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Camino Real League
The Camino Real League is a high school athletic league that is part of the CIF Southern Section. Member schools * Bishop Montgomery High School (Torrance) * Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary High School (Montebello) * La Salle College Preparatory (Pasadena) * St. Genevieve High School (Panorama City) * St. Mary's Academy (Inglewood) * St. Monica Catholic High School (Santa Monica) * St. Pius X - St. Matthias Academy (Downey) * Salesian High School (Boyle Heights) Popular culture * In the film Gridiron Gang ''Gridiron Gang'' is a 2006 American sports drama film directed by Phil Joanou, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell and Kevin Dunn. It is loosely based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 season. The ..., the team of the Juvenile detention center "Mustangs" played against the teams of a fictionalised Camino Real League. References CIF Southern Section leagues Christian sports organizations {{California-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CIF Southern Section
The California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section (CIF-SS) is the governing body for high school athletics in most of Southern California and is the largest of the ten sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF). Its membership includes most public and private high schools in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, and central and southern Santa Barbara counties. At the start of the 2018/9 season, 13 schools from San Luis Obispo County and northern Santa Barbara County left the Southern Section to join the much smaller CIF Central Section. Teams from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and surrounding areas have competed in the CIF Los Angeles City Section since 1935. CIFSS's offices are located in Los Alamitos. Founded in 1913, the CIF Southern Section includes over 565 member public and private high schools and is by far the largest CIF section. Three of the ten CIF sections are individual current or former p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Montgomery High School
Bishop Montgomery High School (commonly referred to as "BMHS" or simply "Bishop" by students) is a Catholic high school serving twenty-five parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. BMHS was founded in 1957, and staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Conventual Franciscans, and lay faculty. The campus is located in Torrance, California, in southwest Los Angeles County, one mile (1.6 km) from the Pacific Ocean and the Del Amo Mall. The coeducational student body is approximately 900 students in grades 9 through 12, making BMHS the sixth largest private high school in Los Angeles County. The faculty is headed by Principal Dr. Jim Garza. The school is named for the first American-born Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles, the Most Reverend George Thomas Montgomery. As the ordinary of the diocese from 1896 to 1902, Bishop Montgomery demanded that government recognize the right of parents to send their children to schools of their choice. BMHS is accr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantwell-Sacred Heart Of Mary High School
Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary High School (CSHM), is a private Roman Catholic high school located in Montebello, California, precisely on the border of East Los Angeles and Montebello. It is now owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary High School - About us It is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the challenging curriculum prepares students for admission to four-year university programs and other career options.privateschoolreview.com Review /ref> History Founding Sacred Heart of Mary High ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Salle College Preparatory
La Salle College Preparatory is a private, Catholic college preparatory high school founded and run by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Pasadena, California and located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It was founded in 1956 as La Salle High School. It was accredited in 1961 by the University of California. History La Salle College Preparatory was founded in 1956 as La Salle High School. It was originally an all boys' school but became coeducational in 1993. Notable alumni * Phil Hendrie (1970) – radio personality, actor, and voiceover artist attended in the early 1970s. * Gerry Janeski (1964) - former MLB player * Bill Quirk (1963) – politician representing California's 20th State Assembly district * Chase Rettig – starting American football quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Monica Catholic High School
Saint Monica Preparatory is a parochial school, parochial, co-educational school in Santa Monica, California, consisting of students in grades Transitional kindergarten, kindergarten to Twelfth grade, grade 12. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and serves the parish of St. Monica Catholic Church (Santa Monica, California), St. Monica. The school in its current organizational structure was formed by the merging of the parish elementary and high schools into a single K–12, TK–12 school, but the elementary and high schools remain on their respective separate campuses. Background Saint Monica was established in 1899 by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. The academy housed both an elementary school and a high school until 1930, when the elementary school became the "Saint Monica Parish Elementary School" and was transferred to its present site on Seventh Street. The school was sold in 1935, and Saint Monica High School was opened in 1939. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salesian High School (Los Angeles)
Bishop Mora Salesian High School ("Salesian High School") is an all-boys Roman Catholic high school founded in 1958 and operated by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the community of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, California. It is named after Francisco Mora y Borrell, Bishop of the former Monterey-Los Angeles Diocese. The high school is associated with the religious order, the Salesians of Don Bosco. Early history The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, through the insistence of Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, entrusted Bishop Mora Salesian High School to the care and spirit of the Salesians of Don Bosco as a way of building up the faith community of Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, and surrounding communities. Bishop Mora Salesian High School opened in 1958 as an archdiocesan school operated by the Salesians of Don Bosco. The school offered four distinct academic programs: college preparatory, business, general education, and shop. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Salesian wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridiron Gang
''Gridiron Gang'' is a 2006 American sports drama film directed by Phil Joanou, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell and Kevin Dunn. It is loosely based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 season. The film was released in the United States on September 15, 2006. It was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing and Columbia Pictures. Plot Sean Porter (Dwayne Johnson) works at Kilpatrick Detention Center in Los Angeles. He becomes frustrated at not being able to help the kids get away from their problems in life when they are released from the center, such as street gangs and drug dealings. He decides to create a football team so the kids can feel like they're part of something. Porter believes that football will teach the teenage inmates what it takes to be responsible, mature, and disciplined winners. He picks out a few kids in the room that he feels will benefit from this program and requires that they practice with him the followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CIF Southern Section Leagues
Cif is a French brand of household cleaning products owned by the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever, known as Jif in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Middle East and the Nordic countries. Cif was launched in France in 1965 and was marketed in competition against scouring powders (such as Vim scouring powder) as a creamy and hence protective, but powerful household cleaner. Name Cif is sold under the names Jif, Vim, Viss and Handy Andy, depending on which of the 51 countries it is sold in. In Sweden, and South Africa, the products were originally sold under the name Vim before this was changed to Jif, the launch name in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and Hong Kong. In January 2001, the name in most of these countries was changed to Cif in order to align marketing and product inventories across the continent. Despite this, many in Ireland, continue to call the product Jif. The name change from Jif to Cif was confirmed by Unilever in December 2000. In Belgium, Finland a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
