Start High School (Toledo, Ohio)
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Roy C. Start High School is a public high school in West Toledo
, Ohio
, United States
. The school opened in 1962 and is part of the Toledo Public Schools. It was named after Roy C. Start, two-time mayor of Toledo and founder of the West Toledo YMCA
. The school building was recently demolished and a new building is now in place. Students have been attending the new Start since the new semester in January 2008. The only part of the original Roy C. Start High School building in use is the auditorium (which is now in the West Toledo YMCA building) and is attached to the new building. Although Start is a public school, students are required to adhere to a dress code during the school day. (tan, brown, blue, of black pants with any solid colored collared shirt)
In the decade of the 1990s alone, Start posted a 260-34 mark that was unmatched among Ohio high schools over that span. During that period the Spartans have regularly been ranked in USA Today's national top-25.
Coach Rich Arbinger was elected into the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1993. In 2007, the baseball diamond at Bowman Park in Toledo was officially renamed "Rich Arbinger Field"
, which were located in the same neighborhood and a very short distance south of Start. When DeVilbiss closed, much of its school district was absorbed by Start after a community effort urging TPS to merge Start into DeVilbiss had failed.
Start's main and long-standing rivals are the Whitmer Panthers
, located less than two miles away on Tremainsville Road. The "Battle of Tremainsville" was a non-conference matchup from Start's inception in the early 1960s until Whitmer joined the City League in 2003. Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, it will revert back to a non-league matchup when Whitmer joins the new Three Rivers Athletic Conference
.
Ohio Spoken Olympiada.
Other Notable Start Alumni
Toledo City League
(years marked with an asterisk (*) denote a shared title)
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...
, Ohio
Ohio
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, United States
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. The school opened in 1962 and is part of the Toledo Public Schools. It was named after Roy C. Start, two-time mayor of Toledo and founder of the West Toledo YMCA
YMCA
The Young Men's Christian Association is a worldwide organization of more than 45 million members from 125 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs...
. The school building was recently demolished and a new building is now in place. Students have been attending the new Start since the new semester in January 2008. The only part of the original Roy C. Start High School building in use is the auditorium (which is now in the West Toledo YMCA building) and is attached to the new building. Although Start is a public school, students are required to adhere to a dress code during the school day. (tan, brown, blue, of black pants with any solid colored collared shirt)
Start baseball
Start's baseball team, led by long time head coach Rich Arbinger, Start baseball has 2 state championships in the last twenty years (1994, 2000). In 1994 Start finished a 31-0 season with the school's first state title, and was named national champion. The 2000 team went 25-3 and added a second state crown. The Spartans lost in the big-school finals in 1987,1997 and 2005, and also reached the state semifinals in 1993 and 1995.In the decade of the 1990s alone, Start posted a 260-34 mark that was unmatched among Ohio high schools over that span. During that period the Spartans have regularly been ranked in USA Today's national top-25.
Coach Rich Arbinger was elected into the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1993. In 2007, the baseball diamond at Bowman Park in Toledo was officially renamed "Rich Arbinger Field"
Rivalries
From its opening until 1991, Start had a rivalry with the DeVilbiss TigersDeVilbiss High School (Toledo, Ohio)
Thomas A. DeVilbiss High School was a public high school in Toledo, Ohio, United States from 1931 to June 1991. It was part of the Toledo Public School District and served students from the following elementary schools: DeVeaux, Elmhurst, Grove Patterson, Longfellow, Mayfair, McKinley, Nathan...
, which were located in the same neighborhood and a very short distance south of Start. When DeVilbiss closed, much of its school district was absorbed by Start after a community effort urging TPS to merge Start into DeVilbiss had failed.
Start's main and long-standing rivals are the Whitmer Panthers
Whitmer High School (Toledo, Ohio)
Whitmer High School is a public high school in Toledo, Ohio, USA. It is the only high school in the Washington Local School District in Lucas County, Ohio, serving the northwest section of Toledo up to the Michigan state line. It is the largest high school in the Toledo area...
, located less than two miles away on Tremainsville Road. The "Battle of Tremainsville" was a non-conference matchup from Start's inception in the early 1960s until Whitmer joined the City League in 2003. Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, it will revert back to a non-league matchup when Whitmer joins the new Three Rivers Athletic Conference
Three Rivers Athletic Conference
The Three Rivers Athletic Conference is an Ohio High School Athletic Association high school athletic conference that will begin athletic competition in 2011 and is currently slotted to have 10 high schools from Northwest Ohio, seven of which are from the Toledo metropolitan area, and one each...
.
Clubs and organizations
Roy C. Start has a large number of clubs. Some of those clubs are:- Russian Club - many students have competed and received medals by competing in the National Russian Essay Competition and the
Ohio Spoken Olympiada.
- Red Cross Club
- Youth 2 Youth
- Z Club
- German Club
- Chess Club
- Euchre Club
- SBG
- DECA
- Latin Club - functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) and National Junior Classical LeagueNational Junior Classical LeagueThe National Junior Classical League is a youth organization of secondary school students sponsored by the American Classical League...
(NJCL). - Math Club
- NHS
- Newspaper
- Quiz Bowl
- Art Club
- Be the Change
- French Club
- Science Olympiad
- Anime Club
- Business Professionals of America Club
Start Collegiate Athletes
In 2009, Start had three graduating seniors go on to pursue Division 1 college athletics.- Devin Russell- The University of Toledo (Basketball)
- Yolanda Richardson- The University of Toledo (Basketball)
- Paiton Twitty- The University of Akron (Volleyball)
Other Notable Start Alumni
- Kent Smith - NFL (Oakland Raiders, 2006)
- Doug Whatmore- (Indiana University Baseball, 1987-1991)
- Greg Finnegan- (Cornell University Football, 1988-1991)
- Airron Richardson- (University of Michigan Wrestling, 1994-1998, two-time NCAA All-American, Olympic alternate)
- Devin Vargas- (Boxing, 2004 Olympian)
- Stacey Nadolny- (Cornell University Track and Field, 2002-2005, four-time Ivy League discus champion)
- Kim Jameson- (Bowling Green State University Track and Field, 1981-1984)
- Theresa Mariea- (University of Toledo Track and Field, Cross Country, 1995-1999)
Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
- 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...
- 1994 (Easton National Champions), 2000 - 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...
– 1980
Toledo City LeagueToledo City LeagueThe Toledo City League is an Ohio High School Athletic Association high school athletic conference that was formed in 1926 and comprises the six high schools in Toledo that are from Toledo Public Schools.- Membership :...
Titles
- 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...
: 1978 - 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...
: - 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...
: - Girls Cross Country: 2011
- 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 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...
: 1978-79, 1996-97 - Girls Basketball: 2010-11
- WrestlingWrestlingWrestling 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...
: - 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 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...
: 1991 - Girls Track and Field: 1973, 1974, 1975
- 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 Soccer:
- boys Soccer:
(years marked with an asterisk (*) denote a shared title)
External links
- Toledo Public Schools
- Start Spartan Football Site [www.StartSpartans.net]
- Start Tech Club site [www.starttech.club.officelive.com]