District Representatives

District 1—Laura Birling (Unity)

District 2—Kevin Hopp (Stevens Point)

District 3—Brian Hubner (Westby)

District 4—Kraig Western (Winneconne)

District 5—Pat Schneider (Stoughton)

District 6—Matt Scherbarth (Mukwonago)

District 7—Gina Schindel (Shorewood)

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District 1—Laura Birling (Unity)

Laura has been teaching at Unity School District her entire career, since 2001. During that time, she has taught at the Middle, Elementary, and high school levels in Language Arts and Math.

Laura has coached middle school and JV softball, one terrible season of freshman volleyball, and directed the HS play for 10 years. She became the MS Cross Country coach in 2012, and the Varsity coach in 2017. Laura is married to Dan, with whom she loves to travel the world, and has one lovely stepdaughter who just gifted them a beautiful grandson!

District 2—Kevin Hopp (Stevens Point)

Kevin is the boys cross country coach at Stevens Point. He has been coaching since 2000. He has coached track at the middle school and high school level as well. He is a math teacher at Ben Franklin JH.

District 3—Brian Huebner (Westby)

Brian was a high school runner @ Westby High School which is the team he has coached for the past 24 years. He ran collegiately at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside under legendary coach Lucian Rosa and then two Indoor track seasons at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse under coaches Phil Esten and Don Fritsch. During the past two seasons, he has served on the WIAA Coaches Advisory Committee.

He is Westby’s head girls basketball coach as well as an assistant track coach and has taught Social Studies for the past 24 years. He has continued to compete as well as coach and has completed over 27 marathons, five Ironmans, and five 100 mile races with the current goal of running the 2023 Boston Marathon and qualifying for Western States 100.

Brian is married (Stacey) and has two daughters both who run cross country. Denali has finished a solid high school cross country career and will be running for the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire in the fall of 2023 and Odessa continues to enjoy running as a middle schooler.

District 4—Kraig Western (Winneconne)

Kraig ran cross country in high school from 96-99 at Division 3 Cadott High School. Upon graduation, he was granted the opportunity to continue running cross country at UW-Green Bay from 2000-2004. After graduation, he received a job at Winneconne Middle School teaching 7th grade Social Studies. In 2011 Kraig took over the cross country program.

District 5—Pat Schneider (Stoughton)

Pat Schneider is the boys cross country coach at Stoughton High School. He grew up in Verona where he was a varsity member of the 1990 State Runner Up and 1991 DII Cross Country Championship Teams. He went on to compete for UW-Platteville in track and cross country. After three years of teaching and coaching cross country in Thorp, Pat went on to teach social studies at Stoughton High School starting in 2000. In 2007 he became the head girls cross country coach in Stoughton and in 2014 switched to become the boys head coach. Pat is married with two children. He has run seven marathons, including the big ones in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

District 6—Matt Scherbarth (Mukwonago)

Matt has been coaching Cross Country since 2010, all for his alma mater Mukwonago High School (1998 graduate). During that time, he has worked with the programs at the Middle School and High School, both boys and girls. Currently he is the head boys coach (a role he has held since 2012), but effectively runs a co-ed program with Lea Patek heading the girl’s side at Mukwonago. Matt has USATF Level 2 certifications in Youth Sports Development and Endurance, a USATF Cross Country Specialist certification, and several Altis coaching certifications.

Outside of Cross Country, Matt is “Director of Track” (Co-Ed co-head coach) and he teaches social studies at Mukwonago. In those (vanishingly few) hours Matt is not at MHS, he is trying to keep up with his wife as they parent their five children (two boys and three girls).

District 7—Gina Schindel (Shorewood)

Gina is the girls' cross country coach and a physics teacher at Shorewood High School. Gina ran collegiately all four years at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, she stayed on for a few years as an assistant at UWRF and helped recruit athletes who won DIII track and cross country nationals. She coached at Franklin High School from 2006-2016 and helped at Oconomowoc in 2017-2019 and New Trier(Il) in 2020-2022. She still enjoys running and racing, especially with her three kids, and works out at Orange Theory in the off-season.