Highland High School (Medina County, Ohio)
Highland High School is a public high school in Granger Township, Ohio, United States, near Medina.
It is the only high school in the Highland Local School District. The school colors are 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.
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[edit] 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 2 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. The 2008 team was the furthest Highland has ever gone into the playoffs. They were destined for a state title and far outclassed the next team they played. They had the title in the palm of their hands.
[edit] Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
- Boys Wrestling – 1975, 1981 [1]
- Girls Volleyball – 1981 [2]
[edit] Clubs and activities
The school's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL)[3] and National Junior Classical League (NJCL).[4]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Yappi. "Yappi Sports Wrestling". http://www.yappi.com/statechamps/wrestling.html. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
- ^ OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site". http://www.ohsaa.org/. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
- ^ "Executive Board Pre-File Application". OhioJCL.org - June 2007. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. 2010. Archived from the original on June 17, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070617024347/http://ohiojcl.org/prefile.shtml. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ^ "OJCL Constitution". OhioJCL.org - July 2002. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. 2010. Archived from the original on July 21, 2002. http://web.archive.org/web/20020721140258/http://www.ohiojcl.org/resources/constitution.html#c31. Retrieved August 16, 2010. "... by paying both OJCL annual chapter dues and any annual chapter membership dues required by NJCL."
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