Dirigo High School

Dirigo High School
Entrance of Dirigo High School. Scienta Est Lux
Address
145 Weld Street Dixfield, Maine, 04224  United States
Coordinates	44°32′25″N 70°27′09″W / 44.5403°N 70.4526°W / 44.5403; -70.4526Coordinates: 44°32′25″N 70°27′09″W / 44.5403°N 70.4526°W / 44.5403; -70.4526
Information
School type	Public
School district	RSU 10
Superintendent	Dr. Thomas Ward
School code	200305
Principal	Michael Poulin
Asst. Principal	Charlie Swan
Staff	38
Teaching staff	30
Grades	9–12
Color(s)	Navy blue, Carolina blue, and white
Athletics conference	Mountain Valley Conference
Sports	Football, Soccer, Cross-Country, Basketball, Cheering, Skiing, Wrestling, Tennis, Track, Baseball, & Softball.
Mascot	Cougar
Team name	Cougars
Rival	Mountain Valley
Yearbook	Dimensions
Website	www.msad21.org

Dirigo High School is a high school located in Dixfield, Maine, in the United States as part of Maine Regional School Unit # 10 . Dirigo High School serves the towns of Dixfield, Canton, Carthage and Peru. It is classified as a secondary class "C" school. The school is in the Mountain Valley Athletic Conference or MVC.

Dirigo High School was built in 1948. The second floor was added in 1951. The gym was added in 1967. The science wing was added in 1974. The building was renovated and expanded in 1998.

Class colors

During the homecoming field day each year, students at Dirigo High wear their class colors. The current class colors are: Freshmen-Red, Sophomores -Black, Juniors-Blue, and Seniors-White.

School song

Cheer, Cheer for Dirigo High

Our school will never say die

We'll march on to victory

And the victors we will be.

Rah! Rah! Rah!

We'll never falter, we'll never fall

We'll fight for honor

And that is all

Come on Team, we've got to fight

For the Dirigo the blue and white

Rah! Rah! Rah!^{[citation needed]}

Cougar Paw

Students at Dirigo High School must complete a portfolio in order to graduate. This portfolio is called the Cougar Paw credit. Students receive a quarter credit each year for Cougar Paw. Your portfolio must show evidence that you've met Maine's Learning Results. Also, you must include personal pages, proof of community service, and evidence of activities of each year at DHS.

Girls' basketball

Dirigo Lady Cougars Basketball History

The Dirigo Lady Cougars' basketball team has had over a decade of success. Since 1995 the Lady Cougars had 11 straight Mountain Valley Conference (MVC) titles for a total of 12, 11 straight Western Maine titles for a total of 14, and 6 out of 13 State Championships. Dirigo has been a dominant high school basketball team in the past decade. The Lady Cougars rely on a great defense, and love to trap opposing teams and run a fast-break offense. The Lady Cougars have been gifted with several players to make the 1,000-point club.

• 1995-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
• 1996-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
• 1997-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
• 1998-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
• 1999-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
• 2000-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
• 2001-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
• 2002-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
• 2003-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
• 2004-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
• 2005-MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
• 2006-
• 2007-MVC Champs, Western Maine Runners-Up
• 2005- Western Maine Champs
• 2000- Western Maine Champs
• 1985- Western Maine Champs, State Runners-up
• 1979- MVC Champs
• 1978- MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
• 1977- MVC Champs, Western Maine Champs, State Champs
• 1976- Western Maine Champions

Cheering

Cheering is a winter sport. Dirigo has won an athletic award in 1998 and 2002. In 2007, DHS won regionals, and won a Western Maine Class C championship. In 2010, The cheerleading team won second place at the regional championship, and was named Runner-up.

Soccer

The Dirigo high school soccer team has accomplished many things in the past five years. They have made it to the Maine state semifinals twice. In the past five years they have also made it to the Western Maine Finals, but they lost to Sacopee Valley 2-1. In 2007, they made it to the semi final round with a record of 11-2-1 in the regular season and an overall record was 12-3-1. This team was the third team in Dirigo history to make it this far into the playoffs. In 2009, the Dirigo boys team set a school record for best regular season record at 12-0-2. They lost the Mountain Valley Conference Championship game to St. Dominics. They lost in the Quarter Finals of the playoffs to North Yarmouth Academy. The Dirigo girls team also made the playoffs, but lost in the quarter finals during the fifth round of penalty shots against a heavily favored Georges Valley team. In 2010, the Dirigo boys were projected to have a down season (Some critics had predicted the team to have a record as low as 4-10-0) after losing many alumni, despite the ill odds the boys went 10-2-2 making the MVC Championship game, and the playoffs for the second straight year. The Cougars lost the Mountain Valley Championship game to a heavily favored Wiscasset team in the final minutes after holding an early lead. The Cougars were eliminated from the playoffs in the quarter finals by Hall Dale High School by a score of 3-1. The Dirigo girls made the playoffs again for the second year in a row, but lost in the second round of penalty shots to Old Orchard Beach.

For the Boy's soccer homecoming game, it is tradition to run out onto the field wearing orange hunting gear, and to play the game while wearing orange soccer socks. This tradition faded after Dirigo replaced their head coach during the 2010 season.

Boys varsity soccer is currently coached by Jack Rioux, and JV by Owen Libby. Girls varsity soccer is coached by teacher Art Chamberlain and JV by Alumni Malory Child.

Football

The Dirigo Football team won the Class C Maine state championship against Foxcroft Academy in 2009, with a record of 12-0.^[1]

Dirigo Football is currently being coached by Championship coaches Doug Gilbert and Dave Crutchfield.

Boys Basketball

The Boys Basketball Team has been to 5 straight consecutive Western Maine Championship Games 2006-2011, winning in the 2009, 2010, 2011 seasons. They won the MVC Conference game in both 2008 and 2009.

Boys Basketball is currently being coached by Travis Magnusson

Field Hockey

Dirigos' field hockey team in the 2009 season made it to states for the first time in five years and had to compete against the number one seed of North Yarmouth Academy. Dirigo took up the sixth seed of the conference and played NYU but lost to them 0-10. Over-all the 2009 field hockey team archived many of their set winning goals.

1,000-point club

Retired jerseys from Dirigo High School

There are a few ways an athlete can retire his or her jersey at Dirigo High School. The most common is the 1000-point club for basketball. Dirigo has retired several jerseys for the girls' basketball team, and two for the boys' basketball team.

One other jersey has been retired in Dirigo history, that one belonging to a field hockey player, Danielle (Dani) Tompkins. Dani did not have the honor of retiring her jersey for making 1000 goals, she did so by saving 1000 goals. No other goalie in New England has ever saved 1000 goals. This makes our school the first to ever have a goalie with 1000 saves. She has a total of 1169.

Following the 2009 championship football season, yet another sport had a jersey retired. Nic Crutchfield's home jersey is to be hung upon its return from being displayed at the New England Patriots Hall of Fame.

History of Dirigo Tennis Boys & Girls

Girls Coach-Art Chamberlin 1981-present

Boys Coach- Bruce Thompson 1977-present

• Boys Tennis MVC Champs 2006
• Boys Tennis MVC Champs 2007
• Boys Tennis MVS Champs 2008

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• Mountain Valley Champs-1988 through 1990 + 1993 +1998 +2001 + 2003

• State Champs Class B 1983-1984

Notable alumni

Aaron Williamson - Portrayed in the movie Black Hawk Down. He was a soldier involved in the rescue mission. He was awarded Student of the Month while at DHS.

External links

• Official website

References

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