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Olathe South High School
Established:	1981
Type:	Public
Principal:	Phil Clark
Location:	Olathe, Kansas, USA
Colors:	Gold and Royal Blue
Mascot:	Falcon
Website:	[5]

Olathe South High School is the second oldest high school in the Olathe Unified School District. Built in 1981, Olathe South stands at the courner of 151st Street and Lennox Road in Olathe. Adjacent to the Olathe South building on the westside of the campus is Indian Trail Junior High. Olathe South currently competes at the KSHSAA level as a 6A school. Although OSHS only has 10th-12th grades. Feeder schools into Olathe South are Frontier Trail Junior High, Indian Trail Junior High School, parts of Oregon Trail Junior High, and Chisholm Trail Junior High School. Olathe South's official colors are blue and gold and its official mascot is the Falcon. Olathe South is nationally recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School.

Athletics

Olathe South competes in 13 sports for men and women. As well as cheerleading, drill team (OS Golden Girls), and color guard.

State championships

• 1986 6A Baseball^[1]
• 1990 Softball^[2]
• 1992 Gymnastics^[3]
• 1994 6A Men's Soccer ^[4]
• 1994 6-5A Baseball^[1]
• 1994 Gymnastics^[3]
• 1996 6A Softball^[2]
• 1997 6A Men's Basketball^[5]
• 2003 6A Women's Soccer^[6]
• 2004 6A Men's Basketball^[5]
• 2005 6A Volleyball^[7]
• 2006 6A Women's Soccer^[6]
• 2007 6A Men's Golf^[8]
• 2008 6A Men's Soccer^[4]

In 2007, Olathe South made it to the state championship in football, losing to Hutchinson High School, who won their fourth consecutive state championship.

Activities

Olathe South also competes in speech, forensics, and debate tournaments, as well as having an active student council (STUCO), music, and science olympiad.

Clubs, Organizations, and Special Programs

Olathe South is a large high school that has many activity and clubs to

Band, Orchestra, and Choir

The Olathe South Falcon Regiment marching at Old Settler's Day.

The marching element of the band is called the Olathe South Falcon Regiment (pictured to the right). The band is lead by Mr. Chad Coughlin. During concert season, OSHS has two bands, Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble. The Falcon Jazz Ensemble performed for the 2004 Kansas Music Educators Inservice Workshop. The Falcon Spirit Pep Band, a volunteer group, plays for basketball games, Spirit Riots (pep rallys) and other school events.

Drama and Musicals

In 2004 Olathe South Performing Arts production of The Pirates of Penzance was nominated for Best Musical, as well as nine other awards, at the 1st Annual Blue Star Awards, fo ^[9] The Olathe South theater department puts on three plays, including one musical each year. The first musical OSHS produced was Meridith Wilson's The Music Man (which has traditionally been repeated at the 10 and 20 year school anniversaries. And assumed 30th as well.) The first play OSHS performed was You Can't Take It With You. The current drama teacher is David Tate Hastings of Lawrence, Kansas. In 2002, Olathe South became the first high school in the United States to perform Footloose. The musical for the 2006-2007 school year was Hello, Dolly! which was nominated for several awards at the Blue Star Awards including Best Musical, but won a Blue Star Award for Best Direction of a Musical for 2007's Hello, Dolly!

S.A.S.H.

S.A.S.H. (Students Achieving Social Harmony) is one available activity at Olathe South High School. Students are given semester issues dealing with anything from socioeconomics to religion. This year, the club has thus far decorated Childrens Mercy Kansas City as well as hosting a Toys for Tots fund raiser.

PCA

PCA - Olathe South features a special program called Professional Careers Academy, or PCA. The PCA's goals are to teach students leadership skills and ethics and prepare students for life after high school. ^[10] The PCA also brings in guest speakers in a program called the "PCA Lecture Series". This has brought in such speakers as ethics professor Marianne Jennings and local judge Janice Russell. ^[11]

CaSE

CaSE - This stands for Computer and Software Engineering, the second 21st century program to come to Olathe South. This program provides students with the computer programming skills they need for their future endeavors in the computer market.

Eco-Club

Eco-Club- Ran by Tim Oberhelman, eco-club is derived from the Student Naturalist class, which has also gained quite a bit of popularity for those concerned about the environment.

Eyrie

The Olathe South Eyrie is a student-written publication that prints 10 issues a school year. The Eyrie staff of 2008-2009 is supervised by Vicki Kohl and features co-editors Savannah Schroff and Amie Young, copy editor Ashley Dunkak, entertainment editor Ethan Beals, sports editor, opinion editor, Emily Atteberry, and business manager, Emily Ohse. The Eyrie annually competes in the Kansas Scholastic Press Association (KSPA) journalism competition, hosted at the University of Kansas. The paper is named after the nest of the falcon, an eyrie. The Eyrie also publishes online versions of their paper at http://teachers.olatheschools.com/teachers/eyrieonline/index.html

Talon

The Talon is the name of the annual yearbook. OSHS yearbook is actually given out at the start of every year at enrollment. So that activities and athlethics past the spring page deadlines could be included.

Video Production

Olathe South airs weekly announcements during the lunch time show called Falcon Week hosted by Ashley Dunkak. They just recently began doing daily video announcements which are aired in class each day.

STUCO

The Student Council is a 4 person elected body: President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasure, as well as 3 sets of 4 class officers of the same names. (Freshman are in the Junior High systems until 2011). There is also an elected body representing all three grades called the General Assembly, or GA.

Notable Alumni

• Jared Bond, drummer from the band, Josephine Collective signed with the Warner Brother label in 2006.
• Adam Jamal Craig, Actor on several television shows. ^[12]
• Johnny Dare, Disc-jockey, for Kansas City radio station, 98.9.
• Don Davis (American football)
• Jim Suptic, Rob Pope, Ryan Pope of the Emo rock pioneering band The Get Up Kids^[13]

Other High Schools in the Olathe School District

• Olathe East High School
• Olathe North High School
• Olathe Northwest High School

External links

• ' Official Web-Site
• ' Olathe South Band
• ' Olathe School District's Official Web-Site

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