Warwick Veterans High School
Warwick Vets High School | |
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2401 West Shore Road , 02889 | |
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Founded | 1956 |
Grades | 9-12 |
Language | English |
Color(s) | blue, gold, and white |
Team name | Hurricanes |
Website | http://www.warwickschools.org/vets/ |
Warwick Veterans High School (also known as Warwick Veterans Memorial High School, WVMHS, or Vets) is a 9-12th grade secondary school in Warwick, Rhode Island. The school building is two stories high and features eight wings of classes, mainly divided by subject (A, B, C, D, "E" F, G, and 900 wing). The logo for all Vets "Hurricane" teams is a reverse-rotating hurricane symbol. School colors are blue, gold, and white. The school has an enrollment of over one thousand students, and its principal is Gerald Habershaw.
The school was opened in the 1956 as a response to a booming Warwick population — the previous high schools (now Samuel Gorton Junior High and Aldrich Junior High and also Lockwood Junior High which has been converted to condos) were too small for the large number of incoming students. In the 1970s, an extension (now called 900 wing) was added to the school. Since the 1970s, two additional high schools have been constructed to answer Warwick's population increase.
Athletics
The field hockey team underwent a 69 year streak of winning after relocating from division B to division A, thanks to Frank Retardo[citation needed]. The girls' field hockey team was the 2005 division and state champions, led by senior captain Hannah Dwyer. Additionally, the boys' outdoor track team were city champions for thirteen straight years and division B champions for four years. The freshman football team reached the championship game in two consecutive years (2004-05 & 2005-06) but lost both games to cross town rivals Pilgrim High School and William E. Tolman High School of Pawtucket. The Warwick Vets Cheerleading program is very active also. The Varsity team took 1st place in the RI State competition last year('07). In 2007 the boys basketball team had its first thousand point scorer in several years. In 2008 the girls soccer team made it to the Division 1 state semi-finals.
Other activities
Drug Dealing, Knife Stabbings, and Arsany. The school features active chapters of FBLA, DECA, Math League, Academic Decathlon, SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), GSA (Gay Straight Alliance), STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, and other clubs. Warwick Veterans also has a concert band that performs several concerts a year, a marching band that plays at parades on Veterans Day and Gaspee Day, and a jazz band and concert orchestra that usually perform with the concert band — all are run by Danielle Prior. A chorus, chorale, and jazz chorus are also part of the school's music department and are run by Nancy Kennedy.
Notable alumni
- Bill Almon, baseball player
- Damian Costantino, NCAA record holder with hits in 60 consecutive games.[1]
References
- ^ Derewicz, Mark. "Costantino's hitting streak breaks record", Baseball America, March 11, 2003. Accessed June 6, 2010.
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