Rolla High School
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Rolla Senior High School has a population of about 1050 students. The school's mascot is the Bulldog with the colors of maroon and silver (formerly maroon, gray, and gold). The high school has many clubs offered, including Student Council (StuCo), Key Club, Octagon Club, DECA, FFA, FCCLA, Chess Club, Improvisation Club, Spanish Club, German Club, French Club, Latin Club, Game Club, and the new addition Link Crew. There are two forms of publications at RHS: The Growler yearbook and The Echo newspaper.
During the 2006–2007 school year, the parking lot was expanded to accommodate the growing number of commuting students with their own vehicles. The extra room was created by tearing down a nearby house.
The high school started the 2008–2009 year with a new principal, Mr. Nathan Hoven, after the previous principal Dr. Roger Berkbuegler after 28 years as the principal of Rolla Senior High School.
History
Founded in 1921, Rolla Senior High School has a rich history. In 1989 an addition was made to the high school which nearly doubled its classrooms. For the most part the hard sciences remain in the older portions of the building and other subjects are dispersed in between balls.During the 2006–2007 school year, the parking lot was expanded to accommodate the growing number of commuting students with their own vehicles. The extra room was created by tearing down a nearby house.
The high school started the 2008–2009 year with a new principal, Mr. Nathan Hoven, after the previous principal Dr. Roger Berkbuegler after 28 years as the principal of Rolla Senior High School.
Athletics
Rolla High School's Bulldog Athletic teams compete year-round.- Fall sports
- Boys Cross CountryCross country runningCross 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...
- Boys Soccer
- Boys FootballAmerican footballAmerican 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...
- Girls Cross CountryCross country runningCross 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...
- Girls VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball 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...
- Girls GolfGolfGolf 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....
- Girls SoftballSoftballSoftball 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...
- Girls TennisTennisTennis 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...
- Girls Football CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading 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...
- Boys Cross Country
- Winter sports
- BoysWrestlingWrestlingWrestling 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...
- Boys BasketballBasketballBasketball 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...
- Girls BasketballBasketballBasketball 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...
- Girls Winter CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading 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...
- BoysWrestling
- Spring sports
- Boys BaseballBaseballBaseball 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 TennisTennisTennis 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...
- Boys GolfGolfGolf 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....
- Boys Track and FieldTrack and fieldTrack 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...
- Girls Track and FieldTrack and fieldTrack 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...
- Girls Soccer
- Boys Baseball
AP courses offered
- AP Java
- AP European History
- AP American History
- AP Calculus
- AP Chemistry
- AP Latin
- AP English
- AP Music Theory
- Other AP tests can be taken at the behest of students. Students have been known to study on their own and do exceedingly well on AP tests. AP Biology, AP Macro/Micro Econ, and AP Calculus BC have all been administered without the class being offered.
Notable alumni
- Robin CarnahanRobin CarnahanRobin Carnahan is an American politician, daughter of Missouri politicians Mel and Jean Carnahan and the current Missouri Secretary of State. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2010, to replace retiring Republican Sen...
, currently Missouri Secretary of State - Russ CarnahanRuss CarnahanJohn Russell "Russ" Carnahan is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party.The district includes the southern third of the city of St. Louis and most of the southern St. Louis suburbs including most of Jefferson County and all of Ste. Genevieve County...
, currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 3rd district - Russell Evans, played professional football with the Seattle SeahawksSeattle SeahawksThe Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team...
- Jim Gladden, former assistant head coach for the Florida State SeminolesFlorida State SeminolesThe Florida State Seminoles are the men's and women's sports teams of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State participates in the NCAA's Division I . FSU joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1991, and competes in the Atlantic Division in any sports split into a...
- Gannet Tseggai, Southern Communications Director at the White HouseWhite HouseThe White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
- Marty BrownMarty BrownMarty Leo Brown is the current manager of the Las Vegas 51s and a former Major League Baseball third baseman who played for the Cincinnati Reds and Baltimore Orioles...
, former Major League Baseball athlete and professional baseball manager in Japan