'Hypothermic Hawks' Ready to Take Polar Plunge

The team hopes to raise as much as $3,000 as it did in 2012.

On Sunday, Feb. 10, the Hypothermic Hawks of Greenfield High School will be in action in Muskego. That’s right, the Hypothermic Hawks. That afternoon, Greenfield School District representatives – teachers, students and administrators – will compete in the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics at Muskego County Park. The plunging for the 12th-annual event begins at noon. “It’s great how the high school has gotten involved,” said Paula Schwartz, a special education paraprofessional in the district and the high school’s Special Olympics agency manager. “It’s wonderful how many students want to be a part of it.” For Schwartz, it is her 11th time participating. “I remember the first time I did it I thought, ‘How hard can this be, getting into some …

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