Archer High School

Archer High School^[1] is a public high school in Lawrenceville, Georgia, USA and a part of Gwinnett County Public Schools. Archer High School is a new high school that opened in the 2009-10 school year. The school is named after longtime Gwinnett County teacher and coach Benjamin Vernon Archer. ^{[citation needed]} The school officially opened on Monday, August 10, 2009, with enrollment topping approximately 1,200 students. Archer High School is made up of students from Grayson High School, Central Gwinnett High School, and Dacula High School. The Archer cluster consists of Harbins Elementary, Cooper Elementary, Lovin Elementary, McConnell Middle, and Archer High School. Archer High School is also the largest cluster within Gwinnett County. As of the 2010-2011 school year the school has an enrollment of 1,677 students.

Athletics

In the first year, 2009-2010, Archer High School offered a varsity team for all sports, excluding football, due to GHSA rules. Now, however, Football also has a varsity team. Although the Tigers were beat twice by their rival Mountain View High School in their first season the Tigers made a comeback to beat the bears 17-13 at Mountain View's Stadium during their second season. ^[2] In athletics, the three rivals of the Archer Tigers are the Bears of Mountain View High School, the Black Knights of Central Gwinnett High School and the Falcons of Dacula High School. In their inaugural year, the school competed in Region 8-AAA of GHSA. In the 2010-2011 school year, Archer High School entered Region 8-AAAAA to join their rivals Central Gwinnett, Dacula and Grayson High Schools. Other schools they compete against in the region include Berkmar, South Gwinnett, Shiloh, Parkview and Brookwood High Schools.^[3][4] Archer has also already had eleven teams go to a state tournament: girls' cross-country, varsity competition cheerleading, wrestling, swimming, girl's softball, girl's basketball, men's basketball, men's tennis, men's cross country, volleyball and football. Archer's first state champion was a female swimmer, sophomore Lydia Jones, who won the 50 Freestyle swim in February 2011. Though the school is smaller in numbers than most in Gwinnett County, they are slowly building up their athletic program which is shown by teams winning games, making it to state level competitions and bumping up the GHSA level from competing on a 3-A level to a 5-A level. Additionally, Earnest Alexander won an individual state championship in wrestling while the team placed 3rd while the softball team earned the first team state championship in 2012 as the school moved up to compete in Region 8-AAAAAA.

State Championships

Softball State Champs 2012-2013
Team Wrestling State Champs 2012-2013
Dual Wrestling State Champs 2012-2013

Clubs

At Archer High School, students have a wide variety of clubs to choose to join no matter what your interests are. Some of the clubs are as follows: Academic Decathlon, Astronomy, Band, BEST club, Beta Club, DECA, Diamonds in the Rough, FBLA, FCCLA, Environmental Club, French Club, German Club, FEA, Improv Club, German National Honor Society, Intercultural Club, Red Diamonds, Mu Alpha Theta, Robotics, Latin Club, Latin National Honor Society, Relay for Life, SADD, Spanish Club, Thespian Society, Yearbook, TSA, Science National Honors Society and Student Council.^[5]

Archer-Mountain View Rivalry

Often referred to as Mountain Who? in Tiger Land, Archer has consecutively beaten their premiere rivals in, Men and Women's Basketball, Men and Women's Cross Country, Men and Women's Tennis, Varsity Competition Cheerleading, Softball, Volleyball and Soccer. As for Football the record stands at 2-2. The two teams played twice in their inaugural year with both wins going to the bears. During the 2010-2011 school year the Tigers played at Mountain View to clench their first win over the bears in Football. In the 2011-2012 school year, the bears returned once again to Archer Community stadium only to be beaten by the Archer Tiger's once more. For the 2012-2013 season the Tigers were able to move the move mountain and got Archer's 3rd win over the bears in Football.

Other

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