Nathan Hale High School
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Nathan Hale High School is a public high school in Seattle, Washington. Nathan Hale is part of the Coalition of Essential Schools
.
until 1954. For a number of years that area had only one secondary school, Jane Addams. Steady population growth during the 1950s meant a new high school would soon be needed. In the planning stage, the school was given the temporary name of Northeast High School. This was later changed to Meadowbrook High School. The site for the new school, originally part of the Fisher Dairy, had most recently been the Meadowbrook Golf Course owned by the Tachell family. While the school was under construction, new guidelines and procedures for the naming of schools were adopted. As a result, the name Meadowbrook was replaced by Nathan Hale
. Once built, the school building and parking lot were positioned on either side of Thornton Creek
, which runs west to east through the property. The site is directly across the street from Jane Addams. Nathan Hale High School was one of several schools for which the Seattle Parks Department
paid a portion of the building construction in exchange for title to adjacent land to be used for recreational facilities. The first principal, Claude Turner, helped design the school. In its first year, Hale opened to sophomores and juniors only, with just 1,206 students. Two years later, it had a student body of 2,002. By the late 1960s, Hale’s enrollment had reached 2,400, and 24 portables were in use.
(WIAA). The school is currently in the second largest classification, known as 3A, and has been so since the 1984-85 school year. Prior to that it was in the largest classification. The Raiders are a member of the Metro league and Sea-King district. Hale has traditionally been rivals with Ingraham High School
and Roosevelt High School due to the close proximity of the three schools, but the rivalry with Roosevelt diminished when the school changed classifications in 1997.
The school supports 16 WIAA activities, including: baseball
, boys and girls basketball
, cheer
, cross country
, football
, golf
, gymnastics
, boys and girls soccer, softball
, coed swimming
, tennis
, track and field
, volleyball
and wrestling
. Three non-WIAA sanctioned sports are also fielded, these include boys and girls lacrosse
and ultimate
.
† = Now a defunct sport
Coalition of Essential Schools
The Coalition of Essential Schools is an organization created to further a type of whole-school reform originally envisioned by founder Ted Sizer in his book, Horace's Compromise. CES began in 1984 with twelve schools; it currently has 600 formal members.-Horace's Compromise:Horace's Compromise...
.
Early years
The area northeast of Seattle, was part of the Shoreline School DistrictShoreline School District
The Shoreline School District 412 is the school district in an established residential community north of Seattle and includes the cities of Shoreline and Lake Forest Park in the U.S. state of Washington...
until 1954. For a number of years that area had only one secondary school, Jane Addams. Steady population growth during the 1950s meant a new high school would soon be needed. In the planning stage, the school was given the temporary name of Northeast High School. This was later changed to Meadowbrook High School. The site for the new school, originally part of the Fisher Dairy, had most recently been the Meadowbrook Golf Course owned by the Tachell family. While the school was under construction, new guidelines and procedures for the naming of schools were adopted. As a result, the name Meadowbrook was replaced by Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British...
. Once built, the school building and parking lot were positioned on either side of Thornton Creek
Thornton Creek
Thornton Creek is 18 miles of urban creeks and tributaries from southeast Shoreline through northeast Seattle to Lake Washington. The creek is the largest watershed in Seattle, draining a region of relatively dense biodiversity for an urban setting, home to frogs, newts, ducks, other birds, and...
, which runs west to east through the property. The site is directly across the street from Jane Addams. Nathan Hale High School was one of several schools for which the Seattle Parks Department
Seattle Parks and Recreation
Seattle Parks and Recreation is the department of government of the city of Seattle, Washington, responsible for maintaining the city's parks, open space, and community centers.The total area of the properties maintained by the department is over , which makes up approximately 11% of the total...
paid a portion of the building construction in exchange for title to adjacent land to be used for recreational facilities. The first principal, Claude Turner, helped design the school. In its first year, Hale opened to sophomores and juniors only, with just 1,206 students. Two years later, it had a student body of 2,002. By the late 1960s, Hale’s enrollment had reached 2,400, and 24 portables were in use.
1970s
A new learning resource center opened in fall 1972, nearly doubling the size of the school’s original library. The community chose to use bond money for the learning resource center, rather than for an auditorium, so the high school continued to use the Addams auditorium for its dramatic productions. From 1964 through the mid-1970s, Nathan Hale was a sports powerhouse, winning the Metro championships in several sports three out of four years in a row. The music department also excelled, with the stage band capturing numerous regional awards. The district’s 1978 desegregation plan cut the number of schools feeding Hale from ten to four. Some of these feeder schools were closed, drastically cutting into Hale’s enrollment, despite the addition of 9th graders in September 1979. Some students who would have attended Hale were sent to south end schools.Principals
- Claude Turner, 1963–1970
- Gordon Albright, 1971–1974
- Robert Bell, 1975–1983
- Barbara Arnold, 1984–1986
- Andres Tangalin, 1987–1989
- Tom Lord, 1989–1992
- Eric Benson, 1992–2003
- Judy Peterson, 2003–2004
- Lisa Hechtman, 2004–2007
- Marni Campbell, 2007–2009
- Jill Hudson, 2009–Present
Radio
Nathan Hale is home to the nationally acclaimed radio station KNHC. It is mostly student-run, but has a full time DJ. KNHC plays dance music, and is one of six stations monitored by Nielsen BDS for inclusion in Billboard Magazine's weekly Hot Dance Airplay chart. In addition, Nathan Hale boasts a Radio class taught by Gregg Nielson.Sports
Nathan Hale is a member of the Washington Interscholastic Activities AssociationWashington 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...
(WIAA). The school is currently in the second largest classification, known as 3A, and has been so since the 1984-85 school year. Prior to that it was in the largest classification. The Raiders are a member of the Metro league and Sea-King district. Hale has traditionally been rivals with Ingraham High School
Ingraham High School
Ingraham High School is a public high school serving grades 9-12 located in the Haller Lake neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA. Opened in 1959, it is named after Edward Sturgis Ingraham, the first superintendent of the Seattle Public Schools. Since 2002, Ingraham has been an International...
and Roosevelt High School due to the close proximity of the three schools, but the rivalry with Roosevelt diminished when the school changed classifications in 1997.
The school supports 16 WIAA activities, including: 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...
, boys and 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...
, cheer
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, 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...
, 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...
, 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....
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, boys and girls soccer, 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...
, coed 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...
, 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...
, 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...
, 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...
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...
. Three non-WIAA sanctioned sports are also fielded, these include boys and girls lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
and ultimate
Ultimate (sport)
Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
.
WIAA State Championships
| Sport | Year |
|---|---|
| Boys 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... |
1966 |
| Boys Gymnastics† | 1970 |
| Girls Track & Field | 1971 |
| Boys Soccer | 1985 |
† = Now a defunct sport
Individual State Champions
| Name | Sport | Event | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dong, Ringstad, Parde, Booker | Boys Track & Field | 880 Yard Relay | 1968 |
| Dan Winger | Boys Cross Country | 2.5 Miles | 1970 |
| Dale Burson | Boys Gymnastics | All Around | 1970 |
| Dale Burson | Boys Gymnastics | Horizontal Bar | 1970 |
| Donna Armstrong | Girls Track & Field | High Jump | 1970 |
| Dave Jackson | Boys Gymnastics | All Around | 1971 |
| Dave Jackson | Boys Gymnastics | Side Horse | 1971 |
| Dave Jackson | Boys Gymnastics | Parallel Bars | 1971 |
| Jim Campbell | Boys Track & Field | 2 Mile Run | 1971 |
| Johnson, Donnell, Chase, Hardison | Girls Track & Field | 440 Yard Relay | 1971 |
| Dave Jackson | Boys Gymnastics | All Around | 1972 |
| Dave Jackson | Boys Gymnastics | Pommel Horse | 1972 |
| Dave Jackson | Boys Gymnastics | Horizontal Bars | 1972 |
| Dave Jackson | Boys Gymnastics | Parallel Bars | 1972 |
| Johnson, Donnell, Chase, McCallum | Girls Track & Field | 440 Yard Relay | 1972 |
| Doug McDonald | Boys Track & Field | High Jump | 1973 |
| Lakshas, Ringo, Phillips, Johnson | Girls Track & Field | Mile Relay | 1973 |
| 100 Yard Dash | 1973 | ||
| Girls Track & Field | 200 Yard Dash | 1973 | |
| Name | Sport | Event | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Rabinovitch | Boys Gymnastics | Parallel Bars | 1973 |
| Craig Staake | Boys Gymnastics | Parallel Bars | 1974 |
| Eric Guion | Boys Gymnastics | Pommel Horse | 1975 |
| Michelle Williams | Girls Track & Field | 440 Yard Dash | 1979 |
| Amy Munger | Girls Swimming | 500 Freestyle | 1985 |
| Amy Munger | Girls Swimming | 500 Freestyle | 1986 |
| Cary Stidham | Boys Track & Field | 3200 Meter Run | 1995 |
| Lasina Smith | Girls Track & Field | Long Jump | 1995 |
| Bruce Jackson | Boys Track & Field | 400 Meter Run | 2001 |
| Bruce Jackson | Boys Track & Field | 800 Meter Run | 2001 |
| Abdi Hassan | Boys Track & Field | 1600 Meter Run | 2006 |
| Elise Knutzen | Girls Track & Field | Javelin | 2006 |
| Abdi Hassan | Boys Track & Field | 1600 Meter Run | 2007 |
| Abdi Hassan | Boys Track & Field | 800 Meter Run | 2007 |
| Jaakko Malmivirta | Boys Track & Field | 110 Meter Hurdles | 2009 |
| Reid deLaubenfels | Boys Tennis | Singles | 2010 |
| Reid deLaubenfels | Boys Tennis | Singles | 2011 |
| Naivasha Sophusson Smith | Girls Track & Field | 100 Meter Hurdles | 2011 |
| Sophie Hallam-Eames | Girls Track & Field | Hammer Throw | 2011 |
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- U.S. Olympic swimmer and silver medalist - Rick ColellaRick ColellaRichard Phillip "Rick" Colella, Jr. is a former international breaststroke swimmer from the United States, who participated for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972....
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- Former PGA TourPGA TourThe PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
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