With a full time teaching position, a nationally ranked 10th place cheer team and a baby on the way, head cheer coach, history teacher and Physical Education teacher Lisa Lauck is anything but bored.

The cheer team loaded on a bus and  travelled to Dallas, Texas the second to last weekend of January, accompanied by a seven-months pregnant Lauck. This was the cheer team’s second time going to nationals in Lauck’s two years as head coach.

“It’s a great way to showcase their skills and it also challenges the team to push themselves above and beyond,” Lauck’s mother and former cheerleading coach, Vicki Bush said. “They get to experience the different levels of competition from around the country. It broadens their horizons and let’s them see more than just what its their own surroundings.”

Since middle school, Lauck has had a strong interest in cheerleading, but it wasn’t until she was given the opportunity in college to coach a team of kids that she realized teaching was something she was passionate about.

“I went back and forth for awhile in college, because I wasn’t sure what I really wanted to do. I wanted to be a veterinarian, then I tried to major in English for a little bit,” Lauck said. “But I started to realize after I got a coaching position when I turned 20 and I ended up really liking working with the kids that teaching was probably a good profession for me.”

Once her studies at Rockhurst University and William Jewell College concluded she began to work at a large, co-ed public school with over 1,800 students until she found an opening for both a teaching and coaching position at Sion.

“I really like the all-girls atmosphere,” Lauck said. “I think if I could do it over I would’ve liked attending an all-girls school [as a student]. It just seems more relaxed and focused.”

Confessing she had been checking the Sion website for several years in a row in the hopes of a position suited for her, Lauck said she had always known about Sion and was simply waiting for a time when she would be able to fulfill her love for cheer coaching while also working as a history teacher.

“It was just a happy chance last year that they had both positions available, and I was the fit,” Lauck said. “It was really exciting for me because I had been seeking this school out for a few years.”

Outside of school Lauck makes her parents, her friends and her husband a priority. Being an only child, Lauck said her parents have always been really important to her, and after seven years of marriage and a baby on the way, Lauck said she and her entire family, both parents and husband, could not be more excited.

“Her dad and I are beyond ecstatic about the upcoming birth of our first grandchild,” Bush said. “I believe we have raised a beautiful, strong, intelligent and independent woman who no doubt will be a wonderful mother and role model to her children.”

While the many aspects of Lauck’s life may seem jam-packed, she does not mind being busy.

“I like having a lot of things to do,” Lauck said. “I really, really love cheerleading and teaching, and I know organizing all that stuff may seem like a lot too, but for me it just comes naturally.”