Riverton Parke Jr.-Sr. High School is a public high school in

Montezuma, Indiana Montezuma is a town in Reserve Township, Parke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 1,022 at the 2010 census. It is located approximately 66 miles west of Indianapolis History Montezuma was laid out in about 1824. The town w ...

About

Riverton Parke Junior-Senior High School was created from the consolidation of former high schools in western and southern Parke County, Indiana, Rosedale High School, Mecca High School, Bridgeton High School, and Montezuma High School.

Campus

The school is surrounded by forests and fields. There is a football field, softball field, and baseball field, along with many paths around the school to hike upon.

Curriculum

The Panthers have a spell bowl team, a math bowl team, and many other academic teams. The spell bowl team has been successful with multiple visits to the State Championships. In 2018 the Panthers captured the State Championship on the campus of Purdue University.

Athletics

The Riverton Parke Panthers compete in 7 varsity sports including

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 t ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), thou ...

cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

, cross country, football,

track & 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 eve ...

, and

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 Sum ...

, but are mostly known for their

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 ...

team that has won more than 12 sectional titles and a state title in Class A in 2010.

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