MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio

by Madeleine Baran, Minnesota Public Radio
June 10, 2013

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Nick Stoneman arrived in 2003 determined to save Shattuck-St. Mary’s. His job was to turn this hockey powerhouse in the small southern Minnesota town of Faribault into an elite prep school.

Shattuck-St. Mary’s was struggling. It had lost about $2 million a year for two years straight. Student enrollment was flat, and the boarding school had been without a permanent head of school for two years.

Yet at the hockey rink, it was hard to imagine anything was wrong. Future superstar Sidney Crosby had just led the school to a national championship. And Shattuck athletes, including current Minnesota Wild player Zach Parise, were eagerly awaiting the NHL draft.

Shattuck-St. Mary had ”nothing short of tremendous potential,” Stoneman wrote in his first piece published in the school magazine.