Mater Dei High School or Evansville Mater Dei High School is a private
Catholic
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high school on the west side of
Evansville
Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in S ...
,
Indiana
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, constructed in 1949. It is one of two Catholic high schools that serve the students of
Vanderburgh,
Posey,
Gibson
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, and
Warrick counties as part of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Evansville
The Diocese of Evansville ( la, Dioecesis Evansvicensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Southwestern Indiana.
On October 21, 1944, the then- Diocese of Indianapolis was split into the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and the Diocese of Ev ...
.
Sports
State titles
* Baseball (1998–99)
* Boys Basketball (2003–04)
* Girls Basketball (2011–12), (2012–13)
* Football (2000), (2022)
* Wrestling (1986), (1995), (1996), (1997), (1998), (1999), (2000), (2001), (2002), (2003), (2006), (2007), (2021)
* Softball (2016)
* Girls Soccer (2017), (2018), (2019)
Notable alumni
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Suzanne Crouch
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, politician, current
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, and former
Indiana State Auditor
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and
Indiana State Representative
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Jerad Eickhoff,
Major League Baseball
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pitcher
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Rob Maurer
Robert John Maurer (born January 7, 1967) is a retired Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman,
Maurer attended Mater Dei High School in Evansville, Indiana and the University of Evansville, where he played for the Evansville Purple Aces
Th ...
,
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First baseman
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See also
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List of high schools in Indiana
This is a list of high schools in the U.S. state of Indiana.
A
Adams County
Allen County
B
Bartholomew County
Benton County
Blackford County
Boone County
Brown County
C
Carroll County
Cass County
Clark County
Clay County ...
References
External links
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{{Roman Catholic Diocese of Evansville
High schools in Southwestern Indiana
Roman Catholic Diocese of Evansville
Catholic secondary schools in Indiana
Private high schools in Indiana
Educational institutions established in 1949
Schools in Evansville, Indiana
Southern Indiana Athletic Conference
1949 establishments in Indiana