Willow Glen High School
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High school
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in the Willow Glen
Willow Glen, California
Willow Glen is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, in Santa Clara County. Geographically speaking, the Willow Glen neighborhood is centered around Lincoln Avenue, which was re-named from "Willow Glen Road" in 1865 shortly after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.By 1863 the small...
neighborhood of San Jose
San Jose, California
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, California
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, within the San Jose Unified School District. The school was placed 731st in Newsweek
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's List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools (2005). The Rams are the athletic mascot of the school, and the homecoming parade is traditionally down the main street, Lincoln Ave., of the Willow Glen district of San Jose. The school is adjacent to Willow Glen Middle School, from which most students arrive after graduating. The school teaches students from grades 9-12. In the class entering in 1982, and earlier, the school covered grades 10-12. Willow Glen High School offers many extra curricular activities including football, baseball, tennis, soccer, basketball, volleyball, badminton, water polo, track and field, and cross country. Willow Glen High School has a swimming pool, 2 gyms, 2 baseball fields, a track/football/soccer field, a sand volleyball court, and basketball courts. The school currently has 1658 students enrolled. Similar to Leland High School, Willow Glen High School will also be receiving a solar power structure to save money and to be beneficial to the environment. Willow Glen High School Boys Volleyball won a CCS championship in 2009, one of the first public schools to do so in that CCS division.
Notable alumni
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, Olympic Champion figure skater, winner of Dancing with the Stars-Season 6 - Eric KretzEric KretzEric Kretz is an American musician and producer, known as the drummer for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots, one of the most successful rock bands of the 1990s and early 2000s that reunited in 2008. He has also played for Talk Show, and most recently Spiralarms...
, drummer for Stone Temple PilotsStone Temple PilotsStone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz .... - Jeff FoskettJeff FoskettJeffrey Foskett is a guitarist and singer best known for his work with Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys.Foskett originally came from San Jose, California, where in the early-1970s his first band was a surf group named "Cherry", after the Willow Glen area street on which he lived. He attended Willow...
, of The Beach BoysThe Beach BoysThe Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962... - Jon Jay Houston, Professional Soccer Player,Graduated in 1982, 1963-2008
- Bob BerryBob Berry (football player)Robert Chadwick "Bob" Berry is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League for twelve seasons. He was selected to one Pro Bowl in 1969 as a member of the Atlanta Falcons. Berry played in Super Bowls VIII, IX and XI as a member of the Minnesota Vikings...
, NFL Quarterback, 1965 - 1975, All American QB at Oregon - Holly HallstromHolly HallstromHolly Hallstrom was one of the models on the daytime game show The Price Is Right, from 1977–1995...
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1976-1995 - Joshua Dixon, 2007-2011 All American at Stanford University, NCAA Champion, USA National Team member (gymnastics)
- Tammy Nelson, Lead Singing Entertainer at Beach Blanket Babylon and performer of note in San Francisco.
- Terry Saltalamachia, aka Terry Sol, Comedian, Opening act for Louie Anderson, Kellie Pickler, Donny & Marie Osmond, Glenn Yarbrough, Terry Fator, Radio DJ.