Marquette University High School
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Marquette University High School (or MUHS) is a private, all-male, Jesuit, Roman Catholic school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is a member of both the National Catholic Educational Association and the Jesuit Secondary Education Association.
The majority (98%) of its students have gone on to a four-year college or university. There were 280 students in the class of 2006. The class of 2007 was the 150th graduating class at MUHS.
MUHS offers Latin, German, and Spanish as foreign languages, and has participated in exchange programs with France, Germany and the Czech Republic. Students also have the opportunity to travel to Ireland, the UK, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and other countries.
MUHS students perform tens of thousands of hours of community service every year, in keeping with the school's goal to create "men for others".
musical
farce
in which the actors portray caricatures of faculty members. The 2009 show was Herminator Salvation and the 2010 show was Return of the Jeni. The Class of 2012 performed "Ochoquatro", a postmodern story structured similar to the cosmogonic cycle of Joseph Campbell
, utilizing elements of metafiction
.
In addition to follies, the school's theater group, the Prep Players, presents a musical in spring and a stage play in winter every year.
, basketball
, cross country running
, downhill skiing
, football
, golf
, ice hockey
, lacrosse
, rugby union
, soccer
, swimming
, tennis
, track and field
, ultimate
, volleyball
, and wrestling
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MUHS teams have won 24 WIAA state titles in soccer, volleyball, tennis, baseball, and football, as well as the lacrosse team's 2010 WLF state championship. In the summers of 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 the Hilltoppers were ranked #1 in the state for overall boys' athletics by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
in the championship game. The basketball team also won Greater Metro conference championships in the 1997-98 and 1999-2000 seasons. In 2010, the Hilltopper basketball team made it to the WIAA Division I state semifinals amid a run that saw them defeat several tournament favorites before losing to eventual champion Arrowhead
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('54), in 1998. The facility is dedicated solely to soccer and track and field events.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is a member of both the National Catholic Educational Association and the Jesuit Secondary Education Association.
The majority (98%) of its students have gone on to a four-year college or university. There were 280 students in the class of 2006. The class of 2007 was the 150th graduating class at MUHS.
Campus
Marquette University High School is located at 35th Street and Wisconsin Avenue (3401 W. Wisconsin Avenue) in Merrill Park Neighborhood on Milwaukee's west side. It is a four-story building, built in the early 20th century.Academics
The curriculum at Marquette has strict credit requirements in all fields of study including classes in science, mathematics, world languages, social studies, and English.MUHS offers Latin, German, and Spanish as foreign languages, and has participated in exchange programs with France, Germany and the Czech Republic. Students also have the opportunity to travel to Ireland, the UK, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and other countries.
Extra-curricular activities
The Webster Club provides students with an opportunity to compete in Policy Debate, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Forensics, and Mock Trial. Webster Club teams consistently perform admirably both at the state and national levels.MUHS students perform tens of thousands of hours of community service every year, in keeping with the school's goal to create "men for others".
Theater
Every year since 1963, the senior class has written and performed "Senior Follies", a satiricalSatire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
farce
Farce
In theatre, a farce is a comedy which aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases,...
in which the actors portray caricatures of faculty members. The 2009 show was Herminator Salvation and the 2010 show was Return of the Jeni. The Class of 2012 performed "Ochoquatro", a postmodern story structured similar to the cosmogonic cycle of Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience...
, utilizing elements of metafiction
Metafiction
Metafiction, also known as Romantic irony in the context of Romantic works of literature, is a type of fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction, exposing the fictional illusion...
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In addition to follies, the school's theater group, the Prep Players, presents a musical in spring and a stage play in winter every year.
Athletics
Nicknamed the "Hilltoppers", MUHS teams competed in the now defunct Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletics Association (WISAA) in most sports prior to 1999. Since then, they have competed in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA). 60% of the student body participates in a sport. The school fields teams in baseballBaseball
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 running
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...
, downhill skiing
Skiing
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....
, 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....
, 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...
, 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...
, rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
, 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...
, 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...
, ultimate
Ultimate (sport)
Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
, 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...
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MUHS teams have won 24 WIAA state titles in soccer, volleyball, tennis, baseball, and football, as well as the lacrosse team's 2010 WLF state championship. In the summers of 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 the Hilltoppers were ranked #1 in the state for overall boys' athletics by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Basketball
The basketball team was 84-29 in five seasons from 1997 to 2002. The team won the 1999 Greater Metro Conference and WISAA Division I State Boys Basketball Championships, when the Hilltoppers went 21-3 and defeated Dominican High SchoolDominican High School (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin)
Dominican High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. It is in, but not funded by, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee as a college preparatory high school.-Background:...
in the championship game. The basketball team also won Greater Metro conference championships in the 1997-98 and 1999-2000 seasons. In 2010, the Hilltopper basketball team made it to the WIAA Division I state semifinals amid a run that saw them defeat several tournament favorites before losing to eventual champion Arrowhead
Arrowhead High School
Arrowhead High School is a high school located in Hartland, Wisconsin. Sitting on of land, the school has two campuses, a North Campus and a South Campus. Juniors and Seniors attend the North Campus, while Freshmen and Sophomores attend the South Campus....
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Cross country
The MUHS cross country team has won the Greater Metro Conference meet 8 of the last 9 year, and took third at both the 2007 and 2008 WIAA state meets, as well as second in both 2009 and 2010.Football
Metro Conference-
- 1999 6-1, 11-1 Conference co-champion (three-way tie) (WISAA Division I state champion)
- 2000 7-0, 10-2 Conference champion
- 2001 7-0, 10-1 Conference champion
- 2002 5-2, 8-3 Second place (tie)
- Brookfield East 14-1 (loss in 2002)
Lacrosse
The MUHS lacrosse team has competed in the state tournament five times since the team's creation in Spring 2003, and won its first state title in 2010, which completed an undefeated season. The lacrosse team annually competes against other Jesuit schools from around the United States, traveling to Indianapolis every spring where Jesuit teams from across the Midwest gather to compete.Soccer
Since 1973, the soccer program has won 20 state championships and tied a national record of 10 straight state championships from 1994 to 2003. The Hilltoppers were ranked #1 in the country by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in 1999 and in 2003. In 1996 the soccer coach was selected as National High School Coach of the Year. The Hilltoppers home field, Quad/Park, was donated by former MUHS graduate, Harry QuadracciQuad/Graphics
Quad/Graphics is an American printing company, based in Sussex, Wisconsin. It was founded on July 13, 1971, by Harry V. Quadracci, son of Harry R. Quadracci, whom the company website calls, "the Father of Web Offset Printing". The company has forty printing facilities in the United States, as well...
('54), in 1998. The facility is dedicated solely to soccer and track and field events.
Tennis
The MUHS tennis program has 26 team state titles to its credit. Before moving to the WIAA in 2001, MUHS had won 19 of the previous 20 WISAA state titles. Since the merger, Marquette has won seven WIAA team state titles (in 2002, 2003, 2007,2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011), five WIAA state singles titles, and two WIAA state doubles titles.Volleyball
Volleyball began at MUHS in 1996, and the team's first state championship was in 1998. This team was undefeated in 98 matches, losing only 2 matches over a 3-year span. The team has won seven state championships.Notable alumni
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, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee - Dick BildaDick BildaDick Bilda was an American Football player. He born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 15, 1919 and is deceased now. He attended Marquette University High School, graduating in 1937. He is a member of the Marquette University High School Athletic Hall of Fame. A standout athlete in three sports, he...
, former Green Bay Packer - Peter BockPeter Bock (Wisconsin politician)Peter Bock is a Wisconsin politician.Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bock graduated from Marquette University High School and from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. In 1986, he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly serving from 1987 until 2003...
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, Notre Dame running back (1946 - 1949) and coach (1954 - 1958) - John C. BrophyJohn C. BrophyJohn Charles Brophy was a Republican politician from the state of Wisconsin.Brophy was born in Eagle, Wisconsin and graduated from Marquette Academy before enlisting in the Navy, serving from August 1919 to May 1921, when he was honorably discharged...
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, U.S. National Team men's soccer coach in 1990 World Cup - Gary GeorgeGary George (Wisconsin politician)Gary George , was a Wisconsin Democrat legislator and politician.Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, George graduated from Marquette University High School, and University of Wisconsin–Madison and received his law degree from University of Michigan in 1979. Gary George ran against Republican James...
, former member of the Wisconsin State SenateWisconsin State SenateThe Wisconsin Senate, the powers of which are modeled after those of the U.S. Senate, is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature, smaller than the Wisconsin State Assembly... - Scott L. KlugScott L. KlugScott L. Klug was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin, representing .-Biography:...
, former U.S. Representative - Rick MajerusRick MajerusRick Majerus is an American college basketball coach, and the men's basketball head coach at Saint Louis University. He coached previously at Marquette University , Ball State University , and the University of Utah .-Biography:Majerus graduated from Marquette University High School in 1966 and...
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, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly - Albert Gregory Meyer, Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago (1958-1965)
- Pat O'BrienPat O'Brien (actor)Pat O’Brien was an American film actor with more than one hundred screen credits.-Early life:O’Brien was born William Joseph Patrick O’Brien to an Irish-American Catholic family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as an altar boy at Gesu Church while growing up near 13th and Clybourn streets...
, actor - Edward J. O'DonnellEdward J. O'DonnellEdward J. O'Donnell was the President of Marquette University from 1948 to 1962.-Biographical data:Nicknamed "Red" because of his hair, O'Donnell grew up in the shadow of Gesu Church and Marquette University....
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, U.S. Air National Guard Major General - Tom SnyderTom SnyderThomas James "Tom" Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s...
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, Academy Award-winning actor - Clement J. ZablockiClement J. ZablockiClement John Zablocki was an American politician from the state of Wisconsin.-Career:Zablocki was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and he graduated from Marquette University. Zablocki was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1942. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1948 as a Democrat...
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