MILWAUKEE – Like Brandon Brooks, its most famous alumnus, Riverside University High School is massive, sturdy, and built to withstand and protect.
The 103-year-old, four-story brick bastion, home to 1,600 college-bound students from all across this city, occupies a rise along the Milwaukee River, a mile east of Lake Michigan.
Earlier this week, it was the site of a Super Bowl pep rally during which the assembled students wildly cheered a video message from the Eagles’ all-pro guard, a 2007 graduate. Soon, Riverside will make room on its overcrowded Hall of Fame wall for Brooks’ photo. And school officials, who termed him as “a very fine student,” hope he’ll return soon to discuss not just his Super Bowl LII experience but his plans to resume pursuit of a graduate degree from the Wharton School.