Peninsula High School
Encyclopedia
Peninsula High School is a public high school
located in Purdy
, north of the city of Gig Harbor, Washington
. It is built on a hill overlooking Henderson Bay
and Burley Lagoon
.
. After Gig Harbor High School
was founded in 1978 4 miles to the south, students living south of North Harborview Drive in downtown Gig Harbor and Fox Island
attended the new high school.
, Boys & Girls Basketball
, Cross Country
, Fastpitch
, Football
, Girls Bowling
, Golf
, Boys & Girls Soccer, Boys & Girls Swimming
& Diving
, Boys & Girls Tennis
, Track & Field, Volleyball
, Water Polo
, and Wrestling
. http://phs.psd401.net/sports/default.asp The boys cross country team recently got second at the 3A state meet, the highest placing by a Peninsula team since the baseball team in 2006.The Peninsula High School football team were the state 3A champions in 1978. Larry Lunke was the head coach.
Leadership, Band
, Cheerleading
, Chess Club
, Choir
, Competitive Robotics, DECA
, Debate
, Dignity Club, Drama
, Drivers Education, Environmental Club, FBLA
, GSA
, Honor Society
, Key Club
, KGHP
(high school radio
station), Knowledge Bowl
, Math Club, Model United Nations, Newspaper
(The Peninsula Outlook), Onomatopoeia Press Literary Magazine, Photo Club, Science Club, Speech and Debate, Sports Information Club, TATU
(Teens Against Tobacco Use), TEAM (Teens Empowered Against Meth), Teens For Life, Trap Shooting
, Varsity Club, and Yearbook
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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....
located in Purdy
Purdy, Washington
Purdy is a small unincorporated community north of the city of Gig Harbor, on the northern boundary of Pierce County, Washington. It is located on the shores of Burley Lagoon and Henderson Bay of the Carr Inlet...
, north of the city of Gig Harbor, Washington
Gig Harbor, Washington
Gig Harbor is the name of both a bay on Puget Sound and a city on its shore in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 7,126 at the 2010 census....
. It is built on a hill overlooking Henderson Bay
Henderson Bay
Henderson Bay is a bay on the Aupouri Peninsula, at very top of the North Island in New Zealand. It is on the eastern side of the peninsula, close to New Zealand State Highway 1 near Houhora. A metal road connects the bay to the highway....
and Burley Lagoon
Burley Lagoon
Burley Lagoon is a picturesque watershed located on the Key Peninsula in both Pierce County, Washington and Kitsap County, Washington. Approximately sixty percent of the lagoon is in Pierce County and forty percent in Kitsap County. The percentages in each county are reversed for the watershed...
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History
Peninsula High School was founded in 1947 (the state's original Seahawks) in its current location. At the time it was the only high school serving the Gig Harbor Peninsula and Key PeninsulaKey Peninsula
The Key Peninsula is a finger of land in Puget Sound, Washington, United States . It is approximately long and extends south from the Kitsap Peninsula. It is part of Pierce County, Washington. Some of its towns include:...
. After Gig Harbor High School
Gig Harbor High School
Gig Harbor High School is a public high school in the Peninsula School District located in Gig Harbor, Washington.It was created in the summer of 1978 and originally was a 2A school, but is presently 4A...
was founded in 1978 4 miles to the south, students living south of North Harborview Drive in downtown Gig Harbor and Fox Island
Fox Island, Washington
Fox Island is a census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington, United States, on an island of the same name in Puget Sound. It is located approximately five miles from Gig Harbor. The island was named Fox by Charles Wilkes during the United States Exploring Expedition, to honor J.L. Fox, an...
attended the new high school.
Athletics
Peninsula has many sports and club sports including, BaseballBaseball
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...
, Boys & 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...
, 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...
, Fastpitch
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...
, 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...
, Girls Bowling
Bowling
Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
, 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....
, Boys & Girls Soccer, Boys & Girls Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
& Diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
, Boys & Girls 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...
, Track & Field, 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...
, Water Polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
, 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...
. http://phs.psd401.net/sports/default.asp The boys cross country team recently got second at the 3A state meet, the highest placing by a Peninsula team since the baseball team in 2006.The Peninsula High School football team were the state 3A champions in 1978. Larry Lunke was the head coach.
Programs, clubs, and activities
Peninsula has many clubs and organizations including ASB, ASLASL
ASL is a common initialism for American Sign Language, and may also refer to:*Above sea level, altitude measurement*Adobe Source Libraries, a set of open source software libraries by Adobe...
Leadership, Band
School band
A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors...
, Cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, Chess Club
Chess club
A chess club is a club formed for the purpose of playing the board game of chess. Chess clubs provide for both informal games and timed games, often as part of an internal competition or in a league.-Organisation:...
, Choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
, Competitive Robotics, DECA
DECA (organization)
DECA, also known as Collegiate DECA on the college level) is an international association of students and teachers of marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business, finance, hospitality, and marketing sales and service . DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing,...
, 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...
, Dignity Club, Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
, Drivers Education, Environmental Club, FBLA
FBLA-PBL
The Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, or FBLA-PBL, is an American career and technical student organization that has its headquarters in Reston, Virginia...
, GSA
Gay-straight alliance
Gay–straight alliances are student organizations, found primarily in North American high schools and universities, that are intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their straight allies .-Goal:The goal of most, if not all,...
, Honor Society
Honor society
In the United States, an honor society is a rank organization that recognizes excellence among peers. Numerous societies recognize various fields and circumstances. The Order of the Arrow, for example, is the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America...
, Key Club
Key Club
Key Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
, KGHP
KGHP-FM
KGHP-FM , is a student-run high school radio station operating on a non-commercial license in Gig Harbor, Washington. Owned by the Peninsula School District #401, the station's studio is located on the campus of Peninsula High School...
(high school radio
High school radio
High school radio within the United States is almost as old as radio broadcasting itself. Simply defined as a radio station, with its studios located at a high school and usually operated by its students with faculty supervision, stations fitting this description existed in the mid-1920s...
station), Knowledge Bowl
Knowledge Bowl
Knowledge Bowl is an interdisciplinary academic competition involving teams of four to six students trying to answer questions in a written round and several oral rounds. No team is eliminated in this event, and every team participates in every round...
, Math Club, Model United Nations, Newspaper
Student newspaper
A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....
(The Peninsula Outlook), Onomatopoeia Press Literary Magazine, Photo Club, Science Club, Speech and Debate, Sports Information Club, TATU
American Lung Association
The American Lung Association is a voluntary health organization whose mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease.-History:...
(Teens Against Tobacco Use), TEAM (Teens Empowered Against Meth), Teens For Life, Trap Shooting
Trap shooting
Trap shooting is one of the three major forms of competitive clay pigeon shooting . The others are skeet shooting and sporting clays. There are many versions including Olympic trap, Double trap , Down-The-Line, and Nordic trap. American trap is most popular in the United States and Canada...
, Varsity Club, and Yearbook
Yearbook
A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually. Virtually all American, Australian and Canadian high schools, most colleges and many elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks...
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Notable alumni
- Doris BrownDoris Brown HeritageDoris Brown was born on September 17, 1942 in Tacoma, Washington.Brown went to Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, Washington, graduating in 1960. She then attended Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington where she earned a B.A. in 1964 and a M.S. in 1971.In 1966, Brown became the first...
(1960) - Inducted into the USATF Hall of Fame in 1990. Second female inducted into United States Track Coaches Hall of Fame in 1999. Inducted into the National Distance Running Hall of FameNational Distance Running Hall of FameThe National Distance Running Hall of Fame was established on July 11, 1998, to honor those who have contributed to the sport of distance running...
in 2002. - Greg Copeland (1990) - Currently an anchor on Northwest Cable NewsNorthwest Cable NewsNorthwest Cable News is a regional 24-hour cable news network based in Seattle, Washington, U.S. It is similar to New England Cable News, which operates out of Boston and covers the New England area....
. - Dean ShomshakDean ShomshakDean Shomshak is the author of supplements for role playing games. Starting his career writing articles for game magazines, he moved on to writing supplements for Hero Games's Champions system, and currently writes for White Wolf Game Studio....
(1982) - Prolific role playing game designer and author. - Nicholas Huff (1981) - Accomplished musician and author.
- Paul SkansiPaul SkansiPaul Anthony Skansi is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for ten seasons Paul Anthony Skansi (born January 11, 1961, in Tacoma, Washington) is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for ten seasons Paul Anthony Skansi (born...
(1979)http://beckys-place.net/williams2.html - played 8 seasons in the National Football LeagueNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
with the Seattle SeahawksSeattle SeahawksThe Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team... - Tom SinclairTom SinclairTom Sinclair was the 1979 NCAA Division I national champion for the javelin throw . He competed for the University of Washington. At Washington, Sinclair was a multi-year All-American...
, 1979 NCAA JavelinJavelin throwThe javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...
Champion, and state high school javelin record holder - Neko CaseNeko CaseNeko Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
- Alternative country singer-songwriter - Mark FuhrmanMark FuhrmanMark Fuhrman is a former detective of the Los Angeles Police Department , known for his part in the investigation of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and his subsequent felony conviction for perjury...
- Attended PHS for one year before transferring to North Mason High School in Belfair, WA. He is an American author and conservative talk radio host who, as a former detective in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), found a bloody glove at the scene of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. He also found a matching glove in the yard of O.J. Simpson's home. - Raonall SmithRaonall SmithRaonall Carrig Smith is an American Football who plays for the National Football League St. Louis Rams. Previously, he played with the Minnesota Vikings. Smith played college football at Washington State University.Raonall Smith attended Harbor Ridge Middle School...
(1996) - Played 6 seasons in the National Football LeagueNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
with the St. Louis RamsSt. Louis RamsThe St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...
and the Minnesota VikingsMinnesota VikingsThe Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...
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