Sunnyside High School (Tucson, Arizona)

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Sunnyside High School
Sunnyside High Blue Devil logo.png
Home of the Fighting Blue Devils
Address
Sunnyside High School (Tucson, Arizona)
1725 East Bilby Road

Tucson
,
Arizona
85706

United States
Coordinates 32°08′34″N110°56′41″W / 32.142876°N 110.944829°W / 32.142876; -110.944829
Information
School typePublic
Established1955(70 years ago) (1955)
School districtSunnyside Unified School District #12
CEEB code 030525
PrincipalPonce
Teaching staff103.70 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment2,204 (2022–2023) [1]
Student to teacher ratio21.25 [1]
Color(s) Royal blue and white
   [2]
Fight song O Sunnyside!
MascotBlue Devils [2]
RivalDesert View High School
PublicationBlue Devil News
NewspaperThe Devillaire
Website www.susd12.org/sunnyside-high-school

Sunnyside High School, opened in 1955, is home to two thousand students located on the south side of Tucson, Arizona. Sunnyside offers a variety of extracurricular programs, advanced placement courses, and specialized career and technical training programs. It is a part of the Sunnyside Unified School District.

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History

Sunnyside High School opened in 1955 with 9th and 10th grade classes. [3]

The original mascot logo for Sunnyside used a variation of Arizona State University's Sparky mascot. The school was forced to change after the university learned of this use when Sunnyside played a championship game at ASU's Sun Devil Stadium. [4]

Campus

Sunnyside High School is located on the south side of Tucson, Arizona.

Curriculum

There is a widespread of curriculum that is offered at Sunnyside High School.

Departments of Instruction

Sunnyside High School offers these courses either for class credits, or elective credit:

Courses or college credit

Below are courses available to students, for both high-school:

Academics and enhanced courses

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

Sunnyside High School is a member of the Arizona Interscholastic Association and is classed in its 6A conference. [5] A wrestling powerhouse in Arizona, Sunnyside has won 30 state championships (14 in a row, 1998–2011). It lost a dual-meet December 12, 2015, where Green Valley (NV) snapped a 314 win streak stretching from 1999 to then, and only has lost ten since 1969. However, Sunnyside Wrestling regained its championship title in 2018. [6] [7] The teams are known as the Sunnyside Blue Devils. Athletic teams are fielded in boys volleyball, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling, and swimming.Their Girl's basketball team won region in the 2023/24 season and was ranked #1 in the 6a state division. Their season was cut short by the Perry Pumas in the 6a state playoffs round 2. They had an impressive season being led by Nayeli Nidez-Acuna, Dora Medina, and Ylena Gross.

The varsity football team was featured on the Great American Rivalries Series in 2009 against Salpointe Catholic High School.

Arizona State Championship titles

  • Boys Basketball: 1993 (4A) [8]
  • Football: 2001 (4A), 2003 (4A)
  • Wrestling: 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021,2022,2023
  • Cheerleading: 2000
  • Softball: 2007
  • Boys Cross-Country: 1966, 1975, 2008
  • Boys Soccer: 2019
  • Girls Volleyball: 1990

Music

There are various musical performing groups at Sunnyside.

Performing groups as well as their director(s):

The Pride of Sunnyside Marching Band

The Pride of Sunnyside
SchoolSunnyside High School
Founded1950
DirectorErik Ellison

History

  • 2006: Scott Matlick, Drum Major for The Pride of Arizona (2002–2004), is hired as Director of Bands at Sunnyside High School. Reinvents the band, dawning the name The Pride of Sunnyside Marching Band. The band's show is Gladiator picked by previous Director Alli Coyle.
  • 2007: Scott Matlick introduces the show "Adentro: The Music of Ricardo Arjona", based on Latin singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona's album Adentro . The tradition of the marching on to the field in the opening set known as the "S" is brought back to commemorate the school's 50th anniversary. After two years as Director of Bands at Sunnyside, Scott Matlick returns to the University of Arizona to be part of the Graduate Teaching Assistant program for the UA Bands and The Pride of Arizona.
  • 2008: During the summer the band was temporarily under the direction of Joseph Molinar. The band plays "The Return of Aerosmith" the show Director Alli Coyle created in 2005 for the band. In early August the band gets Director of Bands Matthew Hoolsema from Michigan. Under the new direction of Matthew Hoolsema, the school's choir program is brought back.
  • 2009: Matthew Hoolsema introduces the show Music of the Big Band Era. The program includes tunes "La Suerte De Los Tontos", " House of the Rising Sun", "Blue Groove", and "Big Noise from Winnetka". The band reached the state marching competition.
  • 2010: Although not as successful as the previous year, the Pride of Sunnyside continued to a new season with the music of Journey.

Recent directors

  • 2004–2006: Alli Coyle
  • 2006–2008: Scott Matlick
  • 2008–2011: Matthew Hoolsema
  • 2011: Armando Salas
  • 2012–2019: Rusty Carle-Ogren
  • 2019–2022: Erik Ellison
  • 2023-Present: Christian Del Rosario

Recent field shows

Under Alli Coyle:

Under Scott Matlick:

Under Matthew Hoolsema:

  • 2008: The Return of Aerosmith
  • 2009: The Music of the Big Band Era
  • 2010: The Music of Journey

Under Armando Salas:

  • 2011: Latin Sketches

Under Rusty Carle-Ogren:

  • 2012: Symphonic Passions
  • 2013: 80s and Gentleman
  • 2014: Les Misérables
  • 2015: Cirque De Solei
  • 2016: When the Stars Come Out
  • 2017: The Labyrinth
  • 2018: Macabre

Student groups

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Two faculty members have been recognized as Arizona Teacher of the Year, Marguerite Johnson Caldwell in 1983 and Rich Mayorga in 2003. [12]

See also

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  2. 1 2 "Sunnyside High School". Arizona Interscholastic Association. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Sunnyside High celebrates its 50th year". Arizona Daily Star. October 20, 2005.
  4. ↑ Zeiger, Dan. "University logos a big part of E.V. high school sports." The East Valley Tribune September 16, 2010.
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  6. ↑ Vanderson, Jessie (February 15, 2008). "It's 11 in a row for Sunnyside". Tucson Citizen.
  7. ↑ "Sunnyside owns wrestling in Arizona". August 2011.
  8. ↑ "Local sports scene had its thrills, spills". Arizona Daily Star. December 25, 1993. Dwight Rees, Sunnyside High School. The Blue Devils not only won the state 4A basketball championship, but they went undefeated at 29–0, the first Tucson ...
  9. ↑ "The Skinny (column)". Tucson Weekly. January 13, 2000. Raul Grijalva, known as Ralph while he was at Sunnyside High School, has led a truly charmed life....
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