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Mountain View High School (Meridian, Idaho)
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Mountain View High School is a four-year high school (government funded) public secondary school
in Meridian
, Idaho
. The school opened in the fall of 2003, the fourth major high school
in the Meridian School District. MVHS is well-known in the Treasure Valley
for its state-of-the-art track & field complex and football
field.
The school colors
are navy blue
, kelly green, and silver
, and the mascot
is the maverick
. Mountain View competes in the IHSAA
class 5A, for the largest enrollments in the state, and is a member of the 5A Southern Idaho Conference (SIC).
The Mavericks brought home their first two state championship titles in the fall of the 2006-07 school year, when the boys soccer and boys cross country
teams brought home trophies within one week of each other. Mountain View also won state boys wrestling
in the 2007-08 year. The marching band
claimed first place in the "5A Small" division among other awards, at their yearly District III competition for three consecutive years as well as the High Percussion award for three consecutive years. The Millennium Dancers took home 1st place in the military category at the 2008 Idaho State Dance and Cheer Competition, then received 2nd place at Miss Dance/Drill Team USA Nationals. The varsity speech
and debate
team placed second out of 70 schools in sweepstakes from the Whitman College
tournament for the 2008-09 school year. Girls cross country
brought in another state trophy in the 2008-09 school year. The Mountain View Boys Basketball team also won state in the 2010-11 season. After the Mountain View Boys Basketball team won their first state championship, the Girls Varsity Track Team, went on to win their first district and state title, capping off an undefeated season for the team.
MVHS made national news on MSNBC
because of the administration's swift response to cheating
via digital media (iPods, mp3
players, etc.) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18348112/ The high school also received a great deal of media coverage concerning a mercury
spill that occurred on Friday, October 24, 2008. A broken baromometer potentially exposed 25 students and a teacher to the potentially harmful mercury that was inside, which resulted in school cancellation for freshman students during the week of October 27, 2008.
http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-oct2408-haz_mat_mountain_view_high_school.14559a67e.html
Notable current and past students include Louden Shearer, Christian Reid, Mike Sanders, Jake Spencer, John Greene, Jake Perkins, Washington State Cougars
Linebacker Darren Markle, Boise State Football
Wide Receiver Tyler Shoemaker, and Libertarian strategist David Steiner.
He began his coaching and teaching career at Spanaway Lake High School and after one year he decided to return to the Boise area. In 1996, he took a job at Lake Hazel Middle School teaching art and coaching 8th grade football. In 1997 he went to Boise High School, teaching P.E. and art, and was the head sophomore football coach. From 1998-2001 he taught art and coached varsity football at Timberline H.S., becoming the defensive coordinator in 2001. From 2002-2007 he taught art and coached at Centennial High School. While at Centennial he coached linebackers and shared in many of the defensive duties. They won a State Championship in 2003 going 12-0. In 2007 he took the head football job at Mountain View High School. In his first year as head coach we finished 6-3 in the regular season and lost in the first round of the playoffs to Meridian. Currently he is teaching Co-Ed P.E. and Athletic Fitness at Mountain View. He is married to Elessa, his wife of 13 years. They have a 5 year old daughter named Zoe and twin boys who are 1 year old, named Kade and Kai.
Coach Nettleton is in his 6th season here at Mt. View. Coach attended college in Wisconsin at UW-Superior (D-III) ('96) ('00), where he played basketball & baseball for 4 years. Coach Nettleton teaches Desktop Publishing, Computer Apps. 1, 2, 3 and Business Tech in the Business Department. Coach Nettleton is in his 15th year of teaching and 16th year of coaching. Wife-Karen, son-Bryce (2)
Coach Dawley is in his fourth year as the Maverick Varsity Asst. coach. Coach Dawley is in his 10th year of coaching and 8th year of teaching. Coach Dawley attended Boise State University. Coach Dawley teaches AP U.S. History and AP Government. Wife-Molly.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
in Meridian
Meridian, Idaho
-History:The town was established in 1891 on the Onweiler farm north of the present site and was called Hunter. Two years later an I.O.O.F. lodge was organized and called itself Meridian because it was located on the Boise Meridian and the town was renamed...
, Idaho
Idaho
Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....
. The school opened in the fall of 2003, the fourth major high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in the Meridian School District. MVHS is well-known in the Treasure Valley
Treasure Valley
The Treasure Valley is the area of the Western United States where the Payette, Boise, Weiser, Malheur, Owyhee, and Burnt rivers drain into the Snake River. Treasure Valley includes all the lowland areas from Vale, Oregon on the west to Boise, Idaho on the east. Formerly, the valley had been known...
for its state-of-the-art track & field complex and football
American football
American 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...
field.
The school colors
School colors
School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. Most schools have two colors, which are usually chosen to avoid conflicts with other schools with which the school competes in sports and other activities...
are navy blue
Navy blue
Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue which almost appears as black. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue worn by officers in the British Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world....
, kelly green, and silver
Silver
Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal...
, and 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 maverick
Maverick (animal)
Maverick is a term, usually referring to cattle, for an animal that does not carry a brand. In the period of the United States open range, such animals were relatively common. Many cows would give birth in wild or semi-wild conditions, not be located in an annual round up, and their ensuing calf...
. Mountain View competes in the IHSAA
Idaho High School Activities Association
The Idaho High School Activities Association oversees high school athletics in the state of Idaho. Idaho high schools are classified in five categories based on their enrollment...
class 5A, for the largest enrollments in the state, and is a member of the 5A Southern Idaho Conference (SIC).
The Mavericks brought home their first two state championship titles in the fall of the 2006-07 school year, when the boys soccer and boys 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...
teams brought home trophies within one week of each other. Mountain View also won state boys 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...
in the 2007-08 year. The marching band
Marching band
Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
claimed first place in the "5A Small" division among other awards, at their yearly District III competition for three consecutive years as well as the High Percussion award for three consecutive years. The Millennium Dancers took home 1st place in the military category at the 2008 Idaho State Dance and Cheer Competition, then received 2nd place at Miss Dance/Drill Team USA Nationals. The varsity speech
Public speaking
Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners...
and debate
Debate
Debate or debating is a method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examines consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is a technique of persuasion...
team placed second out of 70 schools in sweepstakes from the Whitman College
Whitman College
Whitman College is a private, co-educational, non-sectarian, residential undergraduate liberal arts college located in Walla Walla, Washington. Initially founded as a seminary by a territorial legislative charter in 1859, the school became a four year degree granting institution in 1883...
tournament for the 2008-09 school year. Girls 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...
brought in another state trophy in the 2008-09 school year. The Mountain View Boys Basketball team also won state in the 2010-11 season. After the Mountain View Boys Basketball team won their first state championship, the Girls Varsity Track Team, went on to win their first district and state title, capping off an undefeated season for the team.
MVHS made national news on MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
because of the administration's swift response to cheating
Cheating
Cheating refers to the breaking of rules to gain advantage in a competitive situation. The rules infringed may be explicit, or they may be from an unwritten code of conduct based on morality, ethics or custom, making the identification of cheating a subjective process. Cheating can refer...
via digital media (iPods, mp3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
players, etc.) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18348112/ The high school also received a great deal of media coverage concerning a mercury
Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element with the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver or hydrargyrum...
spill that occurred on Friday, October 24, 2008. A broken baromometer potentially exposed 25 students and a teacher to the potentially harmful mercury that was inside, which resulted in school cancellation for freshman students during the week of October 27, 2008.
http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-oct2408-haz_mat_mountain_view_high_school.14559a67e.html
Notable current and past students include Louden Shearer, Christian Reid, Mike Sanders, Jake Spencer, John Greene, Jake Perkins, Washington State Cougars
Washington State Cougars
The Washington State Cougars are the athletic teams at Washington State University; the term applies to any of the school's varsity teams. Washington State University is a member of the Pacific-12 Conference, which participates in the NCAA Division I...
Linebacker Darren Markle, Boise State Football
Boise State Broncos football
This page discusses the Boise State football program. For more Boise State athletics, see Boise State Broncos.The Boise State Broncos football program represents Boise State University in college football and compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I as a member of the Mountain West...
Wide Receiver Tyler Shoemaker, and Libertarian strategist David Steiner.
Head Coach-Varsity
The varsity football head coach is Mr. Benedick. He was a four year starter for PLU at middle linebacker. He earned three all-conference selections, was elected team captain and was an NAIA all-American his junior and senior years. While at PLU, he played in three National Championship games, winning one his junior year.He began his coaching and teaching career at Spanaway Lake High School and after one year he decided to return to the Boise area. In 1996, he took a job at Lake Hazel Middle School teaching art and coaching 8th grade football. In 1997 he went to Boise High School, teaching P.E. and art, and was the head sophomore football coach. From 1998-2001 he taught art and coached varsity football at Timberline H.S., becoming the defensive coordinator in 2001. From 2002-2007 he taught art and coached at Centennial High School. While at Centennial he coached linebackers and shared in many of the defensive duties. They won a State Championship in 2003 going 12-0. In 2007 he took the head football job at Mountain View High School. In his first year as head coach we finished 6-3 in the regular season and lost in the first round of the playoffs to Meridian. Currently he is teaching Co-Ed P.E. and Athletic Fitness at Mountain View. He is married to Elessa, his wife of 13 years. They have a 5 year old daughter named Zoe and twin boys who are 1 year old, named Kade and Kai.
Head Coach Junior Varsity
Mr. Trask, who is also a security guard at Mountain View High School.Head Coach Freshman
Mr. Matt Edwards is also an English teacher at Mountain View High School.Head Coach-Varsity
Jon Nettleton—Varsity (6th year)(16th overall)Coach Nettleton is in his 6th season here at Mt. View. Coach attended college in Wisconsin at UW-Superior (D-III) ('96) ('00), where he played basketball & baseball for 4 years. Coach Nettleton teaches Desktop Publishing, Computer Apps. 1, 2, 3 and Business Tech in the Business Department. Coach Nettleton is in his 15th year of teaching and 16th year of coaching. Wife-Karen, son-Bryce (2)
Asst
Mike Dawley—Varsity Asst. (4th year)(10th overall)Coach Dawley is in his fourth year as the Maverick Varsity Asst. coach. Coach Dawley is in his 10th year of coaching and 8th year of teaching. Coach Dawley attended Boise State University. Coach Dawley teaches AP U.S. History and AP Government. Wife-Molly.