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Type
  
Public high school

Grades
  
9 to 12

Color(s)
  
Blue and Silver

Principal
  
Peggy Novak

Staff
  
46

Number of students
  
265

Phone
  
+1 218-547-4210

Mascot
  
Wolf

Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School

School district
  
Independent School District #113

Address
  
Chippewa National Forest Supervisors Office, 301 4th St N, Walker, MN 56484, USA

District
  
Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Schl. District

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Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School (WHA) is a public high school located in Walker, Minnesota. It is part of Independent School District #113. Students come from Walker, Hackensack, Akeley, Onigum, and Laporte, Minnesota.

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The school offers honors classes as well as Post Secondary Enrollment Options. PSEO is a Minnesota Department of Education program that allows qualifying high school juniors and seniors to take college classes for high school credit at no cost to the student. Foreign languages at WHA include Spanish for grades 9 through 12 and German, although being phased out, for eleventh and twelfth grades.

Athletics

The school has football, volleyball, girls and boys soccer, girls and boys basketball, wrestling, hockey, baseball, softball, boys and girls golf, boys and girls track, and cheerleading teams.

Speech

The WHA speech team has competed for 44 years. In those 44 years, participants have earned 209 state speech medals, 39 state championships, and speakers have competed 32 times on the national level.

WHA has a number of National Forensic League Academic All-Americans including:

  • Joe Sweeney
  • Chris Baker
  • John Alden
  • Laura Maus
  • Julia Maus
  • Luke Gustafson
  • Neville Eclov
  • Katie Knight
  • Tyler Westfield
  • Kelly Nelson
  • Anastasia Scott
  • Sarah Johnson
  • Josh Plattner
  • Beth Tuller
  • Bridget Corson
  • Rachel Swedburg
  • Alina Burks
  • Tia Massar
  • Brandon Zimmer
  • At the 2007 state tournament, the WHA speech team had a record five state champions including Rachel Swedburg, Beth Tuller, Sara Johnson, Laryssa Schoeck, and Matt Privratsky. The WHA team also had a record number of state medals with 17 total medals in 2007. In 2008, the WHA speech team won the section tournament for the 17th consecutive year.

    At the 2008 NFL National Qualifying tournament, a record six speakers qualified for the NFL National Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada in June 2008. These speakers were Beth Tuller, Bridget Corson, Marilyn Corson, Rachel Swedburg, Stephanie Stine, and Tia Massar. At the tournament, Bridget Corson was the first WHA speaker to make quarter-finals in a national event. She received 26th place in Extemporaneous Commentary.

    In the 2010 speech season, WHA won sections for the 20th year in a row.

    Theater

    WHA has a theater department, which as performed plays including:

  • Fiddler on the Roof (2003)
  • Annie (2005)
  • Seussical (2006)
  • Peter Pan (2007)
  • The Sound of Music (2008)
  • Music

    WHA's music department consists of a concert band, stage band, and concert choir who each perform a winter and spring concert every year. They also compete in a fall solo contest and spring ensemble contest.

    References

    Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School Wikipedia


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