Center Point High School
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Center Point High school is a public high school in Center Point, Alabama
, serving grades 9-12 in the Jefferson County Board of Education (Alabama)
. Van Phillips is the principal, heading a faculty of 70 teachers responsible for instructing 1,216 students. The school replaces (and assumes the athletic history of) E.B. Erwin High School
, which has been converted to a middle school.
, volleyball
, cross country
, basketball
, wrestling
, baseball
, softball
, track and field
, tennis
, golf
and soccer.
As Erwin High, the Eagles' wrestling team won Alabama High School Athletic Association
state championships in 1992 and 1999 http://www.ahsaa.com/Sports/Wrestling/History/WrestlingPastStateChampions/tabid/776/Default.aspx. The varsity football team won area championships in the AHSAA playoffs in 1980, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1996 and 1997.
Center Point, Alabama
Center Point is a newly incorporated city and a former census-designated place in northeastern Birmingham, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 22,784. However, after its incorporation in 2002, the city's boundaries are much smaller than those of the CDP. As of July 1,...
, serving grades 9-12 in the Jefferson County Board of Education (Alabama)
Jefferson County Board of Education (Alabama)
The Jefferson County School System is the second-largest public school system in the U.S. State of Alabama and serves most of Jefferson County, Alabama...
. Van Phillips is the principal, heading a faculty of 70 teachers responsible for instructing 1,216 students. The school replaces (and assumes the athletic history of) E.B. Erwin High School
E.B. Erwin High School
Eugene Brown Erwin High school was a public high school in Center Point, Alabama. Erwin served grades 7-12 in the Jefferson County Board of Education . Van Phillips was the principal, heading a faculty of 70 teachers responsible for instructing 1,216 students...
, which has been converted to a middle school.
Athletics
Center Point High School will field teams in footballAmerican 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...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
, 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...
, 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...
, track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, 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...
, 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....
and soccer.
As Erwin High, the Eagles' wrestling team won Alabama High School Athletic Association
Alabama High School Athletic Association
The Alabama High School Athletic Association , based in Montgomery, is the agency which oversees interscholastic athletic programs for public schools in Alabama....
state championships in 1992 and 1999 http://www.ahsaa.com/Sports/Wrestling/History/WrestlingPastStateChampions/tabid/776/Default.aspx. The varsity football team won area championships in the AHSAA playoffs in 1980, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1996 and 1997.