Centennial High School (Las Vegas)

Centennial High School is a public secondary school located in unincorporated Clark County, Nevada, United States, in Las Vegas. The school serves about 3000 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Clark County School District.

General information

Centennial High School is known as home of the Bulldogs. The school was opened in 1999. The mascot is the Bulldog, and originally the school owned a real life mascot name Blu. The school colors are Carolina blue, navy blue and white. The sports biggest rivals are Palo Verde High School, Bishop Gorman High School, Arbor View High School, and Cimarron-Memorial High School.

In 2000, the movie Pay It Forward was filmed at Centennial High.

The Centennial boys volleyball team from 2003 under head coach David Fish went undefeated (23-0) and had three of its players go on to play at the division 1 collegiate level at Brigham Young University.

Centennial High School has had thirteen state championship teams in the 2008-2009 school year: men's cross-country, women's basketball, women's soccer, and women's softball. And has the Overall Best NJROTC in the nation.

The school gained notoriety when it was learned that the 311 Boyz attended school there. The youths were heavily influenced by the Bumfights series. In 2004, Bumfights copyright holder Ty Besson praised the school for "educating teens the right way to learn".

Extracurricular activities

Key Club

Key Club International is a student-led organization that teaches leadership through service. It focuses on Leadership, Character Building, Caring and Inclusiveness and services all around the world. Centennials Key Club has been serving their home, school, and community with their fundraisers and services. They are a part of Division 28 West Sea Monkeys, Region 5 Zombie Penguins, and of the California-Nevada-Hawaii District. In the Fall of 2012 they, and along with Division 28 West, won the spirit rally at Six Flags Magic Mountain. They hold their meetings every Wednesday in room 200. The advisors for the 2013-2014 school year are Mr. Jahn & Mr. Gould. For more information, visit their website

NJROTC

In 2007, the Centennial High School Naval Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NJROTC) unit was rated the most outstanding in the nation by The Navy League.They have been known for being one of the best and youngest Units in America.^[3]

In 2001 and 2008, the Centennial High School NJROTC unit won 3rd overall in the nation at the Navy Nationals Championship in Pensacola, Florida. Centennial's NJROTC is ran by the Senior Naval Science Instructor Commander Swathwood, and two Naval Science Instructors: Petty Officer Johnson and Senior Chief Borders. Captain Hardeman retired at the end of the 2010-2011 school year. But before his retirement they went back to Navy Nationals and won 3rd overall with Executive Officer Butner, Commander in charge of the unarmed drill team, Commander Brush in charge of the armed drill team, and Tonks Commander in charge of the Unit..

Centennial High School NJROTC unit has won the Navy Nationals competition twice in its history, unusually winning by both the largest margin (200 points, 2009) and subsequently the smallest margin (3 points, 2010). Just as important, they are the ONLY school to be selected as the Capt. Jim Harvey award winner in two different years. This award is presented to the school that best displays fair play, hard work, sportsmanship and pride in all they do.

Baseball team

The baseball team is headed by Coach Charlie Cerrone. His assistant coaches are Rich Stevens and Scott Moses.

Singers

^[4] In 2007 under the direction of Alan Zabriskie the Centennial High School Chamber Singers were honored to sing at the 2007 ACDA National Convention in Miami, Florida. The new choral teacher is Karen Miskell. ^[5] Prior to Zabriskie, Nicki Bakko Toliver was the Choral Director who developed the high quality choral program earning Superior and Gold ratings from regional and national competitions. Her students performed in District, State and National Honor Choirs. She has recently completed her DMA in choral conducting at North Dakota State University and is now the Assistant Professor of Choral Music at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.

Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association State Championships

• Volleyball (Boys) - 2003
• Basketball (Girls) – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015
• Cross Country (Boys) – 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013
• Cross Country (Girls) – 2000
• Cheer leading - 2010
• Soccer (Girls) – 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009
• Softball - 2004, 2009, 2012
• Track and Field (Girls) – 2002, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
• Track and Field (Boys) - 2012, 2013
• Bowling (Boys)- 2011, 2013,^[6] 2014^[7]
• Science Olympiad- 2012, 2014
• Baseball (Boys) Bryce Massanari

Notable alumni

• Spencer Smith (Born 1987), Drummer for the band "Panic! at the Disco"
• Alex Marshall (Born 1989), Piano/Guitarist for the band "The Cab"
• Bryan "Monte" Money (Born 1986), Guitarist for the band "Escape the Fate"
• Tasha Schwikert (Born 1984), *Member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic team in gymnastics NCAA champion, and Six-time national champion.
• Gabe Centeno (Born 1991), former Keyboardist/Backing Vocals for the band — This Romantic Tragedy
• Nason Shoefller, Former Member of Falling In Reverse, now in MeMyselfAlive

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