Wyoming Park High School
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Wyoming Park High School (commonly referred to as The Park) is a comprehensive secondary public high school in the Wyoming Public Schools district in Wyoming, Michigan. It is the largest high school in the Wyoming Public Schools district, with just over 860 students, followed by Rogers High School.
The school is most notably known for providing a comprehensive curriculum and creating a heavily diverse community of students in its courses.
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[edit] Arts
[edit] Wyoming Park Theater Company
In addition to the diverse amount of courses to choose from, Wyoming Park also offers various extra-curricular programs such as theater, which they teach as a "closed company" (known as the Wyoming Park Theater Company) led by director Jeremy Schnotala. The Wyoming Park Theater Company is often praised for delivering such professional performances in their plays, moreso than other local high school drama clubs in the area. Unlike most other plays in the area, almost all performances done by the WPTC are usually sold out.
In October of 2006, Schnotala announced that instead of the typical one-season theater year that happens every year, they would be dividing up the 2006-2007 year into two seasons - a play at the end of November into December and a musical in May. The play for this year will be A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens that opened November 30th 2006. The musical Cats (musical) will show sometime in spring.
[edit] Athletics
Wyoming Park competes within the O.K. Blue district teams, which include Sparta High School, Belding High School, Rogers High School, Comstock Park High School, Coopersville High School, and Cedar Springs High School. The school has won numerous amount of championships, ranging from track, football, and basketball championships.
In the 2005-2006 school year, the varsity basketball team shared the O.K. Blue title championship with Cedar Springs High School.
[edit] MHSAA State Championships
- 1947 Boys Tennis - Lower Peninsula Class C-D
- 1952 Boys Tennis - Lower Peninsula Class C-D
- 1961 Boys Cross Country - Lower Peninsula Class B
- 1976 Boys Baseball - Class B
- 1984 Boys Football - Class B
- 1996 Girls Softball - Class B
[edit] MHSAA State Runners-up
- 1945 Boys Tennis - Lower Peninsula Class C-D
- 1951 Boys Tennis - Lower Peninsula Class C-D
- 1975 Boys Track and Field - Lower Peninsula Class B
- 1984 Boys Baseball - Class B
- 1985 Boys Football - Class B
- 1989 Girls Track and Field - Lower Peninsula Class B
- 1992 Boys Baseball - Class B
- 1995 Boys Golf - Lower Peninsula Class B
- 2001 Boys Baseball - Division 2
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Drew Neitzel, Michigan State University basketball player and 2004's "Mr. Basketball"
[edit] External links
- Wyoming Park High School Official Site
- Wyoming Public Schools District
- Great Schools Listing on WPHS