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Campolindo High School
File:Campolindo.jpg
Location
Map
300 Moraga Road
Moraga, California
Information
TypePublic High school
Established1962
School districtAcalanes Union High School District
CEEB code052058
PrincipalCarol Kitchens
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,411
 • Grade 9362
 • Grade 10359
 • Grade 11337
 • Grade 12353
Color(s)Red and blue   
MascotCougar
NewspaperLa Puma
Websiteacalanes.k12.ca.us/campolindo

37°52′01″N 122°07′37″W / 37.86694°N 122.12694°W / 37.86694; -122.12694[1]

Campolindo High School is a public high school located in Moraga, California, and is in the Acalanes Union High School District. Campolindo offers an advanced education system in the Acalanes School District, with particular emphasis on its participation in the Advanced Placement Program.

In 2003, Campolindo ranked 49th in Newsweek's top high schools, and top ten of California high schools. In 2009, Campolindo ranked 26th in Newsweek's top high schools.[1]

Athletics

Campolindo has been a strong school for sports.[citation needed] The Cougars play in Division III, and have programs in women's volleyball, men's football, men's basketball, men's baseball, men's/women's cross country, men's/women's track and field, men's/women's swimming and diving, men's/women's soccer and Men's Volleyball.[citation needed]

Men's Fall Sports: Football, Water Polo, and Cross Country

Men's Winter Sports: Basketball, Soccer, and Wrestling

Men's Spring Sports: Ultimate Frisbee Baseball, Golf, Swimming, Diving, Tennis, Track and Field, Volleyball, and Lacrosse

Women's Fall Sports: Water Polo, Cross Country, Golf, Volleyball, and Tennis

Women's Winter Sports: Basketball and Soccer

Women's Spring Sports: Softball, Swimming, Diving, Track and Field, Ultimate Frisbee and Lacrosse

Academic Decathlon

Campolindo's Academic Decathlon Team has seen a recent rise to prominence. Under the direction of Coach Paul Verbanszky, the Cougars were victorious in the 2011 and 2012 Contra Costa County Academic Decathlons and advanced in both years to the state championship in Sacramento, California, finishing 6th in the Division III state competition on both occasions.

Notable alumni

Notes

  1. ^ United States Geological Survey (January 19, 1981). "GNIS Detail – Campolindo High School". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  2. ^ Lyons, Jeffrey and Douglas B. Lyons, Out of Left Field, Times Books, 1999, p. 56.

Rivalries

The school's main rival is Miramonte High School in the neighboring town of Orinda. Students often wear t-shirts that read "Stomp the Mats" (Miramonte's mascot is the Matador, or Mat for short).

Soda Aquatic Center

The Soda Aquatic Center opened to the public in 1999 and has three pools: a 3.5-foot-deep (1.1 m) pool, a diving well 10 to 13 feet (4.0 m) deep with two 1-meter springboards and two 3-meter springboards, and a competition pool. The 50 meter by 25-yard (23 m) competition pool is considered to be one of the fastest pools in the country.[citation needed]

The Soda Center is the annual host of:

  • The Water Polo Premier League
  • The Orinda Moraga Pool Association's Swimming Championship Meet
  • The DFAL Swimming and Diving Championship Meet

Because it has one of the few 50 meter pools in the area, the Soda Center is home to Orinda Aquatics and frequently used for USA Swimming swim meets.

The diving tank was used during the filming of the science television program Mythbusters to test the myths "Underwater Car and "Breathing Through a Tire".

The center replaced a large blacktop area which was known by students as the "backlot", where some students (sometimes called "backlotters") would congregate in large numbers during breaks to smoke and socialize.

Music History

The Campolindo High School gymnasium was the location of a Grateful Dead show on May 17, 1969. A poorly recorded portion of this exists and circulates among traders of Grateful Dead Live shows. The spring of 1969 also included a show by Santana a few months before they performed at Woodstock (with the Grateful Dead) and their first album that fall. B.B. King also performed in concert there in 1969. Other notables of that era that came to Campolindo were The Joy of Cooking and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

The cafeteria was also the location of notable early concert by the Dead Kennedys, on the evening of December 19, 1978. The band, who had just made their first appearance 5 months earlier, performed under the pseudonym of "The Creamsicles". The DKs were preceded by a set by The Zeros and openers The Liars, a punk-pop band from Berkeley. The concert, promoted as "The Whittler's Ball", was produced by a group of Campolindo students. A recording exists of the concert.

From 1990 to 1992, a student band named Code Blue, featuring Sub Pop and Brushfire Records recording artist Zach Rogue (of Rogue Wave) and Beluga Heights record label founder and hip-hop record producer JR Rotem, often performed at lunchtime.

In October 1984 Eddie Money made an impromptu visit during the Campolindo Homecoming Dance. He jumped up on stage and performed "Shakin'" to the delight of all those in attendance.

References

  1. ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8759025/site/newsweek/?page=5
  2. ^ http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/cctimes/news/opinion/16924647.htm
  3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2416655/
  4. ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117785912.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
  5. ^ http://www.usavolleyball.org/national/07WNTTRoster.asp
  6. ^ http://gostanford.cstv.com/sports/m-swim/mtt/lathrope_scott00.html
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