Shrine Catholic High School

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Shrine Catholic High School
Address
3500 West 13 Mile Road

Royal Oak
,
Michigan
48073

United States
Coordinates 42°31′5″N83°11′23″W / 42.51806°N 83.18972°W / 42.51806; -83.18972 Coordinates: 42°31′5″N83°11′23″W / 42.51806°N 83.18972°W / 42.51806; -83.18972
Information
Type Private, Coeducational
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
Established1941
Founder Charles Coughlin
PrincipalJames Mio
Grades 9–12
Enrollment280 (2010)
Campus size20 acres (81,000 m2)
Color(s)Navy blue and Gold         
Fight song Shrine Victory Song
Athletics conference Catholic High School League
Nickname Knights
Rivals Madison Heights Bishop Foley and Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes
AccreditationMichigan Association of Non-Public Schools
NewspaperThe Observer
YearbookSpirit
Tuition$12,200
Website http://www.shrineschools.com

Shrine Catholic High School is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic secondary high school located in Royal Oak, Michigan, affiliated with National Shrine of the Little Flower Church. It has an attached middle school called the "Academy". The parish founded it as an all-girls school in the late 1930s as "Little Flower High". The all-boys school, "Shrine High School", was added later, and they were eventually merged.

Royal Oak, Michigan City in Michigan, United States

Royal Oak is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a suburb of Detroit. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 57,236. It is the 8th-largest municipality in Oakland County and the 27th-largest municipality in Michigan by population.

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History

Father Charles Coughlin helped establish the institution while serving as one of the first Roman Catholic priests to preach to a widespread audience over the medium of radio during the Great Depression. His program became increasingly controversial as World War II approached, bringing national attention to the parish. The Bishop asked Fr. Coughlin to give up his radio show, which he did. The school maintained the name "Shrine of the Little Flower High School" into the 1960s, when it became "Shrine High School" until its latest name change in 2001. [1]

Charles Coughlin 20th-century American Catholic priest, radio commentator

Charles Edward Coughlin was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower church. Commonly known as Father Coughlin, he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience: during the 1930s, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts. He was forced off the air in 1939 because of his pro-fascist and anti-Semitic rhetoric.

Great Depression 20th-century worldwide economic depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how intensely the world's economy can decline.

World War II 1939–1945, between Axis and Allies

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from more than 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 70 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.

Campus

Shrine's campus is located on 20 acres in Royal Oak, Michigan. Features of the school include a chapel, learning resource center, an academic and college counseling center, three science labs, a two-story visual arts lab, a large library, football and softball fields, 2 fitness centers, and a student center dining hall. A new field house and the new Sanders Auditorium are the result of a renovation. Current technology is found throughout the school.

Athletics

Shrine participates in the Michigan High School Athletic Association and is a member of the Catholic High School League in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. The school has placed 17 athletes into the CHSL Hall of Fame. [2]

Michigan High School Athletic Association organization

The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) is a service organization for high school sports in Michigan and is headquartered in East Lansing. It is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).

The Catholic High School League (CHSL) is a school athletic conference based in Detroit, Michigan, led by director Victor Michaels. All member schools are also members of the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA), the governing body for Michigan scholastic sports. Unlike many similar leagues, the CHSL governs secondary, middle, and elementary sports for most of the parochial schools in the Detroit area. Most league schools are Catholic, but there are other religious denominations as well. Every school in the CHSL is a private school.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church covering the Michigan counties of Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne. It is the metropolitan archdiocese for the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit, which includes all dioceses in the state of Michigan. In addition, in 2000 the archdiocese accepted pastoral responsibility for the Roman Catholic Church in the Cayman Islands, which consists of Saint Ignatius Parish on Grand Cayman.

Shrine's sports include men's and women's basketball, golf, cross-country, football, men's hockey, men's and women's soccer, women's softball, women's volleyball, men's and women's track and field, men's baseball, women's skiing, and women's tennis.

Basketball Team sport

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's hoop while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.

Golf sport in which players attempt to hit a ball with a club into a goal using a minimum number of shots

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.

Cross country running sport in which competitors race by running a long-distance course on natural terrain

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. Sometimes the runners are referred to as harriers (dogs). The course, typically 4–12 kilometres (2.5–7.5 mi) long, may include surfaces of grass, and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road. It is both an individual and a team sport; runners are judged on individual times and teams by a points-scoring method. Both men and women of all ages compete in cross country, which usually takes place during autumn and winter, and can include weather conditions of rain, sleet, snow or hail, and a wide range of temperatures.

State championships

SportChampionship Years
Boys' Golf1950, 1952 [3]
Boys' Cross-Country1973, 1974 [4]
Girls' Soccer2019 [5]

Notable alumni

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Michael K. Haggerty is a former American football offensive tackle who played six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots and Detroit Lions. He was drafted by the Steelers in the sixth round of the 1967 NFL Draft. Haggerty played college football at the University of Miami and attended Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was also a member of the Jacksonville Sharks/Express of the World Football League.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.shrinechurch.com/history-of-the-church/
  2. ↑ CHSL Hall of Fame
  3. ↑ MHSAA Boys' Golf State Champions
  4. ↑ MHSAA Boys' Cross-Country State Champions
  5. ↑ "MHSAA Yearly Champions List".
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