Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School (WHA) is a

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located in

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, United States. It is part of Independent School District #113. Students come from

, Hackensack, Akeley, Onigum, and

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. The school offers honors classes as well as

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. PSEO is a Minnesota Department of Education program that allows qualifying high school juniors and seniors to take college classes for high school credit at no cost to the student. Foreign languages at WHA include

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for grades 9 through 12 and

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, although being phased out, for eleventh and twelfth grades.

Athletics

The school has football, volleyball, girls and boys soccer, girls and boys basketball, wrestling, hockey, baseball, softball, boys and girls golf, boys and girls track, and cheerleading teams.

Speech

The WHA speech team has competed for 44 years. In those 44 years, participants have earned 209 state speech medals, 39 state championships, and speakers have competed 32 times on the national level. WHA has a number of

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Academic All-Americans. At the 2007 state tournament, the WHA speech team had a record five state champions. The WHA team also had a record number of state medals with 17 total medals in 2007. In 2008, the WHA speech team won the section tournament for the 17th consecutive year. At the 2008 NFL National Qualifying tournament, a record six speakers qualified for the NFL National Tournament in

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in June 2008. In the 2010 speech season, WHA won sections for the 20th year in a row.

Theater

WHA has a theater department, which as performed plays including: * ''

Fiddler on the Roof ''Fiddler on the Roof'' is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on ''Tevye and his Daughters'' (or ''Tevye the ...

'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2005) * ''

Seussical ''Seussical'' is a musical comedy by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, based on the many children's stories of Dr. Seuss, with most of its plot being based on ''Horton Hears a Who!'', '' Gertrude McFuzz'', and ''Horton Hatches the Egg'' while inc ...

'' (2006) * ''

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'' (2007) * ''

The Sound of Music ''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, '' The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. Se ...

'' (2008)

Music

WHA's music department consists of a

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, stage band, and

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who each perform a winter and spring concert every year. They also compete in a fall solo contest and spring ensemble contest.

References

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* {{authority control Schools in Cass County, Minnesota Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing Public high schools in Minnesota