Chaparral High School (Scottsdale, Arizona)

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**Chaparral High School**
Principal	Mrs. Mary Lou Muccino
School Type	Public (U.S.)
Religious Affiliation	None
Founded	1973
Address & Location	6935 E. Gold Dust Avenue, Scottsdale, Arizona 85253, USA
Enrollment	1,828 students
Campus Situation	Suburban
Mascot	Firebird
School Colors	Scarlet Red and Gold
School Website	CHS

Chaparral High School is a public high school located in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. The mascot is the firebird and the school colors are scarlet red and gold. The school enrolls approximately 1,800 students each year, and is growing quickly. Currently, the school is under construction^[1].

1 Student body and academics
2 Athletics
3 Arts
4 Speech and Debate
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Student body and academics

Nearly 95 percent of Chaparral's graduates enroll in higher education, with more than 35 percent enrolled out-of-state, the most of any high school in Arizona.^[2] Chaparral High School has consistently ranked in Newsweek's list of Best High Schools in America, often the only Arizona school ranked.^[3] The high school also usually garners more National Merit Semifinalists annually than any other school in the state and holds the state record for having the most scholars in one year (24 in 2000).^[4]

Chaparral is the only school in Arizona to have students win the top honors at the Siemens Westinghouse Competition and Intel Science Talent Search, two of the most prestigious science competitions in the U.S.^[5]

[edit] Athletics

Chaparral leads the 4A Division in a number of sports; however, the school is best known for its football, baseball, volleyball, badminton, lacrosse, Speech and Debate, and swimming teams. Chaparral's baseball program is highly noted across the nation, consistently ranked in Sports Illustrated as a top 10 baseball program in the nation and was named by the USA Today as one of the Super 25 Baseball teams.^[6] Chaparral's Football team is known for a "tradition of excellence" and 3 state titles. They recently received the opportunity to go to the 4A-1 Division Arizona State football championship, but they lost to Sabino High School of Tucson which was in turn defeated by rival Saguaro High School. Saguaro was defeated by Chaparral in region play, 24-21, in a thrilling game featuring a powerful hit on star Shane Anderson. ^[7] Chaparral's men's lacrosse team is the first team in the state to win back-to-back state championships, the team has won state in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Chaparral's badminton team won an unprecedented three state championships in a row in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Chaparral's women lacrosse also won the state championships in 2005 and were the 2006 state runner ups. Chaparral's men's ice hockey team won a state title in 2005. Chaparral's women volleyball team has always had a strong program, including state runner up in 2003, state champions in 2004 and 2005, and a final four contender in 2006. Chaparral also boasts a superior track and field team. Adrian Dahlstedt is their most famous alumni.

[edit] Arts

Chaparral has three concert choirs and a Mixed Jazz group (a co-ed group which perform jazz standards) and a Nothing But Treble group (an all girls group which often will sing songs that somebody in the group has arranged or written, or will perform already written music) which rehearse on their own time to put together performances.

[edit] Speech and Debate

The Speech and Debate team has many outstanding students and specializes in Oratory and Public Forum Debate. At 4A Winter Trophy in Tucson, Arizona, Sean Arn took first place in Novice LD debate^[8], while Anthony Conyers, Justin Hillman, Andrew Matson, Eric Himmelberger, Ben Grossman, and Adam Bloch closed out in Varsity PFD.^[9]

At the ASU Southwest Debate Championship (a national debate tournament held at ASU), Adam Bloch and Ben Grossman took first place in Varsity PFD ^[10] and Emily Shiau took 3rd Place in Oratory^[11]. Most recently, Chaparral defeated its competition at the State Tournament, winning 2nd in sweepstakes. Chaparral PF debaters, Adam Bloch, Ben Grossman, Eric Himmelberger, Andrew Matson, Anthony Conyers, Nick French, Riley Roberts, and Max Ullman, closed out PFD at semi-finals.^[12] Furthermore, Ben Grossman (1st) and Emily Shiau (2nd) closed out Original Oratory. ^[13] Ben Grossman and David Schaeffer were State Champions in Student Congress, and Grossman also won 1st place in Expository Speaking.^[14] ^[15]