Sandcreek Middle School
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Sandcreek adjoins Hillcrest High SchoolHillcrest High School (Idaho)
Hillcrest High School is a high school in Ammon, Idaho. Hillcrest has one principal, Doug McLaren, and two assistant principals, Heath Jackson and Elisa Saffle. It is a public school servicing grades 9-12. The school currently has an enrollment of 1,320 students with 95 faculty members...
on the southern end of the city creating a middle school/high school campus. It is part of the Bonneville Joint School District #93. The school serves approximately 650 7th and 8th grade students from Ammon, Falls Valley, Hillview, TieBreaker, Centennial Ranch and McDonald's Farm subdivisions. Lyndon Oswald currently serves as principal, with Kent Sawyer as assistant principal. The school mascot is the dragon
Dragon
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. The school colors are black and gold.
Athletics
The school has boys' and girls' basketballBasketball
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...
, 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...
, track
Track and field
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, and wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling 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...
programs. All sports participate in the Upper Snake River Valley Conference. Sandcreek competes against seven other schools in the conference: Gale, Eagle Rock, Taylorview, Rocky Mountain, Mountainview (Blackfoot), Rigby, and Madison. In 2008, the boy's basketball team won 13 games, lost 1, and claimed the title of Conference Champions.