La Habra High School

La Habra High School is a public co-educational high school located in the Orange County, California city of La Habra. Located between the Coyote Hills to the south and Whittier Hills to the north, LHHS opened in 1954 and graduated its first class in 1956 [http://lahabra.seniorhigh.net/home1.html Previous LHHS Website] . It is a California Distinguished High School and has been nominated as a National Blue Ribbon School. Some of its special programs include Heritage of the Americas and being a college prep magnet program. The school is a member of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District. LHHS absorbed a majority of the students from nearby Lowell High School when it closed in 1980.__TOC__

Athletics

La Habra's sports teams are known as the Highlanders. They are members of the Freeway League in CIF Southern Section, along with the five other high schools in the Fullerton Joint Union District. Their primary rivals is crosstown Sonora High School. La Habra holds a 25 to 7 edge in the annual football game between the two.

The Highlander football team won back-to-back Division IX championships in 2002 and 2003 and also won in 2007, and was runner-up in 1983 and 2000.

The La Habra girl's volleyball team won three consecutive state Division II titles from 1989 to 1991, and won Southern Section II-A titles in 1998 and 2000.

The baseball team won a league championship in 2004 against Sonora, four years since their last one.

Famous Alumni

*Jenny Topping (U.S. olympic softball player)

References

External links

* [http://www.lahabrahighschool.net/ Official Site]