National Yilan Senior High School (YLSH; ) is a Taiwanese

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located in

Yilan City Yilan City (Mandarin pinyin: ''Yílán Shì''; Hokkien POJ: ''Gî-lân-chhī'') is a county-administered city and the county seat of Yilan County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China. The city lies on the north side of the Lanyang River. Histo ...

, Yilan County. The school is famous for the Science achievement in the

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, Soccer and Basketball sports in east Taiwan. This school is a top ranked school in east Taiwan.

History

YLSH was established in 1941 as Yilan Middle School (宜蘭中學校). In 1970, it changed its name to Taiwan Provincial Yilan Senior High School (省立宜蘭高級中學) and eliminated its junior high school department. In 2000, it was renamed to National Yilan Senior High School. The school had been a boys school until 2000, when it admitted girls to apply to its Artist and Physical Experimental Departments. The enrollment now is 1709 students in 15 classes.

Buildings and facilities

The total area of National Yilan Senior High School covers 7.9 hectares (approximately the size of 9.5 standard football pitches). Its main facilities include the Lin Feng Building, Huai Shan Building, Qin Xue Building, administrative headquarters, the library, Humanities Building, Science Building, Fine Arts/Health and Life Sciences Building, the Music Hall, and Student Activity Centre. The school also has a swimming pool, a sports field with a 400m running track, a tennis court, four badminton courts, three volleyball courts, four basketball courts, a greenhouse, a museum of school history, a school shop, and student dormitories. Many of the buildings have stood for many decades and offer a narrative of the year-by-year development and growth of the institute. Although these historical buildings are some of its most notable features, National Yilan Senior High School also continually strives to incorporate the new and keep abreast of modern developments.

Football team

The football team of National Yilan Senior High School was founded in 1981. They are traditionally one of the three powers of senior high school football in Taiwan along with National Pei Men Senior High School and National Hualien Senior High School. The team were initially consisted of students from common classes. In September, 1986, the School set up a physical education class and started to enroll football-specialized students from local

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Honors

Notable players

Huang Wei-yi Huang Wei-yi (, born 11 September 1985 in Yilan, Republic of China) is a Taiwanese football striker who currently plays for Tatung F.C. He comes from Atayal tribe. In 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification games, he scored 3 goals, which wer ...

Lo Chih-an Lo Chih-an (; born 28 December 1988) is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese football player who comes from Atayal people, Atayal tribe. Despite still being a high school student, Lo made his debut for Chinese Taipei national football team, together wit ...

Lo Chih-en Lo Chih-en (; born 28 December 1988) is a Taiwanese football player. He comes from Atayal tribe. On 17 June 2007, Lo made his debut for Chinese Taipei in the game against Guam of East Asian Cup 2008 preliminary competition, in which he scored ...

Notable alumni

Chen Ou-po Chen Ou-po (; born 12 October 1962) is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, he has served in the Legislative Yuan since 2012, representing Yilan County. Education Chen graduated from National Yilan Senior High ...

, member of

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* Chen Ding-nan

External links

National Yilan Senior High School official site
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