Shasta High School

Shasta High School
Established 1899
Type Public Secondary
Principal Milan Woollard
Students 1600+
Grades 9–12
Location Redding, California, USA
Colors Purple and white
Mascot Wolf
Yearbook Daisy
Newspaper The Paw Print
Website www.shastawolves.com

Shasta High School is an American public high school located in Redding, California. With an enrollment of over 1600 students, it is the largest high school in Shasta County, California. It has been recognized as a California Distinguished School three times and has earned a six year Western Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation. Its mascot is the wolf.

Administration

History

In 1889, Shasta County High School opened as a public school to serve the town of Redding, California. The inaugural class had only 70 students, 3 teachers, and a very small amount of graduates. After a countywide election in 1915, changes to the school were made with the creation of the Shasta Union High School District, one of these changes being that, because the country was in the midst of World War I, every male student was required to be enrolled in the Cadet Company. Shasta's Football team played its first game in 1922, beginning a legacy of football games that would provide not only a way for Shasta students to rally together in school spirit in support of the team, but also a way for the community to do the same.

Academics

Shasta High School offers a variety of advanced courses, such as College Prep, Honors, and Advanced Placement.

Shasta High also offers Career/Technical Education courses including a Science/ Technology/ Engineering/ Math pathway (STEM), and a medical pathway including on-campus courses such as Nursing, Sports Medicine, and Dentistry.

They offer foreign languages: French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and American Sign Language.

Music

Recent Musicals as of 2014
Year Musical
2014 South Pacific
2013 Phantom of the Opera
2012 Guys and Dolls
2011 Music Man
2010 Aida
2009 Cinderella
2008 Les Miserables
2007 Bye Bye Birdie
2006 Fiddler on the Roof
2005 Beauty and the Beast

Shasta High School is well known for its music department. Its instrumentalist groups and choirs perform and compete several concerts and festivals each year. Since the 1960s they have collaborated on two major events each year: a madrigal dinner and a musical. Mr. Lou Polcari (bands and orchestra) and Mr. Gavin Spencer (choir) have been the directors of the music program since the early 2000s.

Choir

There are five different choirs in the music program.

A Cappella is the biggest choral group at Shasta. During the spring of 2014, the A Cappella choir received 5th place at the Golden State Choir Competition.

Another choir is Madrigals. The Madrigal choir an advanced mixed choir. They are featured during the annual Madrigal Dinner, and are hired to sing at various functions around town throughout the year.

The rest of the music program is split into girls and boys: Troubadors (beginner boys), Nightingales (beginner girls), and Choraliers (advance girls).

Every three years the choir travels to various countries, often exchanging performances with other choirs and people along the way. along the way. Ken Putnam, the long-time previous choir director, took the A Cappella choir to Ireland in 1988.

Instrumental

There are five performing instrumental music groups: Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Strings, Orchestra, and The Shasta Jazz Ambassadors. The combined concert and symphonic bands perform at each year's graduation ceremony and during home varsity football games. They also perform at the annual Redding Rodeo Parade, and the Lighted Christmas Parade.

Sports

Shasta High School has a variety of sports teams, including basketball, football, baseball, swimming, skiing/snowboarding, track/cross-country, cheerleading, golf, tennis, and wrestling.

River Bowl

Shasta High School’s main rival is Enterprise High School (Redding, California). The Rivalry of Enterprise High and Shasta High started back in the 1950s, when both schools would steal the other's "prized" possession. For Shasta High School it was the Shasta High Bell. Another side story is that Shasta's bell was stolen one fateful night, hidden for almost a decade, and then found after a drug raid in nearby Palo Cedro. The annual football game between the two rivals would later be called the Riverbowl. The tradition began in 1993, with Enterprise dominating the first 11 years. In 2004, Shasta won the Riverbowl and again in 2005 and 2007, but lost in 2008. Enterprise won again in 2009. The 2010 Riverbowl was won by Shasta with a score of 53-20. That year’s Varsity kicker was Ellie Oliver, possibly the only girl football player in the north state at that time. She was taught the game of football by Bryson Williams. Shasta also won the River Bowl in 2011, in overtime with a score of 48-42.

Clubs

Shasta High School also offers a distinguished variety of clubs for students. It participates in the National Science Bowl and was involved in the local TV game show Academic Challenge until its cancellation in 2005. Shasta's Interact Club and Students joined together to create a fundraiser for the Genocide situations in Darfur.

Here is a list of all the clubs at Shasta as of 2015:

Famous alumni

References

  1. ↑ http://www.usmc-mccs.org/sports/hof/2006-gibson.cfm MCCS biography

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