Bolsa Grande High School

Bolsa Grande High School
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Address
9401 Westminister Blvd. Garden Grove , California 92844
Information
Principal	Denise Jay
Enrollment	1,596 (2006)
Color(s)	Red and Blue
Mascot	Matadors
Team name	Matadors
Website	http://www.ggusd.k12.ca.us/bghs/

Bolsa Grande High School is a high school in Garden Grove, California and is a member of the Garden Grove Unified School District.

Several areas, including the Garden Grove Little Saigon, are zoned to Bolsa Grande [1].

Athletics

Bolsa Grande's sports teams are known as the Matadors, and compete in the Garden Grove League of the California Interscholastic Federation's Southern Section with five other GGUSD schools.

The Matador football team won the CIF Central Division championship in 1986 led by coach Greg Shadid, but has struggled since then. They have not made the playoffs since 1987, and hold the Orange County record for most consecutive losses, losing 43 straight games from 1999 to 2003. The streak was broken when Bolsa defeated their rival La Quinta High School in the final game of the 2003 season. In 2006, the Matador football team finished 4-6, making it the best season in over a decade, though they fell one game short of potentially qualifying for the playoffs.

The boy's basketball team won the Garden Grove League title in 2006-07, finishing 10-0 in league play. Along with the basketball team, the girls cross country team also won the league title. Led by league MVP Rocio Pelayo, the cross country team reached the state championship tournament. Pelayo also earned recognition as 1st Team All-CIF Southern Section and 2nd Team All-State.

The boy's tennis team has also had much success in the past led by senior coach Chamberlain. Among the schools in the GGUSD, Bolsa has been known to have the highest focus on fundamentals and technique. Only two boys tennis players have been known to be the black sheep of this fundamental and technique school of thought: Lee Nguyen and Julio Angel Camino. Both of these players have taken what has been known to be "junk" form and make it very successful in their individual high school tennis careers through CIF and for the team as a whole. The term junk is used not because of sloppy style but because of such a reliance of spin and slice rather than power and consistency. Julio Angel Camino and Lee Nguyen are known among the school's tennis teams to be the joint creators of the "U-Turn Serve", a serve in which has such a tremendous amount of slice that the ball, in effect, makes a U-Turn in mid-air and after the bounce, usually resulting in an ace due to its unpredictable nature. There have been no other commendable "junk" players since.

Distinguished School

Bolsa Grande has just currently been named a distinguished school in California. Bolsa will be considered a distinguish school until 2011, when all nominations will once again occur. Bolsa was the one of few school in Garden Grove Unified School District to receive this title.

Notable Alumni

Glen Titensor (Class of 1976): ex NFL player for the Dallas Cowboys in 1981, ran a 4.7 40-yard dash) Peter Hiep Xuan Nguyen (Class of 2003): Founder and CEO of venture backed Gank Buy INC. in Silicon Valley, CA.

Facilities

Bolsa Grande has 61 permanent classrooms in use on the campus. It is also home to one of only two on-campus football stadiums in the GGUSD (the other is at Garden Grove High School. All seven high schools in the district share these two stadiums during football season.

Demographics

For the 2005-06 school year, Bolsa Grande had 1,596 students. The student body was 50.1% Asian, 37.4% Hispanic, 8.5% White, 1.6% Pacific Islander, 1.4% Black, 0.9% Filipino, 0.1% Indian/Alaskan Native, 2% others.

Class T-Shirts

class of 1995 t-shirt designed by Phu Huynh

External links

• Official site of the school