OVERLAND HIGH SCHOOL

'Overland High School', located in Aurora, Colorado, and part of the Cherry Creek School District, opened in 1978. The school made headlines in 2006 when a lecture given by geography teacher Jay Bennish was recorded by student Sean Allen and broadcasted on talk radio, inciting a nationwide controversy.[1]

Contents

Alumni

Achievements

Information

Football Team

Clubs and Activities

External links

Alumni

★ Scott Bentley, former kicker for the Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, and Washington Redskins

★ Dean Clancy, '82, former White House official

★ T. J. Cunningham, former safety for the Seattle Seahawks

★ John Grahame, goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes

★ Brian Kelly, cornerback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

★ Sean Moran, former defensive end for the Buffalo Bills, St. Louis Rams and San Francisco 49ers

Achievements

Overland High School has a number of sports teams, and a marching band which took third place at the 2006 State Fair. The band also performed in the 2006 Colorado Parade of Lights.

Information

Overland High School is a comprehensive public, suburban, college-oriented istitution with a total enrollement of about 2112 students, and a senior class of about 478 students.
Our current senior class includes two National Merit Semi-Finalists, five Commended and one National Achievement Scholar.
Our ethnic profile shows a growing diverse student population of 45.8% Anglo, 29% African-American, 17.8% Hispanic, 6.5% Asian, and .8% American Indian.
Overland High School is accredited by the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges and by the Colorado State Department of Education. Overland High School

Football Team

Overland High School football sports a long tradition of winning, including the Colorado 6A State Championship in 1993, and trips to the 5A state Championship in 1995 and 2004. Coach Tony Manfredi maintains a highly skilled staff, along with a consistently well-executed offense.
Overland runs a split back veer offense. The split back veer typically has two running backs, and runs option out of a varying number of formations. Overland's veer contains two running backs no deeper than 3 yards from the line of scrimmage. The offensive line utilized very wide splits, with 3 feet from center to guard and 5-7 feet between the guard and the tackle. Option plays are run with the intent of opening up play action passing, which enables the offense to suck the linebackers (and oftentimes the safeties) into the run fake, and then pass over the top.

Clubs and Activities

Overland High School offers a wide varieties of clubs for students to choose from.
Ambassadors
Anime club
Art club
Biology Club
Blazer Buddies
Chess Club
Competitive math group
Thespians/Drama Club
Exploratory Biology club
FBLA(Future Business Leaders of America
French Club
French Honor Society
German Club
German Honor Society
GSA(Gay Straight Alliance)
Interact
MESA(Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement
MSA(Muslim Student Association)
Newspaper
National Honor Society
National Science Bowl
National Spanish Honor Society
Orchestra
Pre-Med Club
Ping Pong Club
Robotics Club
Scrap Blazers
Serteens
Science Olympiads
Spanish Club(Latino Flame)
Speech and Debate
Student Council
Student Government
Technology Students Association
Teen Advisory Group
Unity
Wood Turning Club
Yearbook
Youth Advisory Board
FCLA(Future Community Leader of America

External links

★ Overland High School: Official Web site

★ Rocky Mountain News on Bennish