Lee's Summit West High School

Infobox Secondary school


name = Lee's Summit West High School
principal = Dr. Cynthia Bateman
assistant principal (A-G) = Mr. Bob Kernell
assistant principal (H-O) = Mr. Frank Honn
assistant principal (P-Z) = Mr. David Sharp
type = Public Secondary
established = 2004
grades = 9-12
enrollment = approximately 1600
colors = navy blue and silver
address = 2600 SW Ward Rd, Lee's Summit, MO 64082
website = [http://lswhs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/ Official]
city = Lee's Summit
state = Missouri
country = USA
district = Lee's Summit R-VII School District
Mascot = Titans

Lee's Summit West High School is located at 2600 Southwest Ward Road in Lee's Summit, Missouri. Lee's Summit West High School opened in the fall of 2004 and is part of the Lee's Summit R-VII School District. Current enrollment is approximately 1400 students.Fact|date=September 2008 The mascot of the school is the titan. It's school newspaper is called "Titan Scroll", which is a member of the High School National Ad Network. Since a $32 million bond passed in April 2006, the high school will be receiving facility improvements and expansion. The Lee's Summit West High School's administration consists of Dr. Cindy Bateman (principal), Mr. Bob Kernell (assistant principal A-G), Mr. Frank Honn (assistant principal H-O), and Mrs. Tori Cain(assistant principal P-Z).

Counseling

The counseling center offers a brochure, Titan Talk, that contains important information considering the future success of students. Some of the information included in this brochure includes information concerning ACT and SAT tests, college visit days, armed forces visit days, scholarship information and many more things helpful to students. This brochure is available online at the Lee's Summit High School website.

tudent Activities

Robotics

2006 was Lee's Summit West's first year to participate in the FIRST Robotics tournament. [http://www.teamtitanium.org Team Titanium] traveled to St. Louis for their competition and placed 23rd out of 46 teams in 2006. In 2007, The team will attend the Kansas City regional and the Denver regional. Team Titanium is working closely with those at [http://www.more.net/ MoreNET] and the [http://www.kauffman.org/ Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation] to help spread the word of technology and FIRST(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).

Athletics

Football

The Lee's Summit West Titan football has achieved at least one victory in the Missouri state playoffs since its inaugural season during the 2004-2005 school year.Fact|date=September 2008 Also of note is the Titans defensive line coach is former Arkansas Razorbacks nose guard Limbo Parks who was precedded by current Houston Texans assistant defensive line coach Tracy Simien. Simien was a former standout linebacker at TCU, as well as a great run-stopping middle linebacker in the 1990s for the San Diego Chargers and then the Kansas City Chiefs.

wimming and Diving

The Titan girls swimming and diving team has been the reigning conference champion since the school opened in 2004. Six girls earned All-State honors in the 2006-2007 season. The Titans boys swimming and diving team, despite their small numbers, won conference for the first time in Fall 2006, and two boys earned All-State honors that year. The Titan boys won conference again in Fall 2007.

Boys Soccer

2008 Lee's Summit West Invitational - Varsity 3-0-0 - Champions
-- September 2 - September 5, 2008
2008 Blue Springs Invitational - Varsity 2-0-1
-- September 9 - September 13, 2008

Titan Debate and Forensics

The Lee's Summit West Titan Debate and Forensics Team is currently in its third season of competition. The Titans recently added a competitive dramatics department to their squad.

Music Department

The LSW Choir department hosts a night of entertainment every year called "Friday Night Live", a collection of singing and dancing performances done by various student choral ensembles. Past themes have included "I love The '80s", "The Gong Show", and "Friday Night Fever." Each year, all Titan music groups perform at the Dairy Queen Ice Cream Social (located at 4th and Douglas in downtown LS) in September, usually previewing fall performance material. Several concerts are held throughout the year: October, early December, Contest, Pops (LS Symphony Orchestras only), Student led small ensembles, Festival of Strings/Cavalcade of Bands/Parade of Choirs. Orchestra and Band perform at either Baccalaureate or Graduation every year and Concert Choir performs at both of these events. The Titan music ensembles include: Symphony Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, Concert Choir, Men's Choir, Women's Choir, Freshmen, Women's Choir, Una Voce (Chamber Choir), Marching Band, Jazz Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Percussion/Drumline.

References

External links

* [http://lswhs.leesummit.k12.mo.us Lee's Summit West High School website]
* [http://www.lswtitansoccer.org Lee's Summit West Soccer Photo Blog]