Our Lady of Lourdes Academy
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Our Lady of Lourdes Academy is a Roman Catholic, all-girls high school in Miami, Florida
founded in 1963.
It is run by the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters
. Lourdes has a long standing tradition in both academics and athletics.The current principal is Sister Kathryn Donze IHM
Lourdes was named one of the Top 50 Catholic High Schools in the USA by the Catholic High School Honor Roll of 2006. The school has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami
. Lourdes' brother school is Christopher Columbus High School.
The mission of Our Lady of Lourdes Academy is to educate young women to face the future strengthened by their faith, prepared and confident in their abilities to achieve their goals and committed to their Catholic and American heritages.
The school is the winner of the Miami Herald Girls Major Sports trophy for the sixth consecutive year and ninth year overall.
The Athletic Department, under the continued guidance of Athletic Director, Mrs. Maura Herrholz, and her outstanding staff of coaches, has had another incredible year of achievements.
Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
founded in 1963.
It is run by the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters
Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary are a Catholic teaching order for women. It is divided among three separate congregations. The original community of the order is headquartered in Monroe, Michigan. The Mother house currently houses more than 400 sisters, more than 100 of which...
. Lourdes has a long standing tradition in both academics and athletics.The current principal is Sister Kathryn Donze IHM
Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary are a Catholic teaching order for women. It is divided among three separate congregations. The original community of the order is headquartered in Monroe, Michigan. The Mother house currently houses more than 400 sisters, more than 100 of which...
Lourdes was named one of the Top 50 Catholic High Schools in the USA by the Catholic High School Honor Roll of 2006. The school has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami
The Archdiocese of Miami is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States of America. Its ecclesiastic territory includes Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of Florida. The archdiocese is the metropolitan see for the Ecclesiastical Province of Miami,...
. Lourdes' brother school is Christopher Columbus High School.
The mission of Our Lady of Lourdes Academy is to educate young women to face the future strengthened by their faith, prepared and confident in their abilities to achieve their goals and committed to their Catholic and American heritages.
Clubs and Activities
A wide variety of clubs are available for students. These include: IHM Club, Art Club, CARE Club, Culinary Club, Close-Up, Environmental Club, French Club, The Future Business Leaders of America, Guitar Club, Habitat for Humanity, Helping Hands Club, Hungry Hearts, Key Club, Knitting Club, Lourdes Dancers, Media Center Assistants, Model U.N., Operation Smile, Outraged, Peer Counselors, Photography Club, Physics Club, Pre-Med Club, Psychology Club, Respect Life Club, Robotics, SALVA Club, Scrapbooking Club, Spanish Club, Spirit Club, Stage Crew, Students Against Drunk Driving (S.A.D.D.), Student Council, TV Video Club, WICS, WOLLA Club, and Writing and Book Club.Athletics
Our Lady of Lourdes Academy and Christopher Columbus High School are the only private schools in Florida that compete at a 6A level.The school is the winner of the Miami Herald Girls Major Sports trophy for the sixth consecutive year and ninth year overall.
The Athletic Department, under the continued guidance of Athletic Director, Mrs. Maura Herrholz, and her outstanding staff of coaches, has had another incredible year of achievements.
Noteworthy Alumnae
- Gloria EstefanGloria EstefanGloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
- singer - Anitere FloresAnitere FloresAnitere Flores is a Republican member of the Florida Senate, a body in which she represents the 38th District. Her district of almost 500,000 residents includes Kendall, Westchester, Fontainebleau, and portions of Southwest Miami-Dade County in South Florida. Senator Anitere Flores was sworn in...
- Florida senator (R) - Maggie RodriguezMaggie RodriguezMargarita Dania Rodriguez is a former co-anchor of the CBS television program, The Early Show, from December 2007 through December 2010. Rodriguez was also a substitute anchor for Katie Couric on The CBS Evening News. Rodriguez was formerly co-anchor of the Saturday edition of The Early Show in 2007...
- former anchor at KABC-TVKABC-TVKABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale, California...
and WFOR-TVWFOR-TVWFOR-TV, virtual channel 4.1 , is the CBS owned-and-operated station in Miami, Florida. WFOR shares its TV studio facilities with sister station WBFS-TV in Doral, near Miami International Airport, and its transmitter is located in Miramar.WFOR-TV also previously had two translator stations in the...
, now co-anchor of the Saturday Early Show
External links
- Our Lady of Lourdes Academy
- http://www.chshonor.org/roll/index.php?year=2006
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