Terryville High School
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Terryville High School is a public high school that serves students living in Plymouth
, Terryville, and Pequabuck, Connecticut. Terryville High School is located at 33 North Harwinton Avenue in Terryville, CT. Terryville High School is the only school in town to offer grades 9-12
. Formerly located at the site of what is now Eli Terry Jr. Middle School, a new Terryville High School building was completed and opened in January 2008.
activities in which students can participate. School sports include baseball
, softball
, boys' and girls' basketball
, boys' and girls' soccer, cross country
, tennis
, volleyball
, track & field, golf
, and wrestling
.
The gym
nasium of Terryville High School is adorned with banners representing many years of athletic achievements. Historic sports moments for Terryville include six state basketball championships. Art Hamm coached the team to Connecticut state high school basketball championship victories in 1983-1984. The most recent basketball title was won in 1995. The varsity boys' basketball team finished their 2008-2009 season with an undefeated record of 20-0, making the first basketball team, first boys team, and second overall team in school history to have an undefeated season at Terryville High School; the first team to have an undefeated season was the girls' volleyball team in 2000.
In 1991, Phil Lyga coached his soccer team to a co-champion Berkshire League title. Jerry Daniels and his wrestling teams won several Berkshire League titles and coached many state champions like Kevin Higgins, Paul Higgins, Tony Piazza, Tom Yale, Diego Quintero. Ryan Gorack, the last kangaroo state champ and 3x state open place winner, was coached by Kevin Higgins who thrived under Jerry Daniels program. The Terryville softball squad was a very dominating team which came very close to winning the state title in 2008. Ashley Hogan and Bethany Grimes received all-state for the season.
" (2009), "Altar Egos: The I Do's and Don'ts of an American Wedding" (2008), Bram Stoker's Dracula
(2007), Beauty and the Beast
: French Fairy Tale Version (2006), Bye Bye Birdie (2004), The Sound of Music
(2003), Hello Dolly, Anything Goes
, South Pacific
, and Mame.
Plymouth, Connecticut
Plymouth is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England. The population was 11,634 at the 2000 census. The Town of Plymouth includes the villages of Terryville and Pequabuck.-Geography:...
, Terryville, and Pequabuck, Connecticut. Terryville High School is located at 33 North Harwinton Avenue in Terryville, CT. Terryville High School is the only school in town to offer grades 9-12
Secondary education in the United States
In most jurisdictions, secondary education in the United States refers to the last six or seven years of statutory formal education. Secondary education is generally split between junior high school or middle school, usually beginning with sixth or seventh grade , and high school, beginning with...
. Formerly located at the site of what is now Eli Terry Jr. Middle School, a new Terryville High School building was completed and opened in January 2008.
Terryville's Sports
Terryville High School has a wide variety of athleticAthletic
Athletic may refer to:* An athlete, or sportsperson* Athletic director, a position at many American universities and schools* Athletic type, a physical/psychological type in the classification of Ernst Kretschmer...
activities in which students can participate. School sports include baseball
Baseball
Baseball 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...
, softball
Softball
Softball 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...
, boys' and girls' basketball
Basketball
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...
, boys' and girls' soccer, cross country
Cross country running
Cross 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...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis 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...
, 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 & field, golf
Golf
Golf 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....
, 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...
.
The gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasium of Terryville High School is adorned with banners representing many years of athletic achievements. Historic sports moments for Terryville include six state basketball championships. Art Hamm coached the team to Connecticut state high school basketball championship victories in 1983-1984. The most recent basketball title was won in 1995. The varsity boys' basketball team finished their 2008-2009 season with an undefeated record of 20-0, making the first basketball team, first boys team, and second overall team in school history to have an undefeated season at Terryville High School; the first team to have an undefeated season was the girls' volleyball team in 2000.
In 1991, Phil Lyga coached his soccer team to a co-champion Berkshire League title. Jerry Daniels and his wrestling teams won several Berkshire League titles and coached many state champions like Kevin Higgins, Paul Higgins, Tony Piazza, Tom Yale, Diego Quintero. Ryan Gorack, the last kangaroo state champ and 3x state open place winner, was coached by Kevin Higgins who thrived under Jerry Daniels program. The Terryville softball squad was a very dominating team which came very close to winning the state title in 2008. Ashley Hogan and Bethany Grimes received all-state for the season.
Terryville High School Drama Club
The Terryville High School Drama Club has a long history of presenting plays, including "Alice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...
" (2009), "Altar Egos: The I Do's and Don'ts of an American Wedding" (2008), Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula is a 1992 American Gothic horror-romance film directed and co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker...
(2007), Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740...
: French Fairy Tale Version (2006), Bye Bye Birdie (2004), The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers...
(2003), Hello Dolly, Anything Goes
Anything Goes
Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London...
, South Pacific
South Pacific (musical)
South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
, and Mame.
The New Terryville High School
Work on the new Terryville High School began on January 25, 2006. Less than two years later, it was opened for operation on January 7, 2008. The School Building Committee Members included Chairman William O. Allread, Warren Brayton, Barbara Deschaine, Scott Ewen, William Hubbard, Joseph Sekorski, Donna Wunsch, John Wunsch, and the Town Council Liaison, Councilman Zagurski.External links
- http://www.plymouth.k12.ct.us/ths/ for more information on Terryville High School.