Greenhills School is an independent college preparatory school (grades 6–12) in

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, United States.

Awards and recognition

Greenhills Upper School was recognized as one of six national

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in 2007 for excellence as one of the nation's top schools for science. The program recognizes one school for math and one for science in each of three school ranges (elementary, middle and high school).

Athletics

Greenhills School is a member of the

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(MHSAA) and offers the following sports: *Boys:

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

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, cross country,

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, and

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*Girls:

, cross country,

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, and

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and

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. However, both the track and cross country teams have co-ed practices. The boys tennis team won the Division 4 Lower Peninsula state championship in 2003–4, 2006-7 and 2008-9 through 2015–16. They also won again in 2018. In 2019 the team moved up to division three and won their first state championship there. The team went undefeated that season and ended up as the top ranked team across all divisions - #1 in the power rankings. Their coach, Eric Gajar, was named coach of the year for the state of Michigan. Since 2001, MHSAA has not crowned a true state champion in tennis, opting instead for separate tournaments for the Upper and Lower peninsulas. In 2017, the men's soccer team won the Division 4 state championship. Jerry Tucker, a senior, scored the lone goal of the match to send the Gryphons to a 1–0 victory.

Renovation

Greenhills school has begun an expansion project planned to provide an additional of space. Much of this space will be used for the sciences, including biology labs and a greenhouse. Of the $6.5 million required for the project, the school has raised $3 million, enough that they began the first phase of construction on 6/9/2009.Greenhills school renovation to put science in spotlight , MLive.com
/ref> The proposed renovations also include a geothermal heating and cooling system, allowing the project to be certified as

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gold certified.

Notable alumni

Eugene Kang Eugene Kang (born 1984) was the Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to President Barack Obama. Eugene Kang is an Ann Arbor native who attended Greenhills School before enrolling at the University of Michigan. At Michigan, Kan ...

, Special Assistant to President

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, playwright and screenwriter * Nicholas Phan, lyric tenor *

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, rock singer, record producer and actor

References

External links

Greenhills School official website
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