Maple Heights High School
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.
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
- Wrestling – 1956, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1974
- Football – 2010
Notable alumni
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- Chuck Findley – Class of 1965. trumpet player in The Tonight Show Band, Steely Dan and The Wrecking Crew.
- Bruce E. Grooms – retired vice admiral in the United States Navy.
- Len Kosmalski, NBA basketball player (Kansas City Kings)
- Jim Krusoe, novelist, poet, and short story writer.
- Frank Mestnik (born 1938), class of 1953, professional football player (St. Louis Cardinals and Green Bay Packers).
- Dale Mohorcic, class of 1974, professional baseball player
- Ric Ocasek (1944–2019), class of 1963, lead singer of the Cars.
- Mary Oliver – Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award winning poet.
- Richard Quinn (born 1986), professional football player (Denver Broncos and Washington Redskins).
- Evelyn Svec Ward (1921–1989), class of 1939, fiber artist.
Notes and references
- ^ OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association member directory". Archived from the original on November 3, 2010. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
- ^ "Maple Heights High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
- ^ NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
- ^ OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site". Retrieved December 31, 2006.
- ^ Yappi. "Yappi Sports Wrestling". Archived from the original on March 4, 2009. Retrieved February 12, 2007.
- ^ "Len Koxmalski Stats". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ^ "MHHS Class of 1961 Reunion Program". MHHS Class of 1961. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ^ "Maple Heights Alumni Pro Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ^ Campbell, Steve (June 28, 1987). "'Horse' is a horse". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. pp. 1, 5. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Who's Who in the Midwest. Vol. 16. A.N. Marquis. 1978. p. 734. ISBN 978-0-8379-0716-1.
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