Austin Jarmuz ’27 Named to WIAA Student Leadership Team

University School of Milwaukee junior Austin Jarmuz ’27 has been selected by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) to serve on the Student-Athlete Leadership Team (SALT) for 2025-26. He joins 26 high school student athletes entering their junior years from across the state. 

A total of 150 students throughout the state filled out an application and submitted a short introductory video to express their interest in serving on the team. The number of representatives from each district is determined by a percentage of member schools in each of the seven districts. Jarmuz is one of six students representing district seven. 

The purpose of the WIAA’s Student-Athlete Leadership Team is to serve as ambassadors for their peers and the association while learning more about the sports industry. Their involvement provides a student athlete voice in the WIAA and they will assist in supporting, educating, and advancing the purpose of interscholastic athletics. SALT engages in an advisory role without rule-making authority, but their input is conveyed and has an impact at the various levels of the committee process.

Additional benefits include instilling leadership skills; compiling diverse ideas and perspective from different areas of the state; learning more about the many career opportunities in sports professions; getting a better understanding of how the WIAA functions; sharing the many positive, life-enriching experiences the association creates each season; and creating the interest and growth of student athlete leadership groups at local schools.

Members on the team will engage in four meetings per year, attend WIAA state tournaments each season, plan and participate in the fall area meetings for student athletes, and organize and participate in an Annual Student-Athlete Leadership Conference that will merge with the Sportsmanship Summit beginning in December 2025.