Manchester High School West

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Manchester High School West is a public high school located in Manchester, New Hampshire. Students living in Bedford, Hooksett, and Manchester attend West High School. West is one of three public high schools in Manchester. Over 2,000 students attend West.

West High School's mascot is the Blue Knight.

The town of Bedford is currently constructing a high school which will be completed in the fall of 2007. Bedford students will be phased out of West High School starting in the 2007-08 school year.

1 Clubs and Activities
2 Athletics
3 Notable alumni
4 External links
5 Sources

[edit] Clubs and Activities

West has an active FIRST Robotics team. The award-winning Powerknights won the BAE Systems Granite State Regional in 2004, the Chairman's Award in 2005, the Spirit Award in the Southern California Regional, and have won several other notable awards. Each year they go on field trips to regional events across the country, recently they went to Los Angeles, California.

The scuba club is a club the school offers that thrives to let its members have fun with great experiences involving activities such as obtaining licenses and scuba trips.

The school's math team has won SMASH league championships about 6 times in a row.

Along with many other clubs and student activities, an ultimate frisbee club was started in the spring of 2006, and there is an ongoing rollerskating club.

[edit] Athletics

West athletics have a particularly strong rivalry with another city high school, Manchester Central.

The girls soccer team is consistently ranked as one of the top in the nation by national soccer publications. Long time coach Jack Amero (affectionately called "Captain") recently retired, leaving the program in a state of limbo.

The girls cross country team is one of the top teams in the state and have been to NEw Englands for the past two years.