La Salle College High School
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La Salle College High School founded in 1858 is an independent, Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
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, college preparatory school for boys located in Wyndmoor
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania
Wyndmoor is a census-designated place in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. The population was 5,498 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...

, a community in Springfield Township
Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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, Montgomery County
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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, United States
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, outside Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

. The school is staffed by a lay
Laity
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 faculty and the Christian Brothers
Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation, founded in France by Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and now based in Rome...

. Its sports teams compete in the Philadelphia Catholic League
Philadelphia Catholic League
The Philadelphia Catholic League is a high school sports league composed of eighteen Catholic High Schools in Philadelphia and the surrounding Pennsylvania suburbs. The league itself was founded in the summer of 1920 on the steps of Villanova academy by an Augustinian monk, who would later be...

 and now also participate in the PIAA.

School administration

A new administration began in July 2005. The current President, Brother Richard Kestler, FSC, replaced Bro. Rene Sterner who had served as President for fourteen years. The new Principal, Mr. Joseph Marchese, replaced Mr. Fred Assaf who became the Headmaster at Pace Academy
Pace Academy
Pace Academy is a K-12 college preparatory private school, located at 966 West Paces Ferry Road in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia. Pace has approximately 1040 students.-History:...

 in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
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. Bro. Richard Kestler is an alumnus of La Salle College High School (class of 1960) and has served at the school on three previous occasions. The new President and Principal together have over fifty years of administrative experience.

Curriculum

La Salle College High School offers eighteen Advanced Placement courses each year. 87% of La Salle AP students qualify for college credit. In 2010, 102 students achieved AP Scholar status, which included 13 National Scholars. The student-faculty ratio is currently 11:1 and the average class size is 19 students.

Technology

La Salle College High School is a certified Microsoft
Microsoft
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 IT Academy. The school offers wireless network access through 802.11
IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards for implementing wireless local area network computer communication in the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequency bands. They are created and maintained by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee . The base version of the standard IEEE 802.11-2007 has had subsequent...

 b/g/n, so students can access the Internet on the many computers throughout the school or on their own laptops. All of the faculty and staff are supplied with laptops so they can take advantage of the same wireless network.

The school has a computer for every four students.

La Salle is the only school to be twice featured for leadership in technology in The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...

(Spring 2003 and Winter 2000), most recently for integration of SMARTBoards with wireless networks. Former principal Fred Assaf was invited to write an article about La Salle's use of laptops, "They Find the Solution Right in Their Lap," which appeared in the September/October 2001 issue of Momentum, the journal of the National Catholic Educational Association.

La Salle is one of the few schools in the nation to let the students be the IT department. The team is called the Lab Managers and it is a group of students that help the teachers, or classmates. The program is directed by Mr. Peter Sigmund '85, MCITP. The program contains several students who are Microsoft Certified Professionals and Cisco Certified Network Engineers.

Recent athletic accomplishments

(Does not include accomplishments in 2004–5)


Currently, La Salle's football, ice hockey, and lacrosse teams are all reigning Pennsylvania state champions. Over the past twelve years La Salle has won sixty-three League Championships (fifty-five Catholic League
Philadelphia Catholic League
The Philadelphia Catholic League is a high school sports league composed of eighteen Catholic High Schools in Philadelphia and the surrounding Pennsylvania suburbs. The league itself was founded in the summer of 1920 on the steps of Villanova academy by an Augustinian monk, who would later be...

 and eight interscholastic Hockey League). Additionally, La Salle won the Pennsylvania Football State Championship on December 19, 2009. Thirteen separate sports earned championships over the past eight years: cross country, soccer, football, ice hockey, wrestling, indoor track, swimming, lacrosse, baseball, crew, golf, tennis, and outdoor track and field.

The Philadelphia Catholic League has recognized 114 La Salle athletes for outstanding performances; fifty-seven earned First Team All-Catholic honors, while thirty-one were listed as second team selections. Twenty-six were awarded honorable mention status.

In addition, La Salle swept the 2006 Fall season of the Catholic League, taking the championships in soccer, football, and cross country.
  • 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...

    : La Salle won the Philadelphia Catholic League Champions in 1995, 1996, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010; reached the Catholic League Championship game in 1999, 2006, 2008 and 2009, playoffs each year. In 2006, ranked as the #1 team in the Philadelphia area and also 9th in the state. In 2009, La Salle was ranked #1 in Pennsylvania and #24 in the United States after winning the PIAA Class AAAA State Championship,the first State Championship in the PCL. Recently, the La Salle Explorers won their third consecutive Philadelphia Catholic League Championship, as well as the District 12 City Championship, and they have recently advanced to the AAAA state finals to defend their title.
  • 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...

    : 2008, PIAA Runner-Up; Philadelphia Catholic League Champions 2003-2008; Pennsylvania State Prep School Champions 2001-2005; ranked in the Top 10 in the Northeast US 2003-2008, the highest ranking being 5th (2003).
  • 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...

    : first School to have two varsity teams win league championships.
    • Varsity 1
      • Flyers Cup
        Flyers Cup
        The Flyers Cup is an annual high school ice hockey tournament held by the Philadelphia Flyers. The invitational tournament is the scholastic hockey championship for eastern Pennsylvania high schools and is conducted through three tiers of play, AAA, AA, and A with AAA representing private schools,...

         Championship Final: 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011
      • Flyers Cup
        Flyers Cup
        The Flyers Cup is an annual high school ice hockey tournament held by the Philadelphia Flyers. The invitational tournament is the scholastic hockey championship for eastern Pennsylvania high schools and is conducted through three tiers of play, AAA, AA, and A with AAA representing private schools,...

         Champions in 1996, 1998, 2008, 2009, 2011
      • PA State Champions in 1998, 2008, 2009
      • League Champions in 1999 and 2002
    • Varsity 2
      • Flyers Cup Champions in 1999
      • League Champions 1999 and 2001
  • Swimming: 2004 Eastern Prep School Champs, back to back third place finishes in PIAA state finals (2008-2009, 2009-2010), second place finish in PIAA state finals (2010-2011), 2008 Eastern Prep School Champs 2nd place, National Catholic Prep School Champs (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2004); twenty four consecutive Philadelphia Catholic League Titles(up to 2010-2011).
  • Lacrosse
    Lacrosse
    Lacrosse 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...

    : PSLA State Champions (2004, 2008), Inaugural PIAA State Champions (2009) Eastern PA Champs 2004, PCL Championship 2004, League Champions in 12 of the past 14 years. PCL Championship (2006, 2008).
  • 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...

    : PCL Titles in 2003 and 2004. League champions in nine of the past twelve years.
  • 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....

    : eight consecutive PCL Championships (1996–2003); second place in 2004, 1st in 2005, and 2007.
  • 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...

    : Indoor Track Titles in 1994, 1998 and 1999; Outdoor Track Title in 1998, 2010 Runner-Up in 1999 and 2006; 2008 US #1 Ranking Indoor DMR; 2008 Runner-Up Penn Relays DMR Championship of America
  • Crew
    Sport rowing
    Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

    : League Champions in three of past ten years; City Champions in 1998; Varsity 4+ Philadelphia Catholic League Champions and Philadelphia City Champions in 2004.
  • 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...

    : Catholic League Semifinalists (2000); Northern Division Champions in three of the last nine years.
  • 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...

    : Northern Division Champions (2002 & 2003), Championship Finals (2002 & 2003), Championship (1994 & 2005).
  • Soccer
    Football (soccer)
    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

    : PCL Championship in 2000; three Championships in the last decade. League Championship Finals in 2003 and ranked first at times in the 2003 season. PCL Championship in 2005. PCL Champions in 2006. PCL Champions in 2011.
  • 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...

    : regular Season Champions in 2001, 2002, and 2003. Team title at league individual championship in 2003. The team also won the PCL title in 1996,2007, 2009, and 2010 over North Catholic. Also, District 12 titles over Northeast High School in 2009 and George Washington High school in 2010. In 2010 La Salle also had 3 state place winners Shane Springer(2nd), Casey Kent(3rd), and Joey Mazzi(7th).

Alma mater

Hail La Salle we praise thee

Honor and tribute true

Great and bright your splendor

Banner of gold and blue

Loyal Sons we'll ever be

High we'll hold your memory

Hail La Salle our Alma Mater

Hail all Hail!

Notable alumni

Source:
Name Year Occupation
J. Burrwood Daly
J. Burrwood Daly
John Burrwood Daly was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.J. Burrwood Daly was born in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated from La Salle College High School in Philadelphia in 1890 and from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1896. He served as...

1890 US Congressman from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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Howard R. Leary 1935 Commissioner (1963–70), Philadelphia Police Department
Philadelphia Police Department
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Hon. August B. Cifelli 1943 justice, Supreme Court of Michigan
Paul Arizin 1946 member, Basketball Hall of Fame
Basketball Hall of Fame
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Francis J. Ryan 1949 retired president and Chief Operating Officer, Air Products & Chemicals
Air Products & Chemicals
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. is an international corporation whose principal business is selling gases and chemicals for industrial uses. Air Products' headquarters is in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Air Products is the Lehigh...

Maj. Gen. William F. Burns 1950 Commanding Officer (Retired), U.S. Army
William de Pasquale 1951 concertmaster, Philadelphia Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...

Tom Gola
Tom Gola
Thomas Joseph Gola is a retired American basketball player.-Early Life:Gola was praised as a great all-around player as a high school student at La Salle College High School, where he led the Explorers to a Philadelphia Catholic League Championship...

1951 Member, Basketball Hall of Fame
Basketball Hall of Fame
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, honors exceptional basketball players, coaches, referees, executives, and other major contributors to the game of basketball worldwide...

Thomas J. Lynch 1958 past president, Union League of Philadelphia
John E. Glaser 1958 president, Stutz Candy Co., Inc.
Thomas F. Pyle, Jr. 1958 retired president and Chief Operating Officer, Rayovac Corporation
Michael McCafferty 1960 founder Landmark National Bank
John F. Lehman, Jr., Ph.D. 1960 Secretary of the Navy (1981–87) and Member of the 9/11 Commission
Charles E. Dunleavy, Jr. 1961 president, GMAC Commercial Holding Corporation
Daniel J. Whelan 1963 retired president and Chief Executive Officer, Verizon Communications Inc.
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews
Christopher John "Chris" Matthews is an American news anchor and political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC...

1963 television commentator on Hardball
Hardball
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, syndicated columnist — San Francisco Examiner
John M. Kilduff 1964 retired president and Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Pepper Company
Leo G. Frangipane, MD 1965 best-selling author, More True Blue Tales
Rear Adm. John B. Foley III 1965 Former Commander Atlantic Fleet Surface Force (COMNAVSURFLANT), U.S. Navy (Retired)
Brother Michael J. McGinniss, F.S.C., Ph.D. 1965 president La Salle University
La Salle University
La Salle University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, the school was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. As of 2008 the school has approximately 7,554...

Charles A. Genuardi 1966 president, Genuardi Super Markets, Inc.
Genuardi's
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Karl M. Kyriss 1968 president and Chief Operating Officer, AQUA PA
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack along with his wife Sandy Lerner, is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology and services...

1969 founder, Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems
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Jack Bauerle
Jack Bauerle
Jack Bauerle is the head coach of the University of Georgia men's and women's swimming teams. In the spring of 2006, he finished his 27th year as a head coach for UGA...

1970 U.S. Olympic Swim Coach
Brig. Gen. Joseph J. McMenamin
Joseph J. McMenamin
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1970 Assistant Division Commander, 2nd Marine Division
Walter L. Updegrave 1970 senior editor Money Magazine
Money Magazine
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; best-selling author, Investing for the Financially Challenged
Mark Juliano 1972 Chief Operating Officer, Trump Entertainment Resorts
Trump Entertainment Resorts
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A. Frank Donaghue 1972 former Chief Executive Officer, American Red Cross
American Red Cross
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Michael T. Kennedy 1972 Senior Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer; Trinity Capital Partners, LP
Hon. George T. Kenney, Jr. 1975 Pennsylvania State Representative, D – Philadelphia County
Hugh Panaro
Hugh Panaro
-Life and career:Panaro was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and resided in the East Oak Lane section of the city with his family. As a schoolchild, he attended St. Helena’s parochial school in the adjoining Philadelphia neighborhood of Olney. He played organ for the parish church from age twelve...

1982 leading Broadway actor: Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)
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Hon. Michael J. Stack, III 1982 Pennsylvania State Senator, D – Philadelphia County
Inspector Carl W. Holmes, Jr. 1983 Commanding Officer, Philadelphia Police Academy
Sean McDermott
Sean McDermott
Sean McDermott is an American football defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He served as defensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles from 2009–2010, a position he took over shortly before his predecessor, Jim Johnson, died of cancer...

1993 Defensive Coordinator of the Carolina Panthers
Carolina Panthers
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, former Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia Eagles
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 Defensive Coordinator
Gregory Michael
Gregory Michael
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 Hosmer
1999 Actor featured in the TV Soap Opera "As The World Turns
As the World Turns
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" and current star of the ABC Family
ABC Family
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 television series Greek
Greek (TV series)
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.
Anthony Green
Anthony Green
Anthony Green may refer to:*Anthony Green , current lead vocalist of Circa Survive and ex-vocalist for Saosin*Anthony Green *Anthony Green *Anthony Green *Antony Green, election commentator...

2000 Current lead vocalist of Circa Survive
Circa Survive
Circa Survive is an American alternative rock band from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburb of Doylestown, formed in 2004. The band consists of vocalist Anthony Green, former singer of Saosin and members of the now-defunct This Day Forward....

, former lead vocalist of Saosin
Saosin
Saosin is an American rock band originally hailing from Newport Beach, California. The band was formed in 2003 and recorded its first EP, Translating the Name, that same year with original singer Anthony Green. Green left Saosin following the band's decision to sign with a commercial label,...


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