Mr. Aust grew up in Orange County, California. Prior to relocating to Denver in 2022, he spent ten years living and teaching in Illinois. Most recently, he served as Dean of Students and a Theology/History teacher at St. John Paul the Great Catholic High School. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theology from the University of San Francisco and a M.T.S. from Boston College. Mr. Aust and his wife, Kasey, have four children and are parishioners at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Littleton. He has a deep and abiding love for Dante’s Divine Comedy, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and the epic poetry of Homer. In his spare time, he enjoys watching baseball and exploring Colorado with his wife and kids. With seventeen years of classroom experience teaching theology, history, and philosophy in a variety of contexts, Mr. Aust is excited and honored to step into the role of Headmaster at Our Lady of Victory this year.

Ms. Barham grew up outside of Boulder, Colorado and graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with her B.A. in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and Spanish Literature and Language. She then graduated from the University of Washington with her M.S. in Speech Pathology and practiced speech therapy within the public schools for two years before discerning a vocation to religious life. All of these experiences instilled in her a deep passion for education, authentic Catholic life, and living intentionally within community to encourage one another to live with integrity as the person God created them to be pursuing Him in all things. Ms. Barham looks forward to serving OLV in this position as office administrator and is excited to accompany families and students in their pursuit of becoming fully alive in Christ. In her free time, Ms. Barham enjoys hiking, running, reading literature, playing piano, and singing.

Mr. Buechler is joining the faculty at Our Lady of Victory following two years of teaching at Ascent Classical Academy. He came to teaching in a roundabout way, but the journey has been a joy. He has studied mechanical engineering, has worked at two parishes, spent time as a missionary and in seminary. Mr. Buechler has a wide variety of hobbies: juggling, unicycling, Rubik’s cubes, and leatherworking to name a few. Outside of that, he always looks forward to ski season and a perfect evening includes an involved board game with his wife. He is very excited for this next adventure as a part of Our Lady of Victory and he can’t wait to meet everyone come Fall.

Mr. Crane has long been fascinated by stories. The beauty and goodness of Narnia and Middle Earth captured his imagination and helped him fall in love with the truth of Salvation History. Studying Scripture and theology alongside secular history taught him to view all of human history within the context of God's unfolding revelation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Secondary Education from Colorado State University and a Master of Arts degree in Theology with a concentration in Biblical Theology from the Augustine Institute. Now in his sixth year at OLV, he joined classical education after ten years of teaching theology and history at the Girls Division of Regis Jesuit High School. He has a particular passion for teaching Scripture and helping students see the narrative thread that runs from Genesis to Revelation and understand their own place in that story as members of the Body of Christ.

Mr. Crane lives in Lone Tree with his wife, Ashley, and six rambunctious saints-in-training. When he is not delving deeper into Scripture scholarship or reading about the saints, he maintains a love-hate relationship with home improvement projects.

Mrs. Cushnie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, and an MBA from Cal State Fullerton. She spent ten years working in the aviation aerospace industry in California and Utah before getting married and staying home to raise a family.

She and her husband are parishioners at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Littleton, and have four children, who she homeschooled through 6th grade.

Mrs. Cushnie served for three years on the governing board of a top ranked Colorado liberal arts high school, gaining experience in school governance, reviewing and evaluating curriculum, and writing school policy. In her spare time, Mrs. Cushnie enjoys reading, sewing, home improvement projects, and going out to coffee and dinner with friends.

Ms. Dam grew up in Colorado and graduated from the University of Denver with a Bachelor’s in Psychology, licensure in Elementary Education, and a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction. While at DU, she studied abroad in Florence, Italy and pursued a studio art minor. While teaching at Our Lady of Lourdes, she began to understand and love classical education. Alongside teaching, she desired to deepen her knowledge and practice of faith, which led to a Master’s Degree in Theology from the Augustine Institute.

Ms. Dam reflects, “It is my privilege to pursue truth, beauty, and goodness uniquely through art and beauty within a strong Catholic community. I hope to inspire students in the appreciation of God’s beauty through His incarnation and creation, by developing technical and artistic skills and understanding the richness of the human expression through the ages of art history in its cultural and historical influences, while exploring the understanding craftsmanship of arts as an expression of innate gifts and talents engaging their minds and spirits. I look forward to meeting and learning more about each student as we embark on this journey together!”

Ms. Froula is originally from the East Coast. Her upbringing greatly encouraged reverence for the classical tradition, which led her to study liberal arts at Thomas Aquinas College. These studies inspired her to delve even deeper into the mysteries of Revelation through a Masters in Theology at Ave Maria University, completed in 2022. While earning her degrees, Ms. Froula worked in multiple capacities in education, from tutoring and secretarial roles to curriculum development, but has always derived the most joy from teaching and forming young people. With experience in all grade levels from Montessori preschool to senior theology, she has always been passionate about education as a source of life that nourishes the whole person, and strives to implement this nourishment in her classroom. This will be her fifth year of teaching high school, but her first position for a Chesterton Academy, and she is eager to meet her students and become part of a new joyful and faith-filled community.

Dave Holman is a founding partner of the law firm of Crisham & Holman LLC. Hailing from Montana, Mr. Holman is a graduate of Providence College (B.A., history), the University of Chicago (M.A., social sciences), and the College of William & Mary Law School (J.D.). Between graduate school and law school, Mr. Holman worked as a reporter in Washington, D.C. After law school, Mr. Holman served as a law clerk of Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and worked as an attorney in an international law firm in Washington, D.C., and as a partner in the trial group of a Denver-based law firm.

Mr. Holman, his wife Jane, and their six children live in Littleton, where they are parishioners at St. Mary. Mr. Holman helped found OLV in 2019, and has taught debate to each sophomore class since 2021. At Loyola Sacred Heart High School in Missoula, Montana, Mr. Holman was a member of four state-championship speech-and-debate teams, as part of the school's 36-year state championship streak from 1984 to 2019. As a Lincoln-Douglas and team policy debater, Mr. Holman debated in over 160 rounds, and, with his partner, won the A-B-C State Championship in team policy debate his sophomore year.

Mr. Holmes is a Denver native, proudly earning his Bachelor's from the University of Northern Colorado before moving to Philadelphia, PA, and achieving a Master's from Villanova University (the same school Pope Leo XIV attended) and briefly teaching at Holy Family University.  After six years in Philadelphia, Mr. Holmes felt the call of the open plains and returned to Colorado, where he took a job teaching at Ascent Classical Academy of Douglas County, where he has been for the last six years.  He will be teaching Literature and History at Our Lady of Victory.  In his spare time (well, as much as a teacher has), Mr. Holmes enjoys reading, watching classic films, and is habitually musical, singing in the choir at St. Mark’s Parish in Highlands Ranch.

Born and raised in Wyoming, Mr. Krueger spent most of his childhood in Sheridan. After graduating from Sheridan High School, he received a scholarship to attend the National Outdoor Leadership School for a Semester in the Rockies. There he learned skills ranging from backpacking to backcountry skiing and was constantly immersed in a profound encounter with God in his majestic creation. He went on to attend Carroll College in Helena, Montana where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree. Drawn to service and deeper discernment of God’s plan, he served as a missionary with Christ in the City, spent time discerning in seminary, and then served as a missionary in Peru. Mr. Krueger began his teaching career at the Catholic middle school in his hometown before moving to Denver where he taught Chemistry at Bishop Machebeuf High School for the last five years. During that time, he also earned a Master of Science in Chemistry degree from Ohio University. Mr. Krueger lives in Aurora with his wife and two daughters where he maintains a large garden. He is excited to continue teaching science at OLV this year.

Mrs. Ouyang grew up in a Washington, D.C. suburb in Maryland. She holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences with a concentration in neurobiology and physiology and a B.A. in Dance, both from the University of Maryland (UMD). Through her training at UMD’s school of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Mrs. Ouyang became well versed in the theater arts. During her three years living in Los Angeles, she honed her passion for comedy at Second City Hollywood, where she studied the craft through the training center’s conservatory program.

Mrs. Ouyang began her teaching career upon moving to Los Angeles as a teaching fellow with a program at Loyola Marymount University, through which she earned an M.A. in Secondary Education and a Secondary Science teaching credential, while teaching middle school full time at Our Lady of Lourdes School in East Los Angeles. Simultaneously, she worked as a member of the faculty at the Los Angeles Music and Arts School, where she was able to participate in the training of young performing artists.

Her experience teaching religion to middle schoolers ultimately moved her to pursue further theological study. In Spring 2022, Mrs. Ouyang completed her M.A. in Theology with a concentration in Sacred Scripture at the Augustine Institute. Married in December 2021, she lives in North Denver with her cell biologist husband. In her spare time, she enjoys improv comedy, taking dance classes, analyzing movies and television, and studying biblical languages.

Coach Rastrelli comes from a vibrant Catholic family where he is the youngest of seven children and the proud uncle of 27 nieces and nephews. He graduated from Regis Jesuit High School and holds a B.S. in Exercise Science: Human Performance and Sport Coaching from the University of Northern Colorado.

As OLV’s first Athletic Director, Coach Rastrelli aims to augment our joyfully Catholic culture by helping young people strengthen their faith and grow in virtue through training and athletics. As Coach Rastrelli firmly believes, when athletics and fitness are oriented toward the goal of Heaven, they help instill a powerful confidence and faith that will benefit all aspects of students’ lives. As Coach Rastrelli likes to say, by interceding for others through triumph and tribulation, we are building an athletics culture for God, by God, where students build lasting friendships and increased respect for themselves and others.

Mr. Reinicke is entering his first year as a full-time educator, teaching philosophy and serving as the Program Coordinator for Formation Fridays. His journey to the classroom began with a conversion to the Catholic faith during college, inspired by the subtle guidance of classical philosophy instructors. This transformative experience ignited a deep commitment to discerning God's purpose in his life. He spent two years discerning the priesthood at Mount St. Mary's Seminary, where he developed a profound appreciation for fraternity and the mutual pursuit of excellence, studying Latin, Greek, philosophy, and the Catechism. After discerning out of the seminary, Mr. Reinicke followed a conviction he had held since childhood—to serve the homeless. For two years, he lived in community with twenty other young adults, building a "school of charity" through the Christ in the City missionary program, dedicating himself to knowing, loving, and serving the poor. Mr. Reinicke is eager to accompany students and their families through the formative high school years, praying to aid in their moral development and intellectual refinement, in line with the mission of Chesterton Academy to cultivate a culture of life.

Mr. Reuter believes that true learning has the finality of being passed on to others through teaching, and he is grateful to return for his third year at OLV, expanding his own knowledge while he continues to pour into our students. He has the added privilege of mentoring young male students, serving as Dean of Men.

Mr. Reuter credits the two-year period he spent as a novice in The Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary (DCJM) with allowing him time in “one of the best schools of humanity aimed towards the Divinity.” While studying in the Universidad San Justino in Madrid, and pursuing courses in Classical and Christian Literature, he gained an appreciation and affinity for the Classical world. He began to see the pertinence of ancient myths and culture in modernity.

Mrs. Reuter teaches Humanities, particularly history and philosophy, and mentors young female students as Dean of Women. Now in her third year at OLV, Mrs. Reuter is already much beloved as a teacher and mentor to our students, with her engaging and lively teaching style.

Mrs. Reuter holds a B.A. in Theology and Catechetics and an M.A. in Catholic Studies from Franciscan University of Steubenville. She also served as a year-long missionary in Belize, a Residence Director for Franciscan’s study abroad program in Gaming, Austria, and taught 8th and 9th grade students at Regina Caeli Academy in Denver.

Mrs. Reuter believes these experiences have allowed her to be formed by men and women eager to live deeply Catholic lives. After the fast-paced, exhilarating environment of living abroad, she has never regretted heeding the Lord’s invitation to a mission of family. She was also drawn to Our Lady of Victory insofar as teachers take seriously their role as a support, rather than a replacement, to the Catholic family.

Born and raised in Littleton, Mrs. Schimmoller feels blessed to be able to put down roots again in this community. At CU Boulder, she studied Spanish Language and Literature and Integrative Physiology and had the opportunity to study abroad in Madrid. She reflects, “This immersion in another culture transformed both my ability to rely on the Lord and my understanding of the universality of the Church. I'm excited to help students to bridge the gap between learning a language in school and seeing its value in community and spiritual life.”

Mrs. Schimmoller believes both nursing and teaching contribute to the nurturing and formation of the whole person and is excited to explore this synergy at OLV.

Outside of work, Mrs. Schimmoller enjoys running, hiking and camping, cooking, and reading.

Mr. Thaler joins OLV from Holy Family High School, where he has taught for the last four years, including calculus, physics, and statistics. Before Holy Family, Mr. Thaler taught for seven years at Faith Christian Academy.

Mr. Thaler holds a B.A. in math from the University of Utah, a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Colorado Christian University, and will complete this spring a second master's degree, this time in statistics, from University of Kansas Medical Center.

Mr. Thaler enjoys singing in the choir at Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish.

Ms. Wofford was born and raised in a small town in Oklahoma and holds a B.S. in Nutritional Science from Oklahoma State University. She comes to us from the University of Mary in North Dakota, where she worked in admissions for the school’s graduate programs in philosophy and theology. Her time in this position revealed and deepened her interest in the fullness of human life, and she is excited to be a part of the OLV community which promotes this fullness so intentionally.

She looks forward to welcoming and getting to know prospective students and families!