Photo Contest Winners Show Their Badger Spirit
Contact: Mike Fahey, Wisconsin Alumni Association, (608) 263-2645, mikefahey@uwalumni.com
MADISON, Wis. — Meridith Berghauer is a fish janitor — or at least that’s what she tells the students she works with in her side job as a swim coach.
In fact, the 2002 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is an aquarist at the Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin in Milwaukee. And she has a lot of Badger spirit. So much spirit that she won the prize for “Most Creative Show of Spirit” during the annual Badger Spirit Day photo contest sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA).
Berghauer, who has worked at Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin for the past four years, donned a Badger hockey “Crease Creatures” T-shirt and dove into one of the tanks of fish to show her spirit.
“I figured no one had ever done that before,” she explained.
She quickly remedied that unacceptable décor with some red and white paint, and now has the perfect room to display the Wisconsin Badger merchandise she won in the photo contest, including UW-Madison coffee mugs, a T-shirt from Sconnie Nation and a cooler donated by M&I Bank.
Alumni and friends submitted 70 photos in the 2008 Badger Spirit Photo contest. Other winners included the UW Health Clinic in Appleton, Wis., which sent the largest group photo, and 2008 graduates John Sinclair and Steff Morgan, whose photo from Sydney, Australia, qualified as the photo sent from the furthest distance from Madison.
The UW Health Clinic employees won a set of pilsner glasses from M. LaHart & Co., while Sinclair and Morgan received a $100 gift certificate from University Book Store. More than 30 other prizes went to alumni who sent photos from their homes and businesses in Wisconsin, across the nation and places around the globe.
Badger Spirit Day photos are available at uwalumni.com/spiritday.
