Bishop Watterson High School is a

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college preparatory high school located in

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, United States.

History

Bishop Watterson High School, founded in 1954 under the auspices of the Diocese of Columbus, is a co-educational college preparatory institution serving the Central Ohio area. Bishop Watterson High School was the first co-educational diocesan high school in Franklin County. It opened its doors in the fall of 1954 in honor of Bishop

John Ambrose Watterson John Ambrose Watterson (May 27, 1844 – April 17, 1899) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Columbus in Ohio from 1880 until his death in 1899. Biography Early life The sixth of eleven chi ...

, the second Bishop of Columbus, who served until April 17, 1899. Its namesake, Bishop

was known as a spiritual leader and scholar who was dedicated to Catholic education. He increased the number of diocesan schools because he saw them as essential to the moral and intellectual development of young Catholics.

Mission Statement

"Restore all things in Christ by educating in the Catholic tradition through prayer, service and study."

Athletics

Sports that are offered include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, diving, field hockey, football, ice hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and wrestling. in 2019, Bishop Watterson began playing its home football games at Ohio Dominican University.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

* Boys'

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 (appro ...

- 2013 *

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

- 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 2004 *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

- 1988, 1991, 1997 * Girls'

Field Hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

- 1995, 2005, 2009, 2020, 2021 *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

– 1973, 2002, 2010, 2024 * Girls'

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact 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 w ...

- 2023 * Boys'

- 2025 * Girls'

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

- 2024 * Boys'

Wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...

- 2025

Notable alumni

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- professional baseball player *Dominic Guglielmi - author *

John Krimm John Joseph Krimm Jr. (born May 30, 1960) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL). Krimm was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and lived there until age 13, getting hi ...

- professional football player *

Erin McDougald Erin McDougald is a jazz vocalist. Her album ''Outside the Soirée'' featured Tom Harrell on trumpet and flugelhorn, and Dave Liebman David Liebman (born September 4, 1946) is an American saxophonist, flautist and jazz educator. He is known ...

- jazz vocalist *

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- Pulitzer-Prize winning journalistBlundo, Joe

"Columbus native finds herself on the big screen."

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Kyle Reifers Kyle Reifers (born October 13, 1983) is an American professional golfer who plays on the Korn Ferry Tour. Amateur career Reifers was born in Columbus, Ohio and played college golf at Wake Forest University. He won the Monroe Invitational and Ohi ...

- professional golfer * Tim Timmons - MLB Umpire *

Al Washington Alvin Kent Washington (born September 25, 1958) is an American former professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). Washington was selected by the New York Jets in the fourth round of the 1981 NFL draft out of Ohio Sta ...

- football coach *

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- winner of the largest game show prize in entertainment history

Notes and references

External links

Bishop Watterson High School Official WebsiteWatterson Girls Soccer Website

Watterson Swimming and Diving Website
{{authority control Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus High schools in Columbus, Ohio Catholic secondary schools in Ohio Educational institutions established in 1954 1954 establishments in Ohio