Central Catholic High School (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
Encyclopedia
Central Catholic High School is a college preparatory school with an academic campus in Lawrence, Massachusetts
and an athletic campus in Methuen, Massachusetts
associated with the Marist Brothers of the Schools
and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
and founded in 1935 by Brother Florentius. As of 2010, the current principal, Doreen Keller is the school's first female to hold the office, and its president is Brother Thomas P. Long, FMS. The school has approximately 1400 students and growing (with a class size of approximately 360 students) and 12,600 alumni. It was originally a boys-only school, but has been co-educational since 1996. http://www.centralcatholic.net/
Preparing hearts and minds for college and for life, Central Catholic promotes the spiritual, moral, intellectual, emotional and physical growth of the whole person. Students are readied to assume their place as competent and compassionate members of the church and the human family.
Faculty and students form a Christian living community in which the dignity of each person is respected. Central Catholic shows particular regard for students who are educationally at-risk and economically disadvantaged. Every student is encouraged to develop their God-given talents and use them in the service of others, particularly the least favored. Many students are accepted for thei ability on the sporting feild, and not the classroom.
Central Catholic High School, licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
The Alma Mater is sung by students and staff:
"In the midst of Lawrence City stands a school we love,
Emblem pure of faith and duty blessed by God above.
Lift the chorus, speed it onward, louder praises bless,
Hail to thee our Alma Mater
Dear CCHS!"
Central Catholic is also in development of athletic fields in Methuen due to congestion of the urban Lawrence campus. The planned athletic campus will have a football and track stadium, lacrosse, baseball and softball fields.
and the Merrimack Valley Conference
. Up until 2000, the athletic teams were known as the Red Raiders, but the school dropped the word "Red" in 2000. The school offers 22 varsity programs and 51 teams at levels such as varsity, junior varsity, and freshman. Central Catholic has a softball field and open practice field on its Lawrence, MA campus and is currently developing a football stadium, track, baseball, softball and lacrosse fields on its Methuen, MA campus.
On February 24, 2007 the Central Catholic Raiders received their first-ever invitation to participate in a play-in game for the Super Eight
Hockey Tournament. The team beat Waltham in the play-in game and then proceeded to win one game against Malden Catholic High School and lose to both Catholic Memorial and Weymouth High School respectively in the round-robin bracket round. The football team, track teams, and girls' lacrosse team share the Veterans Memorial Stadium (Lawrence)
with Lawrence High School. The baseball team has qualified for the MIAA tournament 20 of the past 24 years winning the North Sectional Championship once while runners up two other times.The baseball team has 8 MVC championship crowns ('08 & '09 & 10'most recent).
In 2008 the baseball team won the MIAA prestigious sportsmanship TEAM award as well as the Massachusetts Alliance for Sportsmanship award given by the Boston Red Sox. The football team has won two Super Bowl championships and 6 MVC titles. The boys and girls basketball squads are state powerhouses. The boys winning the state championship in 2008. Girls were state champs in 2009.The golf team year in and year out competes for the MVC championship winning 5 back to back titles in recent years as well as in 2009. Wrestling and track perennially contend for MVC, sectional, and state championships. The boys recently won the 2009 state championship in outdoor track. The softball team in '08 won the Div 2 North Sectional Championship and more recently won the MVC Championship in 2010 . The Lady raider soccer program just captured their first MVC crown in ten years in 2008 and repeated in 09'. On March 14 of 09' the girls won the state championship in girls hoop at the DCU Center in Worcester,MA. The Boys Outdoor Track team are back-to-back State Champions, in '09 and '10.
The school colors are red, navy blue & white.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a total population of 76,377. Surrounding communities include Methuen to the north, Andover to the southwest, and North Andover to the southeast. It and Salem are...
and an athletic campus in Methuen, Massachusetts
Methuen, Massachusetts
Methuen is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 43,789 at the 2000 census.-History:Methuen was first settled in 1642 and was officially incorporated in 1726; it is named for the British diplomat Sir Paul Methuen. Methuen was originally part of Haverhill,...
associated with the Marist Brothers of the Schools
Marist Brothers
The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, are a Catholic religious order of brothers and affiliated lay people. The order was founded in France, at La Valla-en-Gier near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary...
and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the New England region of the United States. It comprises several counties of the state of Massachusetts...
and founded in 1935 by Brother Florentius. As of 2010, the current principal, Doreen Keller is the school's first female to hold the office, and its president is Brother Thomas P. Long, FMS. The school has approximately 1400 students and growing (with a class size of approximately 360 students) and 12,600 alumni. It was originally a boys-only school, but has been co-educational since 1996. http://www.centralcatholic.net/
History
Sources- 1926: Brother Florentius founds Mount Saint Michael AcademyMount Saint Michael AcademyMount Saint Michael Academy, also known as The Mount, is an all-boys Roman Catholic High School in the northeast part of the Bronx, New York, on the Mount Vernon city line, . The 22-acre campus is a non-boarding college preparatory school for some 1,100 boys grades 6 through 12...
in Bronx, New York - 1932: Brother Florentius is assigned as principal of St. Anne's School in Lawrence, MassachusettsLawrence, MassachusettsLawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a total population of 76,377. Surrounding communities include Methuen to the north, Andover to the southwest, and North Andover to the southeast. It and Salem are...
- 1935
- July: Brother Florentius announces that Central Catholic High School will open in September, meeting the need of an all-boys' school in Lawrence
- September 16: Fifty boys began their first day of classes at Central Catholic at its location on Haverhill Street
- 1935-1938: The school outgrows its small campus at the Knights of ColumbusKnights of ColumbusThe Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded in the United States in 1882, it is named in honor of Christopher Columbus....
building and expands into borrowed spaces at Holy Trinity School, Franklin Street School, and Hampshire Street School. The Hampshire Street site would later grow into the school's current location. - 1938
- May 1: Brother Florentius dies
- June 10: Ground is broken on Auburn Street, near the intersection of Hampshire Street, on a permanent building for the school
- August: Brother Joseph Abel is named principal
- June: The fifty boys who enrolled in school four years previously become the school's first graduating class
- December 11: The completed building is dedicated, complete with eight classrooms, a library, cafeteria, science laboratory, and residence quarters for the fifteen Marist Brothers who taught at the school
- June, 1945: The school graduates its 400th student
- 1950: Memorial Gymnasium Building is completed with the largest-at-the-time auditorium seating 2500 and gymnasium in the Merrimack ValleyMerrimack ValleyThe Merrimack Valley is a bi-state region along the Merrimack River in the states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, United States. The Merrimack is one of the larger waterways in the New England region and has helped define the livelihood and culture of those living along it since native...
, locker rooms, and more classrooms. The building, still in use to this day, is known as the "Gym Building" - 1951: Memorial Gymnasium Building is dedicated to fourteen alumni killed in action during World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
- 1960: The first three lay teachers are hired at the school. Two of these men, Mr. Warren Hayes and Mr. Michael Sullivan, continued teaching until 2001.
- 1967: The first lay female teacher is hired at the school
- 1969: The Board of Directors are established and initiate a campaign to construct a new building
- 1970: The new building, at 300 Hampshire Street, is opened and is still used to this day.
- September 16, 1971: The Hampshire Street building is dedicated
- 1972: The Auburn Street building's use is discontinued
- 1984: The Auburn Street building is demolished
- 1989: Football team wins its first Merrimack Valley Conference Football title completing a perfect 10-0 regular season. The team was led by dynamic big-play receiver Mark Conway, who was named to the Boston Herald All Scholastic team.
- Mid '90s: The Memorial Gymnasium Building undergoes extensive renovations.
- September, 1996: Upon the closing of its sister school, St. Mary's High School, Central Catholic opens in September as a co-educational institution and admitting young women from St Mary's as well as from throughout the Merrimack Valley.
- December, 1997: Football team wins the MIAA Division II Super Bowl by beating WakefieldWakefield, Massachusetts-History:-Geography:The diagram above shows what is to the east, west, north, south, and other directions of the center of Wakefield. Towns with population above 25,000 are in bold italics.-Demographics:-Notable residents:...
, MA 34-16 behind captain Joseph Uliano '98 who was The Eagle-Tribune Defensive Player of the Year and named to both the Boston HeraldBoston HeraldThe Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...
and Boston Globe All-Scholastic Teams. - December, 1998: Football team repeats as MIAA Division II Super Bowl champions with its 29-13 victory over Acton-Boxborough Regional High SchoolActon-Boxborough Regional High SchoolActon-Boxborough Regional High School is an open enrollment high school in Acton, Massachusetts. It serves the Massachusetts towns of Acton and Boxborough, with roughly 500 students per grade level in grades 9 through 12. ABRHS has consistently ranked among the top secondary schools in Massachusetts...
(ActonActon, MassachusettsActon is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States about twenty-one miles west-northwest of Boston along Route 2 west of Concord and about ten miles southwest of Lowell. The population was 21,924 at the 2010 census...
, MA) behind captain and 2-time MIAA Super Bowl champion quarterback Niall Murphy '99. - March 14, 1999: The Central Catholic Boys Varsity Basketball Team wins their first MIAA (Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association) Division 1 State Championship, beating Holy Name of Worcester 63-57 in the title game. The team was led by Gatorade Massachusetts Player of the Year, Merrimack ValleyMerrimack ValleyThe Merrimack Valley is a bi-state region along the Merrimack River in the states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, United States. The Merrimack is one of the larger waterways in the New England region and has helped define the livelihood and culture of those living along it since native...
Conference MVP, Boston Globe All-Scholastic, and eventual McDonald's All-American Scott Hazelton '00. - 1999: Brother Thomas Long, FMS, who graduated from the school in 1973, is appointed as the first president of the school. Mr. David DeFillippo, from the class of 1966, is appointed as the school's first layperson principal. Marc Pelletier, from the class of 1979, is named Dean of Students
- 2001Christopher Sullivan, from the class of 1981, is named Dean of Studies.
- 2003: The replacement of 1100 student lockers paid for by Walk 4 and 5
- 2005: A brand new $12.5 Million addition is opened which connects the Memorial Gymnasium to the Hampshire street building and includes a new main entrance between the buildings, a new cafeteria, chapel and state-of-the art lab and computer facilities
- April 25, 2006: In Memoriam: Mr. Peter V. O'Sullivan, beloved teacher, mentor and coach at Central for over 30 years dies.
- 2006: For the first time in the school's history, 100% of Central Catholic's 272 seniors graduate and go on to higher education.
- March 15, 2008: The Central Catholic Boys Varsity Basketball Team wins the MIAAMIAAMIAA may refer to:* Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association, defunct college athletic conference* Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association, high school athletic conference for private schools in the Baltimore Metro area...
(Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association) Division 1 State Championship, beating St. John's High School (ShrewsburyShrewsbury, Massachusetts-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 31,640 people, 12,366 households, and 8,693 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 12,696 housing units at an average density of...
, MA) in the title game, and complete the season ranked #17 in the nation by maxpreps.com. - July 2010: Doreen Keller is named first woman principal at Central Catholic.
- November 2010: The girls varsity soccer team wins their first ever MIAA Division 1 State Title in the 15 yr history of the program. The game was against Shrewsbury at Worcester State College November 19 where the Raider took the Colonials down 2-1.
Mission statement
Central Catholic High School, established and conducted by the Marist Brothers of the Schools, is dedicated to the mission of Saint Marcellin Champagnat: to make Jesus known and loved, educate the whole person and serve others, especially the least favored.Preparing hearts and minds for college and for life, Central Catholic promotes the spiritual, moral, intellectual, emotional and physical growth of the whole person. Students are readied to assume their place as competent and compassionate members of the church and the human family.
Faculty and students form a Christian living community in which the dignity of each person is respected. Central Catholic shows particular regard for students who are educationally at-risk and economically disadvantaged. Every student is encouraged to develop their God-given talents and use them in the service of others, particularly the least favored. Many students are accepted for thei ability on the sporting feild, and not the classroom.
Central Catholic High School, licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
The Alma Mater is sung by students and staff:
"In the midst of Lawrence City stands a school we love,
Emblem pure of faith and duty blessed by God above.
Lift the chorus, speed it onward, louder praises bless,
Hail to thee our Alma Mater
Dear CCHS!"
Campus
Central Catholic's campus consists of three inter-connected buildings on a small plot of land off Hampshire Street in north Lawrence. The first of which is the oldest remaining part of the Auburn St. school known as the Memorial Gymnasium, known as the "Gym Building" (opened 1950). This building houses classrooms and the gym, along with a large performance stage. The second of which is the Hampshire Street building, known as the "Old Building" (opened 1969). This building houses the small gymnasium, theatre, administrative offices, computer labs, library, and classrooms. Third, an 80,000 square foot $12.8 Million building, the South Wing is known as the "New Building" (opened 2005). This building houses the new main entrance and lobby, offices of the president and principal, the campus store, additional locker rooms, the campus ministry office, the cafeteria, state-of-the-art science labs, the chapel and classrooms. The Lawrence campus has a softball field adjacent to the parking lot by Holly St.Central Catholic is also in development of athletic fields in Methuen due to congestion of the urban Lawrence campus. The planned athletic campus will have a football and track stadium, lacrosse, baseball and softball fields.
Academic departments
- Religious StudiesReligious studiesReligious studies is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives.While theology attempts to...
- EnglishEnglish studiesEnglish studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
- MathematicsMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
- ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
- Social StudiesSocial studiesSocial studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
- World LanguagesLinguisticsLinguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
- Business and TechnologyBusiness educationBusiness education involves teaching students the fundamentals, theories, and processes of business. Education in this field occurs at several levels, including secondary education and higher education or university education. Approximately 38% of student enroll in one or more business courses...
- Visual and Performing ArtsVisual artsThe visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
- Health and Physical EducationPhysical educationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
Graduation awards
The two major awards given at graduation ceremonies every year are the Brother Florentius, FMS Memorial Award, which is the highest honor presented to "the graduate who best exemplifies the ideals and values embodied in the founder of Central Catholic High School" and the Florentian Yearbook Dedication, presented "by the graduating class to the person or persons whom they consider worth of special praise." The Florentius award has been given annually since 1963 and the Florentian Dedication has been given annually since the inception of the yearbook in 1945. Also given at graduation are the Michael Garvey Award which is given to an outstanding male student-athlete and the Outstanding Female Student Athlete Award.Athletics
Central Catholic Raiders are a member of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic AssociationMIAA
MIAA may refer to:* Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association, defunct college athletic conference* Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association, high school athletic conference for private schools in the Baltimore Metro area...
and the Merrimack Valley Conference
Merrimack Valley Conference
The Merrimack Valley Conference is a high school sports league located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is named after the Merrimack River Valley where all of the primary league schools are located. The league members are also members of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic...
. Up until 2000, the athletic teams were known as the Red Raiders, but the school dropped the word "Red" in 2000. The school offers 22 varsity programs and 51 teams at levels such as varsity, junior varsity, and freshman. Central Catholic has a softball field and open practice field on its Lawrence, MA campus and is currently developing a football stadium, track, baseball, softball and lacrosse fields on its Methuen, MA campus.
On February 24, 2007 the Central Catholic Raiders received their first-ever invitation to participate in a play-in game for the Super Eight
Super Eight
For information on the second round of the Cricket World Cup, see Super 8 .For the film format, see Super 8 mm film.The Super Eight is the name of the Massachusetts hockey tournament that determines the state champion. The tournament is technically called the Division IA tournament. Both public and...
Hockey Tournament. The team beat Waltham in the play-in game and then proceeded to win one game against Malden Catholic High School and lose to both Catholic Memorial and Weymouth High School respectively in the round-robin bracket round. The football team, track teams, and girls' lacrosse team share the Veterans Memorial Stadium (Lawrence)
Veterans Memorial Stadium (Lawrence)
Veterans Memorial Stadium is a 9,000 seat stadium in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The stadium is located adjacent to the new Lawrence High School. It has been recently renovated and has a turf along with a new track, and new seating. The venue opened in 1927 and was renovated in 2006...
with Lawrence High School. The baseball team has qualified for the MIAA tournament 20 of the past 24 years winning the North Sectional Championship once while runners up two other times.The baseball team has 8 MVC championship crowns ('08 & '09 & 10'most recent).
In 2008 the baseball team won the MIAA prestigious sportsmanship TEAM award as well as the Massachusetts Alliance for Sportsmanship award given by the Boston Red Sox. The football team has won two Super Bowl championships and 6 MVC titles. The boys and girls basketball squads are state powerhouses. The boys winning the state championship in 2008. Girls were state champs in 2009.The golf team year in and year out competes for the MVC championship winning 5 back to back titles in recent years as well as in 2009. Wrestling and track perennially contend for MVC, sectional, and state championships. The boys recently won the 2009 state championship in outdoor track. The softball team in '08 won the Div 2 North Sectional Championship and more recently won the MVC Championship in 2010 . The Lady raider soccer program just captured their first MVC crown in ten years in 2008 and repeated in 09'. On March 14 of 09' the girls won the state championship in girls hoop at the DCU Center in Worcester,MA. The Boys Outdoor Track team are back-to-back State Champions, in '09 and '10.
The school colors are red, navy blue & white.
Sports teams
- BaseballBaseballBaseball 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...
(boys' varsity, junior varsity, and freshman) Marc Pelletier - BasketballBasketballBasketball 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...
(boys' and girls' varsity, junior varsity, and freshman) Rick Nault/Sue Downer - CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading 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...
(girls' varsity and junior varsity) - Cross CountryCross country runningCross 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...
(boys' and girls' varsity and junior varsity) Rob Benedetto & Rob MacDougall/Collette Madore - Field HockeyField hockeyField Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
(girl's varsity and junior varsity) Dennis King and Don Jalbert - FootballAmerican footballAmerican 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...
(varsity, junior varsity, sophomore, and freshman) Charles Adamopoulos - GolfGolfGolf 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....
(varsity) Vincent Pastore - GymnasticsGymnasticsGymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
(varsity) Robbie Gould - Ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
(varsity, junior varsity a, and junior varsity b) Mike Janacowski - Indoor Track (boys' and girls' varsity and junior varsity) Sully Grella/Mike Leal/Katie Sullivan
- LacrosseLacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
(boys' and girls' varsity and junior varsity) Kevin Lally/Joe Young/Phil Rowley - Outdoor TrackAthletics (track and field)Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
(boys' and girls' varsity, junior varsity)Sully Grella & Mike Leal/ Katie Sullivan - Soccer (boys' and girls' varsity, junior varsity, and freshman)Shawn Chase / Casey Grange
- SoftballSoftballSoftball 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...
(girls' varsity, junior varsity, and freshman)Stacy Ciccilo - SwimmingSwimming (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...
and DivingDivingDiving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
(boys' and girls' varsity) - TennisTennisTennis 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...
(boys' and girls' varsity)John Rich - VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball 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...
(boys' and girls' varsity and junior varsity and girls' freshman)Gannon Paris - WrestlingWrestlingWrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
(boys varsity and junior varsity)Dennis King
Non-athletic activities and clubs
- Liturgical Band
- Student Newspaper (Raider Review)
- Passport Club
- GUTS (Guys and Girls United to Serve)
- Student Council
- Executive Board - consisting of class officers from all four grade levels
- Homeroom Representatives
- Theatre Guild
- Catwalk for Cancer
- Guts
- Campus Ministry
- Model United NationsModel United NationsModel United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
- National Honor SocietyNational Honor SocietyThe National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
- Interact Club (Part of Rotary InternationalRotary InternationalRotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...
) - Bowling Club
- Yearbook Club
- Technology Committee
- Art Club
- Walk-A-Thon Committee
- Ski Club
- School Life Committee
- Cinema Club
- Math League
- Mock Trial Club
- Peer Leadership
- Project Rebuild
- Marist Youth Group
- Walk-A-ThonWalkathonA walkathon , walking marathon or sponsored walk is a type of community or school fundraiser in which participants raise money by collecting donations or pledges for walking a predetermined distance or course...
Planning Committee - Fear Nothing
- Sound and Sight Club
- Fishing Club
- Concert/Pep/Jazz Band
- Spectrum Club
- Lego Club
- International Dance Club