Winfield –A familiar face will be returning to Winfield High School
Winfield R-IV School District announced March 8 Trent Crenshaw will be its next athletic/activities director, effective Aug. 1. Crenshaw returns to the district after spending the last four years as Dean of Students and Sixth Grade Principal in the Hazelwood School District.
“I am looking forward to serving the wonderful students, staff and community of Winfield,” Crenshaw said. “I want to come in and set the expectation that everyone must belong to something. Whether it be athletics, band, choir, FFA or scholar bowl, our students must participate and learn lifelong lessons through extracurricular activities.
“I am excited to support all of our students in their endeavors.”
Crenshaw also served as Building Logistics and Safety Coordinator, sixth grade discipline facilitator and served on numerous committees.
Crenshaw is replacing current Athletic/Activities Director Erin Hesselbach, who has accepted a position at Nerinx Hall.
“Winfield High School is excited to have Mr. Trent Crenshaw join us as the athletic/activities director,” Winfield High School Principal Dr. Jill Johler said. “We are confident he will be a tremendous asset to the Winfield School District.”
Crenshaw originally came to Winfield as an eighth-grade reading teacher after earning his bachelor and master’s degrees in education administration from Missouri Baptist University.
Crenshaw served as both the boys basketball and baseball coach for Winfield. As baseball coach, he compiled a 95-27 mark and led the Warriors to a Missouri Class 3 State Runner Up finish in 2010.
“We are very pleased to have Trent Crenshaw rejoin our Winfield family,” Winfield R-IV School Superintendent Rod Hamlett said. “Trent comes back to us having gained a wealth of knowledge around athletics and activities that will help continue to grow our programs.
“I feel very fortunate to have found someone of Trent’s caliber to be our next activities/athletic director.”
Prior to serving at Hazelwood, Crenshaw was the softball coach and assistant baseball coach, which teaching middle school reading at the Montgomery County School District. Outside of school, he is a men’s basketball official at the collegiate level, and he manages his family’s century farm, which was founded in 1856.
Crenshaw and his wife Kylie are the parents of one daughter, who plays softball at the University of Missouri, and three sons, ages 18, 17 and nine.
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