Donald A. Wilson Secondary School is a high school located in

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, Canada. Opened in 2004, the school hosts students in grades 9-12 and offers a wide range of academic and extra-curricular activities. The school mascot is an alligator and the school colours are orange, blue, and silver. It is adjacent to

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Athletics

Donald A. Wilson Secondary School offers a fairly wide range of sports teams including

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 ...

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 ...

lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

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skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IO ...

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, and cross country.

Notable alumni

Taylor Lord Taylor Lord (born May 30, 1990) is a Canadian association football, soccer player and coach who serves as an assistant coach for the men's soccer program at Seneca College. Club career Lord began his professional career with Portugal FC of the ...

, Canadian soccer player *

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, Canadian football player *

Mitch Wilde Mitchell "Mitch" Wilde (born June 21, 1991) is a professional lacrosse player for the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League and the Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks of Major Series Lacrosse. Hailing from Brooklin, Ontario, Wilde attended Don ...

, Canadian lacrosse player

References

External links

Donald A. Wilson Secondary School website
{{Authority control Educational institutions established in 2004 High schools in the Regional Municipality of Durham Education in Whitby, Ontario 2004 establishments in Ontario

Athletics

Notable alumni

See also

References

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