Saint Francis High School (St. Francis, Wisconsin)

St. Francis High School
Motto	Charting a Course of Excellence"
Established	1962
Type	Public Secondary
Administrator	Carol Topinka
Principal	Andy Muzytowski
Students	601 (as of 2009-10)
Grades	9–12
Location	4225 S. Lake Drive, St. Francis, WI, USA
District	Saint Francis School District
Colors	Scarlet and White
Yearbook	The Log
Website	http://www.sfhsmariners.org

St. Francis High School is a public high school in St. Francis, Wisconsin serving grades 9 through 12. It is located along Lake Michigan. SFHS is the only high school in the Saint Francis School District.

Academics

Classes available to St. Francis students include: English, mathematics, social studies, science, foreign languages, music, art, business, family and consumer education, health and physical education, technology education, school-to-work, auto apprenticeship, and special education.

Athletics

St. Francis High School was a member of the now defunct Braveland Conference for their inaugural school year, 1962-1963. When that conference dissolved the Mariners became charter members of the Parkland Conference, and were the only school to stay in the conference for its entire existence. When the Parkland Conference dissolved following the 2005-2006 season, SFHS joined the Woodland Conference, and is currently a member (of the Eastern Division). St. Francis High School's sports include: baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. The Mariners' cross-town rivals are the Cudahy High School Packers who are also members of the Woodland East.

WIAA state championships

1975: Boys' cross country (Class B)
1976: Boys' basketball (Class B)
1976: Boys' track and field (Class B)
2009: Girls' Dance Team (D3)

Conference championships

Membership

1962-1963: Braveland Conference
1963-2006: Parkland Conference
2006-2009: Woodland Conference (Southern Division)
2009–present: Woodland Conference (Small Division)

1967-68: Baseball
1972-73: Baseball
1976-77: Boys' basketball
1976-77: Baseball
1980-81: Football
1980-81: Girls' basketball
1996-97: Football
2002-03: Football

Football

In 1994, St. Francis football turned the corner with its first conference winning season since 1985. Since then, they have gone on to have fourteen winning seasons, twelve playoff appearances, two conference championships and have finished as a state runner-up once. Doug Sarver has been the head coach at St. Francis for nineteen years where his teams have compiled a 112-78 record. As of the end of the 2007 season, the St. Francis Mariner football team has enjoyed eight consecutive playoff appearances, including a runner-up finish in the 2004 WIAA Division 4 Championship, as well as 13 winning seasons since 1994.

Sarver was named the Milwaukee Journal Coach of the Year in 1996 and CNI Newspapers Coach of the Year in 1996 and 2002. He has served as an assistant coach for the WFCA Shrine All-Star game in 1994 under Bill Bartholomew and in 2004 under Dan Brunner. He currently is the WFCA Southern Vice President and All-Star Game Chairman and served as the WFCA District 20 representative.^[1]

Baseball

The St. Francis baseball program has been in existence since 1966 and participates in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association summer season. The program has accumulated three conference championships, all in the Parkland Conference: in 1968, 1973, and 1977. The program offers baseball at the freshmen, junior varsity, and varsity levels.

Boys' basketball

St. Francis High School has offered boys' varsity basketball since the 1963-1964 school year In 1976 the team won the state championship. Their first and only Parkland Conference championship was in 1977, when they finished the year at 15-5.

Girls' basketball

Due to the late onset of girls' basketball in the state of Wisconsin, St. Francis did not offer basketball to females until the 1976 season. The Mariners took their first regional championship in 1978-defeated Pewaukee 38-30. In their first and only trip to state (1981), they lost to Algoma in the Class B semi-finals by a score of 31-34. The team also won 2 more regional championships (1982 and 1983) as well as another Western Division championship in the Parkland Conference (1983).

Girls' volleyball

The Mariner volleyball program started in 1974. The team has qualified for the regional finals twice (in 1996 and 1998). St. Francis High School offers volleyball at the freshmen, junior varsity, and varsity levels.