Eastmoor Academy (Columbus, Ohio)
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Eastmoor Academy is a public high school located on the east side of Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

. It is part of Columbus City Schools.

Eastmoor Academy was formerly known as Eastmoor High School. The school's colors are red, white and blue, and its mascot is a warrior.

The high school of two-time Heisman Trophy
Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...

 winner Archie Griffin
Archie Griffin
Archie Mason Griffin is a former American football running back. Griffin played seven seasons in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals. He is college football's only two-time Heisman Trophy winner...

. Eastmoor's home football stadium is named Archie Griffin Stadium. Also the high school of jazz musician Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein
Michael Jay Feinstein is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an interpreter of, and an anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theatre songs...

.

During the eighties, the school was a frequent stop for high profile speakers in the Civil Rights movement such as Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.Mrs...

 due to the attendance of Judge Robert Duncan's
Robert Morton Duncan
Robert Morton Duncan is a former United States federal judge.Born in Urbana, Ohio, Duncan received a B.S. from Ohio State University in 1948 and a J.D. from Ohio State University College of Law in 1952. He was an attorney examiner for the Ohio Bureau of Workmen's Compensation from 1959 to 1960,...

 (the judge that presided over the Columbus anti-segregation ruling) daughter at the school.

The movie "Speak" starring Kristen Stewart was filmed at Eastmoor in 2003.

In 2008, the Eastmoor football team went 13-2, eventually losing in the Division 3 State Championship Game to the Aurora Greenmen
Aurora High School (Aurora, Ohio)
Aurora High School is a public high school in Aurora, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Aurora City School District. In 2007, the school won the No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon award with 257 other High Schools across the nation....

, 21-10.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

  • Girls Track and Field
    Track and field
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    - 2004, 2005
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