Columbia High School is a public high school in Columbia, Illinois. It is part of Columbia Community Unit School District 4.

Athletics

Columbia High School's athletic teams compete as members of the

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in the Mississippi Division of the Cahokia Conference. Columbia High School offers the following interscholastic sports at the varsity level: *Boys

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 t ...

*Boys and Girls

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

*Boys and Girls

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), thou ...

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

*Boys and Girls Cross country *Boys Football *Boys and 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 ...

* Scholastic Bowl *Boys and Girls Soccer *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 ...

*Boys and Girls Track *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 Sum ...

*Boys

Hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

(Club) *Boys

Water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...

Columbia has enjoyed a number of successes on the state level of athletic competitions. The boys baseball team won the state title in 1987 under Coach Jim Stuart and again in 2007 under Coach Dustin Nail. In 2010, Columbia's Cheerleading squad swept both statewide competitive cheerleading competitions by winning the IHSA (Illinois High School Association) and ICCA (Illinois Cheerleading Coaches Association) Championships in the small varsity division. The cheerleaders continued their winning ways by repeating that feat in 2011 and 2012, the only small varsity squad in the entire state to win more than once. In 2012, the Eagles cheerleaders also took first place in the Advanced Co-Ed Division of the NCA High School Open National Championship held in Louisville, KY. In 2013, due to increased enrollment, Columbia cheerleading competed at the medium varsity level against schools with enrollments more than double that of Columbia. They again brought home both the IHSA and ICCA titles in their division. Columbia High School teams have trophied numerous times in many sports at the state level: *1987 Boys Baseball - Illinois State Championship *2005 Girls Volleyball Runner-Up *2006 Girls Soccer Runner-Up *2006 Baseball 4th Place *2007 Boys Baseball - Illinois State Championship *2007 Scholastic Bowl Runner-Up *2007 Football Runner-Up *2008 Girls Soccer 3rd Place *2008 Football Semi-finalist *2009 Competitive Cheerleading Small Varsity 3rd Place *2010 Competitive Cheerleading Small Varsity IHSA and ICCA State Champions *2010 Boys soccer 3rd Place *2011 Boys soccer IHSA Sectional Champions *2011 Competitive Cheerleading Small Varsity IHSA and ICCA State Champions *2012 Competitive Cheerleading Small Varsity IHSA and ICCA State Champions *2012 Competitive Cheerleading NCA High School Open National Champions Advanced Co-ed Division *2013 Competitive Cheerleading Medium Varsity IHSA and ICCA State Champions *2014 Boys Soccer Class 1A State Champions *2019 Girls Soccer Class 1A State Champions

Notable alumni

Trent Blank Trent Robert Blank (born August 31, 1989) is an American professional baseball coach for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. Blank attended Columbia High School in Columbia, Illinois, and Baylor University, where he played college ba ...

, baseball coach * Jim Kremmel, Former

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player ( Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs) * T. J. Mathews, professional baseball player (MLB 1995–2002) * Josh Fleming, professional baseball player (

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) *

Nelson Mathews Nelson Elmer Mathews (born July 21, 1941) is a retired American professional baseball outfielder who appeared in the Major Leagues (MLB) from 1960 to 1965 for the Chicago Cubs and Kansas City Athletics. Born in Columbia, Illinois, he graduated fr ...

, professional baseball player (MLB 1960–1965)Nelson Mathews Statistics - Baseball Reference
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References

External links

Columbia High School Official Website
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