Brevard High School is a public high school in
Brevard, North Carolina
Brevard is a city in Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States, with a population of 7,609 as of the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Transylvania County.
Brevard is located at the entrance to Pisgah National Forest and has become ...
, one of three along with Rosman High School and Davidson River School in the Transylvania County Schools district. The highschool has experienced a slight incline in student population going from 723 in 2012–2013 to around 770 in the 2017–2018 school year.
The school was located on South Broad Street from 1925 until the 1959–60 school year, when the campus on Country Club Road opened. Until court-ordered desegregation began in 1963, Brevard High was white, and black students attended a school in
Hendersonville.
Athletics
The school's teams are the Blue Devils. Sports include basketball, cross-country, golf, football, soccer, track, volleyball, and wrestling. The school competes on the NCHSAA 2A level. The football team won the state championship in 1982, when they went undefeated. The football team is currently coached by T. Craig Pritchett who took over the program in 2014. Since then Coach Pritchett has developed many college athletes from the Division III to the Division I levels. In 2016 Pritchett took the football team to the 3rd round of the 2A North Carolina playoffs.
Brevard has had a longstanding athletic rivalry with the
Hendersonville High School Bearcats; incidents with unruly spectators led in 1963 to a ban on competitions between the two teams without special permission.
Notable alumni
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Mickey Marvin
Phillip Michael "Mickey" Marvin (October 5, 1955 – March 6, 2017) was a professional American football player.
Career
After attending the University of Tennessee, Marvin played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, from 1977 t ...
, former
NFL
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offensive guard and 2x
Super Bowl
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champion with the
Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders
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Steve Penn
Steve Penn (born November 19, 1968) is an American handball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commo ...
,
handball
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player who represented Team USA at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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James Suttles
James Suttles (born September 21, 1980, in Brevard, North Carolina) is an American filmmaker. Suttles grew up in Brevard, North Carolina, attending Brevard High School. At the age of 26, he directed his first feature film ''Red Dirt Rising'' an ...
, filmmaker
[Lanier, John. (January 18, 2016)]
Suttles Returns Home For His Feature Film – Brevard NC
''The Transylvania Times''. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
References
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Public high schools in North Carolina
Education in Transylvania County, North Carolina