Normal Community West High School is a public high school

Comprehensive high school

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 in Normal, Illinois

Normal, Illinois

Normal is an incorporated town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. It had a population of 52,497 as of the 2010 census. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area...

. The mascot is the wildcat

Wildcat

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 and school colors are black and silver. The school opened in 1995 and its current student body numbers roughly 2,000.

Sports

Football
In 2011, Normal West had it's first undefeated season in school history. (9-0)
Soccer
In the school's short existence, the girls soccer team has won four Big Twelve Conference

Big Twelve Conference (Illinois)

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 titles, along with two IHSA

Illinois High School Association

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 State Tournament qualifications, and a third place finish at the IHSA State Tournament in 2008.

Band

The Normal Community West Marching Band

Marching band

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 has had many achievements including, qualifying for the semifinals at Bands of America

Bands of America

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 Grand Nationals in 1997, qualifying for Finals at the 1999 St. Louis Regional, appearing in the Fiesta Bowl

Fiesta Bowl

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 parade in both 2002 and 2008, winning their division in the former year and placing 5th in Finals at the Field Competition in the later year. In 2008, the Normal Community West Marching Band won their division in the State of Illinois Invitational Marching Band Festival, the de facto state championship.

Forensics

The school has a successful speech & drama department, with the speech team and competitive drama bringing home many awards for the school, including being named Regional Champions (2007, 2008, 2010), and Sectional Champions (2008). In 2008, 2010 & 2011 NCWHS advanced all events to Sectionals with 7 Regional Champs in 2008 & 2010, and 6 in 2011. In 2010 the speech team had a historic year with a record five national qualifiers.

The competitive drama season includes Group Interpretation (G.I.) and Contest Play (Drama). The school brought one of the two shows state in 1998-2002, 2004-2008, 2010 & 2011, with both shows being state qualifiers in 2007 & 2008. The Wildcats were Sectional Champions in 2000 (Drama), 2002 (Drama), & 2007 (G.I.), and placed at State in 1999 (Drama- 5th place), 2000 (Drama- 3rd place), 2008 (Drama- 4th place) & 2010 (G.I.- 3rd place).