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'Colonel By Secondary School' is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Gloucester in the city of Ottawa, Canada. It is a non-semestered school, and is the only English public school in Ottawa that offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. It was named for Colonel John By, the man who successfully built the Rideau Canal. In 2005, Maclean's Magazine named Colonel By Secondary School the #3 academic high school in the country. In 2007, the Fraser Institute, a known conservative think-tank, rated Colonel By as the top academic school in Ottawa in its Report Card on Ontario's Secondary Schools: 2007 Edition (see p. 47), therefore besting its rival Lisgar Collegiate Institute.
Colonel By also has the largest, and one of the most diverse, athletic programs in Ottawa.

Contents

Features

Notable alumni

Athletics

Track and Field

Notes

External links

Features

★ Cougar Vision, First Digital High-School TV Station

★ International Baccalaureate (IB) Program

★ Home of the original Cougar Characters

Notable alumni

★ Tom Cruise (did not graduate at Colonel By), Actor, IMDB trivia page states he attended the same high school as Bryan Adams.^[1]

★ Bryan Adams, a singer-songwriter^[2]

★ Tom Green, comedian and talk show host^[3]

★ Amber Macarthur, Canadian television and podcasting personality, best known for Call for Help and This week in tech (TWiT) ^[4]

★ Gailea Momolu, Professional Skateboarder, currently rides for Darkstar, Osiris, LRG clothing and Tensor. ^{[5] [6]}

Athletics

The 2005/2006 track season proved to be very successful for Colonel By; by sending several athletes to the East OFSAA and OFSAA track and field meet, they have achieved provincial recognition. Another notable achievement came from the 2002/2003 senior boys soccer team who became the first Colonel By boys soccer team to compete at OFSAA in more than a decade. Senior girls basketball is also a notable team at Colonel By, along with senior girls soccer. However, Colonel By is most mostly recognized in the city and province for its strong volleyball program. Colonel By has also competed at OFSAA for various ski and snowboarding events in the 2006/2007 season. In addition, the Colonel By Badminton team has done well in Junior and Senior events.

Track and Field

Colonel By is known for its recent surge of notable athletes in track and field. Four of Colonel By's athletes who competed in the 2007 OFSAA Track and Field Championships in Ottawa won medals (two gold, one silver and one bronze). Putting this into perspective, excluding this year, there has only been three athletes from eastern Ottawa from the past three years that have won medals in OFSAA.
One of this year's Colonel By's gold medalists, 15 year old Oluwasegun Makinde, set a new junior provincial record in the men's 200m running a personal best of 21.74 seconds, demolishing the old record of 22.75. He will attend the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics in the Czech Republic this summer.^[2] Footage of the record-breaking 200m finals can be seen here

Notes

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3. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0338381/bio IMDB trivia page for Tom Green
4. http://www.g4techtv.ca/callforhelp/shownotes/0411.shtml?transcripts
5. http://www.osirisshoes.com/team/momolu/
6. http://www.lycos.ca/sports-leisure/action-sports/gailea_momolu.html
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External links

★ Colonel By's School Website

★ Cougar Vision

★ Novell iChain Login

★ Ottawa-Carleton District School Board

★ International Baccalaureate Organization

★ OFSAA 2006 Results

★ OFSAA 2007 Results

★ East OFSAA Results

★ OCDSB Website

★ 2005-2006 OCDSB School Profile

★ 2004-2005 OCDSB School Profile
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