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'{{Infobox school | name = Hillcrest High School | streetaddress = 300 Patriot Parkway | city = [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]] | state = [[Alabama]] | country = USA | district = Tuscaloosa County School System | principal = Allison Mays | enrollment = 1,226 | type = [[Public school (government funded)|Public]] | grades = [[ninth grade|9]]-[[twelfth grade|12]] | nickname = Patriots | colors = Red & Blue {{color box|red}}{{color box|blue}} | opened = 1982 | homepage = }} '''Hillcrest High School''' is [[public education|public]] [[high school]] near [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]], [[United States]]. The school is located in the unincorporated suburban area south of Tuscaloosa informally known as Taylorville. The school is administered by the Tuscaloosa County School System under the authority of the Alabama State Department of Education. The school currently enrolls around 1200 students in grades 9-12 and has a faculty of 72 teachers. ==History== The school was opened in 1981 as a grade 7-12 high school when grade 10-12 students from the south Tuscaloosa County area were transferred from [[Holt High School]]{{Disambiguation needed|date=June 2011}} to the already existing Hillcrest Junior High School in anticipation of growth in the area. The building that housed the school had opened in 1968 as a black elementary school and was later converted to an integrated junior high school. In 1991, the current campus was opened for grades 9-12 (the former campus added grade 6 from feeder elementary schools to become Hillcrest Middle School). An expansion wing was added in 2002. ==Athletics== Hillcrest participates in interscholastic athletics in Class 6A of the [[Alabama High School Athletic Association]]. The school's athletic squads are nicknamed the '''[[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriot]]s'''. The school's original nickname was the Red Devils but this nickname was changed after criticism and pressure from local church groups. 17 varsity sports are sponsored: 7 for boys ([[baseball]], [[basketball]], [[American football|football]], [[golf]], [[soccer]], [[tennis]] and [[wrestling]]), 6 for girls ([[women's basketball]], golf, [[women's soccer]], [[softball]], tennis and [[volleyball]]) and 4 coed ([[cheerleading]], [[Cross country running|cross country]], [[track and field]], and [[Swimming (sport)|swimming]]). In 2007, the baseball team won the 6A state championship. The following year the men's basketball team won the 6A state championship, which was Hillcrest's first 6A basketball championship. The 2010-2011 Varsity Basketball team conquered the state of Alabama again with another 6A state championship. Hillcrest defeated Murphy 48-46 on March 5th, 2011 at the BJCC in Birmingham, Alabama to claim the 6A state title in basketball. This victory was Coach Scott Suttles' 400th career win in coaching 14 seasons as a high school basketball coach. AND JEFF IS AWESOME!!! WASAAA!!!!!! ==Fine arts== In the 2008-2009 school year, the Hillcrest High School Wind Ensemble was accepted to the Music For All National Concert Band Festival in April 2009. The wind ensemble traveled to Indianapolis, Indiana and presented a tremendous program with works like: [[Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber]] by Paul Hindemith, Give Us This Day by David Maslanka, and Joseph Schwanter's ...and the mountains rising nowhere. In the summer of 2009, the Hillcrest Wind Ensemble was accepted to perform in the 2009 Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. The directors of the Hillcrest Wind Ensemble are Andrew Pettus and Nick Smith, who are both very passionate about teaching and music. Hillcrest's phenomenal performance at the Midwest Clinic was a milestone in Alabama's history, making Hillcrest High the third group to attend the Midwest Clinic from the state. In May of 2011, the Hillcrest High School Wind Ensemble will travel to China to perform many concerts, which will give the students an extraordinary opportunity to travel abroad. The current band directors are Mr. Andrew Pettus, graduate of the University of Alabama and the University of Miami, and Mr. Nick Smith, graduate of Auburn University. Mr. Pettus is the head director and conducts the Wind Ensemble. He studied at Miami in the Frost School of Music under Mr. Gary Green, a world-renowned conductor and an excellent mentor. Mr. Smith joined the school in the fall of 2009, and currently directs other fine ensembles at Hillcrest. ==External links== * [http://www.hillcresthigh.net/ Official school website] * [http://www.hillcrestbands.com/ Official Hillcrest Wind Ensemble website] {{AHSAA Class 6A}} {{coord|33.12955|-87.53764|display=title}} [[Category:High schools in Alabama]] [[Category:Educational institutions established in 1982]]'