Maple_Heights_High_School

Maple Heights High School

Maple Heights High School

Public, coeducational high school in Maple Heights, , Ohio, United States

Maple Heights High School is a public high school located in Maple Heights, Ohio, southeast of Cleveland, Ohio. It graduated its first class in 1925. It was the first high school in America to offer a credit class in popular culture studies, created in 1975. It also offered a broadcast journalism class, Television Journalism, which produced a long-running public-access television cable TV program entitled Maple Schools Today, which ran on several Cleveland Ohio cable outlets from 1984 through 2002.

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A completely new high school building opened in 2013, replacing one that dated back 90 years. A new stadium with artificial turf and an all-weather track opened in 2014.

Athletics

Maple Heights High School athletics is best known for the success of the boys' wrestling teams. They won 10 state championships in a 19-year period from 1956–1974. They were led by legendary coach Mike Milkovich. Milkovich played a role in a sports brawl that led eventually to a U.S. Supreme Court case, Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., an important free speech case.

The team nickname is the Mustangs.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

Further information: Ohio High School Athletic Association
  • Wrestling – 1956, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1974 [4][5]
  • Football – 2010 [4]

Notable alumni

Notes and references

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    OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory". Archived from the original on 2010-11-03. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
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    "Maple Heights High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
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    NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
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    OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site". Retrieved 2006-12-31.
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    Yappi. "Yappi Sports Wrestling". Archived from the original on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
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    "Len Koxmalski Stats". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
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    "MHHS Class of 1961 Reunion Program". MHHS Class of 1961. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
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    "Maple Heights Alumni Pro Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
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    Campbell, Steve (28 June 1987). "'Horse' is a horse". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. pp. 1, 5. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
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    Greene, Andy (December 13, 2017). "The Cars' Ric Ocasek on the Hall of Fame: 'It's a Good Cap to the Bottle'". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. Retrieved March 23, 2018. That was in Cleveland, Ohio, since I used to live there.... I graduated from [Maple Heights] [sic] High School in 1963.
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    Who's Who in the Midwest. Vol. 16. A.N. Marquis. 1978. p. 734. ISBN 978-0-8379-0716-1.
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