La Habra High School
| La Habra High School | |
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| Address | |
| 801 West Highlander Avenue La Habra, CA 90631 |
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| Established | 1954 |
| School district | FJUHSD |
| Principal | Karl R. Zener, Ed.D |
| Number of students | 2204 |
| Mascot | highlanders |
| Rival | Troy and Sunny Hills |
| Website | http://lahabrahighschool.net |
La Habra High School is a public co-educational high school located in the Orange County, California city of La Habra. Located between the Coyote Hills to the south and Puente Hills to the north, LHHS opened in 1954 and graduated its first class in 1956. It is a California Distinguished High School and has been nominated as a National Blue Ribbon School. Some of its special programs include Heritage of the Americas and being a college prep magnet program. The school is a member of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District. LHHS absorbed a majority of the students from nearby Lowell High School when it closed in 1980.
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[edit] Athletics
La Habra's sports teams are known as the Highlanders. They are members of the Freeway League in CIF Southern Section, along with the five other high schools in the Fullerton Joint Union District. Their primary rival is crosstown Sonora High School. La Habra holds a 25 to 7 edge in the annual football game between the two.
The Highlander football team won back-to-back Division IX championships in 2002 and 2003 and also won four in a row in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 and are led by coach Mazzotta, who is renowned for his great success in his time as La Habra Football Head Coach. The La Habra girl's volleyball team won three consecutive state Division II titles from 1989 to 1991, and lost Southern Section II-A titles in 1998 and 2000.
The baseball team won league championships in 2004, 1996 and 1988, and was co-league champion in 1974 (losing to eventual CIF 4-A champ, North High of Torrance, in the second round).
The boy's swimming team has won the Freeway League Swimming Championship twice, in 1973 and 1975.
The boy's cross country team placed 314 place at the Southern Section CIF division 3A finals in 1975 after losing the Freeway League championship to Lowell High School, which won the 1975 CIF-3A finals. In 1976, the boy's cross country team won the Orange league championship by defeating top ten ranked Buena Park High School. The team ended the 1976 season finishing 3rd in the CIF-2A finals to Salesian and Upland High Schools.
The girl's soccer team made it to the CIF semi-finals in the 2006-2007 season.
The boy's wrestling team has had 12 boys go to CIF and 5 boys go to masters and 1 individual gone to STATE in the 2010-2011 wresting season.
[edit] Fine arts
La Habra High School is also known for their dedicated music and drama departments, which are part of the Fine Arts Conservatory Experience (FACE) program at the school. They have award-winning marching, symphonic, and jazz ensembles under the leadership of Phil Wightman. Their choir program is led by David V. Montoya, who also teaches guitar and AP Music Theory, and is the adviser of the school's Ukulele Ensemble. Brian Johnson leads the La Habra High School Theater Guild, which has performed award-winning productions of Wit (which won the OC Cappies award for Best Play in Orange County), The Pajama Game (2007), The Music Man (2008), The Miracle Worker, Beauty and the Beast (2009), and Twelve Angry Men (2009)
[edit] Marching band
The La Habra High School Highlander Marching Band has been under direction of Mr. Phil Wightman since August 1996. The band has continued to grow in size every year since his arrival. The band is now over 100 students for the first time since the early 1980s when Lowell High School (another school in the district) closed, and many of the students from Lowell transferred to La Habra.
The marching band actively participates in field show tournaments and the annual La Habra Corn Festival parade, along with many other activities throughout the year. Shows in the past have included music from "Under the Big Top" and Cirque du Soleil's show "Ka."
also, the colorguard accompanies the marching band in the fall season.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Rusty Anderson, Guitarist for Paul McCartney's Band - Macca
- Mark Kostabi, Artist
- John N. Lotz, Air National Guard Brigadier General
- Dan Owens, NFL football player
- Jenny Topping, U.S. Olympic softball player
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