Western Albemarle High School

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Western Albemarle High School entrance

Western Albemarle High School is a public high school located in Crozet, Virginia and is part of the Albemarle County Public School System, serving the western and central areas of Albemarle County. Its approximate enrollment is 1,000 students. The high school is often simply referred to as Western or WAHS^[1] by students and locals.

1 About the School
2 Administration
3 Campus
4 Sports
5 Western Albemarle in the news
6 See also
7 External links
8 Notes

[edit] About the School

Western Albemarle High School opened in September of 1977. It is situated at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains on a seventy-five acre site adjacent to Highway 250 and Interstate 64. The school serves the western portion of Albemarle County, and is fed into by J.T. Henley Middle School. Recently, Jack Jouett Middle School was redistricted and no longer feeds into WAHS.

Front Entrance

Western Albemarle High School also hosts the Destination ImagiNation tournament for the Jefferson District. Rumors are that it will host the State Finals as well.

[edit] Administration

Chris Dyer - Acting Principal
Anne Coughlin - Former Principal
Francine Hughes - Assistant Principal
Dave Francis - Assistant Principal
Greg Domecq - Associate Principal

[edit] Campus

Western Albemarle enjoys a seventy-five acre campus and developed sports complex. The school hosts a track, football field, six tennis courts, a softball field, baseball field, and two gymnasiums. Western's baseball field is recently constructed and is located across Route 250 and is adjacent to Henley Middle School and Brownsville Elementary School. It replaced an older field that was known for an imposing right field fence to offset an unusually short right field line. The construction was spurred after the varsity baseball team placed in the semi-finals of the state tournament in 1998.

[edit] Sports

Sports facilities

Western Albemarle belongs to the Jefferson District of Region II of the Virginia High School League and has had success in multiple sports such as cross country running, baseball, tennis, and lacrosse. In 2004-2005, the school won 21 district, regional, and state tournament championships.^[2] The school offers the following programs:

Winter Sports

Boys and Girls Varsity, Junior Varsity, and 9th Grade basketball.
Boys and Girls Indoor Track.
Boys and Girls swimming.
Varsity Wrestling.

Spring Sports

Varsity and junior varsity baseball.
Boys and Girls Varsity and Junior varsity lacrosse.
Varsity and Junior Varsity softball.
Boys and Girls Tennis.
Boys and Girls varsity and junior varsity soccer.

Fall Sports

Boys and Girls Cross Country.
Varsity and junior varsity field hockey.
Varsity and junior varsity football.
Varsity and junior varsity volleyball.
Varsity Golf.

[edit] Western Albemarle in the news

School grounds

In 2006, a 16-year-old Western Albemarle High School student and a 15-year-old Albemarle High School student were arrested after it was discovered that they were plotting to detonate explosives at their schools.^[3] The students were both found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to use explosives to destroy a school house, and have been committed to the juvenile justice system.^[4]

Also in 2006, the film Evan Almighty, sequel to Bruce Almighty, was filmed in a neighborhood immediately across from the entrance to the school.

Recently, three bomb threats were made on three consecutive days - one was at Henley Middle School, across the street from Western Albemarle, and prompted the cancellation of most after-school activities at Western. The other two bomb threats were discovered in the girls' bathrooms, but were ultimately declared by the authorities to be but a hoax.