Ottawa Hills High School 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 the village of Ottawa Hills

Ottawa Hills, Ohio

Ottawa Hills is a village in Lucas County, Ohio, United States. The population was 4,564 at the 2000 census. The village serves as an affluent bedroom community and suburb of Toledo. The village maintains a full time police and fire rescue department. The Ottawa Hills school district ranked first...

, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

United States

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, just west of Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

Toledo is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Lucas County. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, on the western end of Lake Erie, and borders the State of Michigan...

. It is the only high school in the Ottawa Hills Local Schools district. The school's mascot is the "Green Bears."

Students

The school frequently consists of between 300 and 400 high school students with the largest being the Class of 2010 (about 95). Known for academics, students at Ottawa Hills excel with a college preparatory curriculum.

Athletics

The Green Bears have won multiple state titles. Most recently, the boys soccer team won the 2008 Division III State Championship. Boys basketball made it to the state final four for the first time in school history in March 2010, losing to Newark Catholic 48-36 in the state semis.

Notable alumni

—Tom Scholz

Tom Scholz

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- Lead guitarist of the band Boston

Boston (band)

Boston is an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists...

. A top student and a member of the varsity basketball team, he graduated from Ottawa Hills High School in 1965. Prior to his musical career, Scholz received both a bachelor's degree (1969) and a master's degree (1970) in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for Polaroid Corporation as a senior product design engineer.-

-Jamie O'Hara

Jamie O'Hara (singer)

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 - Country singer / songwriter, Wrote the # 1 Grammy winning country song of the year "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ol' Days)

Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ol' Days)

"Grandpa " is a 1986 song written by Jamie O'Hara, and made famous by The Judds."Grandpa" — as the song is sometimes known — is a reflection on days gone by, wherein the narrator expresses discontent about the decline in traditional values, the hectic lifestyle of the day and how progress hasn't...

" in 1986, performed by the group The Judds

The Judds

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. Jamie was also one half of the band, The O'Kanes

The O'Kanes

The O'Kanes was an American country music duo, composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. Active between 1986 and 1990, the duo recorded three albums for Columbia Records and charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, including the Number One "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving...

 who had a #1 country song and 7 charted tracks in the mid 80's, the band broke up in 1990. He has written several #1 country songs and Hot Billboard singles for many artist, his first #1 was in 1981 with the song, "Older Woman" recored by Ronnie McDowell

Ronnie McDowell

Ronald Dean "Ronnie" McDowell is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1977 with the song "The King Is Gone", a tribute to Elvis Presley, who had died not long before the single's release. From that single onward, McDowell has charted more than thirty Top 40 hits on the Billboard...

. He graduated in 1967 from Ottawa Hills where he played Varsity Football. He came back in 2005 for the dedication of the new Norm Niedermeier Football stadium to honor his friend and former coach.

-Christine Brennan

Christine Brennan

Christine Brennan is an American sports columnist, TV and radio commentator, best-selling author and nationally-known speaker....

(born May 14, 1958, in Toledo, Ohio) is an American sports columnist, TV and radio commentator, best-selling author and nationally-known speaker. She is especially known for her coverage of the Olympics and has written three books on the subject of figure skating: the best-selling Inside Edge (1996), Edge of Glory (1998), and Champions on Ice (2002).