CENTURY HIGH SCHOOL (HILLSBORO, OREGON)

'Century High School' is located in Hillsboro, Oregon. It was built in 1997 with the school colors of black, teal, and silver. Century High School's principal is Ted Zehr. The school's mascot is the jaguar. The school is unique in the district for utilizing block scheduling.
The school competes in the new 5A Northwest Oregon Conference along with other high schools from the Hillsboro School District. The league is new as of the six-class revamp from the Oregon School Activities Association.

Contents

CAM

CIM

Sports

Speech and debate

Arts

Advanced Placement courses

External links

CAM

There are several CAM (or Certificate of Advanced Mastery) courses available at Century. There are Health Services, Digital Technology, PAC (people and the community), Business, and FAME (Fine Arts). Students choose their CAM their junior year and start taking the prerequisites for the classes. The CAM classes give students time to work on their senior project, which must be completed before they can graduate.

CIM

The CIM (Certificate of Initial Mastery) is an acknowledgement that a student has met rigorous standards by acquiring skills in several academic areas.

Sports

While being outnumbered in student population, some of Century High School Athletics have been able to surpass such obstacles and make it to success. Century's Jagz Dance Team has made it to the Top 4 in state for the past 4 years.
Century's Track and Field team is lead by head coach Tony Rinck. He is also the head of the Cross Country team, which is hoping to compete for the league title this year. Both sports will be relying on runners such as Dan Sprinkle, Michael Deuker, (distance) Logan Kotsian (Sprinting)among others.
Under the leadership of then coach Rian Petrick, the Jaguar baseball team reached the state playoffs in 2001 and 2002. In 2002, the team made it to the fourth round of the playoffs, before being defeated by Oregon City by a 7-2 margin. In that game, Oregon City's Jonah Nickerson pitched. Nickerson would go on to pitch for the Oregon State Beavers during their 2006 College World Series championship run. In that 2002 season, the team was ranked #1 in OSAA coaches polls. In the upcoming season, The Jags hope to reach the playoffs again under coaches Kyle Bunting and Zach Ross.
Century High School basketball hopes to improve its players as early as girls and boys in 6th grade. Century as well as many other schools came up with a youth basketball program where the players will still play for their respective high schools. This program was set up to improve youth basketball skills and start the High Schools ideas early in the kids. This year Century looks top win the league title under the leadership of Chehales Tapscott.
Most importantly, the Century high varsity basketball team is currently ranked first in the league and fourth in state taking a spot as Co-Champions of the 5A Northwest Oregon Conference. This year the Jags basketball team, lead by coach Scott Kellar, went to the playoffs for the first time in school history. Though they lost in the opening round to Jefferson High School, the team still did an amazing job.
Century softball has had similar success, reaching the playoffs in 2000 and 2004. In 2000, the team reached the quarterfinals, before being defeated by Clackamas, 4-0. In 2007, the team made it into the quarterfinals of playoffs but lost.
Century wrestling boasts several former state champions in different weight classes, and has consistently finished in the top 20 in team scores for the state. The team finished 12th in its 2003 season. This year the wrestlers are going to Hawaii.

Speech and debate

Century's 2006-07 speech and debate team is directed by coaches June Gerst and Katie Waker. Co-captains Jessica Pingleton and Nathan Hillborn made it as alternates to Nationals to be held in Wichita, Kansas. The Cross-examination team, Josh Smeltzer and Joe Worthey, took 1st place and speaker awards throughout the season. Alexis Chosvig has done spectacular in prose, oratory, and serious interpretation (individual events). She has won several trophies in the Open division! Krista Bryant has also done well in poetry and prose, winning some trophies in the Junior division. Erica Wills has made a name for herself in Lincoln Douglas Debate (getting 2nd place at her 2nd tournament), poetry, prose, and radio. She also placed 4th at the District tournament in expository, and it was her first time compeating in that event. The debate team boasts the most first place trophies out of any activity in the school - while maintaining one of the smallest and most selective rosters.

Arts

The arts department at Century is thriving with the bands, group musical, choir and JagTv journalsim being among the many programs.
The marching band did well this year with their show 'En Fuego.' At the Northwest Marching Band Preview, Century competed in exhibition where they would have won 4th place. In the Spokane championship hosted by the Spokane Thunder Drum and Bugel Corps, they placed 2nd to Mead High School and also achieve the 'High Percussion' caption award. The tied for fourth place at the University of Oregon Festival of Bands. And at the Northwest Marching band Circit championships they placed fourth.
Cooper Ottum adn Jake McGrew return as drum majors for the 2007/2008 marching band season, joining them is junior Hai-Nam Nuyen.
The section leaders are: Derek Stott for tenor saxophones and Ben Burke for alto saxophones, Brian Bortvedt for trombones, Nolan Hergert for low brass, Sarah Allen for trumpets, Susan Leip for pit percussion, and Drew Hopper is the Drum Captain.
The marching band marches within many parades. The 4th of July Parade in downtown Hillsboro, the Macy's holiday parade in downtown Portland, the Starlight Parade and the Grand Floral Parade, both important parades in Portland's annual Rose Festival. The Band also has marched in the Prince Kuhio Day Parade in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Century High School Winter Drumline has gone to the WGI World Championships three times in the past years, placing 5th and 17th. Previous shows have been entitled "Big Bang: Beginning of Time" (took 5th in the world) and "In a Cool Mood" (Took 17th in the world)and "Mambo Kings". The show for the 2005-2006 school year was entitled "Percussion 101", depicting a typical day in a percussion class. The music was written by David Reeves. For the 2006/2007 winter drums season, the show is 'Slight of Hand' featuring the music of Dream Theater this includes "Root of all Evil", "Dance of Eternity", "Wait for Sleep", and "6 o'clock." the music is arranged by Dave Reeves. The illusions theme features "magic" tricks that the students are learning to do. Century High School is returned to Winter Guard International World Championships in 2007, and there, took 19th in the world.
Varsity Winterguard's 2005-2006 show is entitled "Memories" and features the song "Photograph" by Nickelback. It is a tribute to the nine seniors in the group. For 2006/2007 the Varisty guard show is entitled "The Show Must Go On: Celebrating Freddy" featuring the song The Show Must Go On performed by the rock supergroup Queen. It is a tribute to Freddie Mercury (a member of Queen) who died of AIDS. The captains for the Century Winterguard were Sara Loyd, Cambrai Loftus, and Melissa Rose. The guard went to Winter Guard International World Championships in 2007 and was knocked out in preliminaries. They did, however, manage to beat out several groups, including a few collages. The captains for 2007/2008 are Cara Strever and Linda Ortiz.
Junior Varsity (JV) Winterguard's 2006 show was entitled "Touched by the Sun" and features the music of Carly Simon. The 2007 show was entitled "Colors." The Captain is Nick Garcia.
On March 17 through March 28, the band and guard went on the 2006 Hawaii tour. The Symphonic Band went to a clinic at the University of Hawaii. The group went on the Polynesian Cultural Center at which the drumline performed. The marching band performed its show at the USS ''Missouri'' after going to the USS ''Arizona'' Memorial at Pearl Harbor. The group marched in the Prince Kuhio Day Parade. And the 1:00 and 2:00 jazz bands played at the Hard Rock Cafè.
In 2007, the 1:00 and 2:00 Jazz bands paticipated in the jazz festival at the University of Nevada at Reno. Both groups performed well and the 1:00 group received 4th place.
Century Stage, the school's drama department, has also been hard at work. In the 2006-2007 school year, Century Stage produced Disney's Beauty and the Beast, starring Jordan Parkyn as Beast, Melissa Fults as Belle, Kevin Voltz as Gaston, and Trevor Hennigan as Lafou, John Jeffry as Lumiere and Sarah Allen as Mrs. Potts.
The Spring Play was "A Piece of My Heart." The play had only 7 actors, including Melissa Fults, Alexis Chan, Sarah Busse, and John Jeffery. The play was about Vietnam War nurses before, during, and after the war. It was a very powerful play and brought tears to many in the audience.
Century is also special in the fact that it has a One-Act play festival every year in the Spring. The One Act Fesitval showcases short, usually 10-minute plays that are student directed and put on by students.
The drama department also swept Regionals and went to the State Showcase with their Group Musical performance of "Shoeless Joe", and won first in state for their group as well as an individual first award for Jordan Parkyn. They will be travelling to National competition in June.
The spring play for 2007-2008 will be Grease. The Pink Ladies include Samantha Hodge (Sandie), Alexis Chan (Jan), Sarah Busse (Marty), Nikki Miller (Frenchie), and Grace Allen (Rizzo). The T-Birds include Trevor Hennigan (Danny), Layne Duras (Kinikie), Ryan Andrews, Michael Pham, and Doug Miles. Also Dennis Eash plays the teen angel who sings beauty school dropout. There are numerous other students cast as back up dancers and supporting roles.
Century students stay up to date with scores, events and other school news by watching a live morning news show called JagTV. Students create "news packages" and broadcast them over the TVs in the school. JagTV is supervised by Keith Allen, who also teaches the broadcasting journalism class, photography, film studies and is one-half of the FAME team along with Lynn Scheller. Students also take turns anchoring and running the cameras. Nico Matagora, Story Sylwester, Dylan Sylwester, Ian Monroe, Jan Pontillas, Mitch Fennimore, and Mandy Pham have all been featured as anchors for the morning JagTv. In 2007, several JagTV students took top honors in the Oregon State Publication Olympics. Rebecca Lopez received a Best of Category for her story on how a revealing Myspace profile could be hazardous to one's college or career plans. Stephen Townson, the Bortvedt brothers, Rachel Nelson, Ryan Murray and Ian Monroe were also winners this year.
Unknown to many students, Century has had a strong chess program. They have had a player place 10th in the nation, as well as taking first and second in state on previous occasions. Recently they have placed 5th, and are hoping to make a strong comeback to compete for the state title.

Advanced Placement courses

The advanced placement courses are the college-level classes offered at Century. There are tests in mid-May that qualify for college credits.

★ AP English Language and Composition

★ AP Literature and Composition

★ AP Calculus AB

★ AP US History

★ AP European History

★ AP Economics

★ AP Government

★ AP Physics A

★ AP Spanish

External links

★ The Century High School Band Website

★ The Century High School Wrestling Website