Mountain View High School (MVHS) is located in

Orem Orem is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, in the northern part of the state. It is adjacent to Provo, Lindon, and Vineyard and is approximately south of Salt Lake City. Orem is one of the principal cities of the Provo-Orem, Utah M ...

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, United States. It is part of Utah County's

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. The school first opened its doors to the graduating class of 1980–81. Every year students from Orem Junior High and Lakeridge Junior High enter MVHS. Like other schools in Utah, it has been accredited by the Utah State Office of Education.

History

2016 Stabbing incident

On November 15, 2016, five students were stabbed in the boys locker room by a 16-year old student, who also turned the knife on themself. Each of the students received at least one stab wound, but none were considered life-threatening by the Orem Police Department. The student was arrested and booked into a juvenile correctional facility.

Athletics

The school sponsors fourteen sports and 23 varsity teams, including baseball, basketball, cheer, cross-country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. MVHS has won 90 UHSAA state athletic championships and seven national championships. As of November 2021, MVHS has more state championships than any other Utah high school in the sports of girls basketball, boys cross country, and girls cross country. The Utah Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (UIAAA) awarded MVHS the 5A classification Director's Cup for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. The Director's Cup is awarded for athletic success (40%), academic achievement (40%), and student, school, and community sportsmanship (20%). In 2021, there was an allegation by a volleyball player from another Utah high school about intimidation and harassment by a Mountain View High School coach. Also in 2021, a football game spurred an investigation from the

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Office for Civil Rights when fans allegedly used racial slurs and threw drinks at opposing players.

Notable faculty

* Eli Herring

Notable alumni

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, NCAA Shot Put champion; professional track athlete *

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, world high school record holder for discus; Olympic athlete; attended

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, Canadian Football League MVP and Hall of Famer * Setema Gali, former NFL player *

Travis Hansen Travis Mitchell Hansen (born April 15, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player. He played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Both his junior high school, Orem Junior High, and his high school, ...

, former NBA player *

Mitch Jones Mitchell C. Jones (born October 15, 1977) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2009. Amateur career Jones played ball in high school at Mountain View High School in Orem, Utah, and was ...

, former MLB player * Kevin McGiven, NCAA Football coach - currently the

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for

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* Brendan Newby, Olympic Freestyle Skier *

Noelle Pikus-Pace Noelle Pikus-Pace (born December 8, 1982) is an American retired skeleton racer who began her career in 2001. She won five medals at the FIBT World Championships, competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and won the silver medal in the ...

, 2014 Olympic silver medalist in skeleton; Skeleton World Cup Champion *

Shauna Rohbock Shauna Linn Rohbock (born April 4, 1977) is a retired Olympic medal-winning bobsledder, former professional soccer player, and is a staff sergeant in the Utah Army National Guard.

, 2006 Olympic silver medalist in bobsled; professional soccer player *

Seth Scott Seth Scott (born November 2, 1981) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Utah Valley and Portland State before playing professionally in Hungary, Cyprus, France, Mexico, Australia and Puerto Rico. ...

, basketball player *

Erin Thorn Erin Thorn (born May 19, 1981) is an American professional basketball player. She is currently playing for Tarbes GB in Tarbes, France. Born in Orem, Utah, Thorn earned Ms. Basketball honors for the state of Utah in 1999. After accepting a sch ...

, WNBA basketball player

References

External links

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Alpine School District
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