Coldwater High School is a

public high school State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in pa ...

located in

Coldwater, Ohio Coldwater is a village in Mercer County, Ohio, United States. The population was 4,427 at the 2010 census. History Coldwater was founded in 1838 and was originally called Buzzard's Glory for by David Buzzard who operated a general store. Cold ...

. It is part of Coldwater Exempted Village Schools.

Athletics

Athletic teams are known as the Cavaliers. The school competes in the

Ohio High School Athletic Association The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) is the governing body of athletic programs for junior and senior high schools in the state of Ohio. The OHSAA governs eligibility of student athletes, resolves disputes, organizes levels of compe ...

as a member of the

Midwest Athletic Conference The Midwest Athletic Conference is an OHSAA athletic league located in west-central Ohio formed in 1972. The Midwest Athletic Conference (MAC) is among the elite small school conferences in the nation. Touted as one of the toughest, if not the tough ...

. They have captured over 100 league championships in various MAC-sanctioned sports since 1973. The Cavaliers have a total of 28 team State Championships in various OHSAA sports. The Coldwater football team is in 2nd place for the most state titles (7) by a public school since the playoff system began in 1972. That is 5 behind fellow MAC member Marion Local who has 12 state football titles.

State Championships

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

- 2005, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020 *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

- 1983, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1992, 2014, 2019 * Boys

Bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...

- 2007, 2012, 2015, 2020 * Girls

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

– 1990, 1992 * Girls

- 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2021 * Girls

Track and Field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

– 1994, 1995, 1996

State Runners-Up

- 1998, 2000, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2021 *

- 1977, 1991, 2004, 2018 * Boys

- 1999 * Boys

- 2016, 2022 * Girls

- 2014, 2018, 2020 * Girls

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

- 1996 * Girls

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

- 2017, 2022

State Team Tournaments

* Girls

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

- 2021

Notable alumni

Keith Wenning Keith Wenning (born February 14, 1991) is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ball State Cardinals football, Ball State. High sch ...

, professional football player in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

(NFL) *

Ross Homan Ross Homan (born March 5, 1987) is a former American football linebacker. After playing college football for Ohio State, he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He was also a member of the Tampa Bay Bucca ...

, former

linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, p ...

for the

Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State Buckeyes are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Ohio State University, located in Columbus, Ohio. The athletic programs are named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Ohio and after the state tree ...

and NFL draftee *

Steve Vagedes Steve Vagedes is a retired professional football player that played in the Arena Football League and was a multiple time college football All-American. High school career He played for Coldwater High School (Coldwater, Ohio) where he was 2nd-tea ...

, former

Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in ...

player *Trent Dues, baseball state champion and head baseball coach for Butler High School

External links

District Website

Notes and references

High schools in Mercer County, Ohio Public high schools in Ohio {{MercerCountyOH-school-stub