Westwood Regional High School

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Westwood Regional High School is a six-year comprehensive regional public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Borough of Westwood and the Township of Washington, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Westwood Regional School District.


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[edit] Awards and recognition

Westwood Regional High School was the 81st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.[1]

[edit] Extracurricular Activities

[edit] Woodington Players

The Woodington Players is the theater and drama group at Westwood High School. The name comes from a combination of the two towns that send their students to Westwood High School. West-wood and Township of Wash-ington make up the name. The group was founded by former English and Dramatics teacher Jerome Hurley. The group was very small and put on two dramas in the fall and spring. They performed in, what was then the Little Theater, The Jerome Hurley Theater. Many students who were a part of this group were considered to be in a cult. Since Hurley's retirement, new English and Dramatics teacher, Donna Bialkin has directed over twenty shows. Bialkin directed the first musical at Westwood in the Campbell Auditorium. Since then the Campbell Auditorium was reserved for band and choir concerts and major assemblies.

The Woodington Players have grown in popularity and have received many awards from the Paper Mill Playhouse of New Jersey

Such productions include: The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Wiz, To See The Stars, Crazy For You, To Kill a Mockingbird, City of Angels, M*A*S*H, Guys And Dolls, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Once Upon A Mattress, Never Mind What Happened, How Did It End?, Into The Woods, Done To Death and Anything Goes (In Progress)

The Woodington Players also present a show of senior directed One-Act Plays in the spring. Two of these shows a year are selected to perform at the Bucks County One-Act Festival at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

[edit] Athletics

Westwood Regional High School Athletic Teams are called the Cardinals. They wear school colors Scarlet, White, and Black. Since the schools origin, the colors were scarlet and white. Only recently has black become an official school color

The Westwood Regional High School Cardinals compete in the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) American Conference, comprised of private and public high schools located in Bergen County.

Westwood High School recently won two out of the last three sectional championships. The most recent being on December 2, 2006, when the Westwood Cardinal Football Team went to Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, to play for the NJSIAA State Sectional Football Championship. They played the Indians of Pascack Valley High School in the North I Group II finals, beating them 9-8.[2]

Westwood High School is known for its wrestling program under the coaching of Mike Attanasio.

The Boys Spring Track team has won a consecutive three County Championships in the last four years.

On March 5, 2007, the boys' basketball team played in the North I, Group II state championship, falling to Pascack Hills High School by 66-65 in overtime, in a game played at River Dell High School.[3][4]

Fall Sports:

  • Football
  • Volleyball (Girls)
  • Field Hockey
  • Soccer (Boys)
  • Soccer (Girls)
  • Cheerleading
  • Cross Country (Boys)
  • Cross Country (Girls)
  • Tennis (Girls)

Winter Sports:

  • Competition Cheerleading
  • Indoor Track (Boys)
  • Indoor Track (Girls)
  • Wrestling
  • Basketball (Boys)
  • Basketball (Girls)
  • Bowling (Boys & Girls)

Spring Sports:

  • Outdoor Track (Boys)
  • Outdoor Track (Girls)
  • Golf
  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Tennis (Boys)

[edit] Administration

  • Geoffrey Zoeller - Superintendent
  • Patrick M. Bower - Principal
  • Lee-Anne Oros - Vice Principal
  • Patricia Eckel - Junior High Principal
  • Thomas Connell - Safety Officer

[edit] Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Westwood Regional High School include:

[edit] References

  1. ^ Top Public High Schools in New Jersey: 51-100, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006
  2. ^ 2006 Football Tournament - North I, Group II, NJSIAA, accessed February 18, 2007
  3. ^ Pascack Hills leap for joy, The Record (Bergen County), by Jeff Roberts, March 6, 2007
  4. ^ 2007 Boys Basketball - North I, Group II, NJSIAA, accessed March 7, 2007

[edit] External links

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