Sand Creek High School is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in South-Central Colorado, in the southern portion of the state. It is situated on Fountain Creek and is located south of the Colorado...

 and is the second high school

High school

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 of Falcon School District 49

Falcon School District 49

The Falcon School District 49 is located to the east of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is the largest district geographically within the state of Colorado, as well as one of the fastest growing.-Elementary:*Evans International Elementary School...

. The school was built in 1997.

Athletics

Sand Creek High School is a member of the Colorado Springs Metro League, Class 4A. It competes in Men's football, cross country, soccer, golf, tennis, basketball, wrestling, track, and baseball, and Women's softball, cross country, volleyball, basketball, track, soccer, golf, and tennis. They also participate in marching band competitions, with their band reaching semi-finals on the state level in 2007. Sand Creek has been more become increasingly more involved with a dedicated body of students in cheerleading and an Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC). The AFJROTC program was established in 2007 which currently includes over 100 students from all grades. The JROTC program also promotes extra-curricular participation in its statewide competitive Drill Team which includes a variety of demonstrations, skills,and disciplines from Armed Regulation, Drill Inspection, Color Guard, Rifle Exhibition Teams, etc. The Sand Creek Scorpion Cheerleading Squad is catergorized as a Super Varsity Coed Squad with more than 20 members on the varsity team and an equal number on the junior varsity team. The cheerleaders participate in statewide competitions with top performances and consistently earn their bid for the National title. The school struggled during their first years of sports.

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