Gaithersburg High School

Gaithersburg High School
Established 1904
Type Public Secondary
Principal Dr. Christine Handy Collins
Students 2015 (2011)
Grades 9–12
Location Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
District Montgomery County Public Schools
Campus Suburban
Colors Blue and Gold
Mascot Trojans
Newspaper The Blue & Gold
Website http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/gaithsbghs/

Gaithersburg High School (GHS) is located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. Part of Montgomery County Public Schools, the school was founded in 1904 as "Gaithersburg School" and offered grades K-12. Since 1951, the school resides at 314 South Frederick Avenue and currently offers education for those in grades 9–12. Both Forest Oak Middle School and Gaithersburg Middle School feed into the high school. Gaithersburg High is a very diverse school. As of 2011, it is 27.3% Black, 9.4% Asian, 36.9% Hispanic, and 23.7% White.The graduation rate is 86.8%.

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Television

General information

New building

New school being built starting summer 2011, expected to be complete for the start of the 2013 school year. Students will not be allowed to park during the construction of the new building.

Principals

Sports accomplishments

Gaitherburg High School has achieved many sports accomplishments in the past forty years. The school has had the privilege of becoming both finalists and champions in a large variety of sports.

State Champions

State Finalists

Men and Women's Swimming

Gaithersburg High School has had a swimming program from 1970 to the present. More recently, the team has been known as one of the larger teams amongst other Montgomery County Public Schools. Of these past seven years, the team has been in division III for five years and division II in one.[1]

The team has had up to 70 swimmers in the 2007–2008 season. This swim team included all who wanted to swim (despite skill level) under Coach Jill Milla. Coach Milla advocated strong team spirit and sportsmanship with her athletes at every team practice and competition. However, Coach Justin Owen wanted to change this team philosophy and allowed only athletes who were more serious about the sport. The team got smaller due to this change. Coach Owen left the team after two disappointing seasons.

Gaithersburg is 1 of 26 high schools in Montgomery County that swim in four divisions based on how successful a team is. Each division has a number of teams which varies from year to year based on a team's record of the previous season. Gaithersburg's swim season consists of 1 Scrimmage, 6 Dual Meets, 1 Relay Carnival, 1 Divisional Meet, 1 County Meet, and 1 Metro Meet.[1] The only swim meet the team competes in which is not strictly Montgomery County Public Schools is the Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swim Meet. This meet invites all the Washington Metropolitan area private schools as well as Montgomery County Public Schools. The 2011-2012 season marks the return of MCPS swimmers to the Maryland State Championships. This also is a hybrid season where they will also compete at Metros. There are two changes to the schedule to accommodate the additional State meets: no more Relays Carnival and County Championships; MCPS swimmers compete in the Regional and State Championships right after Metros.[2]

Recent coaches

Team standings

Men's Team
Year Division Dual Meet Relays Division
2011–2012 III
2010–2011 III 2–3 3/6 4/6
2009–2010 III 0–3 3/6 5/6
2008–2009 III 2–4 3/6 5/6
2007–2008 III 6-0 2/6 2/6
Women's Team
Year Division Dual Meet Relays Division
2011–2012 III
2010–2011 III 3-2 3/6 4/6
2009–2010 III 2-1 3/6 3/6
2008–2009 III 3-3 2/6 3/6
2007–2008 III 3-3 2/6 2/6

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Team records

Event Swimmer Time Date Meet
Men's 200 Medley Relay Brian Zahn, Ian McIntyre, Kevin Chodnicki, Cameron Hedquist 1:42.95 2/23/2008 Metros
Men's 200 Free Cameron Hedquist 1:48.04 1/13/2007 Blair
Men's 200 I.M. Tyler Pham 1:56.64 2/19/2011 Counties
Men's 50 Free Scott McLearn 22.06 2/24/1996 Metros
Men's 100 Fly Tyler Pham 53.73 2/21/2009 Metros
Men's 100 Free Cameron Hedquist 48.20 2/23/2008 Metros
Men's 500 Free Chris Miller 4:50.90 2/23/2008 Metros
Men's 200 Free Relay Cameron Hedquist, Patrick Norris, Chris Miller, Ian McIntyre 1:33.81 2/09/2008 Divisionals
Men's 100 Back Tyler Pham 52.51 2/23/2011 Metros
Men's 100 Breast Tyler Pham 1:03.63 2/07/2009 Divisionals
Men's 400 Free Relay Kevin Chodnicki, Chris Miller, Matt Seipp, Cameron Hedquist 3:26.20 2/23/2008 Metros
Women's 200 Medley Relay Carolina Douglas, G Sanilla, M Lowe, M Hampton 1:58.81 1/14/1995 Quince Orchard
Women's 200 Free Ellen Anderson 1:52.14 2/19/2011 Counties
Women's 200 I.M. Ellen Anderson 2:12.28 12/04/2010 Poolesville
Women's 50 Free Carolina Douglas 24.81 2/28/1998 Metros
Women's 100 Fly Ellen Anderson 1:01.57 12/04/2010 Poolesville
Women's 100 Free Ellen Anderson 54.26 1/23/2010 Damascus
Women's 500 Free Ellen Anderson 4:51.06 2/23/2011 Metros
Women's 200 Free Relay Jenna Simon, Kathleen Marshall, Elizabeth Bedell, Allison Baisey 1:46.01 2/21/2007 Metros
Women's 100 Back Ellen Anderson 57.40 2/23/2011 Metros
Women's 100 Breast Carolina Douglas 1:12.13 1/24/1998 Wootton
Women's 400 Free Relay Diana Fillmore, Courtney Lesnick, Kathleen Marshall, Jennifer Morris 3:57.74 2/28/2004 Metros

The current team has two Junior Nationals level swimmers, Ellen Anderson and Tyler Pham, both of whom have broken several school records in the past three seasons. Both swimmers were selected to the second teams of the Washington Post's 2010–11 Winter All Met Swimming. Their academic standings got them selected for the USA Swimming Scholastic All American title (2010-2011 season). Ellen also made AAAU & AAAC times in two events for the 2010–2011 season.

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Public high school competitors

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Private high school competitors

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Notable alumni

References

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  3. ^ Gaithersburg High School – Reach For The Wall. Wiki.reachforthewall.com. Retrieved on 2011-09-25.
  4. ^ [http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&itemid=3824&mid=8712
  5. ^ Boys' swimming – 2010–11 Winter All-Met – AllMetSports.com. Washingtonpost.com (2011-04-08). Retrieved on 2011-09-25.
  6. ^ Girls' swimming – 2010–11 Winter All-Met – AllMetSports.com. Washingtonpost.com (2011-04-08). Retrieved on 2011-09-25.
  7. ^ Gaithersburg High School, GAITHERSBURG, MD, Football, Basketball, Soccer, Lacrosse, Baseball, Field Hockey, Softball, Volleyball, Cross Country, Hockey, Golf. Gaithersburgathletics.org. Retrieved on 2011-09-25.
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  11. ^ 2011 H.S. Results – Metros Championships. Pvswim.org (2011-02-27). Retrieved on 2011-09-25.
  12. ^ Schools – Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. Montgomeryschoolsmd.org. Retrieved on 2011-09-25.
  13. ^ http://ghsswim.home.comcast.net/~ghsswim/MetrosPsychSheet09.pdf
  14. ^ PressBox: HS Then & Now: For Abiamiri, Draft Day Was Just Gorgeous. Pressboxonline.com (2007-05-03). Retrieved on 2011-09-25.
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