Bishop Walsh School

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For the Catholic school in Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom, see Bishop Walsh Catholic School.

Bishop Walsh School is a K-12 Catholic school located in Cumberland, Maryland, and under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Approximately 600 students attend. The president is Sister Phyllis McNally, SSND.

1 History
2 Notable alumni
3 Athletics
- 3.1 Other titles
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

The school was founded by the Christian Brothers, a monastic order, and is named in honor of the Bishop James Walsh, a Cumberland-born missionary who preached in China and was imprisoned in solitary confinement by its Communist government for twelve years. ^[1]

Opening in 1966, the school was originally Bishop Walsh High School (BW) and replaced four other Catholic high schools: La Salle, Ursuline Academy, Girls Central, and St. Peter's. In the mid-1980s, St. Mary's Elementary school closed and St. Patrick's and St. Peter & Paul reorganized as a grade school and middle school. Later, the grade school became St. John Neuman and BW became a middle/high school.

In 2002, it combined with St. John Neumann Elementary School to form a K-12 school. The school is run in part by the Catholic organization the School Sisters of Notre Dame. The school also employs several Christian Brothers of the LaSallian Brothers among its teaching staff. The school's sports teams are called the Spartans after the warriors of ancient Sparta.

[edit] Notable alumni

Samuel Perlozzo - baseball player and manager (class of 1969)

Chris Hastings - Author of the internet comic The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (class of 2001)

[edit] Athletics

The school's baseball team were 'City Champions' in 1978 and 2007.^[2]

The 2006 BW Boys Soccer team had an 18-3 season and came in 2nd in the state for private schools and second in their area, losing to the Heights in the championship.^{[citation needed]}