Copley High School is a public
high school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...
in
Copley Township, just west of
Akron, Ohio
Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 C ...
, United States. It is the only high school in the Copley–Fairlawn City School District and competes athletically in the American Division of the
Suburban League
The Suburban League is an Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) athletics league made up of 15 high schools from Cuyahoga, Medina, Portage, and Summit counties in Northeast Ohio. It was formed in 1949 and expanded into two divisions in 20 ...
. The school's colors are blue and gold. The fight song is Ohio State's "Across the Field". The school's main rival is
Revere High School, with whom they play against annually for the a trophy called "The Bell" during the 5th game of their football season.
State championships
* Boys
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 ...
– 2003
* Boys
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
– 1994
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* Boys
Cross Country – 2015
* Girls
soccer
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– 2022
Notable alumni
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Delone Carter
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, professional football player in the
National Football League
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(NFL)
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Carrie Coon
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, Broadway, film, and television actress
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Jeff Golub
Jeff Golub (April 15, 1955 – January 1, 2015) was an American jazz guitarist who had a solo career and who led the band Avenue Blue. He worked as a sideman for a number of rock and pop musicians. He was arguably best known for his work with Rod ...
, guitarist, played jazz, rock, blues, and smooth jazz.
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Riley Grant
Riley Neal Grant (born January 27, 1995) is an American association football, soccer player who plays as a Defender (association football), defender. Previously, he played professionally for Seattle Sounders FC 2, and also appeared for AFC Clevel ...
, professional soccer player in United League Soccer
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Denise Johns
Denise Johns (born 9 December 1978) is a professional beach volleyball player. She was born in Luxembourg, grew up in the US, but competes for Great Britain.
Early life
Johns was born on 9 December 1978 in Ettelbruck in Luxembourg.[Frank LaRose
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, politician
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Jeff Tabaka
Jeffrey Jon Tabaka (born January 17, 1964) is an American former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1994 to 2001.
Tabaka graduated from Copley High School in Copley, Ohio and played collegiately at Kent State Uni ...
, professional baseball player in
Major League Baseball
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Josh Williams, a professional soccer player in Major League Soccer
References
External links
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High schools in Summit County, Ohio
Public high schools in Ohio
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