Tates Creek High School
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| Tates Creek High School | |
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| 1111 Centre Parkway Lexington, KY 40517 |
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| School type | Public |
| Founded | 1965 |
| School district | Fayette County Public Schools |
| Principal | Sam Meaux |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | ~ 1750 (2007) |
| Nickname | Commodores and Lady Commodores |
| Newspaper | 'The Masthead' |
| Website | www.tchs.fcps.net |
Tates Creek High School (TCHS) is a public school in Lexington, Kentucky. It is located at 1111 Centre Parkway with a ZIP code of 40517. It is in Southeastern Lexington between Gainesway and Southeastern Hills Subdivisions. The school is one of five high schools in the Fayette County Public Schools district. It is the only high school in Fayette County to have the International Baccalaureate Programme.
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[edit] History
Tates Creek High School was built in 1965 as the last of three schools on the Tates Creek Campus. (Tates Creek Elementary School and Tates Creek Middle School being the other two.) In 1993, Tates Creek High underwent renovations to significantly to increase its size.[1]
[edit] Athletics
The TCHS teams are known as the Commodores with the school colors being maroon and white. The athletic teams and organizations associated with TCHS are:
- Baseball
- Basketball (Men and Women)
- Cheerleading
- Cross Country (Men and Women)
- Dance Team
- Football
- Golf (Men and Women)
- Soccer (Men and Women)
- Softball (Women)
- Swimming and Diving (Men and Women)
- Tennis (Men and Women)
- Track and Field (Men and Women)
- Volleyball (Women)
- Marching Band (Men and Women)
- Wrestling
- Lacrosse (Men)
[edit] State Championships
- Baseball - 1978, 1980, 1986
- Cheerleading - 1989, 1997
- Football - 1972, 1978 (4A at large)
- Men's Golf - 1980
- Men's Gymnastics - 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
- Women's Gymnastics - 1969, 1971, 1979, 1980
- Men's Soccer - 1978, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1988
- Women's Tennis - 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1982, 1983
- Men's Track - 1973
- Men's Wrestling- Numerous Individual State Championship Titles (No Team Titles)
- Lacrosse (Division II) - 2007
[edit] American Football
The high school won one state high school football championship during the fall of 1972 under head coach Roy Walton.
[edit] Gymnastics
Before taking Gymnastics out of Tates Creek High School (both men's and women's) it had the most state championships of all the sports there.[citation needed]
[edit] Organizations and Clubs
- Academic Team
- Maroon Platoon (student section)
- Anime Club
- Band
- Beta Club
- Chorus
- Color Guard
- Drama Club
- Fellowship of Christian Athletes (F.C.A.)
- Future Business Leaders of America (F.B.L.A)
- Gay Straight Alliance (G.S.A)
- Harambee Club
- Intramurals
- Lacrosse
- Masthead Newspaper
- National Honor Society
- Orchestra
- Outdoors Club
- Recycling Club
- Spanish Club
- Speech Team
- The Black/White Camaraderie Club (TBWCC)
- Student Council
- STLP (Student Technology Leadership Program)
- Technology Student Association (TSA)
- Yearbook
[edit] Library media center
Tates Creek High School's Library Media Center uses a custom "Dewey Free" classification system as opposed to the traditional Dewey Decimal System. Tates Creek’s library is arranged in categories based on the existing collection and assigns words in the place of numbers to label the materials. The new system was unveiled in August 2009.[2]
[edit] Notable alumni
- David Akers a football player of the San Fransisco 49ers of the NFL.
- Dr. Donald C. Boyd, (graduated 1977) United States Air Force Senior Historian, author, and recipient of the 2005 Justin Winsor Prize
- John Douglas (graduated 1973), conductor and music educator
- Chad Elliott MMA fighter and Professional Wrestler
- Darrin Horn, former NCAA basketball player and former coach at Western Kentucky University and current head coach of the University of South Carolina men's basketball team.
- Buffy Lawson country musician and songwriter.
- Brian Littrell, of the Backstreet Boys.
- Brian Lane http://www.transy.edu/athletics/go/coaches/blane.htm (1986), former basketball player at Translyvania University, current men's head coach. Prior to coming back to his alma mater, Lane was an assistant at Morehead, Florida Atlantic, North Carolina State, South Carolina, and North Carolina-Charlotte.
- ^ "Tates Creek High School". Fayette County Public Schools. http://www.fcps.net/schools/high/tates-creek. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^ http://www.tchs.fcps.net/media-center
- Andrew (Hyde) Shayde (graduated 1999) A contestant on the prime-time Emmy Award-winning series The Amazing Race 3 on CBS and a magazine contributor both nationally and over-seas.
[edit] External links
- Tates Creek High School's Official Web Site
- Tates Creek High School's Library Media Center
- Fayette County Public School District Website
- Tates Creek Marching Band Tuba Players group on Facebook
Coordinates: 37°59′05″N 84°28′45″W / 37.98460°N 84.47920°W
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