Capital High School is a three-year
public
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secondary school
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in
Boise, Idaho
Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown are ...
, United States.
Opened in the fall of 1965, it was the third of four public high schools constructed in the
Boise School District
The Boise School District #1 is one of 115 public school districts in Idaho. The Boise School District serves a 456 square mile area of Ada County and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho. The district was founded in 1865 under the auspices of Idaho ...
, and serves its northern portion. The other high schools are
Boise
Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown area's ...
(1902) in the east,
Borah (1958) in the southwest, and
Timberline (1998) in the southeast.
The Capital High boundary includes sections of
Eagle
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and
Garden City.
Athletics
Capital competes in athletics in
IHSAA Class 5A in the
Southern Idaho Conference (5A) (SIC). The longtime rivals are
Boise
Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown area's ...
and
Borah. The tennis team has won 16 state titles, including five consecutive from 1972 to 1976.
[ The boys basketball team won four consecutive A-1 (now 5A) state titles from 1975 to 1978.][
]
State titles
Boys
* Football (2): ''fall'' 1983, 1991 ''(official with introduction of playoffs, fall 1979)''
** ''(unofficial poll titles - 2) - fall'' 1974, 1977 ''(poll introduced in 1963, through 1978)''
* Cross Country (2): ''fall'' 1965, 1977, 2004, 2013 [idhsaa.org]
Cross Country champions through fall 2011
* Basketball (6): 1968, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2014 [idhsaa.org]
- Boys Basketball champions - through 2012
* Baseball (3): 1989, 2009, 2014 ''(records not kept by IHSAA)''
* Track (5): 1974, 1979, 1980, 1985, 2009, 2015
* Golf (1): 1974 [idhsaa.org]
- Golf champions - through 2012
* Tennis - ''(combined until 2008, see below)''
Girls
* Cross Country (1): ''fall'' 1980 [
* Basketball (1): 1977 ][idhsaa.org]
- Girls Basketball champions - through 2012
* Track (3): 1981, 1984, 1988
Combined
* Tennis (16): 1968, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 2002, 2006, 2007[idhsaa.org]
- Tennis champions - through 2012 ''(combined until 2008)''
Notable alumni
* Matthew Barney
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(1985), artist
* Geraldo Boldewijn, American football player
* Ben Driebergen
Benjamin Russell Driebergen (born January 1, 1983) is an American Marine Corps veteran and reality television personality, best known for competing on and winning '' Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers''. In 2020, he returned to compete i ...
, former U.S. Marine
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, winner of '' Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers''
* Hailey Duke
Hailey Duke (born September 17, 1985, in Sun Valley, Idaho) is an alpine skier who skied for the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her original athletic interest was taekwondo
''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, ...
, alpine ski racer
* Rep. Annette (Williams) Glenn, Michigan House of Representatives. Source: http://www.RepGlenn.com
* John Grant (1968), NFL defensive lineman
* Bryan Harsin
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(1994), college football head coach
* Ernie Hughes
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, NFL player
* Marques McFadden
Marques Arthur McFadden (born September 12, 1978) is a former American football offensive guard in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys. He also was a member of the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League. He ...
(1995), former NFL offensive guard
* Jake Plummer
Jason Steven "Jake" Plummer (born December 19, 1974) is a former professional American football player, a quarterback for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the second round of the 1997 ...
(1993), former NFL quarterback
* Tobias Read
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(1993), politician (Oregon House of Representatives)
* Bill Sali
William Thomas Sali (born February 17, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a congressman from Idaho. A Republican, he served a single term in the United States House of Representatives, representing from 2007 to 2009. Sali pr ...
(1972), former congressman
* Gary Stevens (1981), thoroughbred horse racing jockey
* Curtis Stigers
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Career
St ...
(1983), musician
* Gary Wimmer, American football player
References
External links
*
MaxPreps.com
– Capital Eagles
Boise School District
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Educational institutions established in 1965
Treasure Valley
High schools in Boise, Idaho
Public high schools in Idaho
1965 establishments in Idaho