La Crosse Recreation Superintendent Mike Ulrich is leaving to take over as director of parks and recreation for Prairie du Chien, Wis.

"I was looking for a director position," he said. "My goal has been that for quite a while."
Prairie du Chien has the advantage of being fairly close, he added.

Ulrich was a finalist last year to replace Bob Berg as La Crosse’s director of parks and recreation, but he lost out to Steve Carlyon, a 24-year veteran of parks and rec with the federal government.

Ulrich has worked for the city’s parks department for more than 25 "I consider Prairie similar to what I came into in La Crosse. It didn’t have a whole lot of recreation programs," he said. "I’m hoping not to make wholesale changes but to enhance what they already have."

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