Tumwater High School

Tumwater High School
Address
700 Israel Road SE Tumwater, Washington USA
Coordinates	46°59′10″N 122°54′59″W / 46.98611°N 122.91639°W / 46.98611; -122.91639Coordinates: 46°59′10″N 122°54′59″W / 46.98611°N 122.91639°W / 46.98611; -122.91639
Information
Type	Public secondary
Established	1961
School district	Tumwater School District
Principal	Jeff Broome
Faculty	87
Grades	9-12
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Green and white
Mascot	Thunderbird
Website	thsweb.tumwater.k12.wa.us

Tumwater High School is a secondary school in Tumwater, Washington serving grades 9-12 in Thurston County. It is one of two comprehensive high schools in the Tumwater School District. Tumwater High School generally draws students from the portions of the Tumwater School District east of Interstate 5 and the Littlerock area west of I-5.

Athletics

Tumwater High School offers athletic teams in cross country, golf, football, soccer, dance, swim and dive, tennis, volleyball, basketball, bowling, wrestling, baseball, fastpitch, and track and field. Tumwater also offers a club rifle team, which currently holds two national championships.

The town has supported athletics at Tumwater High School and the recently formed Black Hills High School. The school's teams are known as the T-Birds, and have experienced success at the league, district and state level for all of their teams since the school's founding almost 50 years ago.

Tumwater is best known for its football programs. Most of the success can be credited to head football coach Sid Otton, who took over the reins in 1973. In the 2005 season the school broke the all-time Washington state wins record of 273 wins. During Otton's tenure, Tumwater has won five state titles, been nationally ranked four times, and made the state playoffs more than 23 times. The most recent state title they won under Coach Otton was on December 4, 2010 against Archbishop Murphy High School in the 2A State Football Championship, with a score of 34-14.

Tumwater has also experienced success on the basketball court with both the boys' (third year straight, a school record) and girls' basketball (second straight year) teams making state together in back-to-back years for the first time in school history.

The Tumwater volleyball program has also had a lot of success over the years, including winning the state championship in 2008 and 2014.^[1]

Tumwater High School is a 2A-division member of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.^[2]

State championships
Season	Sport	Number of championships	Year
Fall	Football	5	1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2010
Fall	Volleyball, girls'	2	2008, 2014
Winter		0
Spring	Fastpitch softball, girls'	2	1993, 2006
Total		9

State championships, 2nd place:

Girls' basketball - 2007, 2010
Girls' cross country - 1984
Fastpitch softball - 1992
Boys' golf - 1997, 1998
Boys' tennis - 1986
Boys' track and field - 1992
Girls' volleyball - 2007, 2011

Prayer in the end-zone controversy

When Tumwater High School was in the semi-finals, Ronnie Hastie pointed upward after he scored. He got a penalty.

Tumwater Acting Company

The Theatre program at THS has an outstanding history, including many national and state titles for their multitude of talented students. Past TAC Directors include Amy Ullen, Kristina Cummins, Joann Boswell,Robin Tuckett, and Heidi Fredericks. The current TAC Director is Harrison Fry.

Past Shows Include:

2006-2007: Romeo and Juliet, Murder's In The Heir

2007-2008: The Miracle Worker, Ask Any Girl, Little Shop of Horrors

2008-2009: The 11 Variations of Friar John, The Crucible, Anything Goes

2009-2010: Trouble at the Talent Show, Anatomy of Gray, Much Ado About Nothing, Once On This Island

2010-2011: Little Women, The Ugly Duckling, The Brother's Grimm, The Music Man

2011-2012: Our Town, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Pirates of Penzance

2012-2013: Harvey, Aida

2014-2015: The Voice of the Prairie, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Tempest

2015-2016: Macbeth, Arsenic and Old Lace, Oliver!

2016-2017: Twelfth Night, Little Shop of Horrors, The Mousetrap

Notable alumni

Barrett Martin, '86, musician, Screaming Trees

Sources

External links

WIAA Southwest Washington District 4

4A, 3A, 2A Classifications

4A Conferences

Greater St. Helens 4A Battle Ground Tigers Camas Papermakers Heritage Timberwolves Skyview Storm Union Titans

3A Conferences

Greater St. Helens 3A Evergreen Plainsmen Fort Vancouver Trappers Hudson's Bay Eagles Kelso Hilanders Mountain View Thunder Prairie Falcons

2A Conferences

Greater St. Helens 2A Columbia River Chieftains Hockinson Hawks Mark Morris Monarchs R. A. Long Lumberjacks Ridgefield Spudders Washougal Panthers Woodland Beavers Evergreen 2A Aberdeen Bobcats Black Hills Wolves Centralia Tigers Rochester Warriors Tumwater T-birds W.F. West Bearcats

1A, 2B, 1B Classifications

1A Conferences

Evergreen 1A Elma Eagles Forks Spartans Hoquiam Grizzlies Montesano Bulldogs Tenino Beavers Trico 1A Castle Rock Rockets Kingsway Christian Knights La Center Wildcats Seton Catholic Cougars Stevenson Bulldogs Columbia Bruins

2B Conferences

Central 2B: Adna Pirates; Kalama Chinooks; Morton White Pass Timberwolves; Mossyrock Vikings; Napavine Tigers; Onalaska Loggers; Pe Ell Trojans; Rainier Mountaineers; Toledo Indians; Toutle Lake Ducks; Wahkiakum Mules; Winlock Cardinals

Pacific 2B: Chief Leschi Warriors; Ilwaco Fishermen; Life Christian Eagles; North Beach Hyaks; Northwest Christian Navigators; Ocosta Wildcats; Raymond Gulls; South Bend Indians; Willapa Valley Vikings

1B Conferences

Independent Lake Quinault Elks Knight Owls Naselle Comets North River Mustangs Oakville Acorns Taholah Chitwin Wishkah Valley Loggers Columbia Valley Columbia Adventist Kodiaks Three Rivers Christian Washington School for the Deaf

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