Mankato West High School is a public secondary school located in
Mankato
Mankato ( ) is a city in Blue Earth, Nicollet, and Le Sueur counties in the state of Minnesota. The population was 44,488 according to the 2020 census, making it the 21st-largest city in Minnesota, and the 5th-largest outside of the Minnea ...
, in the U.S. State of
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
. According to the school district in 2016, Mankato West enrolls about 1150 students in four grades, grades 9–12.
[''Mankato West High School'']
Independent School District #77. Accessed May 2, 2016. In 1992–93 the school was designated as a
"Blue Ribbon School of Excellence" by the United States Department of Education.
The schools teams are nicknamed the Scarlets.
Mankato West is a member of the
Big 9 Conference
''This is about a high school athletic conference in Minnesota. For the more well-known college sports conference that played under that name from 1899 to 1917 and from 1946 to 1949, see Big Ten Conference.''
The Big 9 Conference was organized ...
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Facilities
The school has a 1,100-seat auditorium, a fitness center, and six computer labs.
[ In 2013, Mankato passed a $69.0 million bond issue, including $2 million to expand the school's cafeteria.
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Athletics
Mankato West High School has the following sports offerings:Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
* Boys and Girls 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 ...
* Boys Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...
* 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 ...
* Girls Softball
Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
* Boys and Girls Swim and Dive
Swim or SWIM may refer to:
Movement and sport
* Swim, a fad dance
* Aquatic locomotion, the act of biologically propelled motion through a liquid medium
* Human swimming, the useful or recreational activity of movement through water
* Swimming ...
* Boys 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 ...
* Boys and Girls Alpine Skiing
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ...
* Boys and Girls 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 ...
* Boys and Girls 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 ...
* Boys and Girls 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 ...
* Boys and Girls Cross Country
* Boys and Girls Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...
Extracurricular
Mankato West High School has the following extracurricular offerings:Knowledge Bowl
Knowledge Bowl is the name for several interdisciplinary academic quiz bowl-like competitions across the United States and the world. The questions for many Knowledge Bowl competitions are supplied by the Academic Hallmarks company of Durango, ...
* Theater
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actor, actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The p ...
* VEX Robotics
VEX Robotics is a robotics program for elementary through university students, and a subset of Innovation First International. The VEX Robotics competitions and programs are managed by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation (RECF). In ...
* Math League
* Debate
* Speech
Notable alumni
* Former CEO of General Motors Daniel Akerson
Daniel Francis Akerson (born October 21, 1948) is the former chairman and CEO of General Motors, serving from 2010 to 2014. Akerson succeeded Edward Whitacre as CEO on September 1, 2010, and became chairman of the board on January 1, 2011. He wa ...
graduated from Mankato West High School in 1966.
* The Governor of Minnesota
The governor of Minnesota is the head of government of the U.S. state of Minnesota, leading the state's executive branch. Forty people have been governor of Minnesota, though historically there were also three governors of Minnesota Territory. ...
, Tim Walz
Timothy James Walz ( ; born April 6, 1964) is an American politician and retired educator. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he has served as the 41st governor of Minnesota since 2019.
Born in West Point, Nebraska, Walz ...
, once taught geography and coached football at Mankato West.Margaret Anderson Kelliher
Margaret Anderson Kelliher (born March 11, 1968) is an American politician, Director of the Minneapolis Department of Public Works, former Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and a former member of the Minnesota House of ...
former speaker of the house, 2010 gubernatorial candidate, former Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT, ) oversees transportation by all modes including land, water, air, rail, walking and bicycling in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The cabinet-level agency is responsible for maintaining the state' ...
, and current Director of the Minneapolis Department of Public Works
References
External links
Mankato West High School homepage
Public high schools in Minnesota
Schools in Blue Earth County, Minnesota
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