Woodrow Wilson Classical High School
Location
4400 East Tenth Street Long Beach, California, USA
Information
Type	Public High School
Established	1926[1]
School district	Long Beach Unified School District
Principal	Lew Kerns, Dr. Sandy Blazer
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	4800
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	Cardinal and Gold
Mascot	Bruin[2]
Yearbook	Campanile
Website	http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/wilson/

Woodrow Wilson Classical High School is a secondary school in Long Beach, California, USA.

Wilson High School, in the Long Beach Unified School District, opened in 1925 as the second school in the city. In 2005 Wilson High School was recognized as a California Distinguished School for the second time. Wilson also is home to the Distinguished Scholars program which offers accelerated, honors, and many AP classes. Wilson High School is extremely diverse in race and economic backgrounds. Wilson high school also has a program called Park Avenue that helps to allow students the opportunity to raise their grades. Former Wilson students and their teacher Erin Gruwell also inspired the movie Freedom Writers, that was made of the collected diaries of the students.

Contents 1 School uniforms 2 Sports 3 Notable staff 4 Notable Alumni 5 References 6 External links

[edit] School uniforms

Wilson is one of the few public high schools in the United States that requires a school uniform (one other high school, and all primary schools in the Long Beach Unified School District require school uniforms). The uniform is khaki pants, skirts or shorts, with either white or burgundy collared shirts. [1]. The school colors are cardinal and gold, and the school mascot is the Bruin. The school site committee has recently passed a highly disputed uniform rule which requires that all jackets be of school colors, as opposed to the old rule which allowed heavy jackets of other colors when merited by weather conditions. There is currently a student movement developing to challenge the new rule at future Site Council Meetings.

[edit] Sports

The Wilson Bruins baseball team were the Baseball America National Champions and CIF Southern Section National Champions in 2007 and CIF runner-up in 2008. Their boy's aquatics have also been historically successful. The swim team has been undefeated Moore League Champions for 36 years (as of 2008). The girls swim teams have successfully defended their Moore League title consistently year after year.

Bruin Waterpolo held the Moore League for 18 years straight (1988-2005), winning the league 27 out of the last 30 years. The team has won the Div. 1 CIF title 11 times and Mythical State Title three times.

Wilson's Soccer, Tennis, Badminton, Boys Cross Country, Baseball and Golf teams are also consistently among the top teams in the Moore League and in CIF titles.

[edit] Notable staff

• Klaus Barth, former Olympic medalist and Ironman competitor. He coached the boys' Soccer, Swimming and Waterpolo teams and taught Physical Education. He was still coaching at school until his death on October 2006 after six years of battling a brain tumor.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notable Alumni

• Bob Bailey, Played 17 years in Major League Baseball as a third baseman. 1961 CIF Baseball Player of the Year.
• Bob Lemon, 15 years a MLB Pitcher and 8 seasons an MLB Manager. World Series winner as a player with the Cleveland Indians in 1948 and as a manager in 1978 with the New York Yankees. Seven time 20 game winner. Spent entire playing career with the Indians. CIF & State Player of the Year in 1938.
• Bobby Grich, former MLB player with the California Angels from 1977-1986.
• Bradley Nowell, lead singer of Sublime.
• Camryn Manheim is a television and film actress, best known as co-star of The Practice.
• Cynthia Barboza, Stanford graduate; USA volleyball elite athlete
• Don Coscarelli is a successful motion picture director, best known for the "Phantasm" series of horror films.
• Jeff Burroughs, former MLB player and father of Sean Burroughs. 1974 American League Most Valuable Player. 1969 CIF 4-A Baseball Player of the Year.
• Jeff Severson, former CSULB football star who had an eight-year NFL career with Washington, St. Louis, Houston and the Rams.
• Jeremy Strohmeyer is a Long Beach, California man who molested and murdered 7-year-old South Los Angeles elementary school student Sherrice Iverson at Primadonna Resort and Casino in Primm, Nevada, on May 25, 1997.
• Jessica Hardy, former world record holder in 100 meter breast stroke, member of 2005 National Team. Won gold medal at 2006 Pan Pacific Championships; Cal Berkeley swimmer who recently turned pro.
• John Merrick, PGA Professional
• Lauren Wenger, defender for USC women's water polo team, and 2006 winner of the top individual honor in collegiate water polo, the Peter J. Cutino Award.
• Lisa Dean Ryan, actress. Most notably on Doogie Howser M.D. as Wanda, Doogie's girlfriend.
• Maureen O’Toole, American water polo player and coach, won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
• Pat McCormick, a two-time Olympic platform and springboard gold medal diver (1952& 1956).
• Paul Goydos, PGA golf pro. In 2007 he scored three birdies in the last four holes at the Sony Open in Hawaii to claim victory. Captured the 1996 *Bay Hill Invitational. Second Masters appearance in 2007.
• Sean Burroughs, MLB player and son of Jeff Burroughs. 1998 CIF Division 1 Baseball Player of the Year.
• Tony Azevedo, driver for the Men's US Olympic Water Polo team and Stanford University.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• School website