Trabuco Hills High School
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| Trabuco Hills High School | |
| Location | |
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| 27501 Mustang Run Mission Viejo, CA |
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| Information | |
| School district | Saddleback Valley Unified School District |
| Principal | Dan Sullivan |
| Enrollment |
3,128 |
| Faculty | 106 |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Mascot | Mustang |
| Color(s) | Blue, grey, and white |
| Established | 1985 |
| Information | (949) 768-1934 |
| Homepage | [1] |
Trabuco Hills High School is a high school in Mission Viejo, California, United States and is the largest school in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District in terms of attendance, with 3,128 students enrolled as of the 2006-2007 school year. The school has served the area since 1985 with its first graduating class in 1987. Its mascot is the mustang and its colors are blue, silver and white. The current principal of the school is Dan Sullivan.
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Extracurricular programs
Trabuco Hills High School houses a significant number of extracurricular programs, many of which have received official recognition at the state and national level.
Instrumental Music
Trabuco Hills houses one of the most accomplished high school music programs in the state of California. Its drumline, colorguard, and marching band have performed in various regional and state competitions. The Trabuco Hills Percussion Ensemble earned 7th in the world for the Percussion Scholastic Open Division. The Trabuco Hills Winter Guard has recently closed an almost undefeated year with the exception of 15th place in the world for the Scholastic A division and 2nd in the state in the same division. The colorguard and drumline perform alongside the marching band in the fall semester, a unit which has also accomplished many great things. Just two years ago, the Thundering Marching Mustang Unit took 1st place in the entire state for the 4A division. This upcoming year, the unit plans to return to the Fiesta Bowl, a competition and parade held in Arizona. You must be invited to perform in the competition. The organization only invites the top marching bands in the nation to attend to competition and parade. The Trabuco Hills Jazz Ensemble recently took first in the Intermediate Division at the Irvine High School jazz festival. The jazz program also includes a seven-piece jazz combo which performs and competes both alongside and independent of the Jazz Ensemble. The school's Symphonic Orchestra has performed at a national festival in Orlando Florida, and set an all time record for highest score achieved at that festival. On the heels of that tremendous accomplishment, it recently turned down an invitation to perform in Carnegie Hall. In the year 2006, the Symphonic Orchestra attended the inauguaral of the Orchestra of America Fesitval in Indianapolis. The current director of the music program is Dr. Howard Stephens and the assistant director of music is Mr. Russell Moreau.
Model United Nations
Trabuco Hills boasts a broad and successful Model United Nations program. Model UN is currently incorporated into the social science curriculum as an optional component in the freshman cultural geography course and the sophomore world history course. A junior-senior level international studies and comparative government course was discontinued in 2004.
Delegates representing THHS MUN have attended numerous conferences, including UC Berkeley, UC Irvine and El Toro High School. Minor conferences that are used primarily for training of freshman delegates include Mission Viejo High School and Laguna Hills High School. THHS delegates have garnered numerous performance and research awards, both personal and delegation, at these conferences.
Academic Decathlon
The Academic Decathlon is a class at Trabuco Hills High School, but it also serves as an extracurricular program. Generally nine students compete among other teams in Orange County, and if successful among teams statewide, in ten academic events including a speech and an interview. The Trabuco Hills team now accommodates more than nine students allowing it to have several teams. The team has made it to the state competition several years including 2005. The team also has freshman and sophomore teams; however at that level the competition is much less rigorous and challenging.
Science Olympiad
The Trabuco Hills Science Olympiad club was founded in 2006. There are fifteen members on the team, and each member competes in at least two rigorous science competitions ranging from studying insects to building bridges. In the overall Orange County competition it ranked fourteenth (against schools such as Troy High School, whose team has repeatedly ranked first in the national competition), while ranking third in the Science Bowl competition.
Athletics
Basketball Program
Trabuco Hills High School has a below .500 basketball program, currently under the reign of head coach Tom McCluskey.
Cross Country Program
In 2006 Trabuco Hills High School upset Royal High School of Simi Valley to win the California D1 state championship. They went on to NTN placing 9th. The program is currently under the reign of head coach Liam Clemons.
Boys Soccer Program
In 2005 Trabuco Hills High School won the south coast league.
Football
Their football team is pretty good this year 2007.
Track
Daniel Kirkpatrick won the 2007 State track and field meet in the High Jump (6'11), boys JT sullivan and Scott Blair also qualified for the CIF state meet and placed 4th and 7th respectively. Currently under the reign of Jack Recla
Notable Alumni
Nick Punto (1996) - Major League Baseball Player, Minnesota Twins
Pat Barnes (1993) - National Football League Player/XFL/NFLeurope/CFL
James Vincent (Turtle) - Actor, Dude Wheres My Car, Lost and Found, and tv shows (Mastercard)
Tim Steed - President of the California Young Democrats
Josh Todd lead singer of many bands, including Buckcherry.
Tylor Chase - Actor, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Everybody Hates Chris
