Del Oro High School is located in

Loomis, California Loomis (formerly, Pine, Pino, Smithville, and Placer) is an incorporated town in Placer County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade– Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town's population was r ...

, and is a part of the Placer Union High School District. Del Oro High School opened for the instruction of freshmen and sophomores on September 28, 1959, one week after Colfax opened. It was founded in 1958 and currently has over 1600 students attending. The dropout rate is 2%, which is below the California state average.

Athletics

Del Oro's Division I ranked athletes compete in

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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 ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

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 ...

, cross country,

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, and

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Performing arts

The performing arts department at Del Oro consists of two music programs, choral and instrumental, a theatrical program, and a dance program.

Instrumental music

The oldest and most rooted, in Del Oro tradition, is the "band program," currently directed by Ben Duncan. The program consists of five ensembles:

marching band A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Most marching bands wear a uniform, ofte ...

offered in the Fall Semester;

concert band A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion famil ...

offered in the Spring Semester;

jazz band A jazz band (jazz ensemble or jazz combo) is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. Jazz bands vary in the quantity of its members and the style of jazz that they play but it is common to find a jazz band made up of a rhythm section and a ...

offered in the Spring Semester;

winter percussion An indoor percussion ensemble or indoor drumline is type of marching ensemble consisting of the battery and front ensemble instruments. It differs itself from a traditional percussion ensemble by not only on musical performance, but on theatrics ...

offered in the Spring Semester; and,

winter guard Winter guard (sometimes spelled "winterguard") is an indoor color guard sport and performance art derived from military ceremonies. Modern winter guard is a competitive, performance-based activity which incorporates choreographed staging, dance, a ...

offered in the spring semester. None of the ensembles run year-round, so it is very common that students participate in the marching band in the fall and up to three of the other choices in the spring (in rare cases, a student may be able to participate in all ensembles). The band program holds the Del Oro Golden Eagle Spectacular (an annual marching band competition for schools in Northern California and sometimes neighboring states) and more recently hosts the Del Oro Golden Eagle Winter Spectacular (an annual competition for

and

ensembles). Del Oro High School also offers, "Guitar" as an elective. This course provides students who are interested in the development of the guitar an opportunity to learn. This course is open to all students who choose to take it and no prior experience of guitar playing is necessary.

Choral music

Del Oro has two choral ensembles: Chorus, which is offered in the Fall Semester, and is open to all students. Concert Choir, offered in the Spring Semester is offered to students who audition. Both are directed by Lisa Murgo (preceded by Marlene Astle).

Theater

The theater department's debut production was the American classic "You Can't Take it With You," written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart and directed by Jeffrey Johnson, co-founder of Del Oro's theatrical program. It opened in late-2004, prior to the completion of the new theater facility, and was performed on the campus cafeteria stage. The school received 10 Elly Award nominations, with one win, from the Sacramento Area Regional Theater Alliance for the performances of "The Foreigner" and "Noises Off" during the 2006-2007 school year.

Dance

The newest program started and was founded by a student named LaTasha Holland in 2006.

Fight song

The "Del Oro Fight Song" is an adaptation of the

Washington State University Fight Song "The Fight Song" is the fight song of the Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, Washington. The music to the tune was composed in 1919 by WSU student Phyllis Sayles with fellow student Zella Melcher penning the lyrics. Sayles, who had tran ...

; in fact, the marching band plays exactly the same sheet music. The difference between the two fight songs are the lyrics.

Notable alumni

* Thomas E. Cooper – former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force through 1987 * Sally Edwards – member of

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Hall of Fame *

Randy Fasani Randy Fasani (born September 18, 1978) is a former professional American football quarterback. High school career Fasani started his football days at Del Oro High School in Loomis, California. He finished his high school career with 5,299 pas ...

– former NFL

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* James Irvin – professional

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fighter *

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– former

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manager and pitching coach * Frank Lopes, Jr - musician Hobo Johnson *

Mark McLemore Mark Tremell McLemore (born October 4, 1964) is an American former professional baseball second baseman and utility player in Major League Baseball (MLB). Early years McLemore grew up in Southeast San Diego, where he went to Samuel F. B. Morse ...

– MLB pitcher for

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– men's basketball head coach at

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- current captain of the United States water polo team, competed in the

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. * Austin Smotherman - Current

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References

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