O'Gorman High School is a

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high school in

Sioux Falls Sioux Falls () is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 130th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County and also extends into Lincoln County to the south, which continues up t ...

South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...

. The school was founded in 1961 and named after

Thomas O'Gorman Thomas O'Gorman (May 1, 1843 – September 18, 1921) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Sioux Falls from 1896 until his death in 1921. Biography Thomas O'Gorman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to John a ...

. O'Gorman is located in the Diocese of Sioux Falls.

History

The school opened in 1961, and high school students in the Diocese of Sioux Falls transitioned from the Cathedral School to O'Gorman. From 2008 to 2011, O'Gorman underwent a major addition that added two academic wings, a new chapel, and a new performing arts center. OGHS was named a No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon school in 1985, 2005, 2014, and 2021.

Athletics

O'Gorman is a member of the

South Dakota High School Activities Association South Dakota High School Activities Association governs high school sports and other activities in the state of South Dakota. The SDHSAA was founded in 1905 and has been a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations The N ...

. O'Gorman started the Dakota Bowl in 1978, recognized as one of the first high school bowl games. They have won the following SDHSAA State Championships: * Boys

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 ...

- 1968, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1993, 2004, 2005, 2019 * Boys

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- 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017 * Boys Cross Country - 1994 * Boys

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 ...

- 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011 * Boys

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 ...

- 1976, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2021 * Boys

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 ...

- 2020 * Girls

- 1995, 2017, 2022 * Girls Cross Country - 1986, 1988, 2020 * Girls

Gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...

- 1992, 1993, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 * Girls

- 2005 * Girls

- 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 * Girls

- 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2000, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 * Girls

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 ...

- 1987, 1988, 1989, 2002, 2020, 2021 *

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 ...

- 2010, 2012

Performing arts

The school fields two competitive show choirs, the mixed-gender "Ovation!" and the all-female "Encore!". Ovation! won a competition at the

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in 2012. The school hosted the first South Dakota state championship competition in 2016.

Notable alumni

Dusty Coleman Dustin Michael Coleman (born April 20, 1987) is an American former professional baseball infielder. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals and San Diego Padres. Amateur career Born in Sioux Falls, South Da ...

- professional baseball player *

Larry Jacobson Larry Paul Jacobson (born December 10, 1949) is a former professional football player, a defensive tackle for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). A first round selection in the 1972 NFL Draft (24th overall) and starter in h ...

- professional football player *

Kevin Truckenmiller Quietdrive is an alternative rock band based in Hopkins, Minnesota, USA, that was formed in 2002. Quietdrive released their first album, ''When All That's Left Is You'', on May 30, 2006, on Epic Records. In April 2008, Quietdrive left Epic Record ...

- singer * Thomas Vanek - professional hockey player

References

External links

School's Main Page
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