Bishop Miege High School
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| Grades | 9th through 12th |
| Current President | Dr. Joseph Passantino |
| Current Principal | Stan Herbic |
| School type | Private |
| Religious affiliation | Catholic |
| Opened | 1958 (current facility) |
| Location | Roeland Park, Kansas |
| Enrollment | About 800 |
| Mascot | Stag |
| School colors | Royal Blue and Scarlet Red |
| Motto | Excellence our goal, success our tradition |
| Website | Bishop Miege High School |
Bishop Miege High School is a Catholic high school, located in Roeland Park, Kansas, United States. It is located directly north of the Shawnee Indian Mission. It was established in 1958 by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas and was named after Bishop John Baptiste Miege, the first bishop of the Kansas Territory, which eventually became the current Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. It is the successor to St. Agnes High School, established in 1949, named for the parish that it was founded by, and the mascot (Stag) retains this heritage (St. Agnes).
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[edit] ACT Prep Program
Miege has recently implemented an academic program aimed at providing its students with aid to better their standardized testing results. As a part of regular curriculum, every student beginning his or her freshmen year will receive instructions throughout the year to enhance both their basic skills as well as their test-taking abilities. A key advantage to the program is that by the time the students take the actual ACT their junior year, they will have already taken six previous versions of the exam.
[edit] Future of Miege Athletics
Miege unveiled the Future of Miege Athletics last year. The plan is Miege's intended renovations of current sports facilities and the replacement of others. The focus of the plan is a new 3,675 seat stadium to replace the current facilities. The stadium was completed by The Homecoming football game in 2007. Dixie Doll Stadium includes a new gameday entry plaza, visitor, home and official's locker rooms, concessions, restrooms, storage facilities, a press box, new lights and a beautiful infill turf regulation soccer and football field.
A cellular tower will also be placed on the site near the stadium, with Sprint and Verizon Wireless committing to utilize the tower. A similar arrangement exists at Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, MO.
[edit] Kincaid Media Center
The Media Center was completed in 2003. It feature 32 state of the art computer stations and 8 new classrooms. A video production studio/classroom equipped with video editing, filming and production was also added. The capital campaign also included 27 inch televisions with VCR's in each classroom. The acquiring of the Old Mission school to the north of Miege for use as sports practice facilities was also included. For more information and pictures visitFacilities Improvements.
[edit] Athletics
[edit] Football
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The Miege football program has a long and storied history in Kansas. Although the past few years have not been winning seasons, Miege hopes to have a drastic turnaround in the 2006 season. Former head coach Dan Ritter retired at the conclusion of the 2005 season. He was replaced by former Kansas City Chief Tim Grunhard. Gunhard played college ball at Notre Dame where he won a national championship. He was drafted in the 2nd round of the 1990 NFL draft by the Kansas City Chiefs. In his February 3rd press conference he said about coaching Miege “We have one goal, and that is to win the state championship, one goal,”
[edit] Volleyball
Miege volleyball has been a Kansas dynasty since coach Gwen Pike took over. Coach Pike recently reached 900 career wins. The team has won 17 state championships in the last 29 years. The girls are currently 8-1 going and Eastern Kansas League champions.
[edit] Cross Country
The Miege cross country team is coached by Alan Thomas. Both the boys and girls teams placed 2nd at regional and both teams qualified for the state tournament.
[edit] Girl's Golf
The girl's are coached by Ken Ward. They have struggled this year because the team is very young. With only one returning senior, the girls don't have much experience this year. But the future looks bright for all the new talent on the team.
[edit] Girl's Tennis
Coach Mike Riley is in his 1st year as head coach of the girls.
[edit] Boy's Soccer
Coach Huppe returns in his 14th year of coaching the boy's team. So far the stags are 7-10. They hope to beat St. Thomas Aquinas in their 2nd round playoff match at Aquinas on October 26, 2006. At their first meeting the stags lost to the saints 0-6.
[edit] Boy's Basketball
The basketball program at Miege has always been solid, both boys and girls. But most recently the boys basketball program has shone above the girls. Coach Rick Zych's stags are returning from an 18-7 season last year, finishing 2nd at state.
[edit] Girl's Basketball
Coach Terry English has been coaching girls at Miege for 30 years. His teams have won 14 state titles. He has a career winning percentage of more than .800.
[edit] Wrestling
Head coach David Eller will be returning for his 16th year of coaching at Miege. Miege had 5 state qualifiers with one placing last year.
[edit] Bowling
Head Coach Matthew Eshelbrenner took the Stags boys to a State Championship and came in first place with the win. Lead by senior Timothy Smith who bowled an impressive 272. The girls came in 8 place in the tournament.
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