Western Hills High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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Western Hills High School is a high school located in the Western Hills
Western Hills, Cincinnati
Western Hills is an area in Cincinnati, Ohio. This section of Cincinnati contains Western Hills High School and Dater High School. The area also contains various shopping centers and mini malls. Westwood, Ohio is close to Western Hills....

 area of Cincinnati, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

. It is part of the Cincinnati Public Schools district. The school was the location used to film Airborne, a movie filmed in the Cincinnati area.

The school houses two programs: Western Hills Design Technology High School and Western Hills University High School. But the building houses Western Hills Design Technology, Western Hills university and Dater High School.

Notable alumni

Listed among its graduates are many professional athletes and entertainers:
  • Ed Brinkman
    Ed Brinkman
    Edwin Albert Brinkman was a Major League Baseball shortstop. He played fifteen years in the Major League Baseball, led the American League in games played twice, won a Gold Glove Award at shortstop, and had a career batting average of .224...

      (baseball [infielder - Gold Glove Award winner, All Star selection]- Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers, & New York Yankees)
  • Doris Day
    Doris Day
    Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...

     (actress/singer)
  • Jim Frey
    Jim Frey
    James Gottfried Frey is a former manager and coach in Major League Baseball. He led the Kansas City Royals to their first American League championship in 1980, in his first year with the team...

     (baseball - manager, Kansas City Royals (1980-1981), Chicago Cubs (1984-1986))
  • Rodney Heath
    Rodney Heath
    ----Rodney Heath was an Australian male tennis player.Heath was the men's singles champion at the inaugural Australasian Championships in 1905...

     (American footballer - Cincinnati Bengals (1999-2001); Atlanta Falcons (2002))
  • Dave Lee (David Lee Bunce) (radio personality - WKRC & WLW (1976-1990))
  • Russ Nixon
    Russ Nixon
    Russell Eugene Nixon is a former catcher, coach and manager in American Major League Baseball. A veteran of 55 years in professional baseball, Nixon has managed at virtually every level of the sport, from the lowest minor league to MLB assignments with the Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves...

     (baseball - manager, Cincinnati Reds (1982-1983); Atlanta Braves (1988-1990))
  • Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds (American footballer - Los Angeles Rams (1970-1980); San Francisco 49ers (1981-1984))
  • Tuffy Rhodes
    Tuffy Rhodes
    Karl Derrick "Tuffy" Rhodes is a professional baseball player. He played six years in Major League Baseball in the US, and eleven years in Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan....

     (baseball - all-time home run leader for foreign-born players in Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan)
  • Pete Rose
    Pete Rose
    Peter Edward Rose , nicknamed "Charlie Hustle", is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989....

     (baseball - MLB's all-time hit king - Cincinnati Reds (1963-1978, 1984-1989); Philadelphia Phillies (1979-1983); Montreal Expos (1984))
  • Andy Williams
    Andy Williams
    Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...

     (singer)
  • Don Zimmer
    Don Zimmer
    Donald William "Popeye" Zimmer is a former infielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball, currently serving as a senior advisor to the Tampa Bay Rays baseball organization...

     (baseball - manager, San Diego Padres (1972–1973); Boston Red Sox (1976–1980); Texas Rangers (1981–1982); Chicago Cubs (1988–1991); New York Yankees (1999) (interim))

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

  • Baseball
    Baseball
    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...

     - 1948,1951,1967,1977,1986
  • Boys 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...

     – 1935
  • Boys Cross Country
    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...

    – 1944


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