ThunderRidge High School

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Thunder Ridge High School

Motto	Right place, Right Time, Right Thing
Established	1996
Type	public high school
Principal	Carole Jennings
Faculty	134 (2007)
Students	1608 (2007)
Grades	9-12
Location	1991 Wildcat Reserve Parkway, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, USA
District	Douglas County Public School District
Campus	suburban
Colors	Green and blue
Athletics	Football
Mascot	The Grizzlies
Newspaper	Growl
Website	http://www1.dcsdk12.org/secondary/trhs/

Thunder Ridge High School is a public high school serving the ninth through twelfth grade in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. It is part of the Douglas County Public School District. It was established in 1996 and has approximately 1608 students as of November 2007^[1]

Contents 1 Curriculum 2 Student support 3 Extracurriculars 3.1 Clubs and Organizations 3.2 Sports 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Curriculum

In addition to typical core courses (Math, Science, English, Social Studies) found in most high schools, TRHS offers basic, regular, Honors/Pre-AP, and Advanced Placement level courses. More than 100 electives are offered, including: Foreign Language, Art, Music, Theatre, Business, Consumer & Family Studies and Technology.

The school is adding the International Baccalaureate Program (IB) to its curriculum in 2011, and will begin to offer the IB program to students in the 2008-2009 school year.^[2]

[edit] Student support

Several academic support systems are in place at Thunder Ridge, including: Academic Access, Peer Tutoring, Adult Mentor Program, Adult Tutoring and an after-school NovaNet Credit Recovery Program.

[edit] Extracurriculars

[edit] Clubs and Organizations

In addition to typical high school clubs, TRHS hosts the following organizations:

[edit] Sports

ThunderRidge High School opened in 1996 and began varsity athletic competition in the 1998-1999 school year. Since that time, the Grizzlies have won 18 state championships:

The Girls basketball team won three state championships. In 2003 both the boys and girls won the state championship at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. The basketball program has also produced multiple All-Americans: Abby Waner (Duke), Emily Waner (Duke), and Emily Fox (Minnesota). Matt Bouldin (Gonzaga) led the Grizzlies to two state championships in 2004, 2005 but never came away with the win. The boys went to the State Championship 4 straight years under Joe Ortiz 2002-2005, but only won 2002, 2003 defeating Wheat Ridge High School and Denver East, respectively.

The ThunderRidge football team has competed in 4A football until the 2007 season, but will start a 5A schedule in 2008. The team rarely misses the playoffs, and the Grizzlies went to the State Semi-Finals 5 years in a row under Coach Joe Johnson, 2001-2005 going 3-2, with a 3-0 record in state championship games. Since that time, however, the team has failed to advance past the second round of the playoff bracket. The most noteable recent seasons are 2004 when the Grizzlies went 12-2 and won the state championship. In 2005 with 19 returning starters on offense and defense the Grizzlies went 14-0 and beat Grand Junction High School at the first ever State Championship game played at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado and was named the number one team in the state. (including 2A-5A schools) The school has club sports in:

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• High School website
• District website
• greatschools
• Public School review