Silver Lake Regional High School

Infobox Secondary school
name = Silver Lake Regional High School

established = 1955
type = Public
grades = 9–12
city = Kingston, Massachusetts
country = USA
principal = Richard Kelley
enrollment = 1,118 (approx.)
faculty = 100 (approx.)
campus = 300 acres
nickname = Lakers
colors = Red , white and silver
website = [http://www.slrsd.org/slrhs www.slrsd.org]

Silver Lake Regional High School is a public, regional high school in Massachusetts' South Shore region. It serves as the secondary school for the Silver Lake Regional School District, comprising the towns of Kingston, Plympton and Halifax, Massachusetts. Prior to 2004, Silver Lake Regional School District included the town of Pembroke, Massachusetts.

History

Silver Lake Regional High School was founded in 1955 and comprised the towns of Pembroke, Kingston, Plympton and Halifax in southeastern Massachusetts. The original building of the school stood until 2005 when it was torn down; however, the original football field, Sirico Field, remains. The Silver Lake campus eventually grew too small for the growing populations of the towns, and by 1970, the high school was on split sessions, becoming double sessions by 1975 and only eased by the construction of a second campus in Pembroke in 1976. Overcrowding in the school led Pembroke to withdraw from the district and form its own independent school district in 2002; its students were still enrolled in Silver Lake until 2004.

Because of overcrowding and an outdated school a new high school was constructed on the site of the original building. The school is one of the most expensive standing in Massachusetts and is right next to the new Silver Lake Middle School. It is currently filled to capacity.

The school was cited in "Boston" magazine as being one of the 2008 fifty top schools in Eastern Massachusetts [http://www.wickedlocal.com/kingston/news/education/x1577096711/Silver-Lake-a-Smartest-Public-High-School] .

Athletics

The name for the Silver Lake teams is the Lakers and their mascot is a pirate.

For 49 years Silver Lake competed in Division I athletics in the Old Colony League in the MIAA. The school boasted a largely successful football program (1980 Division III Super Bowl Champions) but was regionally known for excelling in basketball (in which it won a state title in 1960, coached by future Boston Celtics assistant coach John Killelea), hockey (in which it reached the state finals in 1978) and soccer (in which it won a state title in 1988).

In 2005, after the withdrawal of the town of Pembroke, Silver Lake began competing in Division II. The Lakers now compete in the Patriot League of Southeastern Massachusetts. The most recent success of a Silver Lake team was the men's soccer team (lead by Patriot League All-Stars Scott Cluff, Dominic DeChiara, Steve Menice, and goalie Ryan Paiva) advancing to the regional semifinals but losing to Hingham.

For most of its existence, Silver Lake's chief rival was Plymouth-Carver Regional High School, until the breakup of Plymouth-Carver into three separate high schools in the 1980s; thereafter, until the district's demerger, its chief rival was Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School. The most notable current school rivalries are with Pembroke High School and Duxbury High School.

In 2006 the girls soccer team won the first Patriot League title in school history with a win over Duxbury 2-1. The Lady Lakers finished the season 10-3-3 on the season.

The 2007 Silver Lake boys soccer team won another Patriot League title after beating Duxbury 4-1. Both the Lakers and Dragons had a 7-2-2 league record but Silver Lake won the tiebreaker of head to head with a win and a tie against Duxbury.Facts|date=October 2007

ilver Lake in the news

In 2002 Silver Lake grabbed headlines after a student engaged in sexual acts on a school bus. It was covered on the O'Reilly Factor when Bill O'Reilly called for the principal to be fired.

In 2006, it made news when a distraught mother made threats against the Freshman football team. [http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/10/06/ministers_wife_is_accused_of_school_threat/]

The Rachel Souza Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established for students in memory of 1997 graduate Rachel Entwistle (née Souza).

In 2007 the school was the location for an episode of the MTV television show "Made." During the filming, which lasted from August 2007 until October 2007, Bryce Fallon, a junior at the time, was selected to be featured on the show and given an education in ballroom dancing. His final performance was at the first annual Silver Lake's Got Talent talent competition.

In 2008, four students were in a car accident on their way back from a vacation trip. One of those students was fatally injured. Following that incident, in May 2008, two Silver Lake students were found with hit lists within four days of each other. [http://www.patriotledger.com/homepage/x1880507585/2-Silver-Lake-students-found-with-hit-lists-police-say]

Notable alumni

*Ben Edlund, class of 1986 - Creator of The Tick comic book series and co-creator of the science fiction television show, "Firefly".
*Eric Flaim, class of 1985 - A four time Olympian (1988, 1992, 1994, 1998) and holder of two silver medals (1500 meter Long Track, 1988; 5000 meter Short Track relay, 1994), Eric is the first American to medal in two different winter Olympic sports.
*Jeff Smith, class of 2006 Boston College football standout.
*Kevin Stevens, class of 1983 - NHL All-Star left winger and two-time Stanley Cup Champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
*Keith Terceira, USA Boxing Coach.
*Rachel Entwistle, class of 1997 - Murder victim