Mt. Juliet High School (MJHS) is a

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located in

Wilson County, Tennessee Wilson County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is in Middle Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 147,737. Its county seat is Lebanon. The largest city is Mt. Juliet. Wilson County is part of the Nashville-Davidson ...

. It is not within Mt. Juliet city limits, but it serves parts of southern and eastern Mt. Juliet. The principal is Beverly Sharpe. In 2008, MJHS moved from its previous building on Mt. Juliet Road to a new building located at 1800 Curd Road. The old building became Mt. Juliet Middle School. The address changed to 1875 Golden Bear Gateway in 2017. The school's slogan is "Bear Pride Mt. Juliet High."

Athletics

Mt. Juliet competes in

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Division 1, District 9-AAA in all sports except

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. In football, Mt. Juliet participates in the TSSAA Division 1, 6A Region 4.

Football

Mt. Juliet fielded its first football team in 1923–24 and was coached by Jack Gifford. The high school has fielded a team every year since 1936. The team is coached by Trey Perry. Mt. Juliet has appeared in the TSSAA playoffs 17 times and has appeared every year since 2006. In 2012 Mt. Juliet went to the 6A state semifinals, losing to eventual state champion Memphis Whitehaven 41–35.

Rivalries

Wilson Central, MJHS's rival school, opened in 2001. When Wilson Central opened, the area was re-zoned, moving some Mt. Juliet students to Wilson Central. Similarly,

Green Hill High School Green Hill High School (GHHS) is a public high school in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. It is one of the largest public schools in Wilson County and is part of the Wilson County School District. Completed in the fall of 2020, Green Hill High School is ...

(GHHS) was completed in 2020, rezoning hundreds of students from MJHS. On October 29, 2021, GHHS defeated MJHS in their first-ever football game at Elzie D. Patton stadium.

Baseball

2001–2018: Mark Purvis (516–194). Under Purvis, Mt. Juliet went to eight TSSAA sectional games and won the District 9-AAA championship nine times (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016 & 2018). Over 100 of Purvis' players played collegiately, including nine in the SEC—eight to

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and one to the

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. 2019: Mark Decker (349–181) replaced Mark Purvis.

Girls Basketball

TSSAA Girls Basketball AAA State Champs 1977, 1983, and 2005.

Tornado recovery

As a result of the deadly March 2020 tornado, MJHS was temporarily converted to a grade 7-12 school to house displaced students from West Wilson Middle School (WWMS). WWMS students were relocated to the west wing of MJHS, while MJHS students were relocated to the east wing. All students shared the common areas.

Notable alumni

* Levi Brown, quarterback for the

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of the

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, baseball player * Jared Followill, bassist from band

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Dale Wainwright J. Dale Wainwright (born June 19, 1961 in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee) is a former associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court, now in private practice with Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Austin, Texas. Wainwright was initially elected to a six-year term ...

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References

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