Raymond High School (Alberta)

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Raymond High School (RHS) is a public secondary school in Raymond, Alberta, Canada. It is the one of many schools in the County of Warner No. 5 for grades 10 through 12. The school is in the Westwind School Division and has approximately 250 students.

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Raymond High School—nicknamed the "Comets" (men and women)—has a tradition of competing in Alberta high school sports with schools that are much larger than it. Generally competing against schools that fit into the Tier I/4A Unlimited Enrollment category. While the school only averages roughly 250 students per year. Raymond High School has carved out a name for itself in High School sports across Alberta and even Canada. The 2010-11 Provincial Champion men's Football squad earned a Nationally ranked #1 spot as the best High School Football team in Canada. With their smallest margin of victory that season being 21 points. In 2008-09 Raymond Highschool won 5 Provincial Championships in 1 single school year (Men's Football, Men's and Women's basketball, Women's Rugby and Calf Roping by a single, Clay Barnson). The school has won the following Alberta Schools Athletic Association provincial championships:

Basketball

Men's basketball

  • 10 Division 4A championships (most recently in 2008–09, [1] 2010–11 [2] )

Women's basketball

  • 5 Division 4A championships (2004–05, [3] 2008–09, [1] 2013–14, [4] 2021–2022, [5] 2022-2023 [6]

Canadian football

Rugby union

Women's rugby union

  • 11 Tier I championships (2008–09, [11] 2009–10, [12] 2010–11, [13] 2011–12, [14] 2012–13, [15] 2013–14 [16] 2014–15, 2016–2017, 2017–2018, 2018–2019, 2019–2020, including 7 consecutive between 2008 and 2015.

Noteworthy students

Graduation controversy

In 2010, Raymond High School was at the centre of a controversy in which a graduating student was told he would not be allowed to wear a kilt to the graduation ceremony. The decision made news across Canada. [17] [18] After the story was reported in the news, the decision was reversed and the student was told he could wear the kilt to graduation. [19]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Alberta Schools' Athletic Association, Edmonton, Alberta". Asaa.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Alberta Schools' Athletic Association, Edmonton, Alberta". Asaa.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Alberta Schools' Athletic Association, Edmonton, Alberta". Asaa.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140311002835/http://www.asaa.ca/new/sports/basket1314.php. Archived from the original on March 11, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "Alberta Schools' Athletic Association, Edmonton, Alberta". Asaa.ca. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  6. ↑ 2022-2023
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "ASAA High School Provincials : Alberta Bowl 2009". Provincials.asaa.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  8. 1 2 3 https://web.archive.org/web/20090911045846/http://www.asaa.ca/new/sports/footba0910.php. Archived from the original on September 11, 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2010.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ "Football Alberta: High School Football". Asaa.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Football Alberta: High School Football". Asaa.ca. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Alberta Schools' Athletic Association, Edmonton, Alberta". Asaa.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140321221907/http://www.asaa.ca/new/archives/rugby/rugby0910.php. Archived from the original on March 21, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ↑ "Alberta Schools' Athletic Association, Edmonton, Alberta". Asaa.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Alberta Schools' Athletic Association, Edmonton, Alberta". Asaa.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Alberta Schools' Athletic Association, Edmonton, Alberta". Asaa.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140321220915/http://www.asaa.ca/new/sports/rugby1314.php. Archived from the original on March 21, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ↑ "No kilt at graduation, school tells Alberta teen". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Kilt banned from high school convocation". CBC.ca . May 21, 2010. Archived from the original on May 25, 2010. Retrieved August 18, 2023– via Yahoo! News.
  19. ↑ "After a wee bit of publicity, kilt permitted at graduation". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 28, 2014.

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