Cottonwood High School (Murray, Utah)

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Location
Cottonwood High School
5715 South 1300 East Murray, Utah,
Information
Principal	Garrett Muse
Enrollment	1500
Average class size	4A
Type	Public
Grades	10-12
Mascot	Colt
Color(s)	Black, Gold, and White
Homepage	Official Cottonwood High website

Cottonwood High School is a public high school located in Murray, Utah. The current enrollment is 1,957. The mascot is the Cottonwood Colt, and the school colors are black and gold. Cottonwood High belongs to the Granite School District.

The school was built and founded in 1970. Apart from traditional schooling (serving grades 10-12), the facilities are used year-round for many city-wide events, a night school for adults, summer school for young children, and other activities. Cottonwood is also regarded as one of Utah's best high schools for its highly regarded campus and strong academic institution.

Competitively, Cottonwood has established a reputation of perennial excellence in multiple sports. It receives state wide merit in music, forensics, and drama. The building that houses Cottonwood is also home to the Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science (AMES), a charter school which utilizes unused space in the main school building. Since its inception, AMES and Cottonwood students have had a friendly rivalry. The mascot for AMES is the Archer.

The building itself features what is rumored to be the largest high school auditorium west of the Mississippi River (maximum capacity is just over 3,000). Because of auditorium's size, it has been used for many concerts and public functions over the years. The annual production of Michael McLean's "The Forgotten Carols" is held there in December every year. Also, the auditorium has hosted concerts for Gordon Lightfoot, William Hung, Van Halen and Tori Amos, among others.

The building has an innovative layout which includes an open air courtyard, several atriums, and gifts from graduating classes, the most visible of which are a bronze statue of a colt located near the lunchroom and the school's seal in tilework in the main foyer. Seniors at Cottonwood take great pride in the seal and were so enthusiastic in punishing anyone who dared walk across it that it was enclosed in a small guardrail. It is surrounded by display cases filled with the various honors won by the student body over the years.

Notable Alumni

Sina Amedson, Actor, Comedian & Writer
Nathan Stevens, Actor
David Stevens, Actor
Jim Stevens, Actor
Charles Halford, Actor
Josh Burkman, mixed martial artist
Stanley Havili, football player at the University of Southern California
Randy Horiuchi, Salt Lake County Council member
Vince Horiuchi, Salt Lake Tribune TV columnist
Chris Shelton, professional baseball Player
Debbie Worthen, meteorologist at KUTV Channel 2 in Salt Lake City, Utah
Joey Worthen, professional soccer player
Mark Jolley, Former Cross Country runner for Utah State University
Frank Torres, Former Cross Country Runner for Weber State University
Mark McCosh, Member of first place Mesquite Nevada 10 Miler Desert Run Corporate Challenge 2007 team.