Staff

Jake Beschta assumed his role on the executive staff as an assistant director on June 5, 2025.

Beschta’s responsibilities include the administration and tournament planning for the sports of 11-player football, boys golf, boys and girls hockey, and softball. Additional responsibilities include directing the scholar-athlete program and the New AD Workshop, as well as serving as staff liaison for the Calendar & Contact Ad Hoc Committee.

Prior to joining the WIAA, Beschta served as the co-chair of the WIAA Calendar and Contact Ad-Hoc Committee, and he was a WIAA-licensed basketball official at the master level.

Beschta served as high school principal in the Denmark School District from 2020-25 and in the same position at Oconto Falls High School from 2018-2020. For three years from 2015-18, he was the athletic director and associate principal at Sheboygan Falls High School.

Other educational experiences include teaching middle school in the Coleman School District from 2007-15.  During that span, he served as football junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant coach, girls basketball junior varsity head and varsity assistant coach and as a high school track & field coach.

Other education-related service includes a position as secretary and vice president of the Northeast Wisconsin Conference Principals Committee.

Beschta received a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 2007. He earned a Master of Science degree in administrative leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2015.