Stevens Point Area Senior High (commonly called SPASH) is a high school located in

Stevens Point, Wisconsin Stevens Point is the county seat of Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. The city was incorporated in 1858. Its 2020 population of 25,666 makes it the largest city in the county. Stevens Point forms the core of the United States Census Bur ...

, United States. It is part of the

Stevens Point Area Public School District Stevens Point Area Public School District is a public school district centered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. It serves the city of Stevens Point, the villages of Junction City, Milladore, Plover Plovers ( , ) are a widely distributed ...

. SPASH serves the Stevens Point area, including Stevens Point, Plover, Whiting, and Park Ridge, as well as several towns and nearby Junction City and part of Milladore. The school mascot is a panther. The school opened in 1972, allowing the district high school to move from P. J. Jacobs which had housed the high school since 1938.

Notable alumni

Kathi Bennett Kathi Bennett (born January 31, 1963) is an American women's basketball coach. She is the former head coach of the Northern Illinois Huskies women's basketball team, a position she held from 2010 to 2015. Biography Bennett is the dau ...

, NIU Huskies women's basketball head coach *

Cole Caufield Cole Caufield (born January 2, 2001) is an American professional ice hockey right winger for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 15th overall by the Canadiens in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. Following succes ...

, NHL forward *

Curt Clausen Curt Clausen (born October 9, 1967) is an American race walker. He placed 4th 50 km event in the 1999 IAAF World Championships in Athletics, but after 2 years was later awarded the 3rd place bronze medal, after the winner was stripped of h ...

, Olympic race walker * Rachel A. Graham, Wisconsin state court judge *

Suzy Favor-Hamilton Suzy Favor Hamilton (born August 8, 1968) is an American former middle-distance runner. She competed in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Summer Olympics. Early life and education Suzy Favor was born in 1968 to Conrad and Rachel (Skundberg) Favor in S ...

, Olympic long-distance runner *

Sam Hauser Samuel David Hauser (born December 8, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Marquette Golden Eagles and the Virginia Cavaliers ...

, professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics *

Arthur L. Herman Arthur L. Herman (born 1956) is an American popular historian. He currently serves as a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. Biography Herman's father Arthur L. Herman, a scholar of Sanskrit, was a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisco ...

, popular historian *

Kathy Kinney Kathy Kinney (born November 3, 1954, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American actress, voice actress, and comedian. She gained considerable popularity in the late 1990s for playing Mimi Bobeck, the outrageously made-up, flamboyantly vulgar, a ...

, actress *

Julie Lassa Julie M. Lassa (born October 21, 1970) is a former Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Senate, who represented the 24th District from April 2003 to January 2017. She was a member of the Wisconsin Assembly for the 71st District from 1 ...

, Wisconsin politician *

Janel McCarville Janel McCarville (born November 3, 1982) is an American professional basketball player from Custer, Wisconsin who is currently a WNBA free agent. High school years Born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, McCarville attended Stevens Point Area Senio ...

, professional basketball player *

Louis Molepske Louis John Molepske, Jr., (born January 6, 1974) is an American attorney, judge, and Democratic politician. He is a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Portage County, Wisconsin, since 2022. He previously served nine years as district attorney, ...

, Wisconsin politician and judge *

William Murat William Murat is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Biography Murat was born on December 4, 1957 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He graduated from Stevens Point Area Senior High School, the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, the ...

, Wisconsin politician *

Joe Pavelski Joseph James Pavelski (born July 11, 1984) is an American professional ice hockey player and alternate captain for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the San Jose Sharks for the first thirteen years of ...

, NHL forward and 2010 Olympic silver medalist *

Brandon Peterson Brandon Peterson is an American comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Marvel Comics from Paterson New Jersey and Top Cow's '' Codename: Strykeforce'' in the 1990s. Career Peterson's early works for Marvel include a ''New Warriors'' ...

, Marvel comic book artist *

Ben Provisor Ben Provisor (born June 26, 1990 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American wrestler. He won the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials at 74 kg GR, and competed at the 2012 Olympics. He also competed at the 2016 Olympics. Personal life He is the son o ...

, Olympic Greco-Roman Wrestler *

Ryan Ramczyk Ryan Ramczyk ( ; born April 22, 1994) is an American football offensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Wisconsin Badgers football, Wisconsin, and was drafted by the Saints i ...

, tackle,

New Orleans Saints The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans. The Saints compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. Since 1975, the te ...

Rick Reichardt Frederic Carl Reichardt (born March 16, 1943) is a former Major League outfielder for the Los Angeles / California Angels (1964–70), Washington Senators (1970), Chicago White Sox (1971–73) and Kansas City Royals (1973–74). He batted and ...

, major league baseball player *

Chris Solinsky Chris Solinsky (born December 5, 1984) is a retired American distance runner and an American college cross country coach. Solinsky is the current assistant coach of the Oregon Ducks cross country team at the University of Oregon. Among his more no ...

, long-distance runner, former American record holder in the 10,000m run *

Roisin Willis Roisin Willis (born August 6, 2004) is an American middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 800 meters at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships, adding second title for the women's 4x400 m relay. Willis is a two-time NCAA ch ...

, American track and field athlete

References

External links

Stevens Point Area Senior High website

Stevens Point Area Public Schools homepage
Public high schools in Wisconsin Stevens Point, Wisconsin Schools in Portage County, Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-school-stub