Sharon started her career at Alameda High under Brent Boruck, their athletic director, and at the time, it was only part-time, a couple of days a week. Up until getting a phone call from her son informing her of the job, she was doing accounting out of her Wheat Ridge home. Her son thought the job at Alameda was something that would fit her well. She worked at Alameda High for two years with Boruck. Athe end of the second year, Boruck asked her to go to a school in Boulder where he had gotten a job.

The last year at Alameda, a new face showed up at the school. Her name is Phyllis Emrich. She came to Bear Creek as the principal, just three years ago.

Sharon's son, previous to working at Wheat Ridge High, played some semi-pro football, left Wheat Ridge for Green Mountain High and has been helping coach football at Bear Creek for the last few years.

Sharon wears many hats during any given day, scheduler, attendance support staff, arranging for bus transportation just to name a few. Most days are 9-10 hours long; she says they go by quickly being she works in "the nerve center office of the school." It has the duties of curriculum, attendance, athletic and has the administrative staff. Her biggest reward is working with the students, specializing in the Colorado High School Sports Association requirements. This being grades, number of hours of education to be eligible for sports and physical examination records. She said that sports has played a bigpart in many a student's life, in that keeping up their grades up to remain eligible has made the difference in them graduating. The student may not have been academically inclined, but gifted as an athlete, so sports gave them the motivation to study.

She feels she has helped better the lives of many a young person and feels there could be no greater reward. This was such an important belief that she teamed up with one of her past athletic directors, Chuck Taibi to present statistics about sports involvement and its importance to education to Jefferson County School District when they threatened to cut funding for the athletic program throughout Jeffco Schools. The two were successful in thwarting off the cut in funding.

She is currently working with Lynn Torr who is the current Athletic Director/Assistant Principal, for Bear Creek.Lynn is in his first year at this position, he previously taught history and coached freshman football for Bear Creek. Sharon says she enjoys watching the students grow-up and if you could see the twinkle in her eye and the smile on her face you wouldn't doubt her statement in the least! She gives the school's core parents big kudos for how successful the sports programs are and without them, life would not be so easy or rich.

Sharon was recently placed on the Bear Creek Preservation Committee being given the task of what items should be preserved and taken to the new High School and where they should be placed once there. But the one job she does few people around her school know about is keeping this photographer up to speed on schedule changes, game locations, directions to facilities and without that he would be lost. Thanks Sharon!