East Central High School (Oklahoma)
Encyclopedia
East Central High School is one of nine high school
s in Tulsa Public Schools
in Tulsa, Oklahoma
. The school is home to 1,177 students from East Tulsa. The majority of students transition into East Central from: Stephen Foster Middle School
and Lewis & Clark Middle School.
The architect of the Rose Bowl, William Henry Ryan, also designed East Central High School. Beginning in the 2009-2010 school year, uniforms are required for freshman students for the first time in the school and district history.
team, girls basketball
team, and girls track
team won the state 5A title in their respective sports. The East Central Girls basketball team won a consecutive State 5A title in 2006-2007 for a total of two (2), and the girls track
team won two (2) more consecutive titles for school years 2006-2007, and 2007-2008, for a total of three (3). The Boys Track
team also won the 5A State title in 2008. East Central has several different sports including swimming
, football, basketball, tennis
, golf
, baseball
, track
, and wrestling
.
.
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....
s in Tulsa Public Schools
Tulsa Public Schools
Tulsa Public Schools is an independent school district serving the Tulsa, Oklahoma area in Northeastern Oklahoma. It is the 2nd largest school district in Oklahoma. As of 2010 the district serves approximately 41,224 students, up slightly from 41,200 students from Kindergarten through Twelfth grade...
in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...
. The school is home to 1,177 students from East Tulsa. The majority of students transition into East Central from: Stephen Foster Middle School
Stephen Foster Middle School
Stephen Foster Middle School is an ethnically diverse, Title I middle school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Located near the Eastgate Metroplex , the school was once part of a thriving, middle-class community...
and Lewis & Clark Middle School.
History
East Central was founded in 1904 as an independent school district. The original combined school was built on the northeast corner of what is now Admiral Blvd. and Garnett Road in 1927 that supported an elementary school, a junior high school, and high school. With the growth of the East Central district, the school built an expansion to house the High School in 1955 and built a new Elementary school on East 6th street that was completed in November of 1958. In 1960 considerable damage to the high school facility at the Admiral Blvd location by high wind and school start was delayed a week. Even then we had to step around and over last minute construction and painting. In the summer of 1964 the people of the district voted to be annexed into the Tulsa Public Schools starting that school year ('64/'65). The current school facility opened in 1966 on East 11th Street, with addition of an athletic Stadium in 1997.The architect of the Rose Bowl, William Henry Ryan, also designed East Central High School. Beginning in the 2009-2010 school year, uniforms are required for freshman students for the first time in the school and district history.
Athletics
East Central competes in Oklahoma 5A athletics. Sports teams compete as the East Central Fighting Cardinals. During the 2005-2006 school year, the footballHigh school football
High school football, in North America, refers to the game of football as it is played in the United States and Canada. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both of these nations....
team, girls 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...
team, and girls track
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...
team won the state 5A title in their respective sports. The East Central Girls basketball team won a consecutive State 5A title in 2006-2007 for a total of two (2), and the girls track
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...
team won two (2) more consecutive titles for school years 2006-2007, and 2007-2008, for a total of three (3). The Boys Track
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...
team also won the 5A State title in 2008. East Central has several different sports including 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...
, football, basketball, 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....
, 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...
, track
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...
, and 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...
.
Notable alumni
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- 1984, Actress - Anthony BowieAnthony BowieAnthony Lee Bowie is an American basketball player. He is a former NBA shooting guard, most renowned for his stint with the Orlando Magic...
- 1982, Professional Basketball Player - Tony CasillasTony CasillasTony Steven Casillas is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League from 1986 through 1997. While at the University of Oklahoma he helped win the 1985 NCAA National Championship. He also won the Lombardi Award in 1985 and was the 1985 UPI Lineman of the Year...
- 1981, Professional Football Player - Jimbo ElrodJimbo ElrodJames Whittington Elrod is a former American football linebacker who was an All-American at the University of Oklahoma and played professionally for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Oilers of the National Football League.Elrod graduated from East Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in...
- 1972, Professional Football Player - Jim ShouldersJim ShouldersJames A. Shoulders, known as Jim Shoulders , is known as the "Babe Ruth of Rodeo".-Rodeo career:Shoulders entered—and won—his first rodeo when he was just fourteen...
- 1945, Professional Rodeo Cowboy
Media Appearances
East Central High School has been featured on TruTV's The Principal's OfficeThe Principal's Office
The Principal's Office is a reality TV program on truTV that began airing on August 21, 2008. It is set in American high schools and features dramatic and humorous encounters between students and principals. Some events that lead to such encounters are students being late to class, truancy, food...
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