Timber Creek High School
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| Timber Creek High School | |
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| 1001 Avalon Park Blvd. East Orlando, Florida, 32828 United States |
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| School type | Public high school |
| Motto | Scientia, Prudentia et Honor |
| Established | 2001 |
| School district | Orange County Public Schools |
| Principal | John Wright |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 4,505[1] |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Purple, Silver and Black |
| Mascot | Wolf  |
| Information | 321-235-7800 |
| Website | www.tchs.ocps.net |
Timber Creek High School is a public high school located in Orlando, Florida. The Timber Creek mascot is a wolf and the principal is Mr. John Wright.
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[edit] History
Timber Creek High school was built in 2000 as a relief school for nearby University High School.
[edit] Sports
Timber Creek High School has made it to a divisional playoff in football five times (with a first-round loss during the 2006, 2007 2008, 2009 and 2010 seasons),How ever in 2011, the team went 7-3 in the season winning the 2nd District Title over East river and Winter Park and winning its first ever playoff game against Apopka (20-0). Timber Creek won its first district title in school history in '08. Lemuel Jeanpierre, who played defensive tackle under Coach Buckridge, graduated from Timber Creek HS in 2005 and signed with the Kansas City Chiefs in April 2010.
Timber Creek has a very great Girls Lacrosse team led by Fern Kidder.Timber Creek has also been successful in other sports such as Basketball, Bowling (2006 FHSAA State Champion Boys and Girls Teams)[citation needed], Volleyball (2008 FHSAA State Champion Girls[2]), Softball, Cross Country, Swim Team, Cheerleading(back to back state champions and 3rd in the nation), Track, Soccer (3 District Championships for Girls), Weightlifting( Boys and Girls), Lacrosse, Wrestling, and boys and girls cross country. All have received significant recognition at the state level.[citation needed] Other athletic teams offered by Timber Creek include: Girl's Flag Football, Swimming, Baseball, Golf, Hockey, and Water Polo.
Major rivals are, East River High School, University High School, Cypress Creek High School, Winter Park High School, Edgewater High School, Apopka High School, Boone High School, Winter Springs High School and Oviedo High School
[edit] Buildings
Timber Creek has a large campus and multiple buildings and locations.
- Cafeteria, next to the bus loop
- Bus loop, can fit around forty buses
- 600 building, has two bottom halls and two upstairs. Aka the Freshmen hall and located near cafeteria.
- 500 building, has four bottom halls and four up halls. Junior/senior building.
- 400 building, has two bottom halls and two up halls. Elective and sophomore building.
- P portables, located behind 600 building.
- A portables, located behind 500 building.
- 400 portables, located behind 400 and 300 buildings.
- 300 building. Locker room, gym, breezeway(snack food area).
- 200 building, library, cafe, TV Production studio
- 100 building, offices.
- Credit Union, school bank.
- 800 building, or the performing arts building - it includes an auditorium used by the theatre and music departments; classrooms for drama, chorus, band, and orchestra; and a men's and women's dressing room - the auditorium (or Performing Arts Center, known to the students as the PAC) is equipped with a high tech sound and lighting system including two follow spots
[edit] Programs and Clubs
Timber Creek High School features a wide array of clubs and organizations including:
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[edit] Academics
Timber Creek, like most high schools, offers many Advanced Placement (AP) classes including:
The APC (AP Choice) program is an advanced placement program for freshmen and sophomores. The APC program puts its students in classes with other APC students, and moves these classes at a faster pace then normal honors classes. It is intended to prepare the students for the AP courses that they will take in the future. The APC program also requires the enrollment in AP Human Geography freshmen year to give the students a taste of AP classes. At graduation, if the students that were in the APC program have taken at least 6 AP classes during their high school years, they receive a special sticker on their diploma that recognizes them as an AP scholar.[citation needed]
[edit] Performing arts
Timber Creek High School has a notable Performing Arts program.
[edit] Band Program
The Timber Creek Regiment prides itself[peacock term] on commitment to excellence and determination, and has come through in numerous occasions, which include (but are not limited to) leading the Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom Parade in honor of Michael Phelps on August 29, 2008; playing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in March 2010; bringing both its Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble to the Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA) State Concert Music Performance Assessment (MPA) (the first time since the school opened that Symphonic Band has gone to states—receiving straight "2" marks]) in April 2010; and received straight "Superior" Marching MPA marks every year since the school opened for the 2001-2002 school year.[citation needed]
On November 15, 2003, in only their third year of existence (and at their first appearance at the Florida Marching Band Coalition (FMBC) Championships), the Timber Creek Regiment was crowned FMBC Overall Grand Champion at the FMBC State Finals, the first band other than Cypress Creek High School (Orlando FL) recognized as "State Champions".[3]
The Regiment also had an undefeated 2009 season with their show Within. The Regiment has won numerous awards under the direction of Rhett Cox, Clif Walker (2001–2008) and Devin C. Hoey (2006–Present), such as best brass, best woodwinds, best colorguard, best effect, etc. Other show titles include: Braveheart (2001), Tragedy and Triumph (2002), Speed (2003; FMBC Overall Grand Champions) Revolution (2004), The Last Gangster (2005, also known as TCR v5.0), The Rock Project (2006, a.k.a. TCR v6.0), Chaos Theory: The Rock Project Part II (2007; received 4th place in BOA St. Pete and 10th place in BOA Atlanta), 4Bidden (2008; lost the title of State Champions by .04 points) and Within (2009; undefeated season, did not attend FMBC Championships). The Timber Creek Regiment's 2010 field show is entitled X: The Journey ("X" being the Roman Numeral and pronounced as "ten" -- for the Regiment's tenth year). X: The Journey consists of ten musical selections, each of which represents one year in the history of Timber Creek High School.
On November 20, 2010, the Timber Creek Regiment's performance of X: The Journey garnered them recognition as Class 5A Champions at the 2010 FMBC Championships, held at Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg FL (as of the 2005 marching season, FMBC no longer designates a "Grand Champion" at state finals).[4]
Under the direction of Clif Walker, the percussion program of the Timber Creek bands began competing as an indoor scholastic marching percussion ensemble in 2006, as a member of the Florida Federation of Color Guard Circuits (FFCC), with their show The Way Up, based on the album of the same name by The Pat Metheny Group. At the 2006 FFCC Championships, Timber Creek High School were silver medalists in Scholastic Marching Percussion Class A (PSA). In 2007, the indoor percussion ensemble premiered an avant-garde early-season repertoire (which became a YouTube sensation), and once again competed in FFCC events with another Metheny-inspired production Continue (Being) based on "Minuano (Six Eight)", as well as the 2007 Winter Guard International (WGI) Nashville Percussion Regional. At the Nashville show, Timber Creek's WGI debut, they took first place in PSA preliminary competition with the highest score in the nation, a 96.5 and then were promoted to Scholastic Marching Percussion Open Class (PSO) for finals competition the next day. In the finals competition—their first Open Class show—Timber Creek topped the other Open Class units as PSO Gold Medalists. At the 2007 FFCC Championships, Timber Creek took the gold medal as PSO Champions (legend has it that had Timber Creek competed at WGI World Championships in 2007, the line would have been promoted to Scholastic Marching Percussion World Class [PSW]). For the 2008 indoor percussion season, the ensemble faced the challenge of exploring the creative and educational possibilities as an independent ensemble as a logical next step. Returning to "The Way Up" as the inspiration for the 2008 show, the newly-christened Timber Creek Independent (TCI) began competing at FFCC events in Independent Marching Percussion Class A (PIA), as well as two WGI regional events, with a marching battery (snares, tenor drums, bass drums) consisting mostly of Timber Creek High School percussionists (with two TCHS graduates on snare and tenors). At the 2008 WGI Orlando Percussion Regional, TCI took first place in PIA preliminary competition, then were promoted to Independent Marching Percussion Open Class (PIO) for the finals competition later that same day. In Open Class finals, TCI bested all comers (including STRYKE Percussion ensemble and Brahma from the University of South Florida) once again Gold Medalists in their first Open Class competition as an independent unit. At the 2008 WGI Nashville Percussion Regional, TCI took first place in both PIO preliminary and finals competition, and were promoted to Independent Marching Percussion World Class (PIW) for both the 2008 FFCC Championships and WGI Championships in Dayton OH. At the FFCC Championships, held April 4, 2008 at the Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee FL, TCI competed for the first time in PIW against INFINITY Percussion (the 2006 PIO World Champions as "The 1st Degree" and the first Independent World Class percussion ensemble in the state of Florida). TCI continued their winning ways, besting Infinity by 0.4 points and triumphing in their first PIW contest as 2008 FFCC Gold Medalists. TCI then traveled to Dayton OH and made WGI World Class Finals, finishing 15th in the world in their first year of existence as an Independent percussion ensemble.[5]
[edit] Theatre program
Under the direction of Elizabeth Horn, the Timber Creek Thespians (formerly Timber Creek Character Company) produces four main stage shows each year. The 2010 - 2011 season includes: the one-act competition piece Doubt, a Parable (November 4–7, 2010) which ranked second our of twenty-four schools in the District V Thespians One-Act competition; the student-directed musical The Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (December 9–12, 2010); the student-directed advanced drama play The Laramie Project (February 3–6, 2011); and the spring musical Chicago (April 21–24, 2011).
The 2009 - 2010 season included Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, which ranked third out of twenty-four schools in the District V Thespians One-Act competition, and the Cole Porter classic Anything Goes. The Company has produced large scale shows such as Dracula, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Once Upon a Mattress, Crazy For You, Arsenic and Old Lace, Miracle on 34th Street, Footloose and Cats. The Timber Creek Thespians also hosts an annual Play in a Day Festival. They are also actively involved with the Cappies program, which is a student theatre critic program. They have received the award for the Best Cappies Critics Team award four years in a row.
[edit] Choir and MPA Concerts/Performances
In March 2010, Timber Creek Freshmamas (Freshwomen Choir) received straight superiors at MPA.[disambiguation needed 
] This was the first time a freshmen choir got straight superiors at Timber Creek.[citation needed] They performed the German piece "Wenn Ich Ein Vöglein Wär" and an English song called "Psalm 100".
[edit] References
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[edit] External links
- Timber Creek High School
- Timber Creek High School Bands
- Timber Creek Alumni
- Timber Creek Chorus
- Timber Creek High School Young Democrats Club
Coordinates: 28°33′11″N 81°09′53″W / 28.553126°N 81.164858°W
