Rockhurst High School

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Rockhurst High School
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
Established	1910
School type	Private, male only
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic, Jesuit
President	Fr. Terrance Baum, S.J.
Location	Kansas City, MO, USA
Campus	Suburban
Enrollment	Approx. 1,035
Faculty	84 total
Average class size	~20 students
Student:Teacher ratio	12:1
Average SAT scores (2005)	Verbal: 590; Math: 610
Athletics	11 interscholastic, 1 club, 5 intramural
Color(s)	Blue & White
Mascot	Hawklet

Rockhurst High School (usually referred to simply as Rockhurst) is a private, Roman Catholic, Jesuit, preparatory school for boys located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on the Missouri-Kansas border along State Line Road. Rockhurst enrolls approximately 1,000 students in ninth grade through twelfth grade.

The tuition for 2006-2007 is $8,950. About 33 percent of students received financial aid, totaling over $850,000. The school has an endowment of approximately $4.5 million, which is mostly used to fund scholarships.

Rockhurst is accredited by the North Central Education Association of Independent College Preparatory Schools, and is a member of both the Jesuit Secondary Education Association and the National Association for College Admission Counseling (and its regional affiliates).

Contents 1 History 2 Athletics 2.1 Soccer 2.2 Football 2.3 Tennis 2.4 Chess 3 Notable alumni 3.1 Athletics 3.2 Business 3.3 Entertainment 3.4 Politics 3.5 Other Notable Alumni 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] History

Rockhurst was established by brothers and priests of the Society of Jesus, led by Jack O'Flaherty, and chartered by the State of Missouri as part of Rockhurst College in August of 1910. Classes began in the fall of 1914. It changed its name to Rockhurst High School in 1923. The high school shared a campus and corporate umbrella with the college until it moved onto its present campus, The Greenlease Campus, in 1962. In 1988 and 1998, respectively, Rockhurst undertook multi-million dollar capital improvement campaigns that greatly improved its campus facilities.

[edit] Athletics

Rockhurst's athletic teams have won their respective Missouri large class state championships on many occasions. These include:

Football: 1969 (2nd Place), 1971 (1st Place), 1973 (2nd Place), 1981 (1st Place), 1982 (2nd Place) 1983 (1st Place), 1986 (1st Place), 1987 (1st Place), 1989 (2nd Place), 1999 (2nd Place), 2000 (1st Place), 2002 (1st Place),

Soccer: 1987 (3rd Place), 1988 (2nd Place), 1989 (2nd Place), 1991 (3rd Place), 1994 (3rd Place), 1998 (1st Place), 1999 (1st Place), 2001 (3rd Place), 2003 (3rd Place), 2004 (2nd Place), 2005 (3rd Place), 2006 (3rd Place)

Basketball: 1932 (1st Place), 1949 (2nd Place), 1970 (2nd Place), 1971 (3rd Place), 1986 (2nd Place), 1987 (1st Place), 1989 (1st Place), 2000 (3rd Place), 2005 (3rd Place)

Swimming: 1982 (3rd Place), 1989 (3rd Place), 1995 (3rd Place), 2004 (1st Place), 2005 (1st Place), Spring 2006 (1st Place), Fall 2006 (1st Place)

Track and Field: 1975 (1st Place), 1976 (1st Place)

Lacrosse: 2003 (1st Place), 2006 (1st Place)

Tennis: 1975 (1st Place), 1976 (1st Place), 1982 (3rd Place), 1989 (3rd Place), 1995 (3rd Place), 1983 (1st Place), 1986 (2nd Place), 1996 (1st Place), 1997 (1st Place), 1998 (1st Place), 1999 (1st Place), 2000 (1st Place), 2001 (1st Place), 2002 (1st Place), 2003 (1st Place), 2004 (1st Place), 2005 (1st Place)

Golf: 1974 (1st Place), 1976 (1st Place), 1977 (3rd Place), 1978 (2nd Place), 1979 (3rd Place), 1984 (1st Place), 1991 (1st Place), 1996 (2nd Place), 1997 (2nd Place), 1998 (1st Place), 1999 (1st Place), 2000 (1st Place), 2002 (3rd Place), 2003 (3rd Place), 2004 (2nd Place), 2005 (1st Place), 2006 (1st Place)

Chess: 1988 (1st Place), 2004 (1st Place), 2005 (1st Place), 2006 (3rd Place)

In 1987, Rockhurst became the only institution in the history of Missouri high school athletics to win a football and basketball state championship in the same year. Since 1998, the athletic program has dominated, winning 18 state championships and finishing second or third several many other times. In both 1998 and 1999, the Hawklets won 3 state championships.

Because the institution itself is independent, Rockhurst is 1) not affiliated with any local high school athletic conferences, and 2) because it is not a public school, its student make-up is not geographically restricted. Its biggest rival in the Kansas City area is arguably Blue Springs High School. However, several St. Louis schools (namely Jesuit, all-boys high schools Saint Louis University High School and De Smet Jesuit High School) also have an intense rivalry with Rockhurst both as a result of the schools' frequent run-ins during state competitions and because they are each other's cross-state, Jesuit counterparts. The rivalry between Rockhurst and De Smet took an ironic turn during the 2005-2006 school year, with the upstart De Smet football team upsetting the heavily favored Hawklets in a state semifinal game in the fall, and Rockhurst returning the favor by defeating De Smet's perennially strong lacrosse team in the state semifinals in the spring. Both teams captured the respective state titles in the subsequent championship games.

[edit] Soccer

The soccer team, led by Matt Newman (team scoring leader) won two state championships in the late 1990s with national talents like Jason Cole, Matt Darby, and Will John. 1998's championship came after winning a close semifinal game in which Dan Watson scored a golden goal. In the final, Cole scored an early goal, and the Hawklets held on for a 1-0 victory. 1999 was exactly the opposite. Rockhurst clung tightly to a one goal lead in the semifinal. Then, in the finals, they beat St. Louis University High in overtime on a header by Joe Burns, off a corner kick by Lance Snodgrass. The team also won thanks to a shut-out by Jamie Brecheisen. Every year since 1997, Rockhurst has made the state final four in soccer, with several second and third place finishes, including a triple overtime loss in the 2004 state championship. Recently though, the team has been rebuilding stages but has still gone deep in the state tournament.

[edit] Football

Rockhurst is the only school to win a championship in each major state championship venue: Busch Stadium, Arrowhead Stadium, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the Edward Jones Dome. Its seven football championships are second only to Jefferson City High School's ten in Missouri big class athletics. The team has been to more state championships (12) than any other school, and it is the all-time leader in state playoff appearances and state playoff wins. Three Rockhurst teams have won the State Championship with perfect records: 1971, 2000, and 2002. The latter two teams finished the season nationally ranked 14th and 7th respectively (after finishing 14-0 and 13-0). Also, The back-to-back state championship teams of 1986 and 1987 also finished nationally ranked, 14th and 13th respectively (after finishing 11-1 and 12-1).

Additionally, the last three head coaches of Rockhurst's football team, Al Davis, Jr., Jerry Culver, and Tony Severino, are all members of Missouri's High School Coaches Hall of Fame, and all won State Championships. Davis was a two-time recipient of the Knute Rockne Award, and Severino was named USA Today National Coach of the Year after a 14-0 season in 2000.

[edit] Tennis

Ron Geldhof has coached what's turned into a tennis dynasty at Rockhurst, leading the Hawklets to 10 consecutive big class state titles from 1996-2005.

[edit] Chess

Though its classification as an "athletics team" is debatable, the Rockhurst Chess Team has been one of the school's most successful extracurricular programs in recent years. In 2004, after a nearly perfect season, the team went on to tie for first in the Under 1200 rating division of the High School Chess National Championships in Dallas, Texas. In 2006, the team won third place in the more competitive Under 1500 division, missing first place by only one win. Dr. Michael Cusick, the school's Greek and Latin teacher, oversees the club.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Athletics

• Brad Budde, former offensive guard for the Kansas City Chiefs
• Jason Cole, professional soccer player for the St. Louis Steamers
• David Cone, former All-Star Major League Baseball player
• Will John, professional soccer player for Kansas City Wizards
• Kevin Kane, former accomplished linebacker for the University of Kansas
• Ken Klee, NHL defenseman for the New Jersey Devils
• John Mayberry, Jr., former Stanford baseball player, 2005 first round draft pick for the Texas Rangers
• Steve Murphy, minor league baseball player for the Spokane Indians, Northwest League's MVP
• Tim Ryan, former University of Notre Dame and Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive lineman
• Kenyon Rasheed, former University of Oklahoma and New York Giants fullback
• Ryan Raybould, professional soccer player for Kansas City Wizards
• Brian Sexton, radio voice of the Jacksonville Jaguars
• David H. Sherwood, current USTA Tennis player
• Tony Temple, current running back at Missouri University

[edit] Business

• Adam Blake, 2005 College Entrepreneur of the year
• Peter Brown, chairman and CEO of AMC Theaters
• Robert Callahan, CEO of CBS, former president of ABC
• Edward Kinerk, S.J., president of Rockhurst University
• Stephen Koeneke, co-owner of Stir Advertising and Integrated Marketing
• Thomas McDonnell, CEO of DST Systems Inc.
• Edward Reardon, former President of Commerce Bancshares

[edit] Entertainment

• Robert Altman, filmmaker
• Jeff East, actor
• Edward Kerr, actor
• Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka, operator of humor website "Something Awful"[1]

[edit] Politics

• Tim Kaine, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Joseph P. Teasdale, former Governor of the State of Missouri
• Paul Woody, Director of Communications and Policy for the Democratic Caucus in the Missouri House of Representatives

[edit] Other Notable Alumni

• Rev. Luke J. Byrne, S.J, former director of campus ministry at Rockhurst University, University Chaplain at Rockhurst University, former president of Rockhurst High School
• Michael DeHaemer, United States Navy Captain nuclear power and submarines, Professor of Naval Science and CO NROTC Unit, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988-1996 Faculty of Sellinger School of Business, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD. Chair and Associate Professor of Decision Science and Information Systems, DeHaemer Consulting, Inc. and Executive VP of World Technology Evaluation Center
• Salvatore Enna, Secretary General of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR), Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine
• Matthew Flaherty, Professor of Neurology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center
• James Grimaldi, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Rick Krizman, composer, national Emmy Award winner
• Alfred Lorenz, distinguished professor and interim dean of the College of Social Sciences at Loyola University
• Walter Ong, S.J., world-reknowned philosopher
• Bruce L. Ottley, professor and associate dean of the DePaul University College of Law, former judge of the National Capitol District Court
• John Rubin, served a 30 year term as U.S. Administrative Law Judge
• Tim Trabon, owner of Trabon Solutions, Manager of film crews for Jacques Cousteau
• Joseph Vandergrift, Adjunct Professor in Special education at Assumption College, Adjunct Professor in Psychology at Becker College in Worcester, partner/director of The Advent Program,

[edit] See also

• Rockhurst University

[edit] External links

• Rockhurst High School (Official Website),
  • History of Rockhurst

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