Ridley High School
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Ridley High School serves the Ridley School District
. Ridley High School
is located in Folsom, Pennsylvania
, and has an average student population of 2,100. The school
draws students from many socioeconomic backgrounds, due to Ridley Township's economically diverse population. The new high school
opened in September 2001. The original building, previously known as Ridley Township High School, was completed in 1934 and was built, in part, by funding from the Works Progress Administration
. The library
, auditorium
, and gym
additions of the old school, built in the late 1960s still stand and are used as a community center. The school had added a pond for the students involved with environmental classes and activities. The Ridley football
team was the Central League champion in 2006 and 2007. Ridley is also home to one of the finest natatorium
s in Delaware County
. Recently, Ridley High School received a grant by the Classrooms For the Future: several hundred laptops, WiFi enabled printers, and touch sensitive smartboards.
, science
, art
, social studies
, health
, and physical education
, as well as foreign languages, including Spanish
, German
, French
, and Italian
. Other course offerings include Computer Applications and Family and Consumer Sciences. A total of four, 85-minute classes are held in a day due to the school's block scheduling
. Ridley operates on a two-semester schedule, with two marking periods in each semester. Ridley High School has established the Emerald Academy, an extremely rigorous course of core plus classes and extended time periods what normally takes weeks to finish is done in two days or less.
, English
, a science
, social studies
, a foreign language
, health
and gym
in addition to an elective class. The rigorous pace of the program is meant to prepare the students for AP classes.
Ridley is very well known for its athletics
as well as its academics. The football
program has the highest winning percentage all-time in Pennsylvania. Ridley football has a rivalry with nearby Interboro High School
football and play an annual match on Thanksgiving
. An event that occurs before the Thanksgiving game is a student-run contest called "Miss Interboro", during which the football team dresses up as females and are voted on who looks the most like a student from Interboro. The Ridley Football team was PIAA District 1 and Central League champions in 2007. The football team also was Central League co-champion and District 1 champion in the 2009 season.
Its boys' lacrosse
program is also well known in the country
for winning several state
titles throughout the past 15 years, including 3 straight titles 2001-03. The girls lacrosse team of 2007 lost in the state championship. The wrestling
coach, Carl Schnellenbach, coached his 600th win in December 2005 and holds the record for most wrestling coaching victories in Pennsylvania
. The patch on the back of the wrestling jackets has been updated to celebrate Mr. Schnellenbach's 659 wins.
Ridley has also had great success in the pool. The Diving team has 10 state medals that include a back to back championships for Josh Bonner. The diving tradition has also reached into the college ranks, producing 6 D-1 divers at Florida State, Penn State, Rutgers, East Carolina, and Drexel. Erin Saunders, in 2007, took gold at the Big East Conference Championship for Rutgers. Ridley's swimming has also found great success with numerous district one qualifiers. Ridley's swim coach Kurt Slenn's recorded his 250th win on December 29th, 2009.
The mascot of the school sports teams is the Green Raider. While the mascot was originally represented by a Native American
of the Lenni-Lenape tribe, the school and district have tried to reduce the amount of Native American imagery in use. The Ridley logo is now a stylized letter R
, referred to as "The Rockin' R."
The
Sports in Ridley High School include:
magazine
serves as an outlet for student creativity. Windscript won the Gold Crown Award from Columbia University
in both 2005 and 2006.There are many other clubs and events that occur throughout the year at Ridley High School.
Ridley School District
Ridley School District is a school district in southeastern Delaware County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It consists of Ridley Township, and the boroughs of Ridley Park and Eddystone. The district has one high school, one middle school, and seven elementary schools. At all levels, the...
. Ridley High School
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
is located in Folsom, Pennsylvania
Folsom, Pennsylvania
Folsom is a census-designated place in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Ridley Township, Pennsylvania. The population was 8,072 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Folsom is located at ....
, and has an average student population of 2,100. The school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...
draws students from many socioeconomic backgrounds, due to Ridley Township's economically diverse population. The new high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
opened in September 2001. The original building, previously known as Ridley Township High School, was completed in 1934 and was built, in part, by funding from the Works Progress Administration
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects...
. The library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
, auditorium
Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.- Etymology :...
, and gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
additions of the old school, built in the late 1960s still stand and are used as a community center. The school had added a pond for the students involved with environmental classes and activities. The Ridley 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...
team was the Central League champion in 2006 and 2007. Ridley is also home to one of the finest natatorium
Natatorium
A natatorium is a term given for a building containing a swimming pool. In Latin, a cella natatoria was a swimming pool in its own building, although it is sometimes also used to refer to any indoor pool even if not housed in a dedicated building...
s in Delaware County
Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Delaware County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2010, the population was 558,979, making it Pennsylvania's fifth most populous county, behind Philadelphia, Allegheny, Montgomery, and Bucks counties....
. Recently, Ridley High School received a grant by the Classrooms For the Future: several hundred laptops, WiFi enabled printers, and touch sensitive smartboards.
Academia
The school's academic program offers a huge variety of elective classes such as technology courses, and includes basics such as math, EnglishEnglish studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
, science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, social studies
Social studies
Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
, health
Health
Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...
, and physical education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
, as well as foreign languages, including Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
. Other course offerings include Computer Applications and Family and Consumer Sciences. A total of four, 85-minute classes are held in a day due to the school's block scheduling
Block scheduling
Block scheduling is a type of academic scheduling in which each student has fewer classes per day but each class is scheduled for a longer period of time . A student might be taking 7 different classes, but only 4 per day, and the specific daily classes would rotate through a changing daily cycle...
. Ridley operates on a two-semester schedule, with two marking periods in each semester. Ridley High School has established the Emerald Academy, an extremely rigorous course of core plus classes and extended time periods what normally takes weeks to finish is done in two days or less.
The Emerald Academy
Ridley High School is also home to the Emerald Academy, a small group of students, from 9th to 10th grade, within the school. The Academy is a collection of advanced classes, and has one extra class in the day, making a total of five classes. The classes are also shorter at 66 minutes with the exception of the elective block which remains at 85 minutes. These classes include mathematicsMathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
, a science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, social studies
Social studies
Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
, a foreign language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
, health
Health
Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...
and gym
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
in addition to an elective class. The rigorous pace of the program is meant to prepare the students for AP classes.
Sports
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Ridley_High_School&returntoquery=action%3Dedit%26section%3D3Ridley is very well known for its athletics
Sport
A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...
as well as its academics. The 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...
program has the highest winning percentage all-time in Pennsylvania. Ridley football has a rivalry with nearby Interboro High School
Interboro High School
Interboro High School is a high school located in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia in Delaware County.As the sole high school in the Interboro School District, students from surrounding communities Glenolden, Norwood, Prospect Park itself, and the two towns of Tinicum Township ...
football and play an annual match on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. In Canada, Thanksgiving falls on the same day as Columbus Day in the...
. An event that occurs before the Thanksgiving game is a student-run contest called "Miss Interboro", during which the football team dresses up as females and are voted on who looks the most like a student from Interboro. The Ridley Football team was PIAA District 1 and Central League champions in 2007. The football team also was Central League co-champion and District 1 champion in the 2009 season.
Its boys' 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...
program is also well known in the country
Country
A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...
for winning several state
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
titles throughout the past 15 years, including 3 straight titles 2001-03. The girls lacrosse team of 2007 lost in the state championship. The wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
coach, Carl Schnellenbach, coached his 600th win in December 2005 and holds the record for most wrestling coaching victories in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
. The patch on the back of the wrestling jackets has been updated to celebrate Mr. Schnellenbach's 659 wins.
Ridley has also had great success in the pool. The Diving team has 10 state medals that include a back to back championships for Josh Bonner. The diving tradition has also reached into the college ranks, producing 6 D-1 divers at Florida State, Penn State, Rutgers, East Carolina, and Drexel. Erin Saunders, in 2007, took gold at the Big East Conference Championship for Rutgers. Ridley's swimming has also found great success with numerous district one qualifiers. Ridley's swim coach Kurt Slenn's recorded his 250th win on December 29th, 2009.
The mascot of the school sports teams is the Green Raider. While the mascot was originally represented by a Native American
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
of the Lenni-Lenape tribe, the school and district have tried to reduce the amount of Native American imagery in use. The Ridley logo is now a stylized letter R
R
R is the eighteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The original Semitic letter may have been inspired by an Egyptian hieroglyph for tp, "head". It was used for by Semites because in their language, the word for "head" was rêš . It developed into Greek Ρ and Latin R...
, referred to as "The Rockin' R."
The
Sports in Ridley High School include:
- BaseballBaseballBaseball 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...
- BasketballBasketballBasketball 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 CountryCross country runningCross 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...
- FootballAmerican footballAmerican 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...
- Field HockeyField hockeyField Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
- GolfGolfGolf 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 hockeyIce hockeyIce 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...
- LacrosseLacrosseLacrosse 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...
- Soccer
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- SwimmingSwimming (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...
and DivingDivingDiving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one... - TennisTennisTennis 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 & FieldTrack and fieldTrack 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 & FieldAthletics (track and field)Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
- Outdoor Track & FieldAthletics (track and field)Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
- Indoor Track & Field
- VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball 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...
- WrestlingWrestlingWrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
Windscript
Ridley High School's literary-artsCreative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
serves as an outlet for student creativity. Windscript won the Gold Crown Award from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in both 2005 and 2006.There are many other clubs and events that occur throughout the year at Ridley High School.
Archive
The Ridley High School yearbook is a student publication. The all color book is a compilation of student interests, activities and achievements. Pages have been featured in Josten's (publisher) Look Book and the National Scholastic Press Association's Best of the High School Press. Best of the High School Press, NSPA’s slick, full-color book showcases examples of the finest student journalism in the country.Notable Alumni
- Jim BeardJim BeardJames Arthur Beard is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist, contemporary instrumental composer, arranger and record producer.- Life and career :...
, Professional Jazz Musician and member of Steely Dan - Matt BlundinMatt BlundinMatthew Brent Blundin is a former professional American football quarterback in the National Football League. He was a back-up quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Detroit Lions during the 1990s.-College career:...
, Former NFL Quarterback, Kansas City Chiefs - Jena KrausJena KrausJena Kraus is an American singer/songwriter and self taught musician born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Discovered at the age of nine by vocal coach Rita Cavell and was thrust into the world of entertainment...
, Recording Artist - Bob KuberskiBob KuberskiRobert Kenneth Kuberski, Jr. is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots. He played college football at the United States Naval Academy .Kuberski was drafted by the Packers in the seventh round of the 1993...
, Former NFL Defensive Lineman, member of Super Bowl XXXISuper Bowl XXXISuper Bowl XXXI was an American football game played on January 26, 1997, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana to decide the National Football League champion following the 1996 regular season. The National Football Conference champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American...
Champion Green Bay PackersGreen Bay PackersThe Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions... - Bill McGloneBill McGloneBill McGlone is a professional lacrosse player. McGlone plays for the Denver Outlaws of Major League Lacrosse and the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League.-Collegiate career:3605287905...
, Professional lacrosse player - Michael Philip MossmanMichael Philip MossmanMichael Philip Mossman is an American hard bop jazz trumpeter.Mossman's early career included a tour of Europe with Anthony Braxton in 1978 and tours with Roscoe Mitchell in the early 1980s. He also did session work in the 1980s, for Styx among others...
, Professional Jazz Musician and Film Composer - Brett MoyerBrett MoyerBrett Moyer of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania is a professional lacrosse player for the Philadelphia Wings in the National Lacrosse League, and the Denver Outlaws in the Major League Lacrosse.- Collegiate career :...
, Professional lacrosse player - Bob RigbyBob RigbyBob Rigby is a retired U.S. soccer goalkeeper. Among the most talented soccer goalkeepers born in the United States, Rigby played twelve seasons in the North American Soccer League, three in the Major Indoor Soccer League, one in the Western Soccer Alliance and earned six caps with the United...
, Former professional soccer player, former member of United States men's national soccer teamUnited States men's national soccer teamThe United States men's national soccer team represents the United States in international association football competitions. It is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in CONCACAF... - J. Randy TaraborrelliJ. Randy TaraborrelliJohn Randall Taraborrelli is an American journalist and biographer.Taraborrelli is an author known for biographies of contemporary entertainers and political figures. He is a featured writer in several entertainment magazines in Canada, England, and Australia...
, New York Times Bestselling Author - Joe ValerioJoe ValerioJoe Valerio is a former NFL offensive lineman. He was born February 11, 1969 outside Philadelphia and attended Ridley High School in Folsom, PA.After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he played five years for the Kansas City Chiefs...
Former NFL Football player, Kansas City Chiefs