Germantown High School (Wisconsin)
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Germantown High School is a
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in
Germantown Germantown or German Town may refer to: Places Australia * Germantown, Queensland, a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region United States * Germantown, California, the former name of Artois, a census-designated place in Glenn County * Ge ...
,
Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
. It is part of the
Germantown School District The Germantown School District is a school district that serves the Village of Germantown, Wisconsin, the Town of Germantown, and the towns of Jackson, Polk, Richfield, Hubertus, the unincorporated community of Colgate. The district currently s ...
. The school was founded in 1957 as Washington Union High School.


Academics

The school teaches core subjects, technology education, physical education, and the fine arts. The AP courses offered at GHS consist of Psychology, United States History, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, European History, AB and BC Calculus, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English Literature, English Language and Composition, and Music Theory. Foreign languages offered are German and Spanish.


Extra-curricular activities

Germantown High School's Destination ImagiNation program teams have represented the school at Global Finals. Dramatic Impact, the school's theater group, presents two productions each year. Germantown High also sponsors other activities, such as yearbook, Environmental Club, Key Club, Spanish Honor Society, German Honor Society, Battle Bots, FRC Robotics Team 5096, Wall of Sound (Germantown's competitive marching band), Pep Band, FBLA, DECA, and Student Council. Germantown High School, since 2007, has also participated in the
Every 15 Minutes Every 15 Minutes is a two-day program focusing on high school juniors and seniors, which challenges them to think about driving while drunk, personal safety, and the responsibility of making mature decisions. Along with alcohol-related crashes, i ...
national program, having presentations in the spring of 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. The 2013 video presentation can be viewed on the school's YouTube page.


Athletics

The school competes in the
Greater Metro Conference The Greater Metro Conference is a high school athletics conference which consists of ten high schools near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Member schools The conference consists of ten schools, eight public, and two private. The private schools (Mar ...
, and offers the following sports: *Fall: Boys'
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 ...
, girls'
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 ...
, 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 ...
, boys' cross-country, girls' cross-country, 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 ...
, 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 ...
, girls' swimming, boys' volleyball *Winter: boys'
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 ...
, boys'
ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
, boys'
swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...
, boys'
wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...
, girls' basketball, girls'
gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...
, 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 ...
, 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), though ...
*Spring: boys' baseball, boys'
track Track or Tracks may refer to: Routes or imprints * Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity * Animal track, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walks across * Desire path, a line worn by people taking the shorte ...
, boys'
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 ...
, boys' golf, 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 ...
, girls' track and field, girls' soccer The football team had undefeated seasons in 1973 and 1974. It took first place in WIAA Division 2 in 1998 and 2003. In 1972, the boys' track team took first in the WIAA Division 2 Championships. In 2006 the boys' track team took first in the WIAA Division 1 Championship. In 2008 and 2009, the boys' basketball team went to the state tournament, losing both years to the #1 seed in the first round. Germantown won its first
Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) is the regulatory body for all high school sports in Wisconsin. Its history dates to 1895, making it the earliest continually existing high school athletic organization in the country. ...
Division 1 basketball state championship in 2012, beating Milwaukee King 72 to 69 in the title game. The school won their second consecutive WIAA Division 1 basketball state championship in 2013, defeating Mukwonago 57-28, after a second undefeated season. Germantown basketball player and senior
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was named Wisconsin Mr. Basketball for 2013. Germantown faced
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for the 2014 state championship and won their third consecutive state title 48-42.


Notable alumni

* Jesse Thielke - Olympic wrestler *
Paul Wagner Paul Alan Wagner (born November 14, 1967) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1992–1997), Milwaukee Brewers (1997–1998), and Cleveland Indians (1999). Amateur career Wagner at ...
- former professional baseball player. Wagner was inducted into the Germantown Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010. *
Rebecca Murray Rebecca Murray (born March 15, 1990) is an American former wheelchair basketball player. She is a three-time Parapan American Games gold medalist in both 2007, 2011 and 2023. In 2010, she won two more gold medals at IWBF World Championship and a ...
- wheelchair basketball athlete; four-time Paralympian, and two-time gold medalist.


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Germantown High School
{{Authority control Public high schools in Wisconsin Greater Metro Conference Schools in Washington County, Wisconsin Educational institutions established in 1957 1957 establishments in Wisconsin