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Hazard High School is a public high school located in Hazard, Kentucky. The school serves about 300 students in grades 9-12 in the Hazard Independent Schools. Hazard High School's boys' basketball team, the Bulldogs, won state titles in 1932 and 1955, and won the Kentucky All A title in 2004.〔Mike Fields. "Hazard regaining its winning ways". ''Lexington Herald Leader''. February 22, 1985. C4.〕〔Jody Demling. "With help from its 'ghosts,' Hazard wins crown". ''Lexington Herald Leader''. February 9, 2004. 4E.〕 Alumni Johnny Cox and Sam Smith played in the NBA and ABA, respectively.〔(Johnny Cox ). Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved on January 10, 2008.〕〔(Sam Smith ). Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved on January 10, 2008.〕 Hazard High School's girls' basketball team, the Lady Bulldogs, also won both the All A and Sweet 16 Kentucky state championships in 1997. The Hazard High School "Band of Gold" was one of ten marching bands chosen to play at George H. W. Bush's presidential inauguration in 1989.〔Dick Burdette. ''Lexington Herald Leader''. December 27, 1988. B1.〕 First entering the competitive marching scene in 1987.〔http://marching.kyband.com/history/hazard.html〕 From 1993 to 1997, the Hazard Band of Gold also competed in the prestigious Bands of America (BOA) national-level marching band contests, placing 3rd in the nation in their class on more than one occasion at the BOA Grand National Championships held in Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as placing 1st in the Class A division at the 1994 Eastern Regionals BOA competition in Morgantown, West Virginia. The school received national〔〔"Town with racist past has its first black homecoming queen". ''Greensboro News & Record''. October 30, 1995. A2.〕 attention in 1995 when it elected senior Valerie Cornett as its first African American homecoming queen. Cornett told reporters, "The young generation is trying to move forward. Here it's like everyone's equal." 〔"Race isn't an issue in small Kentucky town". Associated Press. ''Deseret News''. November 2, 1995. A10.〕 Hazard High School was desegregated in 1956, after Brown v. Board of Education. The school was integrated with Liberty High School. ==Notable alumni== *Johnny Cox, NBA basketball player〔 *Daniel Mongiardo, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky〔Mongiardo Inaugural Address, Frankfort, KY. December 11, 2007.〕 *Sam Smith, ABA basketball player〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hazard High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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