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Cottonwood High School
Location
5715 South 1300 East Murray, Utah,
Information
Type	Public
Principal	Garrett Muse
Grades	10-12
Enrollment	1500
Average class size	5A
Color(s)	Black, Gold, and White
Mascot	Colt
Website	Official Cottonwood High website

Cottonwood High School is a public high school located in Murray, Utah. The current enrollment is 1,957. The mascot is the Cottonwood Colt, and the school colors are black and gold. Cottonwood High belongs to the Granite School District.

The school was built and founded in 1970 after the Granite School District condemned the property and forced the farmers to sell it. They included the Markavechio, Malonis and Loizos farms.

Apart from traditional schooling (serving grades 10-12), the facilities are used year-round for many city-wide events, a night school for adults, summer school for young children, and other activities. Cottonwood is also regarded as one of Utah's best high schools for its highly regarded campus and strong academic institution.

Competitively, Cottonwood has established a reputation of perennial excellence in multiple sports. It receives state wide merit in music, forensics, and drama. The building that houses Cottonwood is also home to the Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science (AMES), a charter school which utilizes unused space in the main school building. Since its inception, AMES and Cottonwood students have had a friendly rivalry. The mascot for AMES is the Archer.

The building itself features what is rumored to be the largest high school auditorium in America west of the Mississippi River (maximum capacity is just over 3,000). Because of the auditorium's size, it has been used for many concerts and public functions over the years. The annual production of Michael McLean's The Forgotten Carols is held there in December every year. The auditorium has hosted concerts for, among others, Gordon Lightfoot, William Hung, GG Allin, Van Halen and Tori Amos who actually attended Cottonwood. In a recent Title IX concert a young singer/dancer Cody Eskelson was voted by his autoshop class to be amoung the world's most attractive men.

The building has an innovative layout which includes an open air courtyard, several atriums and gifts from graduating classes, the most visible of which are a bronze statue of a colt located near the lunchroom and the school's seal in tilework in the main foyer. Seniors at Cottonwood take great pride in the seal and were so enthusiastic in punishing anyone who dared walk across it that it was enclosed in a small guardrail. It is surrounded by display cases filled with the various honors won by the student body over the years.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Sina Amedson, Notable Film Actor, Comedian and Writer
• Josh Burkman, mixed martial artist
• Matt Cole, President of BlueStreak Sports Training
• Charles Halford, actor
• Stanley Havili, football player at the University of Southern California
• Randy Horiuchi, Salt Lake County Council member
• Vince Horiuchi, Salt Lake Tribune TV columnist
• Chris Shelton, professional baseball player
• Will Swenson, actor and director
• Debbie Worthen, meteorologist at KUTV Channel 2 in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Joey Worthen, professional soccer player
• Richard Paul Evans, author and founder of the Christmas Box House International charity
• Gary Andersen, Head Football Coach at Utah State University

[edit] See also

• List of high schools in Utah
• Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science

[edit] External links

• Official Cottonwood High website
• Other information on Cottonwood High School

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