Seneca High School MCA (Magnet Career Academy) is a

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, USA,

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. It is located at 3510 Goldsmith Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40220, in the Hikes Point neighborhood and is part of Jefferson County Public Schools. Seneca is one of 15 Academies of Louisville schools in JCPS.

Academics

Seneca is a public senior high school with a full complement of academics including learning and academic disabilities education and

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. Seneca has an

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, an

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program, a Competitive Music Program, an Urban AgriScience magnet program, and the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps Program (JROTC). A professional career theme called Creating Our Global Community offers courses in human services, education, and international studies. The foreign languages offered are French,

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, Japanese, German, Spanish and Chinese. Students are now required to follow a dress code, although uniform is no longer enforced.

Athletics

*Baseball *Basketball (boys and girls) *Bowling *Competitive Marching Band *Cross Country *Field Hockey *Football *Golf (boys and girls) *Soccer (boys and girls) *Softball *Tennis (boys and girls) *Volleyball (girls) *Wrestling *Archery

Administrators

*Executive Principal: Michael Guy *Academy Principal: Nureka Dixon *Academy Principal: Ryan Fahey *Academy Principal: Jen Fuchs *Academy Principal: Rebecca Merkel

Notable alumni

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– Television journalist for ABC News (1963) * Mike Redd - Basketball player. All-State three years and

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in 1963 when Seneca won the Kentucky state championship. Led

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to third in the 1964 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament. Drafted in 1967 by the

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. Won the AAU Men's National Basketball Championship in 1969 and 1970 with the U.S. Armed Forces All-Stars. Elected to the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1999. (1963) *

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– Louisville, Kentucky mayor and Kentucky lieutenant governor. (1964) *

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– NBA basketball player for the Baltimore/Washington Bullets elected to the

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in 1988. Led Seneca High School to two Kentucky state championships in 1963 and 1964. His 88 rebounds in the 1964 tournament, and 72 rebounds in the 1963 tourney, rank as the two top tournament marks in that category. As a senior he was named Kentucky Mr. Basketball. Elected to Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1989. (1964) * Cyb (Priscilla) & Patricia Barnstable – Identical twin actresses who appeared as the

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in commercials for Wrigley chewing gum, portrayed Betty 1 and Betty 2 in the short lived 1970s television series, ''

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'', and co-host the Barnstable Brown Kentucky Derby Party, a celebrity charity event. (1969) * J.J. Eubanks (born 1968) – basketball player, scored 101 points during an Israeli league game, was the top scorer in the 1994-95 Israel Basketball Premier League. (1985) *

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– short-fiction writer and author of ''

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'' featured on the '' Today Show Book Club''. (1990) * Garry Williams – Offensive lineman for the NFL

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and

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. (2004) * Doan Hoang – Director of '' Oh, Saigon'', award-winning documentary about her family's separation during the

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and her attempt to reunite them. (1990)

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