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Highland High School is a public high school in Granger Township, Ohio, United States, near Medina. The school offers students a progressive, achievement-oriented educational program and serves students from Hinckley, Granger, Sharon, Montville, Copley, Medina, and Brunswick townships. In May 2013, Highland High School was named one of “America's Best High Schools” by Newsweek in its 2013 rankings. It is the only high school in the Highland Local School District. The school colors are Kelly green and black, and the school mascot is the Hornet. The alma mater is to the tune of Carmen Ohio and the fight song is the Notre Dame Victory March. Highland High School is a comprehensive high school with approximately 1,130 students in grades 9–12 as of 2013. ==Athletic History== In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Highland dominated wrestling in the AA Ohio school division, winning Ohio High School Athletic Association state titles in 1975 and 1981. The 1975 team was coached by James Florian and Robert Burton. The class of 1981 may have been Highland's greatest. "It was a perfect storm," one alumni is quoted as saying. "The people, individuals actually, when put together were exceptional and worked as a team to win the wrestling championship." Many of the wrestling team members went onto wrestle at various colleges across the U.S. Todd Winter went onto becoming Ashland College's 40th greatest wrestler of the 1980s. In 2009 Tyler Houska won a Division II state championship. Jim Ritcher, another notable Highland athlete, went on to play collegiate football at North Carolina State, where he won the Outland Trophy in 1979 for the best offensive lineman. Ritcher spent 14 years in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills, where he played in four super bowls and was a Pro Bowl selection in 1991 and 1992. Recently in 2008 the Highland football team went 11-2, winning the suburban league and making it to the regional finals. Highland High School competes in the Suburban League. The Highland High School 2013 football team went on a 13-game winning streak (17 straight games dating back to the previous season) which included beating the renowned Massillon Tigers. However, the hardworking team fell to Glenville in the state-semi finals. This marks the farthest that a Highland football team has ever gone in the playoffs in the history of the school. The season proved that an exceptional coach with smart kids can make it far in the playoffs. No one on the team was a stand out division I college recruited athlete. In December of 2013, after many years of planning, the Highland Board Of Education revealed plans for a new athletic complex. This complex includes a football stadium featuring a turf field, eight lane track, locker room facilities, multiple bathroom facilities, multiple food vending facilities, a video scoreboard, and seating for 5,000 people. The complex will also feature a Soccer field, Tennis courts, and multiple parking lots. The stadium will be constructed on land that was being used as a practice field for the marching band, and the new Soccer field and Tennis courts will be constructed west of the new stadium where a wooded area is currently. Parking lots will be constructed on the west and south sides of the new stadium. This project is projected to cost seven to eight million dollars with most of the funding coming from private sources. This new complex is to be completed in August of 2015 so that it can be used by the fall sports programs. On October 17, 2014, the final varsity football game was played at the original Highland Stadium located at Highland Middle School against Revere High School (Ohio). The game resulted in a 24 - 10 victory for Highland. Special festivities for the game included a history of the Highland Stadium slideshow projected on a large inflatable screen on the field after the game, followed by a fireworks show supported by the Pride Of Highland Marching Band. Also, The first 1,500 people to enter the stadium received "last home game" T-shirts. The evening concluded with the singing of the Highland Alma Mater. Starting in 2015, this stadium will be used for the practices of several sports programs and used for home games for the middle school football and soccer teams. 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「Highland High School (Medina County, Ohio)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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