Champlain Valley Union High School

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Champlain Valley Union's LED illuminated sign on CVU Road

Champlain Valley Union High School is a United States high school located in the town of Hinesburg, Vermont. The school serves the communities of Charlotte, Hinesburg, Shelburne, Williston, and St. George. The enrollment for the 2005-2006 school year was 1,368 students with 103 faculty. The school is commonly known as CVU to local residents.

CVU was established in 1964 to serve the towns outside of Burlington, Vermont. Over the years CVU has grown to include a large arts and sciences wing, two renovations of the gym, a miniature gym, a cafeteria, a woodchip burning furnace, several athletic fields, and more parking for students with vehicles.

1 Classes
2 Student body
3 Athletics
4 External links

[edit] Classes

CVU offers classes in all the basic subjects, including Math, Social Studies, English, and many Sciences. The science department offered classes in chemistry, biology, earth sciences, botany, micorbiology, and biogenetics. For extra stimulation and work, CVU offers three levels of Band, multiple chorus classes, woodworking and metalworking, CAD design, French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek.

Upon entering CVU for freshman year, students are divided up into 4 different houses/cores: Nichols, Snelling, Fairbanks and Chittenden. Each student remains a part of their assigned house until graduation. Freshmen take mandatory classes in their core, and do not truly mix with upperclassmen until sophomore year.

[edit] Student body

The students of each class elect a class council from students in their year of graduation to represent their class to the faculty. All four class council bodies are under one leadership, the class council president. The president can be anyone in the senior class, and he or she serves for one year only. There is also a general student council that has elections every year. Candidates for president and vice-president need to make speeches in front of the entire student body before the elections.

The students are also allowed to create clubs as they see fit, and the club can use the CVU facilities as long as a faculty agrees to be the advisor. Because of this freedom, clubs at CVU range from serious (Ultimate Frisbee) to fun (Leisure Sports and Barbeque) and everywhere in between.

[edit] Athletics

The school mascot is the Redhawk, having recently changed its name from Crusaders due to concerns regarding the historically insensitive and ethnically insulting nature of the old term. The school offers the following sports to students (JV = Junior Varsity, V = Varsity):

[edit] Fall Sports

JV and V Cross Country
Frosh, JV and V Field Hockey
JV and V Football
Frosh, JV and VMen's Soccer
Frosh, JV and V Women's Soccer

The football program is a recent addition to CVU's fall athletics program. The decision was made to turn it into a varsity program in 2004 after being a club intermural sport for several years.

CVU competes in Division 1 brackets for all sports. The men's soccer, women's soccer, and cross country teams have won multiple state championships. CVU often competes against Essex High School in those championships.

The men's and women's soccer teams both won The 2006 State Championship. The men's team has now won 5 State Championships in a row.

The women's cross country teams won the 2006 State Championship. The women's team has now won 4 State Championships in a row. They also have been New England Champions in 2003, finished second in 2004 and 2005 and finished third in 2006.