Sun Prairie High School

Sun Prairie High School
Location
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
United States
Coordinates 43°10′24″N 89°12′34″W / 43.17328°N 89.20952°W / 43.17328; -89.20952Coordinates: 43°10′24″N 89°12′34″W / 43.17328°N 89.20952°W / 43.17328; -89.20952
Information
Type Public Secondary
Oversight Sun Prairie Area School District
Principal Keith Nerby
Grades 10–12
Enrollment 1500
Color(s) Red and white
Mascot Kurt the Kardinal
Yearbook The Cardinal
Website Sun Prairie High School

Sun Prairie High School (SPHS) is a comprehensive secondary school located in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The school is administered by the Sun Prairie Area School District. In the 2008-2009 school year, there were 146 teachers and 1,802 students at Sun Prairie High School. SPHS is a WIAA Division 1 school. It is a member of the Big Eight athletic conference.[1]

In the summer of 2010 the school moved to a new building in the southeast part of town. The new high school includes a gym that seats 2,100 and has an indoor track.[2] The former school became a combined 8th and 9th grade upper middle school and was named Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

Baseball

Bowling

Cross Country (girls)

Football

Golf (boys)

Hockey (boys)

Lacrosse (boys)

Softball

Coed cheerleading

State

State Partner Stunt Champions

UCA Nationals Finish

UCA National Partner Stunt Championship

World Partner Stunt Champion

SkillsUSA

Academic Decathlon

Sun Prairie's Academic Decathlon team has placed in the top 3 at the Wisconsin state finals 5 times.[15]

In 2012, Ellen Keal became the first ever National Online Individual champion from Sun Prairie High School, winning gold medals in all seven categories of competition.[16]

In April 2014, the Sun Prairie Academic Decathlon team represented Wisconsin in the Large School division of the National United States Academic Decathlon online national competition taking 5th place among the large schools. They repeated this feat in 2016.

Music

Sound of Sun Prairie

The Sound of Sun Prairie is the summer marching band located in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin that competes in the annual MACBDA championships. Their most recent MACBDA title was in 2016.

Jazz

The Sun Prairie High School Jazz I has been selected to compete in the Essentially Ellington Jazz Band competition in New York City 10 times since the festival's conception, most recently in 2016.[17][18][19]

Notable alumni

Wall of Success

Each year, the Wall of Success program honors an outstanding graduate of Sun Prairie High School.[24]

References

  1. ↑ "Big 8 Conference". 2011
  2. ↑ - SPHS Gym - May 2, 2011
  3. ↑ http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Baseball_Spring/2005/d1game7.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Baseball_Spring/2006/d1game7.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Baseball_Spring/2012/d1game7.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.hngnews.com/sun_prairie_star/sports/local/baseball/article_cc51dc28-e31a-11e2-ac57-001a4bcf6878.html
  7. ↑ http://host.madison.com/sports/high-school/baseball/wiaa-state-baseball-sun-prairie-rallies-to-bring-home-a/article_2bbe2630-d2e4-5191-9023-746458ed5df2.html
  8. ↑ http://www.wihsbowlclub.com/docs/2015%20BOYS%20TEAM%20DIV%201%20SCORES.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.wihsbowlclub.com/docs/2016FINAL%20SCORES-BoysTeamDivI.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Cross_Country/2016/gd1stateteamresults.pdf
  11. ↑ http://host.madison.com/sports/high-school/football/wiaa-div-football-sun-prairie-powerless-to-stop-hartland-arrowhead/article_8cfd1848-2f57-11e2-ab98-001a4bcf887a.html
  12. ↑ http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/hockey_boys/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf
  13. ↑ "The Hockey database listing of Sun Prairie Alumni" (SHTML). Retrieved 2007-06-19.
  14. ↑ http://www.wkow.com/story/18803964/sun-prairie-softball-advances-to-d1-title-game-with-6-3-win
  15. ↑ http://www.cesa7.org/content/acadec/historical-records/
  16. ↑ http://usadic.org/Challenge-Results/Results-2011-12.aspx
  17. ↑ http://academy.jazz.org/ee/
  18. ↑ http://www.hngnews.com/sun_prairie_star/article_ab7d2e08-21bf-11e6-8262-b7ae32b58e37.html
  19. ↑ http://www.hngnews.com/sun_prairie_star/article_1bda995c-0d8d-11e6-8b14-73974e3ac5d0.html
  20. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2119473/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  21. ↑ http://www.hngnews.com/sun_prairie_star/community/article_a823ed00-1f
  22. ↑ http://www.friars.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/062314aaa.html
  23. ↑ http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/T/Pthoma002.htm
  24. ↑ http://www.hngnews.com/sun_prairie_star/news/school/article_80aa73fa-c98e-11e4-986e-47100d537997.html
  25. ↑ http://www.sunprairie.k12.wi.us/district/wall_2014.cfm
  26. ↑ http://www.sunprairie.k12.wi.us/district/hebl_wall_of_success.cfm
  27. ↑ http://www.hngnews.com/sun_prairie_star/news/article_27fa5a72-1b04-11e6-bf2b-b75de1567f2f.html
  28. ↑ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?pid=180384766
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