Extracurricular activities Upper St. Clair High School

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1 extracurricular activities

1.1 athletics

1.1.1 piaa team championships
1.1.2 wpial team championships


1.2 music
1.3 arts
1.4 academic teams





extracurricular activities
athletics

upper st. clair high school competes in piaa s district 7, commonly referred wpial. wpial-affiliated sports @ uschs include baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, lacrosse, rifle, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, , wrestling. non-wpial sports include cheerleading, crew, fencing, , ice hockey. club teams called upper st. clair panthers, mascot being black panther.


athletic facilities @ uschs include 2 gyms, indoor swimming pool, football stadium, , track.


the 1989 football team won wpial quad championship , pa quad state championship, finished 15–0 record , no. 4 final ranking in usa today super 25 national rankings.


the 2004 soccer team won piaa state championship second year running, finishing undefeated 27 – 0 record, , ranked #1 nationally ncsaa.


the 2006 football team won wpial quad championship , pa quad state championship, finishing undefeated 16 – 0 record, , ranked in top-ten nationally, in several polls.


upper st. clair high school maintains heated rivalry mount lebanon high school, right down street.


piaa team championships

wpial team championships

music

the uschs music program has 3 components: (1) choral courses, (2) instrumental courses, , (3) extra-curricular activities. focus of courses on performance rather music theory or history.


choral courses include men s ensemble, women s choir, clarion choir , pantheon choir, , can elective or selective. extra-curricular vocal ensembles may include chanteclairs, show or jazz choir, triple trio , barbershop groups, depending on student interest. instrumental courses offerings include string , full orchestra, concert band, , jazz band.


the 2 popular student activities sponsored uschs marching band , spring musical. panther marching band holds two-week training program during summer students prepare football half-time performances , festivals. in addition, rehearses after school during first 9 weeks of school year. band makes @ least 1 trip each spring perform @ major festival.


each march, uschs students perform broadway musical. musical community event, involving 30–40 student managers, 250 students in cast , supporting crew roles, adult staff of 40 musical specialists, , group of 100 adult volunteers called theatre angels. students participate in wide variety of capacities, including directing, acting, dancing, costume design, set construction, lighting, publicity, , playing in pit orchestra. recent musicals performed 42nd street (2009), brigadoon (2010), music man (2011), , south pacific (2012).


arts

the st. clarion school s student newspaper. produces 4 issues annually senior magazine issue. paper made during both journalism classes , student volunteers. paper writes on both world , campus news, detailing many events sports school policy changes. paper funded community advertisers student fund-raising.


the montage school s literary arts magazine produced student body. montage produces 1 issue per year, selling copies student body in may. magazine publishes original poems, short stories, personal essays, artwork, photography, , musical compositions written students. staff of 15–20 people compiles submissions magazine. st. clarion, montage funded both community advertisers , student fund-raising.


the upper st. clair theater, renovated in 1999, hosts fall play , spring musical every year, students filling of cast , crew roles. managed aramark.


academic teams

the uschs forensics team competes in national forensics league, national catholic forensics league (ncfl), , pennsylvania high school speech league (phssl). uschs qualified 39 competitors postseason tournaments in 2012, all-time high. team has produced 7 phssl state champions.


also, school participates in hometown high-q, jeopardy-style quiz bowl game hosted pittsburgh s kdka television station. team won third place throughout pittsburgh s eighty-six teams in 2007. also, academic worldquest team came third out of fifty-three teams in spring 2009, after having won previous 2 years.








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