Bandys High School
Encyclopedia
Bandys High School is a public, coeducational high school
located in Catawba
, North Carolina
, United States
. It is one of five high schools in the Catawba County Schools
system and one of 27 system-wide.
. Our school is centered on students’ development, learning, achievement, and providing appropriate opportunities for success. The staff recognizes that students learn in different ways, and provides instructional approaches to support individual learning needs. Each student has his/her own individual needs: social, emotional, physical and intellectual.
Our school is dedicated to continued improvement in order to foster students’ development into productive, responsible, confident citizens. Students/faculty are entitled to a safe and stimulating environment in which to learn/teach, where an environment of respect for all will be emphasized. The education of a student is a collaborative effort of the school community that includes teachers, administrators, parents, and the surrounding community.
and is a member of the Catawba Valley Athletic Conference
. Bandys' primary rival is Maiden High School
.
In addition to cheerleading
, Bandys competes in baseball
, basketball
, cross country
, football
, golf
, soccer, softball
, swimming
, tennis
, track and field
, volleyball
, and wrestling
, and has won state championships in:
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in Catawba
Catawba, North Carolina
Catawba is a town in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 604 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area...
, North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is one of five high schools in the Catawba County Schools
Catawba County Schools
Catawba County Schools, also known as The Catawba County Schools Administrative Unit, is a school district in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States."Teach, Learn, and Lead for the Future"-High schools:*Bandys High School*Bunker Hill High School...
system and one of 27 system-wide.
Purpose
All students can learn when actively engaged in the learning process. Learning not only involves the acquisition of knowledge, but also the application of knowledge in day-to-day problem solvingProblem solving
Problem solving is a mental process and is part of the larger problem process that includes problem finding and problem shaping. Consideredthe most complex of all intellectual functions, problem solving has been defined as higher-order cognitive process that requires the modulation and control of...
. Our school is centered on students’ development, learning, achievement, and providing appropriate opportunities for success. The staff recognizes that students learn in different ways, and provides instructional approaches to support individual learning needs. Each student has his/her own individual needs: social, emotional, physical and intellectual.
Our school is dedicated to continued improvement in order to foster students’ development into productive, responsible, confident citizens. Students/faculty are entitled to a safe and stimulating environment in which to learn/teach, where an environment of respect for all will be emphasized. The education of a student is a collaborative effort of the school community that includes teachers, administrators, parents, and the surrounding community.
Clubs and Organizations
Students at Bandys have the opportunity to join both school-based clubs and national organizations:- BandSchool bandA school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors...
- Family, Career, and Community Leaders of AmericaFamily, Career, and Community Leaders of AmericaFamily, Career and Community Leaders of America , formerly known as Future Homemakers of America , is a nonprofit U.S. career and technical student organization for young men and women in family and consumer science education in public and private schools through grade 12 across the United States...
(FCCLA) - Fellowship of Christian AthletesFellowship of Christian AthletesThe Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a non-profit interdenominational Christian organization founded in 1954 and that has been based in Kansas City, Missouri since 1956. It falls within the tradition of Muscular Christianity. Although established by evangelical Protestants, the concept has...
(FCA) - FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
Club - Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA)
- HistoryHistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
Club - International Thespian SocietyInternational Thespian SocietyThe International Thespian Society is an honorary organization for high-school and middle-school theatre students located at more than 3,600 affiliated secondary schools across the United States, Canada, and abroad. The International Thespian Society was founded in Fairmont, West Virginia...
- Junior ROTC
- Key ClubKey ClubKey Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
- National Beta ClubNational Beta ClubThe National Beta Club is an organization for 5th-12th graders in the United States, recognizing academic achievement, leadership, character and service....
- National FFA OrganizationNational FFA OrganizationThe National FFA Organization is an American youth organization known as a Career and Technical Student Organization, based on middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education...
(FFA) - Pep Club
- ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
Club - SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
Club - Student CouncilStudent councilStudent council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...
- Trojan Wrestling Club (TWC)
Athletics
Bandys is classified as a 2A school by the North Carolina High School Athletic AssociationNorth Carolina High School Athletic Association
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association is the governing organization of high school athletics in North Carolina, United States. The association maintains the official rule books and governs the officiating standards across the state....
and is a member of the Catawba Valley Athletic Conference
Catawba Valley Athletic Conference
The Catawba Valley Athletic Conference is a high school athletic conference in western North Carolina, United States. It is sanctioned by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association in the 2A classification. Its current members are:*Bandys...
. Bandys' primary rival is Maiden High School
Maiden High School
Maiden High School is a high school located in Maiden, North Carolina. It currently has about 800 students. Maiden High School is known for football. In the past, the team's have won about 20 championships. Maiden High School moved from an older building to the newly built high school...
.
In addition to cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, Bandys competes in baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, soccer, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, and wrestling
Scholastic wrestling
Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
, and has won state championships in:
- Men's Basketball – 1982
- Women's Basketball – 1977, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1994
- Wrestling – 2004, 2005, 2006
Notable Alumni
- Shane BurtonShane BurtonFranklin Shane Burton is a former American football defensive tackle who played eight seasons in the National Football League. He was a member of the Miami Dolphins, the Chicago Bears, the New York Jets, and the Carolina Panthers. He played college football at Tennessee.Born in Logan, West...
(1992) – NFL defensive tackle - Jessica Campbell (1999) – countryCountry musicCountry music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
/bluegrassBluegrass musicBluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
/gospelGospel musicGospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
singer/songwriter - The Cockman FamilyThe Cockman FamilyThe Cockman Family is a bluegrass/Gospel band from Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, United States. They have been nominated for Bluegrass Artists of the Year, Instrumentalist of the Year, and Bluegrass Band of the Year by the Country Gospel Music Association and for Gold Cross Bluegrass Group of...
– bluegrass/gospel band - Keith Drum (1965) – NBA Basketball Scout
- Chris Douglas (1999) – Duke UniversityDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
career rushingRunning backA running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...
leader - Justin Harper (2003) - NFL wide receiverWide receiverA wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...
- Bryan HarveyBryan HarveyBryan Stanley Harvey is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played from to for the California Angels of the American League and the Florida Marlins of the National League....
(1981) – MLBMajor League BaseballMajor League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
pitcherPitcherIn baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the... - Bobby LutzBobby LutzBobby Lutz is an American men's college basketball coach. He is currently an assistant coach at North Carolina State University under head coach Mark Gottfried. Lutz was head coach of the Charlotte 49ers basketball team from 1998 to 2010....
(1976) – UNC Charlotte men's basketball head coachHead coachA head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches... - Mitchell SetzerMitchell S. SetzerMitchell Smith Setzer is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's eighty-ninth House district, including constituents in Catawba county. Setzer was born in and resides in Catawba, North Carolina...
(1983) – North Carolina state representativeNorth Carolina General AssemblyThe North Carolina General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The General Assembly drafts and legislates the state laws of North Carolina, also known as the General Statutes...
Achievements
- The marching band represented North Carolina in the 1993 Presidential Inaugural Parade.