Pequot Lakes High School (PLHS) is a 912 high school located a few blocks west of

Minnesota State Highway 371 Minnesota State Highway 371 (MN 371) is a highway in central and north-central Minnesota. The route connects Minnesota's northern lakes region with the central part of the state. It runs south–north from U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) in ...

towards the southern end of the city of

Pequot Lakes, Minnesota Pequot Lakes ( ) is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,162 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Pequot Lakes was platted in March 1900. It was named by ...

, United States. The school was built at its present location in 1976, and the music wing in the front of the building was completed in 2004. PLHS is the only high school in the Pequot Lakes School District (ISD 186) which includes Pequot Lakes and the surrounding communities of Breezy Point, Crosslake, Jenkins, Ideal Township and parts of northern Nisswa (the majority of Nisswa is in the Brainerd School District). The current principal is Aaron Nelson.

Sports

The athletics teams are the Patriots. Some of these noteworthy accomplishments include: *Boys' basketball - winning the Section 7AA title to achieve the school's first ever State Tournament berth after an 11-12 regular season in 2004, then going 28–0 in 2006 before losing in the State quarterfinals. In 2007, the Patriots again won the Section 7AA title and finished third in Class AA with victories over Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop and Luverne and a loss to the eventual State Runner-up, Maple River. *Girls' basketball - qualifying for the State Tournament in 1998, 1999 and 2005 when they took second place. They also traveled to the State tournament in 2010 and 2011, where they finished fourth. *Girls' golf - winning two Class A State Championships, the first in 2002 and the second in 2004. *Knowledge Bowl - qualifying for the

Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet The Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet is an annual, two-day academic quiz competition sponsored by the Minnesota Service Cooperatives, which is Minnesota's governing body of Knowledge Bowl Knowledge Bowl is the name for several interdiscipli ...

in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, and 2015 winning the school's first ever Region 5 Championship in 2003, finishing fifth at State in 2004 and most recently conference champions and section champions in 2015. *Dance team - qualifying for the MSHSL State Tournament nine years in a row (2000 - 2009), finishing second in the jazz/funk category in 2001 and third in jazz/funk in 2002.

Notable alumni

Mark Kennedy (politician) Mark Raymond Kennedy (born April 11, 1957) is an American businessman, politician, and university administrator. Following a career as a business executive, he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota ...

- president of the

University of North Dakota The University of North Dakota (also known as UND or North Dakota) is a public research university in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of ...

Dru Sjodin Dru, dru, or DRU may refer to: People Real persons (surname) * (born 1987), French trampolinist * Joanne Dru (1922–1996), American actress Real persons (forename) * Andrew Dru Castro (born 1976), American Grammy Award-winning recording engin ...

- Murder victimBell, Rachael. "Dru's Life Celebrated — Growing Up." ''

Crime Library Crime Library was a website documenting major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics, and criminal profiling from books. It was founded in 1998 and was most recently owned by truTV, a cable TV network that is part of Time Warner's Turner Broadcastin ...

''. p
10 Dru's Life Celebrated — Growing Up
Retrieved on June 5, 2016.

References

External links

Pequot Lakes Senior High School
{{authority control Public high schools in Minnesota Schools in Crow Wing County, Minnesota