Racing Sausages crash La Crosse elementary school, as Brewers honor Friedman with teaching award
Baseball fun Tuesday afternoon at Southern Bluffs Elementary as the Milwaukee Brewers Famous Racing Sausages stopped at the school to the delight of the students and surprise for one teacher.
The stop included taking time to honor first-grade teacher Jennifer Friedman.
She was named the Brewers Grand Slam Teacher, and given a custom Brewers jersey from the Brewers president Rick Schlesinger.
He also presented a $1,000 check to Southern Bluffs principal Amanda Durnen for school from the team.
Schlesinger said it’s fun to see the kids and honor teachers.
“They’re some of the real heroes in this state,” he said.
Friedman said she had no idea the award was coming. She said she knew the Brewers were stopping at the school but had no inkling what was going to happen.
As the award was being handed out, her family came into the gymnasium to congratulate her. All the while, students and staff were cheering.
“The kids are really what drives me,” Friedman said. “Just the connections and relationships with the kids is the most important thing to me. And so to see their excitement really just touched my heart quite a bit.”
Once the ceremonies were out of the way, it was time for some fun as the Racing Sausages made their appearance for a race around the gym.
Afterwards, they lined up to high-five the kids as they went back to their classrooms.
Plenty of pictures were taken, too, with the sausages. The Friedman family posed with all of them.
Schlesinger said the Brewers plan to make similar stops in every county in the state over the next several years.
“More than half of our fans come from outside southeastern Wisconsin,” Schlesinger said. “We have to draw from the whole state. So, we want to reach out to the state. The state has given us the funding to make sure that we’re at the ballpark till 2050. And everybody in the state has helped contribute to it with their tax dollars. So, it’s a little way to give back to the communities around the state and celebrating a little Brewers love.”
Schlesinger said the Brewers plan to make similar stops in every county in the state over the next several years.
“More than half of our fans come from outside southeastern Wisconsin,” Schlesinger said. “We have to draw from the whole state. So, we want to reach out to the state. The state has given us the funding to make sure that we’re at the ballpark till 2050. And everybody in the state has helped contribute to it with their tax dollars. So, it’s a little way to give back to the communities around the state and celebrating a little Brewers love.”