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which is located on 74 acres adjacent to Wilderness Park in

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Academics

Southwest offers dual enrollment education through three local

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institutions. The

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offers dual enrollment to students on the university's campus,

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(NWU) offers dual enrollment at Southwest's campus through the NWU Honors Academy, and

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(SCC) offers dual enrollment on both Southwest's campus and the Lincoln Public School's Career Academy campus located on the SCC campus.

Extracurricular Activities

NSAA Sponsored Programs

Forensics

In 2006, Southwest was awarded the

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's National School of Excellence Award for their

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program. In 2013, Southwest's speech program also received the National School of Excellence Award.

Swim and Dive

The Southwest Girls swim and

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team has won four state championships, including a

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from 2016 to 2018. The Silver Hawk first swimming and diving championship was in 2014, which was also the first swim and dive championship for a Lincoln school since 1999. In 2017 the girls' swimming and diving team took first at state and set five new individual state records.

Science Olympiad

The Southwest

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team has, since 2008, won ten out of eleven state championships, each annually qualifying them for the national tournament.

Football

After going winless in their first season, the Southwest football team has made the state playoffs the last fourteen of the school's sixteen seasons.

Golf

The Southwest

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teams have won five combined team state title for the school, including a four-year run where the Boys team won three championships. In 2018, the Girls golf team won state championship in the first round of competition, finishing with a seventeen stroke lead.

Music

The Southwest Music program consists of three primary divisions;

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, and

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. Nearly a quarter of Southwest's student body is involved in the Music Department.

Softball

The Southwest

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team have won three state titles, including back-to-back championships in 2008 and 2009. In 2018, the Silver Hawks was first team in Nebraska to lose their first game in the double-elimination tournament to come back and win a state title.

Tennis

The Southwest

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teams have won a combined three state championships. During the 2017 Boys State Finals, Southwest swept the entire championship bracket, winning both

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and both doubles bracket.

Track and Field

The Southwest Girls

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teams have won three state titles. The Boys' team placed second in the NSAA state meet in 2017https://nsaa-static.s3.amazonaws.com/textfile/cc/bres17.pdf by half a point to Lincoln High School.

Theater

Silver Hawk Theater is a member of the

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and has performed at the

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four times.

Notable alumni

* Ashley Graham,

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and body activist * Brandon Reilly, NFL

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for the

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References

External links

LSW homepage
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