| Hendersonville High School | |
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"A quality education for quality living"
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| Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States | |
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| Type | Public School |
| Principal | Joni Worsham |
| Number of students | 1,440 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Black, Gold, White, and Silver |
| Mascot | Commando |
| Website | http://hhs.sumnerschools.org/ |
Hendersonville High School (HHS) is one of two public high schools located in Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee. The principal is Joni Worsham, a former assistant principal at the school. Two middle schools fill into Hendersonville High: Ellis Middle School and Hawkins Middle School.
The school's colors have been black and gold ever since the first Commando football team in 1941, but then later added 2 more colors to represent class colors, where Silver is Freshmen, Black is Sophomores, White is Juniors, and Gold is Seniors. Vanderbilt's football program provided the first ever Commando football team with older, used jerseys. The black and gold colors have remained ever since. Hendersonville is known as the Commandos because 54 men were sent to fight in World War II. When they came back as veteran commandos the name stuck with the school and became the official mascot.
Hendersonville participates in 5A level sports as a part of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, and maintains continued success in its athletic programs, including track, swimming, softball, bowling, football, wrestling, lacrosse, hockey, soccer, football, marching band, and basketball. The school has a storied rivalry with two schools, Beech Senior High School and Gallatin High School. It also has a relatively new rivalry with Station Camp High School.
According to a rumor passed down since the seventies, the original high school, located nearby on main street, was haunted. The current Hendersonville High School is not believed to be haunted, but the original supposedly haunted building is now the local Ellis Middle School.[1]
Taylor Swift attended until she left the school to begin homeschooling on her tour bus. The school's auditorium was renamed in Swift's honor after she contributed funds to refurbish the lighting and sound equipment.[2]
The city of Hendersonville has also been named among the top 10 cities for families to live in the United States by Family Circle Magazine. The magazine gave Hendersonville High School a gold star for 315 seniors who logged around 20,000 hours of community service.[3]
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Hendersonville is known state-wide for its very successful sports teams. Year(s) in parentheses indicate the year(s) the team played for a TSSAA state championship. Year(s) in bold indicate year(s) the team won a TSSAA state championship.
The above teams have played in 25 contests and won 12 state championships, the most in Sumner County Schools.[4]
Hendersonville's football team is decent. They can be very good, however, they always manage to crack when it comes to state titles, and have yet to win one. Hendersonville's home football games are held at Paul Decker Field. The on-campus stadium is named after retired principal Paul Decker, and has a capacity of 5,500 spectators. Before home games, players walk around the field in what is known as the "Commando Walk". In inclement weather, the Commandos practice in the Steven Chaussey field house, a 60 by 40 yard (55 m by 37 m) practice facility. They also work out in their workout facility called the "Iron Bunker". The Commandos have also played in 14 post-season bowl games. Their record in those games is 9-5. The last time they played in a bowl game, the Commandos faced Father Ryan and beat them to 17-14 in the Bellevue Exchange Bowl. That win pushed the Commando's record over .500 to a 6-5 for the season.
The 2009/2010 HHS boys golf team won 58 matches and lost only 1 match in the state of Tennessee. They are the 2009 District golf champs, the 2009 Regional golf champs, and the seven man team, consisting of 2 Seniors, 1 Junior, 2 Sophomores, and 2 Freshmen went on to become the 2009 State Runner-Up for boys high school golf in Tennessee.
The 2010/2011 HHS boys golf team won 64 of their matches while losing 4. They are the 2010 district golf champs, the 2010 Regional golf champs, And the 8 man team, consisting of 2 seniors, 2 juniors, 2 sophomores, and 2 Freshman. Went on to win the 2010 state Championship. Becoming the first team in school history to do so. By the margin of 5 strokes over Houston.
Hendersonville High School has a strong soccer tradition. The boys soccer team has now won five Tennessee State Championships as of 2010. The girls team won the 2008 the Regional Championship. The boy's team are the 2009 District, Region, and Sectional Champions. The boys made a sixth straight State Tournament appearance in 2009, with a loss in the first round. Hendersonville Soccer also has a soccer-specific facility, called "The Field of Dreams", located in Drakes Creek Park.
The 2010 Boys Soccer team capped off a great season by winning the state championship against Centennial 4-2. This is their first state final win since 1998.
The boys team has won the district championship 11 years out of 12 with a runner up finish in 2002. The team went to the State Championship game in 2005 and 2006 and lost in overtime on penalty kicks two years in a row. As of 2009, the girls team has won the regional championship every year since 1994.