Tessa Schmocker [Submitted photos]

Lakeside Lutheran High School student Tessa Schmocker is being recognized as Wisconsin Dairy Female Athlete of the Month for May by the Wisconsin Sports Network and Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin.  Tessa received this honor because of her balance of school and athletic achievements as well as working on her family’s farm Go Sho Cattle Dairy in Whitewater. She is the 3rd generation of family helping to run the farm. Her athletic achievements include playing on the school’s golf team where they were conference and regional champion and named to the Academic All-State team. She is also the Valedictorian of her class. This is all while balancing her work on the farm where she milks, cleans out pens, feeds heifers and milks calves. She is also in charge of the young stock, feeding milk and grain as well as halter-breaking calves and working with them before shows. 

Editor’s note: This press release was received from Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin.