Groves High School (Michigan)

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Groves High School, full name Wylie E. Groves High School, is a high school in Beverly Hills, Michigan, in the Birmingham City School District. Groves' colors are green and white, and its mascot is the Falcon. Groves' intra-district rival is Seaholm High School. The current principal is Fred Procter, while the current assistant principal is Cathy Hurley.

1 Championships
2 Notable alumni
3 Rankings
4 External links

[edit] Championships

Birmingham United (a combined lacrosse team of Groves and Seaholm students) is the only public school lacrosse team to have won the state championship. [1]
Boys golf won a state championships in 1971.
Boys Water Polo won state championships in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994.
Boys swimming won state championships in 1968, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Girls swimming won state championships in 1988, 2003, 2004 and 2005. [2]
Figure Skating Team district champions 2002,2003,2004
FIgure Skating Team State Champions 2003
The debate team won the Division I State Championionship in 2006.
Boys Track & Field district champions 2006.

[edit] Notable alumni

Benjamin Agosto - Olympic Silver Medalist in Ice Dancing 2006
Bruce Campbell - actor
Sam Raimi - movie director
Leigh Taylor-Young - actress
Jennifer Laura Thompson - Broadway actress
A varsity jacket from Groves appears in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[edit] Rankings

This school is ranked #835 on Newsweek's 2005 list of the Best High Schools in America, which ranks high schools based upon what percent of its seniors take advanced placement exams.[3]