Omro High School
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Campus
In 2001 a new elementary school was built along with an addition to the pre-existing high school. HB Patch houses K-2 students and served as one of three elementary schools before the construction of the current elementary school. Before the erection of the new elementary school, the three district K-5 schools were HB Patch, Enterprise, and Omro Junction. Upon completion of Omro Elementary, Omro Junction was sold to the state and Enterprise became a school for challenged and struggling students.Extracurricular activities
Student groups and activities include academic bowlQuizbowl
Quiz bowl is a family of games of questions and answers on all topics of human knowledge that is commonly played by students enrolled in high school or college, although some participants begin in middle or even elementary school...
, art club, audiovisual club, Badger Boys/Badger Girls, forensics
National Forensic League
The National Forensic League is a non-partisan, non-profit educational honor society established to encourage and motivate American high school students to participate in and become proficient in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking and interpretation. NFL is the America's oldest and largest...
, FBLA
FBLA-PBL
The Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, or FBLA-PBL, is an American career and technical student organization that has its headquarters in Reston, Virginia...
, FFA
National FFA Organization
The National FFA Organization is an American youth organization known as a Career and Technical Student Organization, based on middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education...
, history club, Key Club
Key Club
Key Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
, math team, National Honor Society
National Honor Society
The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
, O-Club (Varsity letter
Varsity letter
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recipients), Students Against Destructive Decisions, ski club, Spanish club, and student council.
Athletics
The Omro Foxes compete in the Wisconsin Flyway ConferenceWisconsin Flyway Conference
The Wisconsin Flyway Conference is a high school athletic conference in East Central Wisconsin. It has existed in many forms over the years being known as the East Central Flyway Conference and was split in to two divisions in the early to mid 2000s...
. They formerly belonged to the Eastern Valley Conference
Eastern Valley Conference
The Eastern Valley Conference is a high school athletic conference of teams in the East Central and Fox Valley area in Wisconsin.-Members:-History:...
and before that the East Central Flyway Conference. Omro High School fields teams in soccer, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, dance, football, golf, powerlifting, softball, track & field, volleyball, and wrestling. An equestrian club/team began competition in fall 2008.
Every fall the Omro Foxes Football Team competes against the Winneconne Wolves for the coveted China Bull Trophy - one of the oldest football rivalries in the state of Wisconsin.
When in the ECC, under head coach Spencer Rolph, the boy's basketball team won 12 conference titles over a 15 year span. Their 2 state appearances came during this 15 year span. In 2007, by lead of senior Patrick Plank, the foxes track team won its first ECFC conference title and first WIAA sectional championship. In the fall of 2008, the foxes boy's soccer team won the schools first Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association
Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association is the regulatory body for all high school sports in Wisconsin. Its history dates to 1895, making it the first high school athletic organization in the country...
(WIAA) regional championship. The soccer team broke their 3 year regional title match losing streak by winning 1-0. In 2010 the Powerlifting team captured its first ever state title. In the fall of 2010 the foxes football team made its return to the state playoffs after a 12 year draught. The team lost in the second round of the playoffs.
State championship titles
- 1997 Division 3 State Basketball Champions
- 1999 Division 3 State Basketball Runner-up
- 2007 Patrick Plank Division 2 State 300m Hurdle Champion 2007 WIAA State 300m Hurdles Video
- 2008 Boys Division 2 State 4x200m Relay Runner-up (Brent Kriha, Kyle Zimmer, Kenny Jones, Kyle Van Damme)
- 2009 Girls Division 2 State 4x200m Relay Champions (Jessica Will, Alyssa Baehman, Jessica Berger, Amanda Obot)
- 2009 Division 2 State Powerlifting Runner-up
- 2010 Division 2 State Powerlifting Champions
Notable alumni
- Gary Frank, powerlifter , 1997 WISCTCA hall of fame inductee , Omro Wall of Fame member, "Worlds Strongest Man" in the 80's, also played in the NFL - 192nd pick in the 1988 NFL draft, drafted out of Mississippi State by the Denver Broncos.
- Andy JorgensenAndy JorgensenAndrew Earl 'Andy' Jorgensen is a Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 37th Assembly District since he was elected in 2006. He is a member of the Committees on Agriculture, Biofuels and Sustainable Energy, Consumer Protection and Personal Privacy, and Rural...
(1986), Wisconsin State AssemblyWisconsin State AssemblyThe Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.... - Keven Bradley (2002), Played in the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association All-Star game his senior year, member of 1999 WIAA Division 3 State-Runner up basketball team, played 2 seasons of basketball for UW-Stevens Point where he was a member of their Division 3 national championship team, then transferred to Lawrence University where he had a career high 33 point game in which he scored his teams final 20 points. Bradley is currently the assistant head men's basketball coach at the University of Upper Iowa.
- Patrick Plank (2007), 2007 State Track 300m Hurdle Champion and former Division 2 State Record Holder, Wisconsintrackandfield.com's #9 rated athlete of the year (2007),WISTCA All State Selection, 2007 WIAA Scholar Athlete (one of 32 selected statewide), 2007 Wendy's High School Heisman Wisconsin State Finalist, Currently runs for the Wisconsin Badgers, Big Ten Athlete of the Week (3/25/09)
- Brent Vroman (2001), US Marine killed in Iraq in 2004