Roy C. Start High School is the largest comprehensive public high school in Toledo,

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. The school opened in 1962 and is part of the

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. It was named after Roy C. Start, two-time mayor of Toledo and founder of the West Toledo

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. The school building was demolished and replaced with a new building. Students have been attending the new Start since January 2008. The only part of the original Roy C. Start High School building in use is the auditorium (which is now in the West Toledo YMCA building) and is attached to the new building.

Start Football

Start's football team appeared in the first OHSAA playoffs Division I in school history after finishing the regular season 9-1 during the 2015 season. In 2016, after finishing 5-5 (0-5 out of conference ) Start won back to back city championships, a first in school history.

Rivalries

From its opening until 1991, Start had a rivalry with the DeVilbiss Tigers, which were located in the same neighborhood and a very short distance south of Start. When DeVilbiss closed, much of its school district was absorbed by Start after a community effort urging TPS to merge Start into DeVilbiss had failed. Start's main and long-standing rivals is Washington Local Schools’ Whitmer Panthers, located just over two miles away on Clegg Drive. The "Battle of Tremainsville" was a non-conference matchup from Start's inception in the early 1960s until Whitmer joined the City League in 2003. Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, it reverted to a non-league matchup when Whitmer joined the new

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Clubs and organizations

Roy C. Start has a large number of clubs. Some of those clubs are: * Russian Club - many students have competed and received medals by competing in the National Russian Essay Competition and the Ohio Spoken Olympiada. * Red Cross Club * Youth 2 Youth * Z Club * German Club * SBG * DECA * Latin Club - functions as a local chapter of both the

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(OJCL) and

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(NJCL). *

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* NHS * Newspaper * Art Club * GSA * Science Olympiad

Notable alumni

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(1983): bass guitarist,

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(2000): boxer, 2004 Olympics, 2000 & 2001

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Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

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- 1994 (Easton National Champions), 2000 * Girls

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– 1980

Toledo City League Titles

*Bowling: 2012 * Football: 1978, 2015, 2016, 2020 *

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: 1976, 1977, & 2015 *Boys Cross Country: 2012 *Girls Cross Country: 2011 *Boys

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: 1978-79, 1996–97, 2012-2013 *Girls Basketball: 2010-11 *Boys

: 1991 *Boys

: 2013, 2015–16 *Girls Track and Field: 1973, 1974, 1975 * Boys Soccer: 2016 *Girls Softball: 2018-present (years marked with an asterisk (*) denote a shared title)

References

External links

Start High School Official SiteStart Spartan AthleticsStart Tech Club site
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