Harrison High School (Georgia)

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Harrison High School
Location
4500 Due West Road

Kennesaw, Georgia
Coordinates 33°58′01″N 84°40′59″W / 33.966965°N 84.682965°W / 33.966965; -84.682965Coordinates: 33°58′01″N 84°40′59″W / 33.966965°N 84.682965°W / 33.966965; -84.682965
Information
Type Public school
Established 1991
School district Cobb County School District
Principal Mr. W.D. "Donnie" Griggers
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 2,666
Color(s) Kelly green, white, and navy blue             
Mascot Hoyas
Rival Kennesaw Mountain High School
Information (678) 594-8104
Website Carl Harrison High School

Carl Harrison High School is a grades 9-12 public high school in Kennesaw, Georgia. A site that rates and reviews schools, greatschools.net, gave it a rating of 10 out of 10, along with Kell High School, Walton High School, Lassiter High School, Pope High School and, Marietta High School, making it one of the top high schools in Cobb County.[1] The school has scored above the state average for the Georgia High School Graduation Test since it was built in 1991. It has also achieved an AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) National Certification, in which schools are evaluated annually on rigorous national standards.

Contents

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Football

[edit] History

Coach Bruce Cobleigh, a physical education teacher at HHS, was the founding coach and architect of the school's football program. Cobleigh led the team for sixteen seasons, six of which netted Region Champion titles for the team, before he announced his resignation from coaching in 2008 in order to spend more time with family. Following Cobleigh's resignation, weight training teacher David Hines took over as head coach.[2] Hines resigned in November of 2011 after a series of disappointing seasons that failed to match the successes of Cobleigh's tenure. [3]

[edit] Stats

Years attending State Playoffs: 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2007 2008 2010 Region Champions: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2005 State Champion Runners Up: 2000[4]

[edit] Lacrosse

The lacrosse team for Harrison is one of the top teams year in and year out in the state of Georgia. In 2007 and 2008 they finished in the top 5 in the state. Coach John Hunter built the program before leaving to coach at the newly-built Allatoona High School after the 2008 season. He was succeeded by Coach Tom Wallace. Their best season to date was the 2009 season, where they went 18-5 with a runner-up loss to Lovett in the state title game. After Wallace's departure in 2010, Lee Rider took the coaching seat for the program.[5] The women's lacrosse team in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 season became area 5A region champions. The woman's lacrosse team is coached by Melissa Wilson.[6]

[edit] Soccer

Harrison High school's boys and girls soccer teams have been two of the top teams in the state of Georgia.

The men's varsity team were Region 5AAAAA champions in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2006, coached by Matt Davenport, the men's varsity were State Champion Runner-up. In the 2007 season, coached by Jonathon Gross, the men's varsity team won 5A state championship with a 1-0 victory over Chattahoochee High School. The team finished ranked #11 nationally.

In the 2009 season, coached by Steve Riccard, the women's varsity team was the runner-up for 5A. In the 2011 season, the Lady Hoyas took the 5A State Championship title with coach Steve Riccard.[7]

[edit] Baseball

The baseball team for Harrison has had fourteen state playoff appearances. In 1998 the baseball team won the state championship title. In 2010, the Hoya baseball team defeated Lassiter to capture the Georgia High school Sports Association (GHSA) AAAAAA State Baseball Championship.[8]

[edit] Broadcast/Video Production

[edit] Broadcasting Program

The Harrison Broadcast/Video Production Program has received numerous honors and national recognition since the program began in 2009. The Harrison High School Broadcast/Video Production (BVP) Program is a Georgia Department of Education Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) program. The BVP program falls under the Architecture, Construction, Communications and Transportation (ACCT) concentration.

All BVP courses focus on preparing students for post-secondary communication programs or entry level positions in the field. The hands-on curriculum is strictly tied to state standards. Students address these standards using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. For more information, visit the Harrison Broadcast/Video Production website.

[edit] HoyaVision

The Harrison Broadcast/Video Production Program is responsible for the production of a weekly school news broadcast called HoyaVision, which is aired to students and staff on Friday mornings during homeroom. HoyaVision is an entirely student-created endeavor overseen by the Broadcast/Video Production teacher. Originally devised and produced for several years as an extracurricular undertaking by the student council, the responsibility for production was handed over to the Broadcast/Video Production crew following the program's inception in 2010.

For its entire run under student council production, HoyaVision distinguished itself from a traditional news broadcast with the aim of making students laugh: the anchors traded jokes and witty barbs, and comic sketches cleverly relayed school news items, sometimes in send-ups of contemporary pop culture fads such as TV's The Office and Harry Potter. Each year, a new production committee brought its own unique brand of humor as members came and went and constantly collaborated in an effort to create the best and funniest way to share school news. When production was transferred to the Broadcast/Video Production crew, however, the humor that had been HoyaVision's trademark for so long was completely excised from the agenda in favor of a more "professional," standard news broadcast.

[edit] Harrison Film Program

As a part of the Broadcast/Video Production program, students can take courses and get involved in independent student films. The Harrison Filmmakers Association caters to the passions of more than 40 student filmmakers each semester that produce their own films for local and national competition.

In 2010, short films by Harrison film students received 1st and 2nd Place at the regional film competition. Films also received local/national awards for Best Editing and Best Sound.

[edit] Harrison Lip Dub Video

In the spring of 2011, the Harrison Broadcast/Video Production program pulled off an amazing feat! On Saturday, March 26, 2011, more than 800 Harrison High School students and staff showed up to film the school's first school-wide music video. The Harrison Lip Dub Video incorporated almost every organization, club, sport and student at the school.

The entire production was planned, produced, directed, filmed, and edited by Harrison broadcast/video production students. Student producers Isabel Yanes and Morgann Hext joined forced with student director Jordanne Vincoli to lead a core group of 40 student assistants and technicians. It took three long weeks to plan, practice and prepare for the big day. Post production editing was done by Payton Turnage. Over 50 students were selected from auditions to sing in the lip dub.

The lip dub is unique from other lip dubs because it follows a story and has a message. The broadcast/video production department collaborated with the school's Sources of Strength group to pick a theme and songs that deliver a powerful message to teens. The video follows a depressed student who feels alone at the school. The student 'dreams' of being loved and accepted in a positive, supportive environment. Then, she wakes up to find that it wasn't a dream at all.

The lip dub included two songs: 'The Middle' by Jimmy Eat World and 'Move Along' by All-American Rejects. The first part of the video was filmed backwards, requiring students to learn to sing the lyrics phonetically backwards. The second half of the video was shot forwards. The goal was to show how the main actress, Paige Smith, was moving backwards with negative thoughts but started moving forwards in her life with positive thoughts.

The lip dub video was well received by the community. The Acworth/Kennesaw Patch Newspaper, the Marietta Daily Journal, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution covered the event with numerous photos and articles. The video was also featured on Yahoo's front page for a week, helping it reach more than 40,000 views in less than five days on YouTube. It was the first high school lip dub in the state of Georgia. Watch it on YouTube.

[edit] Student Council

Harrison's Student Council is primarily known as "The Wall," a reference to its intended function as a support system for the student body. Membership consists of the Executive Board (the leadership body composed of elected at-large and class officers and selected committee chairs) and elected Class Representatives. Prior to 2011, Class Representatives were not elected to their position but earned representative status through credits obtained by doing acts of service for their respective classes as well as the student council committees. Dwindling interest in this form of membership as well as a change in faculty sponsorship opened the door for implementation of the traditional set of elected representatives.

Responsibilities of the student council include planning and organizing all class-related activities, all Homecoming festivities, faculty recognition, community service, and numerous other special events held throughout the year. The school store, called the Hole in the Wall, was formerly under the student council's supervision, but following Spanish teacher Marie Bruner's resignation as faculty sponsor in the fall of 2010, she retained control of the store and various other duties formerly assigned to the council.

Mrs. Stephanie Tatum, an English teacher, has been faculty sponsor since the fall of 2010. Previously, Tatum was assistant faculty sponsor from 2008 to 2010 under Marie Bruner. A set of class sponsors assist Tatum and class officers in carrying out duties specific to the respective classes.

More information about the organization may be obtained from the Wall Blog.

[edit] Music

[edit] Band Program

The first band director of the inaugural year of the band program in 1991 was Mr. John Abert and the first drum major was Ryan Russell.

The Wind Ensemble was invited to The Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in 1999 and 2007. Nearly 10,000 high school bands throughout the world sent an audition tape, and the Harrison Wind Ensemble was selected to this prestigious event. The band was led by Scott Weiss and David Vandewalker.

The Harrison Band was a recipient in 2006 of the Sudler Flag of Honor. The Harrison Band program is known nationwide after its participation in the Bands of America Grand Nationals Championship in Indianapolis, Indiana, during the 2007/2008 School year. They made it to finals, placing 12th.

The HHS marching band was invited to play at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2009 and several students to the Rose Bowl Parade in 2010.

Harrison performing their show "Look Around" at BOA Atlanta 2008.

The 2008 show Look Around earned 1st place and captured Outstanding Visual, Music, and General Effect in both prelims and finals at the 2008 BOA Regional at Massillon, Ohio. At Bands of America Super Regional in Atlanta, they placed 2nd in both prelims and finals yet again capturing Outstanding Visual in Finals.

The 2010 show "Vesti La Giubba" earned 1st place for the second year in row at the Western Carolina University Tournament of Champions Invitational. At the Bands of America Regional in Indianapolis, the band won class 3A Outstanding Music and General Effect as well as class champion. The band placed 5th in finals.

[edit] Shows

Year Show Band Director(s) Drum Major(s)
1991 "Cartoons" John Abert Ryan Russell
1992 "Movies" John Abert Ryan Russell and Nate Mueller
1993 "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" John Abert and Scott Weiss Nate Mueller and Anne Grumann
1994 "Firebird" John Abert and Scott Weiss Anne Grumann and Chris Whiteley
1995 "Henry V" John Abert and Scott Weiss Chris Whiteley and Will Russell
1996 "Viva Verdi" John Abert and Scott Weiss Will Russell
1997 "Music of Holsinger" Scott Weiss and David Vandewalker Jackson Smith
1998 "Porgy and Bess" Scott Weiss and David Vandewalker Paul Cross
1999 "Prokofiev Portraits" Scott Weiss and David Vandewalker Katherine Hudson
2000 "Images of Time" David Vandewalker and Chester Phillips John Jansen
2001 "A Day In The Park" David Vandewalker and Chester Phillips Lonita Smithers
2002 "Exodus" David Vandewalker and Chester Phillips Jason Nakai, Jonathan Grogan
2003 "Illuminations" David Vandewalker and Chester Phillips Jonathan Grogan, Stephanie Schweitzer
2004 "Matters of the Heart" David Vandewalker and Chester Phillips Meghan Jeffrey, Stephanie Schweitzer, and Larissa Treadway
2005 "Metropolis: The Chronicles of Good vs. Evil" David Vandewalker, Chester Phillips, and Mac McMillan Meghan Jeffrey, Mark Milby, Fernando Oliha, Karen Edwards
2006 "Push" David Vandewalker and Chester Phillips Taylor Watts, Jack Walker, Jacob Ray, and Adam Stensland
2007 "Luna Sonare" David Vandewalker, Steven Meyer, Josh Ray Tim Allen, Logan Brennan, Allison Turner, and Taylor Watts
2008 "Look Around" David Vandewalker, Steven Meyer, Josh Ray Elizabeth Bickley, Adam Bowling, Allison Turner, Taylor Watts
2009 "Lost and Profound" David Vandewalker, Steven Meyer, Josh Ray Zack Allen, Elizabeth Bickley, Briana McIntyre, Dina Zolan
2010 "Vesti La Giubba" David Vandewalker, Josh Ray, Chris Parks Zack Allen, Briana McIntyre, Ben Perkins, Daniel Raubolt
2011 "Sibelius II" David Vandewalker, Josh Ray, Daniel Cuevas Zack Allen, Ben Perkins, Monica Riggs

Awards and Honors

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] References

  1. ^ Test Score Ratings for Harrison High School - Kennesaw, Georgia
  2. ^ n. pag. Web. 23 Aug 2010. <http://brucecobleighwing-tcamps.com/about_us/about_us.html>.
  3. ^ n. pag. Web. 4 Feb 2012. <http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-high-school-sports/2011/11/30/hines-resigns-as-harrison-football-coach/>.
  4. ^ n. pag. Web. 23 Aug 2010. <http://www.harrisonhoyafootball.com/home.html>.
  5. ^ http://www.hoyalacrosse.com/menscoaches.shtml
  6. ^ Harrison lacrosse. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.hoyalacrosse.com/index.shtml
  7. ^ Harrison hoya soccer. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.harrisonhoyasoccer.com/
  8. ^ Harrison hoya baseball. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.harrisonbaseball.org/

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