Sarasota High School
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Sarasota High School is a public high school in Sarasota, Florida
. The mascot
is the Sailor.
During 1958 and 1959, the school was expanded due to an expanding student body. The addition was designed by notable modernist architect Paul Rudolph
. In celebration of the Circus' 20th anniversary in 1969, the Sailor Circus relocated to an arena right outside the school campus. Finally, in 1996, the school expanded to its current size of 85 acres (343,983.1 m²), and classes begin to move out of the old Sarasota High building.
, student government, First Priority Christian Club, Lady Sailor Club, Ex Libris Book Club, La Sertoa, Mu Alpha Theta
, Rho Kappa, and a nationally qualified Speech & Debate team led by Dr. Terri St. John. Some of the sports the school offers include soccer, cheerleading, swimming, track, wrestling, weight lifting, cross country, basketball, football, softball, golf, sailing, and a nationally ranked baseball team which on May 19, 2007 won its eighth Florida State Baseball Championship with a 1-0 victory over Deland High School in the 6A classification.
Baseball State Champions - 1957(2A) 1973(4A) 1987(4A) 1989(4A) 1993(4A)1994(5A) 1996(5A) 2007(6A)
Softball State Champion - 1999(5A)
Tennis State Champion - 1999(5A)
Boys Golf State Champion - 2005(2A)
The world-famous Sarasota High School Sailor Circus began as a mid-game tumbling demonstration during a football game in 1949. It has evolved into a near full-fledged circus of student performers trained and supervised by faculty and parents, some of which are or were professional circus performers. The Sailor Circus appeared on numerous television programs and has traveled throughout the United States, Japan
and Peru
. In 1952, Warner Brothers made a 30 minute short which was shown in theaters throughout North America
. Through an agreement with Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, Inc.
(Ringling having a long association with Sarasota), the Sailor Circus is officially known as "The Greatest Little Show On Earth".
2009 was the mark of the 60th anniversary of Sailor circus, which is no longer affiliated with Sarasota High School. It is now operated by the Police Athletic League (P.A.L) of Sarasota.
Sarasota High features a 1 mile walking path around and through the school. It starts outside the attendance office in Bldg 1, then fallows the north side of Bldg 1 where it loops around Bldg 3, and then continues heading east between Bldg 3 and 8. It then goes through a parking lot southeast of the football stadium and along the east side of Bldg 6. It then goes through the portible classrooms and weaves out on to School Ave north of the campus. Then, one must walk down School Ave. to the campus and walk along Hatton St. north of Bldg 13. Then one must continue along Hatton St and turn right on Shade Ave. hugging the tennis courts near the soccer bldg. Then the path continues off the sidewalk on to a path in between the 2 baseball/softball fields. Then the path continues along the south end of Bldg 22 and Bldg 14. Then one crosses School Ave and goes around the east end of Bldg 1. Then the track ends at the same location it begins.
AICE
In the 2011-2012 school year, Sarasota High School started the magnet program AICE, the Advanced Internation Certificate of Education, a program from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom
. The program is new to Florida, but is common through the rest of the world. One of the main reasons of bringing the AICE program to Sarasota High, was to keep the college bound students districted to Sarasota High from going to the International Baccalaureate magnet program at Riverview High School. The goal of the program is to allow students to choose the amount of college prep classes they want, from 1 to all their core classes. The program has 3 main groups (Languages, Humanities and Arts, and Math and Science) and a student will need to take an AICE exam in 6 AICE classes to get a test in each of the 3 groups, and then the other 3 from any area. Students begin taking AICE classes in 10th grade. They take Pre-AICE classes in 9th and some of 10th grade. Sarasota High has replaced honors classes with Pre-AICE classes. A student can get up to 45 college credits with AICE compared with only 10 credits in IB at Riverview High School. If a student completes 100 hours of community service, a student can also receive 100% of the Bright Futures Scholarship Program
.
, French
, or American Sign Language
. Latin
used to be offered. Although not a requirement of graduation in Florida
, 2 years of a foreign language is required for admission in to a state university
.
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
. The mascot
Mascot
The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...
is the Sailor.
History
Sarasota High School first opened in 1913. A new school was built in 1926 on South Tamiami Trail and the school was relocated. The Sailor Circus held their first performance in 1950 as an extension of the PE class at the high school.During 1958 and 1959, the school was expanded due to an expanding student body. The addition was designed by notable modernist architect Paul Rudolph
Paul Rudolph (architect)
Paul Marvin Rudolph was an American architect and the dean of the Yale School of Architecture for six years, known for use of concrete and highly complex floor plans...
. In celebration of the Circus' 20th anniversary in 1969, the Sailor Circus relocated to an arena right outside the school campus. Finally, in 1996, the school expanded to its current size of 85 acres (343,983.1 m²), and classes begin to move out of the old Sarasota High building.
Sports and Activities
The school offers numerous clubs including: JROTC, drama guild, Mighty Sailor Band, history club, French club, Spanish club, American Sign Language club, National Honor SocietyNational Honor Society
The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
, student government, First Priority Christian Club, Lady Sailor Club, Ex Libris Book Club, La Sertoa, Mu Alpha Theta
Mu Alpha Theta
Mu Alpha Theta is a United States mathematics honor society for high schools and two-year colleges. It has over 89,000 student members in more than 1,800 schools worldwide. Its main goals are to inspire keen interest in mathematics, develop strong scholarship in the subject, and promote the...
, Rho Kappa, and a nationally qualified Speech & Debate team led by Dr. Terri St. John. Some of the sports the school offers include soccer, cheerleading, swimming, track, wrestling, weight lifting, cross country, basketball, football, softball, golf, sailing, and a nationally ranked baseball team which on May 19, 2007 won its eighth Florida State Baseball Championship with a 1-0 victory over Deland High School in the 6A classification.
Baseball State Champions - 1957(2A) 1973(4A) 1987(4A) 1989(4A) 1993(4A)1994(5A) 1996(5A) 2007(6A)
Softball State Champion - 1999(5A)
Tennis State Champion - 1999(5A)
Boys Golf State Champion - 2005(2A)
The world-famous Sarasota High School Sailor Circus began as a mid-game tumbling demonstration during a football game in 1949. It has evolved into a near full-fledged circus of student performers trained and supervised by faculty and parents, some of which are or were professional circus performers. The Sailor Circus appeared on numerous television programs and has traveled throughout the United States, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
. In 1952, Warner Brothers made a 30 minute short which was shown in theaters throughout North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
. Through an agreement with Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, Inc.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is an American circus company. The company was started when the circus created by James Anthony Bailey and P. T. Barnum was merged with the Ringling Brothers Circus. The Ringling brothers purchased the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1907, but ran the circuses...
(Ringling having a long association with Sarasota), the Sailor Circus is officially known as "The Greatest Little Show On Earth".
2009 was the mark of the 60th anniversary of Sailor circus, which is no longer affiliated with Sarasota High School. It is now operated by the Police Athletic League (P.A.L) of Sarasota.
Campus
The school currently has over 2,600 students with 139 teachers and faculty. The campus featuring 19 buildings (5 of them being 2 stories) and 10 portible units (each containing one classroom). There are 2 cafeterias, 2 gymnasiums, 2 locker rooms, a professional weight training room, an auditorium with stage and dressing rooms, a circus arena, 8 tennis courts, 2 baseball/softball diamonds, a football stadium with a track surrounding it, and a soccer field, and 4 parking lots. Sarasota High School is large enough to have to spread over streets. During school hours, School Ave. and Championship Dr. are closed to cars so students can cross safely without having to worry about cars.Sarasota High features a 1 mile walking path around and through the school. It starts outside the attendance office in Bldg 1, then fallows the north side of Bldg 1 where it loops around Bldg 3, and then continues heading east between Bldg 3 and 8. It then goes through a parking lot southeast of the football stadium and along the east side of Bldg 6. It then goes through the portible classrooms and weaves out on to School Ave north of the campus. Then, one must walk down School Ave. to the campus and walk along Hatton St. north of Bldg 13. Then one must continue along Hatton St and turn right on Shade Ave. hugging the tennis courts near the soccer bldg. Then the path continues off the sidewalk on to a path in between the 2 baseball/softball fields. Then the path continues along the south end of Bldg 22 and Bldg 14. Then one crosses School Ave and goes around the east end of Bldg 1. Then the track ends at the same location it begins.
MaST
MaST Research Institute is a magnet program at Sarasota High. This program emphazises in math, science, and engineering. The main focus of the program is to educate students on the scientific research process and then to have its members complete in-depth research projects over the course of their high school careers. Students defend their research in a public forum at the end of their senior year at the program's annual science symposium. Students involved in the MaST Research Institute have won multiple awards for their research, including: multiple entrants and placement at the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair, placement at the International ISWEEEP competition, multiple placements (including 1st place) and entrants to the statewide Florida Junior Academy of Science Competition; and multiple entrants and placement in the statewide Junior Science Engineering and Humanities Symposium. MaST students have attended some of the top Universities in the nation upon graduation, including (but not limited to): Princeton, Harvard, Duke, Dartmouth, Columbia, Georgetown, and Georgia Tech. AICEAdvanced International Certificate of EducationThe Advanced International Certificate of Education is an academically rigorous, internationally used, specialized, English language curriculum offered to students in the higher levels of secondary school intended to prepare them for an honours programme during tertiary education...
In the 2011-2012 school year, Sarasota High School started the magnet program AICE, the Advanced Internation Certificate of Education, a program from Cambridge University in the United KingdomUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. The program is new to Florida, but is common through the rest of the world. One of the main reasons of bringing the AICE program to Sarasota High, was to keep the college bound students districted to Sarasota High from going to the International Baccalaureate magnet program at Riverview High School. The goal of the program is to allow students to choose the amount of college prep classes they want, from 1 to all their core classes. The program has 3 main groups (Languages, Humanities and Arts, and Math and Science) and a student will need to take an AICE exam in 6 AICE classes to get a test in each of the 3 groups, and then the other 3 from any area. Students begin taking AICE classes in 10th grade. They take Pre-AICE classes in 9th and some of 10th grade. Sarasota High has replaced honors classes with Pre-AICE classes. A student can get up to 45 college credits with AICE compared with only 10 credits in IB at Riverview High School. If a student completes 100 hours of community service, a student can also receive 100% of the Bright Futures Scholarship Program
Bright Futures Scholarship Program
Bright Futures is the name of a scholarship program in the state of Florida. It is funded by the Florida Lottery and was first started in 1997.-Program:...
.
Foreign Languages
Sarasota High School offers students the chance to learn SpanishSpanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, or American Sign Language
American Sign Language
American Sign Language, or ASL, for a time also called Ameslan, is the dominant sign language of Deaf Americans, including deaf communities in the United States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, and in some regions of Mexico...
. Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
used to be offered. Although not a requirement of graduation in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, 2 years of a foreign language is required for admission in to a state university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
.
Fine Arts
Sarasota High School has a band, choir, and drama guild. The band performs at all the football games and the drama guild also put on plays.Block Scheduling
- Sarasota High School was planned to move from standard scheduling to block schedulingBlock schedulingBlock scheduling is a type of academic scheduling in which each student has fewer classes per day but each class is scheduled for a longer period of time . A student might be taking 7 different classes, but only 4 per day, and the specific daily classes would rotate through a changing daily cycle...
in the 2006-2007 school year. However, after much criticism and concern from the parents of many students, school officials decided to delay the implementation of block schedule until the 2007-2008 school year. Block scheduling was used again in the 2008-2009 school year, but due to lack of funding, the school switched back to traditional scheduling for the 2009-2010 school year.As of the 2011-2012 school year, the class period is 47 min, with a 30 min lunch, and 6 min transition time in between classes.
Famous Alumni
- Paul AzingerPaul AzingerPaul William Azinger is an American professional golfer and occasional on air golf analyst. He spent almost 300 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1988 and 1994.-Early years:...
- 1993 PGA Championship Winner and 2008 Winning Ryder Cup Captain - Joe CashWorld water skiing champions- List of Tournament World champions - Men & Women :- List of Ski Racing World Champions:- List of Cable Ski World champions - Men & Women :-1980s:1982*Willa Cook, Deleon Springs, Florida, *Ralph Samuelson, deceased, *Richard Pope, deceased,...
- World champion water skier - Ian DesmondIan DesmondIan M. Desmond is a shortstop for the Washington Nationals . He was selected by the Montreal Expos in the third round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft and signed on June 16....
- MLB shortstopShortstopShortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...
for the Washington NationalsWashington NationalsThe Washington Nationals are a professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C. The Nationals are a member of the Eastern Division of the National League of Major League Baseball . The team moved into the newly built Nationals Park in 2008, after playing their first three seasons in RFK Stadium... - Ken ForssiKen ForssiKenneth Raymond Forssi, known as "Kenny" early in life and then "Ken" , was an American musician. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest child of Raymond B. and Lola G. Forssi. When he was about 9 years old, his family moved to Siesta Key, on the Florida west coast, and then, shortly moved on...
- Bassist with LoveLove (band)Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer/songwriter Arthur Lee and lead guitarist Johnny Echols...
, graduated 1962 - Herb HaygoodHerb HaygoodHerbert Donta "Herb" Haygood is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the fifth round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans. He now coaches wide receivers at Saginaw Valley...
- Drafted by the Denver Broncos 2002 graduated 1997 - Casey KellyCasey KellyCasey Kelly is an American minor league baseball player in the San Diego Padres organization. He was a first round draft choice, 30th overall, in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft by the Boston Red Sox...
- PitcherPitcherIn baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...
in the San Diego PadresSan Diego PadresThe San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. They play in the National League Western Division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times...
organization - Mark PaulineMark PaulineMark Pauline is an American performance artist and inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival Research Labs. He is a 1977 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida....
- Performance Artist, graduated 1970 - Paul Rubenfeld, aka Pee-Wee HermanPee-wee HermanPee-wee Herman is a comic fictional character created and portrayed by American comedian Paul Reubens. He is best known for his two television series and film series during the 1980s. The childlike Pee-wee Herman character developed as a stage act that quickly led to an HBO special in 1981...
- Actor, graduated 1970 - Bobby SeayBobby SeayRobert "Bobby" Michael Seay is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has previously played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays from 2001 to 2004, the Colorado Rockies in 2005, and the Detroit Tigers from 2006 to 2010.-High school:Seay is a graduate of Sarasota High...
- MLB pitcherPitcherIn baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...
for the Detroit TigersDetroit TigersThe Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant... - Skippy WhitakerSkippy WhitakerLucian Cary "Skippy" Whitaker is a retired American basketball player. He won an NCAA championship at the University of Kentucky in 1951 and played briefly in the National Basketball Association ....
- Retired basketball player (Boston CelticsBoston CelticsThe Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...
) - Augustine Obi - 2011 Gatorade Football National Player of the Year
External links
- Grand Reunion multi-year classmate reunion website
- Broadcasts/Podcasts of Sailor Football, Basketball, Baseball Sailors Sports Broadcasts