Normal Community West High School

Normal Community West High School
Normal Community West High School
Address
501 North Parkside Rd.
Normal, Illinois, McLean County, 61761
USA
Information
School type Public
Opened 1995
School district McLean County Unit District No. 5
Superintendent Gary Niehaus
Principal Tom Eder
Grades 9—12
Gender coed
Enrolment 2000
Hours in school day 8
Campus size 400 acres (1.6 km2)
School Colour(s)      black
     silver
Slogan It's a Great Day to Be a Wildcat!
Athletics Marching Band, Football, Golf, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Volleyball, Cross Country, Basketball, Poms, Wrestling, Baseball, Softball, Water Polo
Athletics conference Big 12
Nickname Wildcats
Newspaper 'The Paw Print'
Website

Normal Community West High School is a public high school in Normal, Illinois. The mascot is the wildcat and school colors are black and silver. The school opened in 1995 and its current student body numbers roughly 2,000.

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Extracurricular activities

Sports

Football

In 2011, Normal West had it's first undefeated season in school history. (9-0)

Soccer

In the school's short existence, the girls soccer team has won four Big Twelve Conference titles, along with two IHSA State Tournament qualifications, and a third place finish at the IHSA State Tournament in 2008.

Band

The Normal Community West Marching Band has had many achievements including, qualifying for the semifinals at Bands of America Grand Nationals in 1997, qualifying for Finals at the 1999 St. Louis Regional, appearing in the Fiesta Bowl parade in both 2002 and 2008, winning their division in the former year and placing 5th in Finals at the Field Competition in the later year. In 2008, the Normal Community West Marching Band won their division in the State of Illinois Invitational Marching Band Festival, the de facto state championship.[1]

Forensics

The school has a successful speech & drama department, with the speech team and competitive drama bringing home many awards for the school, including being named Regional Champions (2007, 2008, 2010), and Sectional Champions (2008). In 2008, 2010 & 2011 NCWHS advanced all events to Sectionals with 7 Regional Champs in 2008 & 2010, and 6 in 2011. In 2010 the speech team had a historic year with a record five national qualifiers.

The competitive drama season includes Group Interpretation (G.I.) and Contest Play (Drama). The school brought one of the two shows state in 1998-2002, 2004-2008, 2010 & 2011, with both shows being state qualifiers in 2007 & 2008. The Wildcats were Sectional Champions in 2000 (Drama), 2002 (Drama), & 2007 (G.I.), and placed at State in 1999 (Drama- 5th place), 2000 (Drama- 3rd place), 2008 (Drama- 4th place) & 2010 (G.I.- 3rd place).

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