Wethersfield High School

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Wethersfield High School is the only high school in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and has won many awards for excellence.

1 Facilities
2 Enrollment
3 Alumni
4 Awards
5 Athletics
6 External links

[edit] Facilities

On 37 acres, Wethersfield High has an extensive campus. The campus includes a greenhouse, a synthetic surface outdoor track, the Esposito baseball complex, a softball field, the DiCicco soccer field and the Cottone Football Stadium. The building has approximately 230,000 square feet of space.

The school's ice hockey team skates out of Newington Arena (formerly known as Connecticut International Skating Center) in Newington, Connecticut.

[edit] Enrollment

In the 2003-2004 school year, there were about 100 staff members and 1150 enrolled students.

[edit] Alumni

Christopher S. Murphy, U.S. Congressman
Paul Doyle, CT State Senator

[edit] Awards

Wethersfield High School was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in 1996.

[edit] Athletics

Wethersfield High School excels at a variety of sports including soccer and baseball.

Wethersfield's Ice Hockey team also won the Connecticut Division III State Championships in 2007, the first time in the team's 30 year history ever doing so. The win is also the first for Coach Dennis Tulimieri, who has been head coach of the Eagles for 21 years, and assistant coach Bryan Healy, who's senior year resulted in the team's first trip to the championship, losing 8-7 in overtime to Immaculate High School in 1986 at the Hartford Civic Center.