Villanova University Alumna Brigitte Kusevskis Named Fenwick High School (Ill.) Director of Aquatics & Assistant Athletic Director

CHICAGO, Ill. — Fenwick High School announced the appointment of Brigitte Kusevskis, Class of 1996, as the institution’s Director of Aquatics and Assistant Athletic Director in support of girls’ athletics. She officially begins her new role on July 1.

A 2011 inductee to the Illinois Water Polo Hall of Fame, Brigitte (Bayster) Kusevskis ’96 was a member of the first class of women to enter Fenwick in August of 1992. Dr. Brigitte Kusevskis has served as Dean of Students at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, Ill., since 2021. Since 2015, she has been the Assistant Boys’ Water Polo Coach at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill. (State Champions 2017 and 2021, State runners-up in 2015, 2016, 2023, and 2024).

Dr. Kusevskis has served in a number of teaching and school leadership positions at Loyola Academy, Niles North High School, and Palatine High School. She returned to Fenwick in 2005 and progressed from social studies teacher to department chair to Assistant Dean to Dean of Students. She remained at Fenwick until 2014.

The recipient of a PHD in educational leadership from Cardinal Stritch University, an M.A. in educational administration from Dominican University, and a Bachelor of Science in Education from Villanova University, she and her husband Michael have two children. Son Olin attends the United States Air Force Academy where he competes on the Falcons’ varsity men’s water polo team. Daughter Elsa is a senior at Stevenson and is planning to attend Augustana College to major in accounting and play water polo.

Fenwick Water Polo