Pine View High School
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Pine View High School is a high school located in Saint George, Utah. The school serves about 900 students in grades 10 to 12.
In 2010, the Boy's Cross Country Team won the Utah 4A State Championship.
In 2007 controversy arose as a result of an "emergency" realignment of Utah Region 9 (Utah arranges schools for athletic competition into classifications 1A-5A and into regions based primarily on geography). Three St. George high schools, Pine View, Dixie and Snow Canyon, were moved from division 3A to 4A, but kept in Region 9 with 3A schools, Hurricane, Cedar and Canyon View. Regional realignments are done by rule only once every four years, but the somewhat smaller 3A schools in Region 9 agitated for the so-called "emergency" realignment on the basis that their size was an impediment to competition and their ability to win a Region 9 championship and enter the state playoffs. The realignment took effect in 2007, two full years in advance of the regularly scheduled realignment, and guarantees that the smaller schools will be able to compete for a Region 9 3A championhave and two 3A playoff spots. The numbers of the St. George schools were substantially reduced by the addition of a fourth St. George high school, Desert Hills, in 2008. Nevertheless, in June 2008, the Utah High School Activities Association voted to maintain the mixed 3A/4A Region 9 despite widespread criticism. The negatives for the 4A schools have been expressed as being limited to two spots in the state playoffs regardless of record, being forced to schedule 3A, rather than 4A, teams in the regular season, and having a region championship and playoff spots depend upon just two games.
In 1998, Pine View hired 74-year old Sark Arslanian
to be the football coach. His pay was just $1 per year. In 2000 he suffered a heart attack and had quadruple bypass surgery. Arslanian was previously a Weber State and Colorado State football coach. Pine View replaced Arslanian with Ray Hosner in 2001, who during his tenure has taken the Panthers to three state championship games.
Faculty
Pine View Biology teacher Steven Cox was Utah's 1996 Outstanding Biology Teacher of the Year. As of 2007 Steven Cox has retired and been replaced by Josh Kreitzer. Mr. Kreitzer will be returning to schooling and be leaving Pine View High School at the end of the 2008 year.Sports
Pine View secured its first state championship of any kind in 1992. The Women's track team won the state title, led by future Olympic Heptathlete Tiffany Lott. This was the first of four straight state championships, culminating in the 1995 "double" track titles by the Men's and Women's Track Teams, with the women winning by a record margin of 71 points (152 to 81).In 2010, the Boy's Cross Country Team won the Utah 4A State Championship.
In 2007 controversy arose as a result of an "emergency" realignment of Utah Region 9 (Utah arranges schools for athletic competition into classifications 1A-5A and into regions based primarily on geography). Three St. George high schools, Pine View, Dixie and Snow Canyon, were moved from division 3A to 4A, but kept in Region 9 with 3A schools, Hurricane, Cedar and Canyon View. Regional realignments are done by rule only once every four years, but the somewhat smaller 3A schools in Region 9 agitated for the so-called "emergency" realignment on the basis that their size was an impediment to competition and their ability to win a Region 9 championship and enter the state playoffs. The realignment took effect in 2007, two full years in advance of the regularly scheduled realignment, and guarantees that the smaller schools will be able to compete for a Region 9 3A championhave and two 3A playoff spots. The numbers of the St. George schools were substantially reduced by the addition of a fourth St. George high school, Desert Hills, in 2008. Nevertheless, in June 2008, the Utah High School Activities Association voted to maintain the mixed 3A/4A Region 9 despite widespread criticism. The negatives for the 4A schools have been expressed as being limited to two spots in the state playoffs regardless of record, being forced to schedule 3A, rather than 4A, teams in the regular season, and having a region championship and playoff spots depend upon just two games.
In 1998, Pine View hired 74-year old Sark Arslanian
Sark Arslanian
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to be the football coach. His pay was just $1 per year. In 2000 he suffered a heart attack and had quadruple bypass surgery. Arslanian was previously a Weber State and Colorado State football coach. Pine View replaced Arslanian with Ray Hosner in 2001, who during his tenure has taken the Panthers to three state championship games.