Marquette University High School
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| Marquette University High School | |
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Ad majorem Dei gloriam
For the greater glory of God
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| 3401 West Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (Milwaukee County), 53208-3842  United States |
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| 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 |
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| School type | Private, All Male College Prep |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic, Jesuit |
| Denomination | Jesuit |
| Established | 1857 |
| Oversight | Wisconsin Jesuit Province |
| President | Fr. Warren Sazama |
| Principal | Fr. John Belmonte |
| Faculty | 74 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | All Male |
| Enrollment | 1,060 (2008) |
| Hours in school day | 8 |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue and Gold |
| Athletics conference | Greater Metro |
| Team name | Hilltoppers |
| Accreditation(s) | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools [1] |
| Athletic Director | Dan Hardwick |
| Website | http://www.muhs.edu |
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.
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[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. Renovations include a new fine arts department, extended locker rooms and weight training facility, and extended offices. The "Three Companions" Chapel was added in 2008.
[edit] Academics
MUHS offers Latin, German, and Spanish 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 has an advanced placement program that includes classes in science, mathematics, world languages, social studies, and English.
The Webster Club provides students with an opportunity to compete in Policy Debate, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Forensics, and Mock Trial.
MUHS students perform tens of thousands of hours of community service every year.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
[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. The 2009 show was Herminator Salvation.
In addition to Follies, the school's theater group, the Prep Players, puts on a musical in spring and a stage play in winter every year.
The chorus traveled to New York in 2007 to participate in a national competition and took a first place award, along with the Select Choir, an auditioned smaller a capella group taking second.[citation needed]
[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 summers of 2008 and 2009, 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
- 2009 7-0, 13-0 Conference champion (WIAA Division I State 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. Starting in 2009, Marquette will play Franklin instead of Mukwonago.
[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, 2007,2008 and 2009), Five 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 Bock, Wisconsin State Assembly
- 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
- Bob Gansler, U.S. National Team men's soccer coach in 1990 World Cup
- Scott L. Klug, Former U.S. Representative
- Rick Majerus, Head men's basketball coach at Saint Louis University
- John L. Merkt, Wisconsin State Assembly
- Pat O'Brien, actor [2]
- Dan Schutte, Christian songwriter, composer of Here I am, Lord
- Tom Snyder, radio and television personality
- Spencer Tracy, Academy Award-winning actor
[edit] References
- ^ NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". http://www.advanc-ed.org/schools_districts/school_district_listings/?. Retrieved 2009-06-23.
- ^ Gesu's Hollywood Star Gesu Parish, retrieved August 9, 2006. (PDF)
