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Oak Grove High School (San Jose, California)
Oak Grove High School is a secondary school located in the Edenvale neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States, which serves students in grades 9–12. Average enrollment is 1800 students, compared to the state average of 1413. The school is part of the East Side Union High School District and its mascot is the eagle. As of 2010, the principal is Martha Brazil. Demographics This is the breakdown of ethnicity and gender of a school's student body, based on data reported to the government. * American Indian/Alaskan Native 0.3% * Asian 26% * Black 5% * Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander 1% Notable people * Chidobe Awuzie, NFL player * Andre Carter, NFL player * Eric Frampton, NFL player * Mark Grieb, AFL player * James Hodgins, NFL player * Mike Holmgren (teacher), NFL coach * Ash Kalra, California State Assembly Member * Johnny Khamis, member of the San Jose City Council * Marty Mornhinweg, NFL c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 population of 1,013,240, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area, San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 9.7 million people respectively, the List of largest California cities by population, third-most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego and ahead of San Francisco), and the List of United States cities by population, tenth-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of . San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County and the main component of the San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Khamis
Johnny Khamis is an American politician from San Jose, California and was a member of the San Jose City Council, representing District 10. Khamis is a Christian of Palestinian descent. He grew up in San Jose and attended local public schools, graduating from Oak Grove High School. He is a graduate of San Jose State University in Business Management and Communication. He is the former CEO and founder of Western Benefit Solutions, a San Jose-based firm that deals in insurance benefit plan consulting. He was a member of the Republican Party, until changing his registration to ''no party preference'' in protest of the Trump administration family separation policy. City council positions are officially nonpartisan per California law. With his swearing-in on December 31, 2012, he became the first Arab-American to take office for the city of San Jose. He is the former regional director of the California Congress of Republicans, the former chair of the Santa Clara County Human Rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Schools In San Jose, California
High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift took or takes place * Substance intoxication, also known by the slang description "being high" * Sugar high, a misconception about the supposed psychological effects of sucrose Music Performers * High (musical group), a 1974–1990 Indian rock group * The High, an English rock band formed in 1989 Albums * ''High'' (The Blue Nile album) or the title song, 2004 * ''High'' (Flotsam and Jetsam album), 1997 * ''High'' (New Model Army album) or the title song, 2007 * ''High'' (Royal Headache album) or the title song, 2015 * ''High'' (EP), by Jarryd James, or the title song, 2016 Songs * "High" (Alison Wonderland song), 2018 * "High" (The Chainsmokers song), 2022 * "High" (The Cure song), 1992 * "High" (David Hallyday song), 1988 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Side Union High School District
The East Side Union High School District (abbreviated as ESUHSD) is a school district in San Jose, California, serving the East Side of San Jose. ESUHSD administers 19 high schools with a combined enrollment of approximately 24,500 students in the area of San Jose, Santa Clara County, California Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259, as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County together .... The schools include 11 comprehensive or traditional and 7 alternative high school programs. An Adult Education Program serves an additional 26,000 students. Schools in service The district currently operates the following high schools (Data entered from California Department of Education SARC reports): Employee housing proposal In 2019 the district proposed to voters a housing complex for teachers because of the high cost of living i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Kim
Christina Kim (born March 15, 1984) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour and on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She is known for her animated style of play, flamboyant dress, and outgoing personality. Kim competed in eight events in 2001 on the Futures Tour and made three cuts and a tied for second once. Shortly after her 18th birthday, Kim turned professional and competed on the 2002 Futures Tour for prize money. Kim missed just one cut in 18 starts with 12 top-ten finishes. She won her first event as a professional in August 2002 - the Hewlett-Packard Garden State FUTURES Summer Classic in a six-hole playoff over future LPGA Tour star Lorena Ochoa. Kim was second to Ochoa on the money list and both earned LPGA Tour cards for 2003. Kim won the 2004 Longs Drugs Challenge and the 2005 Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions and was a member of three U.S. Solheim Cup teams in 2005, 2009, and 2011. She was the youngest player to reach $1 million i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibril Wilson
Gibril Donald Wilson (born November 12, 1981) is a former American football safety in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New York Giants in the fifth round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee. Wilson earned a Super Bowl ring with the Giants in Super Bowl XLII. He has also played for the Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins. College career Wilson was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone and moved to the U.S. at age five. Although Wilson excelled in High school football, football as both a wide receiver and defensive back at Oak Grove High School, he drew little attention from any Division I schools. He initially attended City College of San Francisco, and two years later was the top recruited junior college safety, choosing Tennessee over USC, Oregon and Florida. Professional career New York Giants He was drafted by the New York Giants in the fifth round of the 2004 NFL Draft, with whom he later won Super Bowl XLII. His team beat t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan (born 29 June 1950) is an Americans, American artist of imaginative Realism (arts), realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through contemporary art gallery, galleries in the United States and through his website. The EMP Museum#Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. According to his Hall of Fame citation His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey Books, Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series, Piers Anthony's ''Incarnations of Immortality'' series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' ''Barsoom, Mars'' series, Melanie Rawn's ''Dragon Prince and Dragon Star'' series, the De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university's campus surrounds the historic Mission Santa Clara de Asís which traces its founding to 1777. The campus mirrors the Mission's architectural style and is one of the finest groupings of Mission Revival architecture and other Spanish Colonial Revival styles. The university is classified as a "Doctoral/Professional" university. The university offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees through its six colleges, the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Education and Counseling Psychology, Leavey School of Business, School of Engineering, Jesuit School of Theology, and School of Law. It enrolls about 5,400 undergraduate students and about 3,300 postgraduate students. Among Santa Clara's alumni are governors, congressmen, mayors, senators, presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose Mercury News
''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidiary of Digital First Media. , it was the List of newspapers in the United States#Top 25 newspapers by circulation, late 2012 through early 2013, fifth largest daily newspaper in the United States, with a daily circulation of 611,194. , the paper has a circulation of 324,500 daily and 415,200 on Sundays. As of 2021, this further declined. The Bay Area News Group no longer reports its circulation, but rather "readership". For 2021, they reported a "readership" of 312,700 adults daily. First published in 1851, the ''Mercury News'' is the last remaining English-language daily newspaper covering the Santa Clara Valley. It became the ''Mercury News'' in 1983 after a series of mergers. During much of the 20th century, it was owned by Knight Ridder. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Stieb
Dave Andrew Stieb (; born July 22, 1957) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. A seven-time All-Star, he also won ''The Sporting News'' Pitcher of the Year Award in 1982. Stieb won 140 games in the 1980s, the second-highest total by a pitcher in that decade, behind only Jack Morris. Playing career Born in Santa Ana, California, Stieb played varsity baseball at Southern Illinois University as an outfielder. Scouted by Bobby Mattick and Al LaMacchia of the Blue Jays as an outfield prospect in a varsity game, Stieb's performance failed to impress until he was pressed into service as a relief pitcher. His pitching surprised and convinced the Blue Jays to draft him. He played for the Blue Jays from 1979 to 1992 and again in 1998. On September 2, 1990, he pitched the first (and, , only) no-hitter in Blue Jays history, defeating the Cleveland Indians 3–0. Previously, on September 24 and 30, 1988, Stieb had no-hitters broken up wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Ryan (American Football, Born 1967)
Timothy Edward Ryan (born September 8, 1967) is a former National Football League (NFL) defensive tackle. He is currently a radio color analyst for the San Francisco 49ers, and previously an NFL analyst for Fox television and co-host of "Movin' the Chains" on Sirius XM NFL Radio. High school career Tim played for the Oak Grove Eagles high school varsity football team from 1983 to 1985 where he started on both the offensive and defensive line and was a Mercury-News All-CCS selection. College career A two-time All-American (1988, 1989) at the University of Southern California, Ryan is the all-time leading tackler in school history. The former team captain led the Trojans to three Rose Bowls and holds the team season-record for sacks with 20. Ryan started the season opener against Illinois in 1986 as the first true freshman since Riki Ellison in 1978. Professional career Ryan was a third-round draft choice (61st pick overall) in the 1990 NFL draft and played for the Chica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Reese
Marcus Reese (born June 15, 1981 in San Jose, California) is an American football linebacker. He last played with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League in 2004. Reese played high school football at Oak Grove High School in San Jose and college football at UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St .... External linksNFL.com player page 1981 births Living people Players of American football from San Jose, California American football linebackers University of California, Los Angeles alumni UCLA Bruins football players Chicago Bears players Cologne Centurions (NFL Europe) players {{linebacker-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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