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Claremont High School (California)
Claremont High School is a public high school nestled in the northern foothills of the Pomona Valley in Claremont, California, United States. Part of the Claremont Unified School District, it is a California Distinguished School, a two-time national Blue Ribbon School of Excellence (1986–1987, 1999–2000), and a nationally recognized International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. The school serves Claremont and a small section of Pomona. Athletics Claremont's sports programs include football, basketball, volleyball, golf, baseball, softball, water polo, swimming and diving, wrestling, tennis, soccer, track and field, and cross-country. The varsity football team has won 21 league championships, including 5 CIF titles. The cross-country team earned a fourth-place finish at the 2009 CIF State Meet and a third-place finish at the 2010 CIF State Meet, in recent years they have been dominant, with a 3rd place finish in 2011, 4th place finish in 2014, 4th place in 2015, STATE CHAM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claremont, California
Claremont () is a suburban city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, California, United States, east of downtown Los Angeles. It is in the Pomona Valley, at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 34,926, and in 2019 the estimated population was 36,266. Claremont is home to the Claremont Colleges and other educational institutions, and the city is known for its tree-lined streets with numerous historic buildings. Because of this, it is sometimes referred to as "The City of Trees and Ph.Ds." In July 2007, it was rated by CNN/''Money'' magazine as the fifth best place to live in the United States, and was the highest rated place in California on the list. It was also named the best suburb in the West by '' Sunset Magazine'' in 2016, which described it as a "small city that blends worldly sophistication with small-town appeal." In 2018, Niche rated Claremont as the 17th best place to live in the Los Angeles area out of 658 com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alta Loma High School
Alta Loma High School is a public high school located in Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States, and is part of the Chaffey Joint Union High School District. History With funding received from state bonds, expansion work was done between 1998–2001, adding on a new Math and Science building, a new dance studio, weight rooms, and a new library, along with renovation work on sites around the campus. Academics Alta Loma was a recipient of a Golden Ribbon Award from the California Department of Education in 2017 and a Silver Medalist for the U.S. News & World Report 2018 Best High Schools. Graduates from the Class of 2017 met the University of California A-G admission requirements at a rate of 66.2%. Athletics Alta Loma is a member of the Palomares League of the CIF Southern Section. The school's football team plays its home games at Alta Loma's Uhalley Stadium. Notable alumni * Carlos Bocanegra (graduated 1997), professional soccer player and former USMNT captain * David C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malu Dreyer
Marie-Luise "Malu" Dreyer (born 6 February 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has served as the 8th and current Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate since 13 January 2013. She is the first woman to hold this office. She served a one-year-term as the President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2016 – 2017, which made her the deputy to the President of Germany while in office. She was the second female President of the Bundesrat and the sixth woman holding one of the five highest federal offices in Germany. Early life and education Dreyer was born the second of three children of a principal and a teacher. Following a year as an exchange student at Claremont High School in California in 1977, and her final Abitur exams at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium Neustadt in 1980, Dreyer started her English studies and Roman Catholic theology at the University of Mainz. The following year she switched majors to jurisprudence and graduated in bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Darnielle
John Darnielle (; born March 16, 1967) is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary, and originally sole, member of the American band the Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist. Early life Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Darnielle grew up in San Luis Obispo and then Claremont, California with an abusive stepfather (as referenced frequently in '' The Sunset Tree''). Darnielle often attended professional wrestling matches with his stepfather at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. There, he developed a passion for the sport and local wrestlers like Chavo Guerrero Sr. His childhood love of wrestling would go on to inspire the Mountain Goats' album '' Beat the Champ''. Darnielle attended Claremont High School, located in the Pomona Valley region of Southern California. For a short time after high school, he lived in Portland, Oregon, where he developed an addiction to intravenous methamphetamine and other hard drugs (as r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Colclough
Craig Colclough is an American bass-baritone. Initially trained as a cellist, Colclough started playing in music theater in high school, and joined the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands, in Redlands, California, where he earned a liberal arts education. Continuing his musical studies after graduating college in 2004, Colclough was later hired by the Los Angeles Opera. Career With the Los Angeles Opera, Colclough appeared in several roles as a member of the company. He then joined Florida Grand Opera's Young Artist Studio, and became a Filene Young Artist at the Wolf Trap Opera Company in 2012. In 2013–2014, Colclough played the title role in ''Don Pasquale'' with the Arizona Opera, played Falstaff with the San Francisco Opera and the Los Angeles Opera, and appeared in ''Billy Budd'' with the Los Angeles Opera. Colclough's European debut was with the English National Opera as Jack Rance in ''La fanciulla del West'' in 2014–2015. he also performed again that year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kori Carter
Kori Carter (born June 3, 1992) is an American track and field athlete specializing in hurdle races, the World Champion in the 400 metres hurdles event in 2017. Kori Carter was a nine-time All-American at Stanford University sponsored by Jordan Brand. Prep While at Claremont High School, in Claremont, California, Carter won the illustrious double hurdles title at the CIF California State Meet her junior and senior years (2009–10) (13.59/41.09 & 13.33/40.44), while winning the 300 hurdles in 2008. She made the final in both races all four years, the first of those as a freshman in 2007. NCAA Kori Carter was a nine-time All-American at Stanford University sponsored by Nike. As a Junior, on June 8, 2013, Carter won the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship in the 400 metres hurdles in collegiate record time of 53.21. That mark tied triple Olympic gold medalist Marie-José Pérec for number 20 on the all-time list. Carter was a 2013 Bowerman finalist. In 2023, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Bertrand
Jacob Bertrand (born March 6, 2000) is an American actor who began his career as a child actor appearing in the 2009 film ''Duress (film), Duress'' and playing guest roles on television series such as ''The Cape (2011 TV series), The Cape'' and ''The Middle (TV series), The Middle''. He is known for playing the titular character in the 2014 Disney XD series ''Kirby Buckets,'' and Jack Malloy in the 2016 Disney Channel Original Movie ''The Swap (2016 film), The Swap''. Since 2018, Bertrand has played the series regular role of Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz in the YouTube Premium and Netflix series ''Cobra Kai''. Career Prior to his work for The Walt Disney Company, Disney, Bertrand had several roles in Nickelodeon productions. He was a regular on the sitcom ''Marvin Marvin'', voiced the main character Gil in Season 2 of the animated series ''Bubble Guppies'', appeared as a minor character on the teen sitcom ''iCarly'', and co-starred as Charlie on the fantasy-comedy film ''Jinxed (2013 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake, often shortened to RSL, is an American professional soccer franchise based in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The club competes as a member club of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the Western Conference. RSL began play in 2005 as an expansion team of the league. The club was founded in 2004 when the club's first owner and founder was awarded an expansion berth in Major League Soccer. The club plays its home games at America First Field, a soccer-specific stadium located in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy, Utah, which they shared with their sister team, Utah Royals FC. Before moving to America First, RSL previously played home games at Rice-Eccles Stadium, located on the campus of the University of Utah, from 2005 to 2007. The team is currently led by head coach Pablo Mastroeni. In domestic soccer, Real Salt Lake won the 2009 MLS Cup, and they finished as runners-up in the Supporters Shield in 2010, and the 2013 edition of the U.S. Open Cup. They were a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Beltran
Anthony Benjamin Beltran (born October 11, 1987) is an American former soccer player who spent nearly all of his entire professional career at Real Salt Lake. Career Youth career Beltran was a two-time Parade All American at Claremont High School. He was also named in the 2004 NSCAA/Adidas High School All-America squad and was a member of the Region IV Olympic Development Program from 2002 to 2005 and captain of the 2004 squad."UCLA Bruins Player Biographies" ''UCLA Bruins'', Retrieved March 23, 2014. College Tony Beltran began college playing as for[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ady Barkan
Ady Barkan ( he, עדי ברקן; born December 18, 1983) is an American lawyer and liberal activist. He is a co-founder of the Be a Hero PAC and is an organizer for the Center for Popular Democracy, where he led the Fed Up campaign. Barkan confronted Senator Jeff Flake on a plane in 2017, asking him to "be a hero" and vote no on a tax bill. Barkan, who was diagnosed with the terminal neurodegenerative disease ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) in 2016 shortly after the birth of his son, has been called "the most powerful activist in America" in a headline from 2019 in ''Politico Magazine''. In 2020, he was included on ''Time''s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Early life and education Ady Barkan was born December 18, 1983, to immigrant parents from Romania and Israel. Barkan grew up in what he describes as a "secular Jewish household" and holds dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship. He attended high school in Claremont, California, where he took an earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba ( ; born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and businesswoman. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in '' Camp Nowhere'' and '' The Secret World of Alex Mack'' (1994), and rose to prominence at age 19 as the lead actress of the television series '' Dark Angel'' (2000–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Her big screen breakthrough came in ''Honey'' (2003). She soon established herself as a Hollywood actress, and has starred in numerous box office hits throughout her career, including ''Fantastic Four'' (2005), '' Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'' (2007), '' Good Luck Chuck'' (2007), '' The Eye'' (2008), ''Valentine's Day'' (2010), '' Little Fockers'' (2010), and '' Mechanic: Resurrection'' (2016). She is a frequent collaborator of director Robert Rodriguez, having starred in '' Sin City'' (2005), ''Machete'' (2010), '' Spy Kids: All the Time in the World'' (2011), ''Machete Kills'' (2013), and '' Sin City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glendora High School
Glendora High School (GHS) is located in Glendora, California, Glendora, Los Angeles County, California, United States. History The high school was built in 1958 on land owned by Clarks Gordan, an orange grower. Before it was built, Glendora students attended Citrus College which functioned as both a high school and junior college for the area. The land contained oak trees which still grow on the school grounds. The first graduating class of GHS was in 1959 and contained 188 students. The school's teams are known as the Glendora Tartans. This name was chosen by the first class in a vote between "Tartans" and "The Oranges". Activities The school is notable for being one of six schools in California to have a bagpipe squad in its band program. The school's Tartan Band and Pageantry participated in the Tournament of Roses Parade marching bands, Tournament of Roses Parade in 2010 and 2014, in Pasadena, California.Hazel Lodevico-To'o"GHS Marching Band Wins Spot in 2014 Rose Parade" '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
