Bishop Hendricken High School

41.70605°N 71.39422°W / 41.70605; -71.39422

Bishop Thomas F. Hendricken High School

Motto	"Live Jesus in our hearts, Forever!"
Established	September, 1959
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
President	Br. Thomas R. Leto, CFC, M.Ed.
Principal	Mr. Vincent F. Mancuso, M.Ed.
Academic staff	85 full-time
Students	1,150
Address	2615 Warwick Avenue , Warwick , RI, 02889 , USA
Colors	Green and Gold
Affiliations	New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Mascot	Hawk
Website	[1]www.Hendricken.com

Bishop Thomas Francis Hendricken High School is a Catholic, all male, college preparatory high school located in Warwick, RI, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence. It is staffed by the Irish Christian Brothers congregation. The school's current president is Brother Thomas R. Leto, CFC, and its principal is Mr. Vincent Mancuso.

Facilities

Hendricken's facilities are among the nicest in the state of Rhode Island. In 1997 and early 1998, the school had built a new 16,000 square foot South Gymnasium; a 5,000 square foot outdoor street hockey/basketball area; a redesigned West Gate on Oakland Beach Avenue; a 6,000 square foot West Wing of classrooms . In 2006 the school had built a new state of the art 350 seat theatre, 30,000 square feet of new classrooms, and a new band suite that has been added to the landscape of Bishop Hendricken. Inside all of the new classrooms all they have all been equipped with SmartBoard Technology. Also in 2006 the school installed state of the art artificial turf onto the Hawk football field which at the time was the first high school in the state of Rhode Island to have artificial turf on the football field.

Academics

Hendricken has been renowned for its academics throughout New England. Since the last construction at Hendricken in 2006 the new 30,000 square feet of classrooms are all equipped with SmartBoard Technology. Every year Hendricken graduates are going to top knotch colleges throughout the United States. Most recently in the past few years some of the top colleges in the United States such as Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, Georgetown and Boston College have accepted Hendricken students into their institutions. Hendricken has had many National Merit Scholars and one Rhodes Scholar. Their students take advantage of Hendricken's wide variety of advanced placement courses with scores that are the best in the state. Each year, their graduating seniors average over one million dollars in tuition aid from the various colleges of their choice.

Athletics

- In 2007 Sports Illustrated rated Hendricken as the #1 athletic program in the state of Rhode Island

Basketball- Hendricken has won five straight Division 1 state basketball championships as of March 9, 2008. In the 2007-2008 year the Hawks tallied a 22-2 record and defeated Woonsocket 67-64 to win the RI state championship. One reason for the fine success over the past 5 years is in their coach Jamal Gomes who is considered to be one of the best high school basketball coaches in the state of Rhode Island.

Baseball Hendricken's baseball team is always one of the top teams in Rhode Island. From 1997-2000 Hendricken won4 straight state titles and then from 2003- 2005 Hendricken won 3 straight state titles. Overall since the start of division1 play the Hawks have won 13 baseball state championships.

Hockey- Hendricken's hockey team is considered to be one of the state powerhouses. Although they were defeated in the 2008 state championship they had won back to back hockey RI state championships in 2006, and 2007.

Football- Hendricken has not won a state championship in Varsity football since 1996, but the Hawks are still associated with East Providence High School and LaSalle Academy as the three traditional powers in Rhode Island High School Football. The Hawks have made it to the last two Division 1 State Championship games, but losing in both contests to East Providence in 2006 (37-13) and then losing to St. Raphaels in 2007 (8-6). Hendricken Football has also churned out a few NFL and FBS players, such as Will Blackmon, Jeffrey Ryan (Boston College), and Steve Furness (Rhode Island). The 2007 squad went 11-2 with an appearance in the state championship game. The team finished with three First Team All-State Selections, OL/DL Bob Booth, HB/LB Brandford Sowah (his second straight first team selection), and HB/DB Darren Williams. QB Andrew Ferreira also madse second team all state, if it weren't for a season ending injury in the second to last week in the regular season, he would have been first team all-state and the Hawks would have likely beaten St. Raphaels in the Div. 1 State Championship. The Hawks Varsity is currently being coached by Keith Croft, a hendricken graduate and first team all-state selection during his time at Hendricken. However, the future looks even brighter, as the past to freshmen football teams have made appearances in the Div. 1 freshmen state championship games. The 2006 squad, led by Mike Flanagan and Anthony Bucci posted a 9-1 record, but losing in the state championship to Barrington. The 2007 squad, led by captains Mike Maloof, Mark Vargas, Rob Manning, Stanley Sainterlein, and Tim Burnett posted and 11-0 record and dominated from start to finish as the closest game was a nine point win over LaSalle.

Lacrosse- Hendricken has a division 1 lacrosse team in Rhode Island. They have won state championships in 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2007. They currently hold the record for the most lacrosse championships won in Rhode Island.

Swimming Dating back to 1989-1990 the Hawks have won 18 consecutive swimming state championships. Since the start of division 1 swimming the Hawks have tallied a total of 22 swimming state championships.

Indoor Track Hendricken has won 14 consecutive Indoor Track state championships since 1994- 1995 and have won a total of 21 Indoor Track state championships.

Sailing

Rugby

Notable alumni

• James Langevin, U.S. Congressman
• Rocco Baldelli, Tampa Bay Rays
• Will Blackmon, Green Bay Packers
• Thomas A. DiPrete, Professor/Chair of Department of Sociology, Columbia University
• AJ Smith, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the San Diego Chargers
• David Emma, Hobey Baker Memorial Award recipient
• Rob Gaudreau, NHL forward who played for the San Jose Sharks and Ottawa Senators from 1992-97
• Steve Furness, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Jim Foster, current Head Baseball Coach of URI Rams, former minor league baseball player
• Jay Rainville, minor league baseball, Minnesota Twins
• Tony Tedeschi, AVN Hall of Fame
• Nicholas, Ronald, and Peter Cardi, R.I. Commercial Celebrities & Furniture Chain owners
• Pete Sheppard, radio host, WEEI in Boston
• Matthew Bouchard, minor league baseball, New York Mets
• John Mollicone, minor league baseball, Tampa Bay Rays
• Craig Stinson, minor league baseball, Washington Nationals
• Joe Mazzulla, college basketball, West Virginia Mountaineers
• Mike Medeiros, college student, dat dude WIT DA PHAT PHUCKIN COCK