Crenshaw High School
Crenshaw High School is a high school in the district of South Central Los Angeles, California with about 2,600 students.
Beginning to Today
The Crenshaw High School opened in 1968. Today, the Crenshaw High is a school with an average of about 2600 students who are mostly African-American origin. The colors of the Crenshaw High are blue and gold, the mascot is the Cougar ( engl: Puma). The biggest rival of the school is Susan Miller Dorsey High School, which is located nearby. In August 2005, the Crenshaw High lost its accreditation of a high school, because she could no longer meet various standards, but was eventually rehabilitated in February 2006 after some improvements.
High school sports
The Crenshaw High School is nationally known for its promotion of sports in the sports of basketball, football and baseball, the sports team at school called the Crenshaw High Cougars. Basketball is by far the most important sport in the Crenshaw High. Nationally known was the school for their talent building program that was over thirty years ago by Willi West, a famous American athletes headed. The team brought many titles from competitions within LA City and the state of California. Also the football and baseball teams in the Crenshaw Cougars play very successful high school sports, which in America has a much higher value than in Germany, and have already won several local and national titles. The baseball team of the Crenshaw High Cougars of 1979 is even considered the most talented high school team in baseball of all time, from her were famous baseball players, such as Chris Brown and Darryl Strawberry indicate which successfully operated later professional sports. In 2004, the school got a floodlights for their stadium by the Amateur Athletic Foundation ( AAF) and the actor Kirk Douglas donated, to play during a home game against rival Dorsey High School in the dark can.
Famous graduates
- Chris Brown (1961-2006), American baseball player
- Ice- T ( born 1959 ), American musician and actor
- Arthur Lee (1945-2006), American rock musician; Frontman, songwriter and multi -instrumentalist of the band Love.
- Schoolboy Q ( born 1986 ), American rapper
- Darryl Strawberry (born 1962 ), American baseball player
- Mykelti Williamson ( b. 1960 ), American actor (Con Air)
- Eric Yarber (born 1965 ), American football player and coach, winner of the Super Bowl