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'{{Infobox school | name = Wilde Lake High School | native_name ="High Lake Wilde Lake" | logo = [[Image:Wilde Lake High School.jpg|250px]] | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption ="'Diversity excels" | streetaddress = 5460 Trumpeter Road | city = [[Columbia, Maryland|Columbia]] | state = [[Maryland|MD]] | province = | country = [[United States|US]] | coordinates = | type = [[Public school (government funded)|Public]] [[High school#United States|High School]] | established = 1971 | founder = | status = | closed = | district = [[Howard County Public Schools]] | category = | oversight = | chairman = | dean = | administrator = | rector = | principal = James "Zesty" LeMon | campus_director = | headmaster = | head = | chaplain = | faculty = | teaching_staff = | grades = 9–12 | gender = | houses = | colours = | athletics = | mascot = Wildecats | nickname = | rival = | accreditation = | national_ranking = | test_name = | test_average = | newspaper = The Paw Print | yearbook = | affiliations = | website = http://wlhs.hcpss.org/ | footnotes = | picture = | picture_caption = | picture2 = | category_label = | gender_label = | affiliation = | assst_admin = | president = | chairman_label = | band_director = Lewis C. Dutrow | head_name = Second Master | head_name2 = Assistant Headmaster | head2 = | officer_in_charge = | enrollment = 1,438 [http://www.howard.k12.md.us/files/profile_hs_WildeLake.pdf] | grades_label = | latitude = | longitude = | campus = | colors = Green {{color box|#009900}} and Gold {{color box|#FFD700}} | student_union = | free_label = [[Emblem]] | free_text = | free_label_1 = | free_1 = | free_label_2 = | free_2 = | free_label_3 = | free_3 = | picture_caption2 = }} '''Wilde Lake High School''' is a [[secondary school]] located in [[Columbia, Maryland]]'s Village of [[Wilde Lake]], one of 12 public high schools in [[Howard County, Maryland|Howard County]]. Bids were requested by January 1970 for an 1,350 seat school to be built for an estimated $2.6 million.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|title=Bid deadline for Wilde Lake High School builder History Matters|author=Louise Vest|date=13 January 2015}}</ref> Opened in 1971 as a model school for the nation, it was Columbia's first high school. It had a unique open [[doughnut]]-shaped design with "[[open classroom]]s" and was a model school for new teaching settings.<ref name=WLHSopm>[http://archone.tamu.edu/CRS/engine/archive_files/efl/6000.0504.pdf "Five Open Plan High Schools: A Report from Educational Facilities Laboratories"] (1973) (archived at Texas A&M University).</ref> In 1994, the original 910-student building which did not meet current safety standards was demolished. A new $20 million 1,200-seat building was reconstructed on the same site with a more traditional style by Cochran, Stephenson and Donkevoet.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 23, 1993|title=Renovation at Wilde Lake is to be more extensive}}</ref> The new building, opened in 1996, replicates the open idea, with a central main street, and halls surrounding it and a bridge across the second floor. The school is centrally located in [[Howard County, MD|Howard County]] and its district borders that of [[River Hill High School]], [[Marriotts Ridge High School]], [[Centennial High School (Maryland)|Centennial High School]], [[Howard High School (Ellicott City, Maryland)|Howard High School]], [[Oakland Mills High School]], and [[Atholton High School]]. Wilde Lake's official mascot is the "Wildecat". The school's main sports rivals are Oakland Mills High School, River Hill High School and Atholton High School. ==Jim Rouse Theatre== Wilde Lake has a modern 750-seat theater named for Columbia founder [[James Rouse]], who went by "Jim".<ref name=WLHSjrt>[http://www.wildelake.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=36&id=117&Itemid=77 James Rouse Theater], Wilde Lake High School Website.</ref> The theatre has its own separate entrance and is used by both school and community groups. The 12,500-square-foot performance space is also ideal for community meetings, sales rallies, exhibitions, and business training sessions. The theatre has a total of 739 seats and 8 handicapped accessible locations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rousetheatre.org/content/index.php |title=Technical Specifications |publisher=Jim Rouse Theatre for the Performing Arts |accessdate=December 28, 2015}}</ref> Wilde Lake High School prides itself with this state-of-the-art theater with advanced acoustics and the school's internationally recognized Fine Arts program. The concert, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Band, led by director Lewis Dutrow, take full advantage of the Jim Rouse Theatre.<ref>http://www.hcpss.org/schools/profiles/profile_hs_WildeLake.pdf</ref> ==Athletics== Wilde Lake High School has a number of [[erection]]al sports teams for each season of the academic year, including (but not limited to): Football, Soccer, Golf, Volleyball and Cross Country (boys and girls teams)<ref>Parnell, Vincent [http://www.wildelake.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1033:fall-2012-athletic-information&catid=175:sports-instructions&Itemid=232 "Fall 2012 Athletic Information"] Howard County Public School System, 2012.</ref> The school has won the following state championships: ===Cross country=== * 2007 – Boys' Cross Country * 2006 – Boys' Cross Country<ref>[http://www.mpssaa.org/assets/fallsports/boysxcountry/State%20Champions.pdf MPSSAA Boys' Cross Country]</ref> * 2005 – Boys' Cross Country * 1996 – Boys' Cross Country * 1996 – Girls' Cross Country<ref>[http://www.mpssaa.org/assets/fallsports/girlsxcountry/State%20Champions.pdf MPSSAA Girls' Cross Country]</ref> * 1971 – Boys' Cross Country ===Football=== * 2010 – Football * 1997 – Football<ref>[http://www.mpssaa.org/assets/fallsports/football/Football%20State%20Champions.pdf MPSSAA Football]</ref> * 1992 – Football * 1991 – Football * 1990 – Football * 1985 – Football ===Soccer=== * 1997 – Boys' Soccer<ref>[http://www.mpssaa.org/assets/fallsports/boyssoccer/boys%20soccer%20champs%202007.pdf MPSSAA Boys' Soccer]</ref> * 1991 – Boys' Soccer * 1984 – Boys' Soccer * 1983 – Boys' Soccer * 1982 – Boys' Soccer * 1981 – Boys' Soccer * 1976 – Boys' Soccer ===Basketball=== * 1995 – Girls' Basketball<ref>[http://www.mpssaa.org/assets/wintersports/girlsbasketball/Girls%20State%20Basketball%20Champions.pdf MPSSAA Girls' Basketball]</ref> * 1985 – Boys' Basketball<ref>[http://www.mpssaa.org/assets/wintersports/boysbasketball/Boys%20Basketball%20State%20Champions.pdf MPSSAA Boys' Basketball]</ref> ===Ice hockey=== *2008 State Finalist ===Tennis=== * 2006 – Boys' Tennis Singles<ref>[http://www.mpssaa.org/assets/springsports/boystennis/Boys%20Tennis%20State%20Champions.pdf MPSSAA Boys' Tennis Doubles]</ref> * 2001 – Mixed Doubles<ref>[http://www.mpssaa.org/assets/springsports/girlstennis/Mixed%20Doubles%20State%20Champions.pdf MPSSAA Tennis Mixed Doubles]</ref> * 1986 – Mixed Doubles * 1985 – Boys' Tennis Doubles ===Track and field=== * 1975 – Boys' Track & Field<ref>[http://www.mpssaa.org/assets/springsports/boystrackandfield/Boys%20Track%20and%20Field%20Champions.pdf MPSSAA Boys' Track & Field]</ref> == Band Program == <nowiki>The Wilde Lake High School band program is run by the one and only Lewis Dutrow. The band program is the only true family at Wilde Lake, the only club not inhabited by {{</nowiki>[[Snake]]<nowiki>s}}</nowiki> ==''The Paw Print''== ''The Paw Print'' is an independent [[erection]] of Wilde Lake High School.<ref>http://wildelake.com/pawprint/</ref> ==Notable alumni== * [[Laura Lippman]] (class of 1977)—author and award-winning journalist * [[Mary Jones Weeks]] (class of 1982) TV producer * [[Edward Norton]] (class of 1987)—actor * [[Mark D. Levine]] (class of 1987)—New York City council member * [[Curtis Yarvin]] (class of 1988)—computer scientist, political philosopher, [[Dark Enlightenment|neoreactionary]] thinker<ref>{{cite web|author1=Mencius Moldbug|title=The Holocaust: a Nazi perspective|url=http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/holocaust-nazi-perspective.html|website=Unqualified Reservations|date=October 26, 2011|quote=The point was driven home for me at Wilde Lake High School in 1988, where I found myself in an auditorium listening to a long, bathetic string of student awards.}}</ref> * [[Lo-Fang]] (class of 2002)—musician * [[Zach Brown]] (class of 2007)—[[Tennessee Titans]] linebacker * [[Kik Messenger#Nicole Lovell case|David Eisenhauer]] (class of 2015)—charged with the kidnapping and murder of 13-year old [[Kik Messenger#Nicole Lovell case|Nicole Lovell]]<ref>{{cite web|author1=Tom Foreman Jr.|author2=Ben Nuckols|title=Suspects from Howard County left few clues to possible motives in Virginia Tech stabbing|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bs-md-blacksburg-thursday-20160204-story.html|website=The Baltimore Sun|date=February 4, 2016|quote=According to police, Eisenhauer, an 18-year-old freshman engineering student and a distance runner on the track team at Virginia Tech from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, kidnapped and fatally stabbed a 13-year-old girl.}}</ref> * [[Sophie Bertrand]] (class of 2016)—soloist of "The Jive Samba" and saxophonist in the Towson band program ==See also== * [[Howard County Public Schools]] Mary Jones Weeks, Class of 1982, TV Producer ==References== <references /> ==External links== * [http://wlhs.hcpss.org/ Wilde Lake High School website] {{Coord|39|13|3|N|76|52|21|W|type:landmark|display=title}} {{Howard_County_Public_High_Schools}} {{Columbia, Maryland}} [[Category:Educational institutions established in 1971]] [[Category:Public high schools in Maryland]] [[Category:Public schools in Howard County, Maryland]] [[Category:Columbia, Maryland]] [[Category:1971 establishments in Maryland]] '