Marquette University High School

**Marquette University High School**
	Marquette University High School
	Ad majorem Dei gloriam; "For the greater glory of God"
Address
	3401 West Wisconsin Avenue; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (Milwaukee County), 53208-3842; United States
Coordinates	43°2′18″N 87°57′22″W / 43.03833°N 87.95611°WCoordinates: 43°2′18″N 87°57′22″W / 43.03833°N 87.95611°W
Information
Type	Private, All Male
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic, Jesuit
Established	1857
Oversight	Wisconsin Jesuit Province
President	Fr. Warren Sazama
Principal	Fr. John Belmonte
Faculty	74
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1,060
Color(s)	Navy Blue and Gold
Athletics conference	Greater Metro
Team name	Hilltoppers
Accreditation(s)	North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
Athletic Director	Dan Hardwick
Website	http://www.muhs.edu

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Marquette University High School (or MUHS) is a private, all-male Roman Catholic school, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is a member of both the National Catholic Educational Association and the Jesuit Secondary Education Association.

The school was spun off from the preparatory department of Marquette University in 1907. Since then, the majority (98%) of its students have gone on to a four-year college or university. There were 239 students in the class of 2005 and 280 in the class of 2006. The class of 2007 was the 150th graduating class at MUHS.

[edit] Campus

Marquette University High School is located at 35th Street and Wisconsin Avenue (3401 W. Wisconsin Avenue) in the historic Merrill Park Neighborhood on Milwaukee's West Side. It is a four-story building, built in the early twentieth century. New renovations have recently been made including a new fine arts department, extended locker rooms and weight training facility, and extended offices. The "Three Companions" Chapel has recently been added.

[edit] Academics

MUHS offers Latin, German, Spanish, and French as foreign languages, and has participated in exchange programs with France, Germany and the Czech Republic. Through MUHS, students also have the opportunity to travel to Ireland, the UK, Germany, Italy, and Mexico, among others.

MUHS also has an extensive advanced placement program that includes classes in science, mathematics, world languages, social studies, and English.

98% of MUHS graduates go on to attend a four year college or university, with the largest contingents of Alumni attending Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

[edit] Graduates

In 1981, the Jesuit high schools of the United States created The Profile of the Graduate of a Jesuit High School at Graduation^[1] The emphasis of the Grad at Grad Statement is on the end-product of an MUHS education: a young person highly proficient in all areas of life. The lay and Jesuit faculty aim to foster and encourage the development of the following characteristics in each student:

Intellectually excellent
Open to growth
Religious
Loving
Commitment to justice

[edit] Extra-curricular activities

[edit] Science

MUHS has an active science club that participates in a variety of science competitions including the Science Bowl, the Lake Sturgeon Bowl and the regional National Ocean Sciences Bowl. On January 28, 2006, a team of five seniors competed in the regional Science Bowl at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. The team was undefeated in both round-robin pool play and double elimination, earning first place and a trip to compete in Washington D.C. There the team competed against 64 other teams from around the country, placing in the top 35.

Students from MUHS also participate in the Junior Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium and the science club writes and acts out a short, interactive play about recycling entitled The Journey of Garbage.

The school has a year-round FIRST Robotics program, which was started during the 2005-2006 school year. The FIRST Robotics Competition gives the team of roughly 25 members six weeks to build a robot for a competition. During their rookie year, Hilltopper Robotics participated in the Wisconsin and Midwest regionals. In their second year, they were semifinalists in both competitions, and went to the championship competition in Atlanta, where they were division finalists. In addition to the FRC, the school participates in local VEX robotics competitions, as well as several community service and mentorship activities.

[edit] Theater

Every year since 1963, the senior class has written and performed a satirical musical called "Senior Follies", a farce set inside the school, in which the seniors portray exaggerated caricatures of faculty members. It has been directed by English Department Chair Timothy Prosser for the past 20 years. The 2008 show "Nightmare on 35th Street" was a great success. In addition to Follies, the school's theater group, the Prep Players, also puts on a musical in the spring, directed by Susan Sajdak and a stage play, directed by Ann Downey, during the winter every year.

The chorus traveled to New York in 2007 to participate in a national competition and took first place.

The Webster Club provides students with an opportunity to compete in Policy Debate, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Forensics, and Mock Trial. The Webster club has consistently achieved success at the national level.

MUHS students perform tens of thousands of hours of community service every year.

[edit] Athletics

The institution's athletic programs are large, with 60% of the student body participating in a sport. Nicknamed the "Hilltoppers", Marquette High fields teams in baseball, basketball, cross country running, downhill skiing, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, rugby union, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, ultimate, volleyball, and wrestling. The baseball team won its first WIAA State Championship on July 27, 2006 coached by Jim Wilkinson, and doubled that by winning the 2008 title. The MUHS soccer team tied the national record for most consecutive high school state championships (10), and also achieved a #1 national ranking by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in 2003. Prior to 1999, MUHS competed in the now defunct Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletics Association (WISAA) in most sports. Since then, they have competed in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA), winning a 18 WIAA state titles in the last 9 years in soccer, volleyball, tennis, and baseball.^{[citation needed]} In the summer of 2008, the Hilltoppers were ranked #1 in the state for overall boys athletics by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

[edit] Football

Dick Basham is the head football coach at MUHS. He is all time winningest coach in Wisconsin high school football history, with a record of 326-85. Through the 1996 season, Marquette played in the Metro Conference (formerly the Milwaukee Area Catholic Conference). In 1997, Marquette joined the newly formed Greater Metro Conference. Since joining the GMC, Marquette has a record of 76-8 in twelve seasons of conference play and an overall record of 112-25. MUHS has won six conference titles outright, shared two conference titles, taken second twice and tied for second twice.

Metro Conference

1985 12-0 Conference champion, WISAA Division I state champion
1986 9-2 Conference champion
1987 13-0 Conference champion, WISAA Division I state champion
1988 12-1 Conference champion, WISAA Division I state champion
1989 11-1 Conference champion
1990 11-1 Conference champion
1994 13-0 Conference champion, WISAA Division I state champion
1996 10-2 Conference co-champion (three-way tie)

Greater Metro Conference

1997 7-0, 11-1 Conference champion (WISAA Division One State Champion)
1998 6-1, 9-2 Second place
1999 6-1, 11-1 Conference co-champion (three-way tie) (WISAA Division I state champion)
2000 7-0, 10-2 Conference champion
2001 7-0, 10-1 Conference champion
2002 5-2, 8-3 Second place (tie)
2003 7-0, 11-1 Conference champion
2004 6-1, 8-4 Second place
2005 7-0, 9-2 Conference champion
2006 5-2, 8-4 Second place (tie)
2007 7-0, 10-2 Conference champion
2008 6-1, 8-3 Conference co-champion

Record against Greater Metro Conference opponents in conference play

Wauwatosa East 12-0
Sussex Hamilton 12-0
Brookfield East 11-1 (loss in 2002)
West Allis Central 11-1 (loss in 1999)
Menomonee Falls 10-2 (losses in 2002,2004)
West Allis Hale 10-2 (losses in 2006,2008)
Brookfield Central 10-2 (losses in 1998,2006)

Since 2001, Marquette has scheduled Wisconsin Lutheran and Mukwonago as its two non-conference opponents to open the season. WISCO is traditionally one of the top teams in the state. Through 2008 each team is 4-4 in the series with MUHS winning the first three (2001-2003) and WISCO winning the last three (2006-2008). Marquette is 6-2 against Mukwonago with the losses coming in 2004 and 2005.

[edit] Basketball

Bruce Weber, University of Illinois head men's basketball coach, was a former assistant basketball coach at MUHS. Former head basketball coach Kurt Soderberg (84-29 in five Seasons from 1997-2002) is currently the head men's basketball coach at Olivet College, an NCAA Division-III school in Olivet, Michigan. Soderberg won the 1999 Greater Metro Conference and WISAA Division I State Boys Basketball Championships at MUHS, when the Hilltoppers went 21-3 and defeated Dominican High School in the championship game. Soderberg also won Greater Metro conference championships in the 1997-98 and 1999-2000 Season. Paul Noack coached the Hilltopper basketball team for 25 years, compiling a record of 511-99, the best winning percentage by any boys' coach in Wisconsin history (100 games minimum). The Hilltoppers are currently coached by David Cooks, an MUHS grad who also served on Duke University's staff as a graduate student manager for one of their national championships. He was promoted to head varsity coach for the 2002-2003 season after coaching for two seasons as a varsity assistant and JV head coach.

[edit] Cross country

Coached by 35-year veteran Jim Kearney, the MUHS cross country team took third at both the 2007 and 2008 state meets.

[edit] Volleyball

Volleyball began at MUHS in 1996, and the team's first state championship was in 1998. This team was undefeated in 98 matches, losing only 2 matches over a 3-year span. Since winning back-to-back championships in 1998 and 1999, the team has seldom been ranked lower than 4th in the state and continues to produce college-bound players. Long-time head coach Larry Sorensen has recently stepped down after nine years and five state championships, winning in 2002, 2004, and 2005. The team is now coached by former Ball State player, Eric Sullivan. Marquette's volleyball team won the state championship in 2007 and 2008.

[edit] Soccer

The soccer program commenced as a vision of former U.S. Men's National team coach and current coach of the Kansas City Wizards of the MLS, Bob Gansler. Gansler then handed the program over to Bob Spielmann, who coached MUHS for 27 years, compiling a record of 532-73-40 with a winning percentage of .856. He won 20 state championships and tied a national record of 10 straight state championships from 1994-2003. The Hilltoppers were ranked #1 in the country by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in 1999 and in 2003. In 1996 Spielmann was selected as National High School Coach of the Year. In 2005, he became the associate head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. After Spielmann left, the team was coached by former MUHS player, Steve "Larry" Lawrence. Lawrence played for the Milwaukee Wave United after playing at Marquette University and was named Conference USA Defensive MVP.

The Hilltoppers home field, Quad/Park, was donated by former MUHS graduate, Harry Quadracci ('54), in 1998. After a two year hiatus, in the fall of 2008 the Hilltoppers brought the WIAA Division 1 state title back to Marquette.

[edit] Tennis

The MUHS tennis program has 26 team state titles to its credit. Before moving to the WIAA in 2001, MUHS had won 19 of the previous 20 WISAA state titles. Since the merger, Marquette has won four WIAA team state titles (in 2002, 2003, 2007, and 2008), four WIAA state singles titles, and two WIAA state doubles titles. The team is coached by David R. Frank, an alumnus of the program.

[edit] Notable alumni

Tom Ament, former Milwaukee County Executive
Tom Barrett, mayor of Milwaukee
Peter Bonerz, actor, director; The Bob Newhart Show (1972 - '76) and others
Terry Brennan, Notre Dame running back (1946 - '49) and coach (1954 - '58)
John C. Brophy, a member of the House of Representatives
John Cary, executive director of the MACC Fund
John Chisholm, Milwaukee County District Attorney
David Clarke, Milwaukee County Sheriff
Michael J. Dunn, MD, Dean and Executive Vice President, Medical College of Wisconsin
Bob Gansler, U.S. National Team men's soccer coach in 1990 World Cup
Douglas Holton, Fire Chief, City of Milwaukee
Mike Maher, Trumpet play in the jazz band "Snarky Puppy." The band won "Best Jazz Act of 2008" from the Dallas Observer.
Rick Majerus, Head men's basketball coach at Saint Louis University
E. Michael McCann, Milwaukee District Attorney
Allie McGuire, Marquette University basketball player in the early 1970s and New York Knick
Jake Moreland, NFL tight end for the Cleveland Browns and New York Jets
Pat O'Brien, actor ^[2]
Harry Quadracci, founder of Quad/Graphics
Dan Schutte, Christian songwriter who composed Here I am, Lord
John Shiely, President and Chief Executive Officer, Briggs & Stratton Corporation
Tom Snyder, radio and television personality
Spencer Tracy, Academy Award-winning actor

[edit] References

^ The Graduate at Graduation retrieved December 17,2006.
^ Gesu's Hollywood Star Gesu Parish, retrieved August 9, 2006. (PDF)

[edit] External links

[GradAtGrad-0] The Graduate at Graduation retrieved December 17,2006.

[hollywood-1] Gesu's Hollywood Star Gesu Parish, retrieved August 9, 2006. (PDF)

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