Bishop Amat Memorial High School

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Bishop Amat Memorial High School is a co-ed Catholic high school serving the San Gabriel Valley in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and was founded in 1957. The campus is located in La Puente, California, approximately 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles in Los Angeles County. The coeducational student body is comprised of approximately 1,520 students in grades 9 through 12, making Bishop Amat the second largest private high school in Los Angeles County. The school's yearbook is called Tusitala.

The school is named for the first Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles, the Most Reverend Thaddeus Amat y Brusi, who served as the ordinary of Los Angeles from 1853 to 1878. He founded some of the first schools in Los Angeles and invited the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul to open St. Vincent's College, which was the predecessor to Loyola Marymount University.

[edit] Athletics

Bishop Amat competes in most high school sports, including Football, Men's and Woman's Cross Country, Men's and Woman's Volleyball, Men's and Women's Golf, Men's and Womens Tennis, Men's and Woman's Swimming, Men's and Woman's Soccer, and Men's and Woman's Basketball. Bishop Amat participates in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Del Rey League against Bishop Montgomery (Torrance), St. Bernard (Playa del Rey), St. Paul (Santa Fe Springs), and Serra (Gardena). Other local rivals include Damien (La Verne), St. John Bosco (Bellflower) and St. Joseph (Lakewood). The school's teams go by the name "The Lancers", and the team colors are royal blue and gold.

Girls Varsity Basketball are 3x CIF Champions and 2x back to back State Champions.