St. Xavier High School (Ohio)
Beginning the fall of 1854, St. Xavier stopped admitting boarders altogether, becoming a primarily local institute, to reduce the financial burden on its students' families.In September 1960, St. Xavier High School moved into its newly built facilities, designed by local architect Albert Walters, in unincorporated Springfield Township.In 1998, a $12.6 million expansion project moved science classes from the basement into a new, three-story wing and added the Holy Companions Chapel and a dedicated intramural gym.St. Xavier also converted the former Girls' Town of America[53] location across the street into its "South Campus", which includes new baseball and soccer fields.[56][57] In 2018, two priests affiliated with St. Xavier during the mid-1960s were named in the Midwest Jesuits' list of clergy members accused of sexual abuse.[59] In March 2021, RDI Corporation, a Blue Ash–based outsourcing firm, gave the school $1 million to endow its football program.[74][75] In particular, partner school Col·legi Casp–Sagrat Cor de Jesús in Barcelona has sent students to St. Xavier and received them into its batxillerat (baccalaureate) program since 1995.[76][77][78] All students at St. Xavier are part of the school's college preparatory program, requiring 23½ credit units for graduation.[5] The college preparatory program encompasses a variety of subject areas as part of an emphasis on cura personalis ("well-rounded individuals").[98] From 2011 to 2017, St. Xavier students were permitted to use personal laptops, tablets, and smartphones at school under a voluntary bring your own device policy.[100][101] However, beginning with the class of 2021, the school has reverted to a bring your own laptop policy that excludes Apple devices including the iPad.Besides class-wide programs held at the Jesuit Spiritual Center in Milford, optional retreats include Knightwatch for sophomores and Kairos,[111] which was introduced in February 1985 for seniors.[119] In 2018, the 132nd Ohio General Assembly authorized the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to issue a specialty license plate bearing St. Xavier's logo and the words "The Long Blue Line", referring to the school's alumni.[126] Along the school's main hallways, recent student artwork hangs beside the Living Walls project, a graphical timeline accompanying 90 years of class photos.[7] The school library, named for alumnus and Ohio state representative John D. "Jay" Carroll III,[128] contains 23,000 volumes.[55] St. Xavier's Finneytown campus features athletic facilities comparable to most colleges, including a new football stadium and indoor swimming pool which it shares with the Cincinnati Marlins.[131] The school's most prominent art installation is the sculpture Open End, a 1983 work by Australian sculptor Clement Meadmore.[133] The school offers 17 Division I athletic programs – baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, rugby union,[134][135] soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling.As one of four all-male institutions that participate in the GCL's South Division, St. Xavier competes with nearby Elder, La Salle, and Moeller high schools.[136] Competing explanations of the name change credit American success in World War II, "bombs" thrown by George Ratterman to Charley Wolf in football or basketball games,[136][137][138][18][139] and a corruption of the nickname given to Jesuit missionaries in World War II, the "Balmers".The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the rule in Alerding v. Ohio High School Athletic Association.[151] The team has won district, sectional and citywide titles in every year since 1970, capturing 42 Ohio state championships during this span.[155] The program produced Swimming World Magazine high school swimmers of the year Joe Hudepohl in 1992 and Jayme Cramer in 2001.[165] St. Xavier won its third football state championship on December 2, 2016, defeating St. Ignatius High School, 27–20, in double-overtime.[167] As of 2016[update], the Bombers are one of 15 football teams in the U.S. that wear GPS-based activity trackers developed by Catapult Sports to prevent injuries.The Cross Country team has also enjoyed a great deal of success, winning Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) championships in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2012, 2013, and 2019 as well as runner-up finishes in 1999, 2009 and 2020.[218] Off the field, many St. Xavier students participate in musical groups that primarily perform at school concerts and national competitions.[220] In 1974, St. Xavier became one of the first Cincinnati-area high schools to incorporate service-learning into the curriculum, in response to Jesuit Superior-General Pedro Arrupe's call to "form men for others".Currently, the paper averages about 28 pages of full-color articles with a unique cover graphic and "Backside" six times a year.Student-athletes from St. Xavier have gone on to win the Super Bowl, compete in the Olympics, and coach college and professional sports teams.
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