Lone Peak High School

Lone Peak High School
Address
10189 N. 4800 West
Highland, Utah, 84003
United States
Coordinates Coordinates: 40°25′03″N 111°46′34″W / 40.41758°N 111.77603°W
Information
Funding type public
Opened 1997[1]
School district Alpine School District
Principal Rhonda C. Bromley[2]
Faculty 108[3]
Grades 10-12
Gender coed
Enrollment 2,360
School color(s)      maroon
     Black
     gold
Team name Knights
Newspaper Crusader
Yearbook Epic
Website http://lphs.alpineschools.org/

Lone Peak High School (abbreviated LPHS) is a public high school in Highland, Utah, in northern Utah County. Part of Alpine School District, it was built in 1997 to serve students in the cities of Alpine, Highland, and Cedar Hills. Lone Peak High School was given athletic 5A Status beginning at the 2005-2006 school year. Its mascot is a knight.

Academics

Lone Peak offers several honors classes and AP courses, as well as off-campus classes at nearby colleges such as BYU, University of Utah, UVU, and business and technical colleges.

Athletics

Lone Peak sponsors several interscholastic teams for both boys and girls: basketball, cross country, soccer, swimming, tennis, golf, and track and field. For boys there are teams competing in baseball, football, and wrestling. Girls may also compete in cheerleading, drill team, softball, and volleyball.[4]

National champions

State championships

Teams that have won state championships sponsored by the Utah High School Activities Association:

Clubs

The school sponsors clubs ranging from the arts and sciences to popular culture and athletics. Clubs change from year to year based on student interests.

Fine arts

The Productions class is a theatrical team that produces many shows each year. The Lone Peak Productions Company (King Arthur's Company) produces two musicals, several plays, a musical revue, and participates in regional and state competitions each year. Lone Peak's Shakespeare team competes at the Utah Shakespearean Festival competition each fall. Several times they ranked first place in Buckingham Sweepstakes, and in Ensemble Scenes. The Drama Department has a separate council that plans activities, dances, and major events relevant to the Drama Department.

The Fine Arts Department has programs in dance, ballroom dance, speech, debate, and visual art and sculpture. The Performing Dance Company (PDC) is a class and team where students learn curriculum and creativity while learning to choreograph. PDC has won many choreography awards at the Shakespeare Festival, the State High School Dance Festival, and has been one of the few Utah schools to attend the National High School Dance Festival. Lone Peak has a choral program; The Chamber Singers regularly tour to New York City, competing in the Festival of Gold, a National Invitational Choral Festival. Each year they perform several concerts, benefit concerts, and local presentations. The band program consists of a Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Advanced Jazz Band, Intermediate Jazz Band, Percussion Ensemble, Marching Band, Beginning Guitar Ensemble, and an Advanced Guitar Ensemble. The 2009 Marching Knights band placed first at the Nebo Tournament of Bands, the Rocky Mountain Band Invitational (BYU), the Davis Cup, and the UMEA Red Rocks Marching Invitational. The band has been a participant at the Bands of America regional competitions in Towson, Maryland, Los Angeles, California, and St. George, Utah, finishing 12th overall in 2009. The Lone Peak Advanced Jazz Ensemble is one of two bands in Utah to be named a finalist at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival. In 2010 the Jazz Band placed first among 29 high school bands at the Peaks Jazz Festival.

Notable alumni

See also

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