From the gridiron, to the ballroom, to Summit View Elementary in Waukesha.
Newly-crowned Dancing With the Stars champion Donald Driver will be at the Waukesha elementary school this afternoon to congratulate the school for winning the 2012 Pack’er Up Donation Challenge that saw hundreds of schools make donations to Goodwill, a charity Driver is a spokesman for.
The students at Summit View earned this opportunity by donating 74,732 items from April 1 to April 30 – 24,000 more than the next highest (Greenfield Middle School).
A total of 871,644 items were collected through the month-long charity drive.
In addition to the visit by Driver, the school will receive 12 autographed copies of Driver’s children’s book for the school library as well as an authentic autographed Packer helmet signed by Driver for the school trophy case.
Driver is scheduled to arrive in a limo at 1:30 p.m. Friday and be there for about 45 minutes.
It’s been a wild week for Driver as he just won Dancing With the Stars with professional dancer, Peta Murgatroyd, to take home the Mirror Ball Trophy on Tuesday night. He then appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” after winning the 10-week dance competition over classical singer Katherine Jenkins and her professional partner Mark Ballas.
Driver, 37, then headed to New York City the next morning to appear on “Good Morning America” to talk about the experience and to dance one final time with Murgatroyd. Gov. Scott Walker then issued May 23 as “Donald Driver Day” in Wisconsin.
But the Packers’ all-time leading receptions and receiving yards leader has now returned from Southern California where he spent the last couple months competing on the reality TV show.
And just as he heard loud cheers week-after-week on the show, he will surely be greeted with more of the same by the students at Summit View, who will be decked out in Green and Gold.
Other Waukesha schools also did well in the competition as Butler Middle School (13,071) and Prairie Elementary (11,205) were 13th and 15th, respectively, in the Goodwill charity drive.
Summit View is located at 2100 Summit Ave. in Waukesha.