fall according to several Green Bay media outlets.

A former NFL and Arena Football League quarterback as well, Greisen comes to West De Pere after spending four years at Freedom High School. He also had stints at Green Bay Southwest and Notre Dame before landing the position with the Phantoms. He will inherit a good squad as well after the Phantoms won the Bay Conference in 2019 and losing to eventual state runner up Menasha in the WIAA Level 3 playoffs. 

Long before Sturgeon Bay baseball's current string of dominance, they were state champions.

In its only championship game appearance, the Steve Ash-led Clippers won the state title in 1991 3-2 against Monona Grove at Wausau Athletic Park. Earlier in the state tournament, Len Atkins tied a state record with three stolen bases in its win against Wilmot.