With 10 years of school administration experience, Shaun Liesch has been selected as the Neenah Joint School District Activities Director. The hire is pending approval by the Board of Education.

Liesch has served as the Activities Director and Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Clintonville Public School District for the past seven years. He previously served as an Associate Athletics Director at The Prairie School in Racine for three years.

Liesch will oversee the athletics, fine arts and student club programs at Neenah High School and Neenah Middle School. He replaces Mike Elkin, who is retiring after six years in the position and 30 total years in the school district as a teacher, coach and administrator.

Liesch created a Student-Athlete Leadership team at Clintonville and created a corporate sponsorship program to raise funds for video boards. He oversaw all district facility usage and created a coaches’ evaluation tool through postseason surveys. Liesch has been an active member of the Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association serving on the strategic plan committee and a presider at the organization’s two most recent workshops.

Under Liesch’s leadership, Clintonville was recently honored with the WIAA Award of Excellence for the second time in four years. The award was presented to 27 schools statewide this year and recognizes schools’ efforts and achievements in the areas of sportsmanship, ethics, integrity, leadership, character and accomplishment.

At The Prairie School, Liesch coached track and field and was a health and physical education teacher while also serving as the strength and conditioning coach. He previously was the Sports Performance Coach at SPS Sports Performance in Racine.

A three-sport letterwinner in high school at Freedom, Liesch attended UW-Stevens Point and earned a degree in health promotions and health and fitness leadership. He is a Certified Athletics Administrator and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Liesch is also a WIAA licensed official in basketball, track and field, soccer, softball and baseball.

Neenah's Special Olympics basketball team captured the Wisconsin State championship in its division at the state spring games over the weekend in Oshkosh.

The Rockets went 4-0 in their games, posting three wins by at least 18 points followed by a 23-20 win in their final game of the weekend.

Neenah won its first regional title since 2019 in March to qualify for the state tournament.