Capital High School commonly referred to as Capital, is a public high school

High school

High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 in Olympia, Washington

Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,478 at the 2010 census...

, USA. It is one of two comprehensive high schools in the Olympia School District

Olympia School District

Olympia School District is a school district serving approximately 9400 students in the city of Olympia in Thurston County, Washington...

. Capital is located on Olympia's Westside, and serves the entire northwest corner of Thurston County. High School students from the Griffin School District attend Capital.

Sports

Capital High School is a 3A-division member of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association

Washington Interscholastic Activities Association

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association is the governing body of athletics and activities for secondary education schools in the state of Washington...

. It is a member of the Narrows League 3A Division..

State Championships
Season	Sport	Number of Championships	Year
Fall	Cross Country, Boys	1	1997
	Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...	2	1996, 1998
	Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... , Boys	6	1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1999
	Swimming Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native... , Girls	1	2001
Winter Winter Winter is the coldest season of the year in temperate climates, between autumn and spring. At the winter solstice, the days are shortest and the nights are longest, with days lengthening as the season progresses after the solstice.-Meteorology:...	Wrestling Scholastic wrestling Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...	1	2001
Spring Spring (season) Spring is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition period between winter and summer. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and broadly to ideas of rebirth, renewal and regrowth. The specific definition of the exact timing of "spring" varies according to local climate, cultures and...	Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...	2	1979, 1998
	Fastpitch Softball Softball Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand... , Girls	4	1994, 1995, 1997, 1998
	Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... , Boys	2	1990, 1992
Total		19

State Championships, 2nd place:

Baseball - 1978, 1995, 1997; Boys Cross Country - 1996; Fastpitch Softball - 2007; Football - 2002; Boys Golf - 1987; Girls Golf - 1994; Girls Swimming - 2002; Boys Tennis - 1991, 1993; Girls Tennis - 1988, 1990; Girls Volleyball - 1994; Wrestling - 2000

Notable alumni

• Rachel Corrie
  Rachel Corrie
  Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement . She was killed in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defence Forces bulldozer when she was standing or kneeling in front of a local Palestinian's home, thus acting as a human shield, attempting to prevent the IDF from...
  
   — Deceased Activist
• Eloise Mumford
  Eloise Mumford
  Eloise Mumford is an American actress. She currently stars as Lena Landry on the ABC paranormal series The River.- Filmography :-External links:...
  
   — Film and Broadway Actress
• Skyler Fulton — NFL Player
• Andres Gonzales
  Andres Gonzales
  Andres Gonzales is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has attained some popularity due to his unorthodox appearance and prolonged attempts to contact fellow golfer Tiger Woods via Twitter...
  
   - PGA
  PGA Tour
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   Golfer
• Adam Kasper
  Adam Kasper
  Adam Kasper is a Seattle area record producer and engineer, working with such bands as Cat Power, Pond, Seaweed, The Tragically Hip, Truly, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, R.E.M., Soundgarden and Pearl Jam...
  
   — Record Exec.
• Burke Kenny — Winner at the 2007 & 2011 World Beard and Moustache Championships
• Travis Lee
  Travis Lee
  Travis Lee is a former Major League Baseball first baseman.Lee graduated from Capital High School in Olympia, Washington in 1993, where he also played football. Being ambidextrous Lee played as a lefty in baseball and as a QB for the Capital High football team threw with his right...
  
   — Former Major League Baseball player
• Jared Sandberg
  Jared Sandberg
  Jared Lawrence Sandberg is a former American Major League Baseball third baseman for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The nephew of former Chicago Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg, he is currently the manager of the Class-A level Hudson Valley Renegades in the Rays organization.Sandberg was born in...
  
  — Former Professional Baseball Player

External links

• Capital High School