Wethersfield High School (Connecticut)

Wethersfield High School
Address
411 Wolcott Hill Road Wethersfield , Connecticut, USA
Information
Type	Public secondary
Principal	Thomas R. Moore
Faculty	approx. 100
Grades	9–12
Number of students	approx. 1,150
Color(s)	Blue and white
Mascot	Eagle
Yearbook	The Elm
Website	[1]

Wethersfield High School is the only high school in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and has won many awards for excellence.

Facilities

Wethersfield High has a 37-acre campus. The campus includes a greenhouse, a synthetic surface outdoor track, the Esposito baseball complex, a softball field, the DiCicco soccer field and the Cottone Football Stadium. The building has approximately 230,000 square feet of space.

The school's ice hockey team skates out of Newington Arena (formerly known as Connecticut International Skating Center) in Newington, Connecticut.

Enrollment

In the 2003-2004 school year, there were about 100 staff members and 1150 enrolled students.

Alumni

• Christopher S. Murphy, U.S. Congressman
• Paul Doyle, CT State Senator
• Will Musson, disgusting pitcher

Awards

Wethersfield High School was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in 1996. Lauren Hunter was recognized as the most beautiful girl in New England in 2007

Athletics

Wethersfield High School excels at a variety of sports including soccer and baseball.

Wethersfield's ice hockey team won the Connecticut Division III State Championships in 2007, for the first time in the team's 33 year history. The win is the first state championship for Coach Dennis Tulimieri, who has been head coach of the Eagles for 21 years, and assistant coach Bryan Healy, who's senior year resulted in the team's first trip to the championship, losing 8-7 in overtime to Immaculate High School in 1986 at the Hartford Civic Center.

Theater program

The school's theater program generally produces two plays per academic year, a non-musical theatrical production in the fall season, and a musical in the spring. Recently, Wethersfield has performed productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Godspell, and West Side Story. Fall productions have included a collection of stories by Kurt Vonnegut and a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Wethersfield is currently working on the creation of a full time drama department within the school.

External links

• School website