Sacred Heart-Griffin High School, often abbreviated SHG, is a

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high school located in

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, United States. It is the city's largest private school and is located in the

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. The school opened in the fall of 1988 after Sacred Heart Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school merged with Griffin High School, an all-boys Catholic high school located across the street. Even prior to the merger, certain classes at both schools were taught on a co-educational basis. The part of campus which formerly housed Griffin High School is now known as the West Campus. The part of campus which was home to Sacred Heart Academy is known as the East Campus. Both facilities are used by SHG, with most of the school's athletic facilities being located on the West Campus and the majority of the academic facilities being located on the East Campus. On the school's East Campus is a

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for a Dominican order of religious sisters.

Athletics

All of the sports teams are known as the "Cyclones". In the fall the school offers football, cross country, boys' soccer, boys' and girls' golf, girls' swimming, volleyball, and girls' tennis. In the winter SHG has boys and girls' basketball, cheerleading, hockey, poms, boys swimming, and wrestling. In the spring, baseball, softball, girls soccer, boys and girls track, and boys tennis are played. The school won state championships in football in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014, & 2022, with runner-up finishes in 1975, 1982, 1995, 2003, 2016 and 2021. In baseball, the Cyclones were State Champions in 1964 and 1987 while earning second-place finishes in 1982 and 2014 and a fourth place finish in 2021. In soccer, Sacred Heart-Griffin claimed state crowns in 1998 and 2002 in addition to a runner-up finish in 1999. On the links, the Cyclones boys won back to back state golf championships in 1979 and 1980. The Girls Cross Country team won back to back State AA Championships in 2007 and in 2008. SHG's softball team also had state appearances in 2015 and 2016. In 2022, the boys' basketball team won the school's first state championship in basketball. In 2020, the boys basketball team reached the semi-finals of the boys state basketball tournament for the first time in school history only to have the last weekend of the tournament cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Cyclones of Cathedral High School, an all-boys predecessor to SHG, won a Catholic State Championship in basketball in 1939. In 2009 the school built a $6,000,000 football stadium.

Notable people

Stephen Glosecki Stephen O. Glosecki (1950 – 4 April 2007) was a scholar of Old English language and literature. Glosecki was raised in Springfield, Illinois, and educated at Sacred Heart-Griffin High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Beloit Co ...

(1950 – 2007), scholar of Old English *

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gold medalist *

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, former MLB pitcher * Eric Peterman, former NFL player *

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, NFL player *

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Karen Hasara Karen Hasara is a Republican member of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and a past member of the Illinois General Assembly (1986-1995) as well as the Mayor of Springfield, Illinois for two terms from 1995-2003. Early life After gra ...

, Illinois State Senator, State Representative, and Mayor of Springfield, Illinois. *

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, Bishop of Fort Worth, Texas and Bishop of Orange in California * J. Michael Houston, Mayor of Springfield, Illinois. *

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