William Mason High School, also known as Mason High School (WMHS or MHS), is a four-year public

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

located in the Mason City Schools district in

Mason, Ohio Mason is a city in southwestern Warren County, Ohio, United States, approximately north of downtown Cincinnati. As of the 2020 census, Mason's population was 34,792. Mason is home to Kings Island amusement park and one of the largest tennis stad ...

, a suburb of

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

History

Mason High School's first commencement was held May 21, 1886, at the Mason Presbyterian Church. The seven graduates completed the three-year high school program and each read their topic paper at the graduation ceremony. Professor Louis Coleman was the school superintendent and possibly the only teacher in the high school.

Current

The current Mason High School facility opened for the 2002-03 school year with 379,000 square feet on a 73-acre campus. In 2009, a $30 million expansion project added 49 classrooms in two new, three-story wings. Opened in 2003, and connected to the high school, is the 149,000 square-foot Mason Community Center, which features an Olympic-sized competition swimming pool, therapy pools, six basketball courts, fitness rooms and exercise equipment. It was a joint project of the City of Mason and Mason City Schools. As of the 2020-21 school year, Mason High School's enrollment is 3,507 students. It is the largest high school by enrollment in the state of Ohio. Mason High School features 27 AP courses, College Credit Plus, a student-run bank, a renowned symphony orchestra, a speech and debate team, a student-run store, a student-run website, internships, community service, over 70 other school-sanctioned extracurriculars, 67 athletic teams, a marching band, multiple concert bands, jazz band, several concert orchestras, arts, choral and drama programs. Additionally, the award-winning Mason High School Science Olympiad team was ranked first in the nation among all high schools in both 2021 and 2022.

Athletics

The Comets participate in the

Greater Miami Conference This is a list of high school athletic conferences in the Southwest Region of Ohio, as defined by the OHSAA. Because the names of localities and their corresponding high schools do not always match and because there is often a possibility of ambigu ...

, in which they have won 15 consecutive All-Sports titles through 2021-22. Previously, Mason was a charter member of the

Fort Ancient Valley Conference This is a list of former high school athletic conferences in the Southwest Region of Ohio, as designated by the OHSAA. If a conference had members that span multiple regions, the conference is placed in the article of the region most of its former m ...

from 1965-66 to 2006-07.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships/Team

*Boys

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2021, 2019, 2018 *Boys Cross Country, 2022, 2021, 2014, 2022 2008 *Boys

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

, 2013 *Girls

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and

Diving Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football), a ...

, 2019, 2018 *Girls Cross Country, 2022, 2013, 2012, 2022 *Girls

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

, 2010, 2009, 2008 *Girls

Track and Field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

, 2004 *Girls

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

, 2000

Non-OHSAA State Championships/Team

* Girls

, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 (Ohio Tennis Coaches Association tournament) * Boys

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

, 2004 * Girls

Water Polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

, 2013 * Boys

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, 2017

Notable alumni

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(class of 2006),

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national champion, 9-time All-American cross country and track runner at the

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* Percy Coleman (class of 1894),

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pitcher *

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(class of 2004), actor, ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' *

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(class of 2008), NFL offensive lineman; member of 2015

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-winning

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* Elijah Nkansah (class of 2013), NFL offensive lineman *

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(class of 1974), sports broadcaster and host,

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and

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, TV/radio host of ''

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''http://www.danpatrick.com/ * T. J. Zeuch (class of 2013),

pitcher

References

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