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Miller Comprehensive Catholic High School is a Catholic high school located in the Core Group neighbourhood in the central area of
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, Canada. It was the first high school built by the Regina Catholic school system. It is named after Joseph P. Miller who was a longtime member of the school board. Miller offers several academic and extracurricular opportunities to its students, including an
Advanced Placement Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board which offers college-level curricula and examinations to high school students. American colleges and universities may grant placement and course ...
(AP) program, a regular program, as well as a modified alternative academic program. The AP courses offered at Miller are: Calculus, English, Computer Science, Psychology and Studio Art. A number of specialized courses, including automotive, baking, commercial cooking, construction, cosmetology and welding are also available. Its feeder elementary schools include Jean Vanier School, St. Augustine Community School, St. Catherine Community School, St. Dominic Savio School, St. Gabriel School, St. Marguerite Bourgeoys School, St. Theresa School, and École St. Elizabeth School.


Clubs

Miller offers the following clubs and activities: * AV Tech * Automotive Club * Beading Club * Book Club * Chess Club * Cooking Club * Crochet Club * Drumming Group * Musical * One Acts * Outdoor Ed * Improv * Knitting Club * Robotics Club * SADD (Students Against Distracted Driving) * Liturgical Team * Maker Space Club * Multicultural Club * Revelation (Liturgical Music Group) * Student Representative Council (SRC) * Unity in Diversity * We All Matter (WAM) * Yearbook


Student Representative Council

The Student Representative Council (SRC) at Miller Comprehensive High School is responsible for student activities such as: Welcome Week, pep rallies, activity days and game shows.


Sports

Miller Comprehensive High School hosts the following sports teams: *
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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 ...
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Curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...
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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 ...
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Fencing Fencing is a group of three related combat sports. The three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also ''saber''); winning points are made through the weapon's contact with an opponent. A fourth discipline, s ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ping pong Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
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Rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
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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 ...
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Track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...
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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 ...
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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 ...


Notable alumni

*John Donnelly, bassist and vocalist of the
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* Christine Tell, politician *
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, politician, Senator *
Josh Harding Joshua Joel Harding (born June 18, 1984) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Minnesota Wild. Playing career Harding played three seasons of junior hockey in the Western ...
, NHL goaltender for the Minnesota Wild * David Plummer, software engineer on MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, author of Task Manager in Windows, Space Cadet pinball Windows NT port, etc. *
Brett Wade Brett David Wade (born June 24, 1993) is a former professional Canadian football defensive lineman. He played U Sports football for the Calgary Dinos and played in the CJFL for the Regina Thunder. Professional career Wade was drafted by the Ha ...
, CFL Defensive Tackle for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats


Affiliated communities

*Al Ritchie *Arcola East - North *Arcola East - South *Boothill *Cathedral *Core Group *Gladmer Park *Glencairn *Glenelm


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Miller Comprehensive High School
{{Regina High Schools High schools in Regina, Saskatchewan Catholic secondary schools in Saskatchewan Educational institutions established in 1966 1966 establishments in Saskatchewan