- Millard North High School
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Millard North High 
Address 1010 S 144th St
Omaha, Nebraska, 68154-2899
USACoordinates 41°14′59″N 96°08′20″W / 41.249758°N 96.138783°WCoordinates: 41°14′59″N 96°08′20″W / 41.249758°N 96.138783°W Information Type Public school Established 1981 School board Millard Public Schools Principal Mr. Brian Begley Number of students 2,468 Color(s) Blue and Silver with Green Accent Website http://mps.mnhs.schoolfusion.us/ Millard North High School is a high school in the Millard Public Schools district. Opened in 1981, Millard North is the second largest school in Nebraska behind Omaha Central High School. Millard North partially opened in 1978 for 9th and 10th grade students. In 1981, the second phase of the project was completed and the school began to serve students in grades 9-12; at that time, the school's name was changed to Millard North High School. The school completed an expansion in 2007.
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International Baccalaureate
Millard North is one of two high schools in Omaha to carry the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, and was the first in the state to offer the programme. Along with Millard North Middle School, Millard North High School offers the IB Middle Years Programme.[1]The middle years program is for 9th and 10th graders and the Diploma program is for 11th and 12th graders. The only other schools in Nebraska that offer this type of education are Lincoln High School in Lincoln and Omaha Central in Omaha
Foreign languages
Classes in five foreign languages (Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Latin) are offered.[2]
Forensics
Millard North currently has the largest forensics program in Nebraska. The team is regularly ranked in the top three at the NSAA State Speech Tournament and were state runner-ups in 2006, 2008, 2009 & 2010. Millard North regularly attends regional and national circuit tournaments qualifying students for numerous outrounds. The team qualifies numerous students each year to the national tournament. Forensics is offered as part of the oral communications curriculum with classes offered year round.
Journalism
Millard North has two official student publications. The Hoofbeat, the newspaper, is published every three weeks and maintains an online website. The publication received the Cornhusker Award in 2010[3]. The Stampede, the school yearbook, is published once a year in May with a supplement published in August. The Millard North journalism program won first place overall in the 2011 Nebraska state competition[4].
Nebraska Economics Challenge
Millard North operates an economics program, associated with the Advanced Placement Program, to compete in the Nebraska Economics Challenge.[5] The team's advanced division is the "Mustang Monopoly" and the primary division is "The Stallions." Millard North was state runner-up in 2010-2011.[6]
Athletics
The Millard North Mustangs football team played in the Nebraska high school state championship game for four consecutive years (2002 – 2005) and won state championship in 2003, 2005, and 2010. The 2004 team finished with the third-highest rushing total by a team in one season in high school football history[citation needed], with one 2000-yard rusher and two 1500-yard rushers. In 2006 the Mustangs defeated Lincoln Southwest High School in a five-overtime bout that currently stands as the longest game in Nebraska playoff football history. The Mustangs returned to the state championship game in 2007, losing to Omaha Central 26-21. In 2010, the Mustangs returned once more to the state championship game in 2010, they came back from a 17-0 deficit to beat Millard South high school 28-20.
The Mustangs baseball team played in four out of five Nebraska high school state championship games between 2002 and 2006. The 2005 team posted the best record in Nebraska high school baseball history with 35 wins and no losses on their way to the school's first state baseball championship in 15 years (the 1990 baseball team won the high school's first ever boys state championship) and the first baseball team to go undefeated in Nebraska in 21 years. The leading hitter, and one of six 1st-Team All-State Team members, on that undefeated team was Connor Gillaspie, a third baseman drafted early in the second round of the 2008 MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants.
In 2007, the boys soccer team went undefeated to win the state championship against Lincoln East High School, 4-2, with a record of 22-0, and posting a state record of 17 shutouts. In 2008, the girls soccer team went 18-1 to win the state title against Westside High School, 2-1.
Notable alumni
- 2001 Heisman Trophy Winner Eric Crouch attended Millard North
- San Francisco Giants 3rd Baseman #50 Conor Gillaspie attended Millard North
- Former NFL and AFL receiver Todd Doxzon attended Millard North. His belt currently hangs in the Millard North weight room.
- Ryan Malone of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Paul Stastny of the Colorado Avalanche attended Millard North. Both played for Team USA in the 2010 Olympics.
- Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Michael Zagurski attended Millard North.
- Offensive lineman Seth Olsen, of the Denver Broncos. NFL Draft 2009: 4th Rnd, 132nd pick by DEN.
- Late pro-wrestler Lance Cade attended Millard North.[7]
Media depictions
Millard North was the initial choice to be the filming location of Election, but the Millard School Board thought the movie was too obscene to be filmed there.[8] References to "Millard High" can be seen in the original drafts of Alexander Payne's script for Election.[9]
References
- ^ "Find an IB World School". International Baccalaureate Organization. http://www.ibo.org/school/search/index.cfm?programmes=&country=US®ion=NE. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ^ "World Languages". http://www.mpsomaha.org/mnhs/academics/ForeignLanguage.htm.
- ^ "2011 Cornhusker Awards". Nebraska High School Press Association. http://nhspaonline.org/wordpress/?p=34. Retrieved 2011-28-10.
- ^ "2011 State Journalism Results". Nebraska High School Press Association. http://nhspaonline.org/wordpress/?p=25. Retrieved 2011-28-10.
- ^ "Millard North High School". Millard Public Schools. http://mps.mnhs.schoolfusion.us/. Retrieved 2011-13-04.
- ^ "Bellevue East teams sweep Nebraska Economic Challenge titles". Nebraska Economics Challenge. http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2011/03/31/Bellevue+East+teams+sweep+Nebraska+Economic+Challenge+titles. Retrieved 2011-13-04.
- ^ http://obit.porterloring.com/obitdisplay.html?id=815403&clientid=porterloring&listing=Found
- ^ Election (1999) - Trivia
- ^ Election - by Alexander Payne andJim Taylor
External links
Categories:- High schools in Nebraska
- Educational institutions established in 1981
- International Baccalaureate schools in Nebraska
- High schools in Omaha, Nebraska
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