Huntsville High School is a public high school in Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the central part of the far northern region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 Census....

, United States

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History

Due to growth in Huntsville in the 1920s, Huntsville High moved to a location on Randolph Avenue and White Street in 1927. This building served the high school until 1954, when a new building opened on Billie Watkins St. and Bob Wallace Ave. This building served the school for 50 years, but also faced issues regarding the maintenance of the building. In response to this, the school board decided to construct a new building for the school on the current site, building on the space previously used as athletic fields; the building opened in 2004.

Administration

• Principal: Leslie Esneault
• Vice Principals: Barbara Little, Andrain Yeldell, Mark Mincher

Sports

Huntsville High School competes at the 6A classification of the AHSAA and uses the Panther

Panthera

Panthera is a genus of the family Felidae , which contains four well-known living species: the tiger, the lion, the jaguar, and the leopard. The genus comprises about half of the Pantherinae subfamily, the big cats...

 nickname for all team sports. Most depictions of the Huntsville Panther most closely resemble a North American Cougar. Huntsville High sponsors varsity level athletics in the following sports:

Men's Athletics	Women's Athletics
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...	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...
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...	Basketball
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...	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...
Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling 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...	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...
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...	Cross Country
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...	Track and Field
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...	Tennis
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....	Golf
Soccer	Soccer
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...  and Diving Diving Diving 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...	Swimming and Diving
Ice hockey Ice hockey Ice 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...

Huntsville High currently supplies one team to the Huntsville Amateur Hockey Association's high school league. The Panthers have won AHSAA state championships in Baseball, Boy's Cross Country, Girl's Cross Country, Girl's Volleyball, Girl's Soccer, Girl's Indoor Track and Field, Girl's Outdoor Track and Field, Boy's Swimming and Diving, Girl's Swimming and Diving, Boy's Tennis, and Girl's Tennis. Also, two Gymnastics state championships were won in the 80's when the AHSAA sponsored the sport, as well as several Cheerleading State Championships in the late 90's before the AHSAA sponsored the sport.

Notable alumni

• Jan Davis
  Jan Davis
  Nancy Jan Davis is a former American astronaut. A veteran of three space flights, Dr. Davis has logged over 673 hours in space. Dr. Davis is now retired from NASA.-Early life:She was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, but considers Huntsville, Alabama, to be her hometown...
  
  , former NASA astronaut
• Margaret Hoelzer
  Margaret Hoelzer
  Margaret Hoelzer is an American swimmer who competed in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.-Biography:...
  
  , Olympic swimmer
• Loretta Spencer
  Loretta Spencer
  Loretta Purdy Spencer was the mayor of Huntsville, Alabama. Her first term began October 4, 1996, and her last term ended on November 3, 2008....
  
  , 66th Mayor of Huntsville
• Robert E. Cramer, Member of the House of Representatives
• Paul McDonald
  Paul McDonald (musician)
  Paul McDonald is an American singer-songwriter from Huntsville, Alabama, who as of 2011 resides in Nashville, Tennessee...
  
  , American Idol
  American Idol
  American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
  
  finalist in Season 10
  American Idol (season 10)
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  and member of The Grand Magnolias

External links

• Huntsville High School Web Page
• HHS Class of 67 Facebook Page
• Huntsville High Class of 1988
• Huntsville High Class of 2013