STURGEON BAY - Door County native, former NFL player and new University of Wisconsin assistant football coach Casey Rabach and his wife, Nicole, are selling their nearly 12,000-square-foot bayside estate in Sturgeon Bay . The asking price is $6.5 million.
The home, called The Lakehouse, is a private waterfront estate retreat on Bay Shore Drive. The agent for the listing is Dawn Sullivan of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate .
The Rabachs purchased the land for the home in 2005 and completed construction in 2008. It was meant to be a summer home for them, but after several summers there, they decided to live there full-time. They are selling it because they're moving to the Madison area to be closer to Casey Rabach's new position as the Badgers' assistant offensive line coach.
The Lakehouse has 11,732 square feet of living space on 2.75 acres of property with 200 feet of shoreline on the bay of Green Bay. According to the listing on the Christie's website , the custom craftsmanship in the home includes the use of stone from Colorado and exposed wooden beams milled from white cedar trees on the property.
Along with four bedrooms and eight bathrooms (four full baths attached to the bedrooms, four partial), the home also offers a bunk/rec room, full gym, game room, four-season porch, saltwater pool and spa, outdoor kitchen, three fireplaces, a three-car garage with a dog bath, and a heated outbuilding with a 15-foot garage door that includes an additional laundry, a workshop and granite fish cleaning station as well as storage space.
Casey Rabach was a standout high school football player for the Sturgeon Bay Clippers before playing for Wisconsin from 1996 to 2000, where as a center for the Badgers he earned second-team All-Big Ten honors in 1998, first-team honors in 1999 and 2000 and was named a third-team All-American in 2000, as UW won Big Ten championships in 1998-99 and the '99 and '00 Rose Bowls.
Rabach then was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the third round of the 2000 NFL draft. He went on to play 10 seasons and start 118 games in the NFL, for the Ravens from 2001-04 and the Washington NFL franchise from 2005-10, and rejoined the Ravens in 2011 but failed his physical and missed the entire season while continuing to recover from offseason shoulder surgery.
He officially retired from playing football the next year, after which he and Nicole started the Fifth Quarter Foundation to support youth recreation and education in Door County. Rabach held an internship with the Green Bay Packers personnel department in 2015, finished his degree at UW, then returned to the Badger football program in 2022 as a personnel assistant before being named named director of scouting a year later and an assistant coach earlier this year. He has been splitting time between Madison and his Door County home since he began working for UW.
For more about the home and the sale, visit christiesrealestate.com and search for "Sturgeon Bay."
C ontact Christopher Clough at 920-562-8900 or cclough@gannett.com.
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This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Ex-NFL player, current UW assistant selling Door County estate. Asking price: $6.5 million
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