Flying into a new spring 2008 season are the Shorewood varsity and junior varsity softball teams. Despite the loss of key varsity members Katie Adams, Kristen Wick and Amy Geitmann, the team has been “staying optimistic,” according to Roxanne Kruger, senior captain of the varsity team.

Kruger is the only senior who will be on the varsity team. The only other senior playing softball, Riana Mardila, is new to the sport and team, so she will on junior varsity. Besides Kruger, the varsity team has three other captains: juniors Athena Naylor, Catylin Lewis and Helen Juffer.

The morning of Tuesday March 4^th was unlike many other mornings in the world of sports. Brett Favre announced his retirement from the National Football League. He decided to leave the youngest team in the NFL, despite the team making it to the conference championship game and looking as though it had high hopes to return for a successful season once again. Favre said that he was “stressed and tired of preparing for every new week,” in an interview with ESPN Analyst Chris Mortenson. Many people were surprised that a man coming off one of his greatest seasons ever would retire when it looked like he would have such a successful year in 2008. Nevertheless, this man’s effect on the game of football was extraordinary and unmatched by any other NFL quarterback. When asked, other quarterbacks like Ben Roethlisberger (Pittsburgh Steelers), Tom Brady (New England Patriots), and Peyton Manning (Indianapolis Colts) have said that Favre was one of their greatest heroes and influences. This man is idolized maybe even more than Michael Jordan (especially in Wisconsin). He has become the face of the Green Bay Packers, and some might say the face of the entire NFL.