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West Warwick High School
Address
Map
1 Webster Knight Dr

West Warwick
,
Rhode Island
02893

United States
Coordinates41°42′32″N 71°30′58″W / 41.709°N 71.516°W / 41.709; -71.516
Information
TypePublic high school
DeanSteven Alves (students)
PrincipalJessica Hassell
Faculty88
Enrollment951 (2016-17)[1]
Campus typeSuburban
Color(s)
  Black and Orange
MascotWizard
NewspaperThe Magic Word
WebsiteWest Warwick High School

West Warwick High School is a public high school in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States.[2]

Athletics

The school has a long tradition of excellence in Rhode Island Interscholastic Sports and is a member of the RI Interscholastic League. Most recently, the Wizard football team won the RI Division II State Championship in December 2014. Also the girls soccer team won back to back state championships in 2013 and 2014. Hundreds of students participate in numerous sports throughout the year.[3]

Performing arts

The performing arts, have helped to bring national status to the school in recent years. The West Warwick High School Jazz Ensemble "A" Band has won numerous awards including placing in the Finals of the Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival from 2002–2007, 2009, 2012-2014; winning the prestigious festival in 2007 and 2014.[4] The Concert Band and Concert Chorale have competed and won local and national awards and titles the past twenty years. Currently, the West Warwick High School Music Department is the largest in the state, with more than 600 students participating annually.

The West Warwick High School Players produce high quality musical productions and have performed to sell out crowds since 2010, performing High School Musical (2009); Footloose (2010); Aida (2011); Grease (2012), Legally Blonde (2013), In the Heights (2014); Big Fish (2015), The Addams Family (2016), Catch Me If You Can (2017), Shrek the Musical (2018), and 9 to 5 (musical) (2019). [5] In 2015, they were the first and only Rhode Island high school to participate in the Connecticut High School Theater Awards, the regional division of the National High School Musical Theater Awards (NHSMTA). Through this program, Myranda Silva (class of 2019) attended the Jimmy Awards in New York City in June 2019.

Notable alumni

  • Frank "Monk" Maznicki - Running back on Boston College 1940 Cotton Bowl Classic team and 1941 Sugar Bowl squad. Maznicki played in the NFL with the Chicago Bears from 1942 to 1947; ran for 463 yards and was 65 for 69 on extra points. He was ranked as one of Rhode Island's Top 50 athletes of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated. The West Warwick High School football field is named in his honor.
  • Bob Wylie - NFL offensive line coach.
  • Tom Garrick - Former professional basketball player and former coach of the University of Rhode Island women's basketball team.
  • Chuck Palumbo - Professional wrestler and builder of custom motorcycles.
  • Tony Maserati - Record producer and studio engineer who has worked with many mainstream artist of the 1990s and 2000s including James Brown, Mariah Carey, Destiny's Child, R. Kelly, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Puff Daddy and Tupac Shakur.
  • Mike Roarke - Major League Baseball catcher and coach.
  • Connor Cupertino - A super cool dude who is going to be a sophomore at WWHS next school year
  • Anthony Caetano - A Portuguese man who is going to be a sophomore at WWHS next school year
  • Barack Obama - The 44th President of the United States. He went to WWHS for his junior year and senior year. He had to repeat his senior year at the high school after the administration realized that it wasn't Barack Obama and instead was 4 kindergarteners stacked on top of each other in a trench coat. This incident occurred in 2016.

References

  1. ^ "West Warwick High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  2. ^ "WWHS". WWPS.
  3. ^ "RI Interscholastic League".
  4. ^ "Berklee HS Jazz Festival".
  5. ^ "WWHS Players".
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