Mercer Island High School

Mercer Island High School (MIHS) is a public high school located in Mercer Island, Washington, United States, as part of the Mercer Island School District.

Mercer Island High School
Address
9100 SE 42nd Street

Mercer Island
,
Washington

United States
Coordinates47°34′19″N 122°13′07″W
Information
TypePublic
Established1957
PrincipalVicki Puckett
Faculty77.45 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,552 (as of 2018-19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio20.04[1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Maroon & White[2]          
MascotHerbert the Snail[3]
NicknameIslanders
Team nameIslanders
RivalBellevue High School (Bellevue, Washington)
NewspaperThe Islander
AffiliationMercer Island School District
Websitewww.mercerislandschools.org/Domain/8

As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,416 students and 69.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 20.3:1. There were 54 students (3.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 10 (0.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards and recognition

During the 2006-07 school year, Mercer Island High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education.[4][5]

Music program

In 2011, the MIHS marching band traveled internationally to participate in the 2011 London, England New Year’s Day Parade & Festival upon royal invitation.[6][7][8][9][9][10][11][12][13] The following year, the marching band performed in the 2012 Rose Parade.[14]

Athletics
Cheerleaders

Mercer Island High School was honored by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association as the 3A Wells Fargo Scholastic Cup Champion for the 2005-06 school year, based on State championship victories in boys' track and field, boys' golf, boys' swimming and diving and boys' tennis.[15]

Boys' Lacrosse has been to 10 out of the last 11 state championships and has won six of them.[16]

Girls' Swim and Dive had an undefeated season in 2009 ending it by winning the State Championship. Boys' Swim and Dive also went undefeated in the 2009-2010 season, and went on to win their fifth consecutive State title.

The girls' and boys' tennis teams have won a combined 41 State championships since 1972. Both teams are current state champions. [17]

The basketball team, formerly coached by all-time Washington state wins leader Ed Pepple,[18] recorded its first losing season in 38 years in 2006.

In 1981 Mercer Island Basketball Team lost the AAA State basketball final game to Shadle Park in a controversial decision. At 64-65 to Mercer Island, a last-second shot by Shadle Park "depending on who you are listening to, either clearly did or clearly didn’t beat the air horn."[19][20]

Boys' swimming was rated first in its class by the 2006-07 NISCA National Dual Meet Team Rankings.[21]

There is no longer an official school mascot. The “tropical warrior” Islander mascot of the ‘70’s was deemed to be offensive and has not been used since.[22]

Notable alumni
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Notable faculty
  • Gillian d'Hondt (born 1982), women's basketball coach, professional European women's basketball player.[52]

References
  1. School data for Mercer Island High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed May 17, 2020.
  3. Staff. "A snail sighting", Mercer Island Reporter, January 14, 2011. Accessed June 6, 2017. "Mercer Island High School senior Teddy Trimble is ‘Herbert the Snail,’ the Islander mascot never before seen in physical form, at its very first appearance on Friday night at the boys and girls basketball games."
  4. Tuinstra, Rachel. "3 Eastside schools get top honor; "Blue Ribbon" designation - Mercer Island High, Wellington, Pine Lake get national recognition", The Seattle Times, September 23, 2006. Accessed October 16, 2007.
  5. Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 2003 Through 2007 (PDF) Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine, United States Department of Education. Accessed May 11, 2006.
  6. Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine 30 December 2010
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  15. "WIAA 4A/3A Scholastic Cup Champions", Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Accessed October 16, 2007.
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  17. WIAA State Championship History Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, Washington Interscholastic Activities Association. Accessed February 28, 2008. See Classifications 3A and 4A, boys and girls tennis.
  18. The Final Score: "Washington basketball coaches career win-loss records." Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved March 22, 2007.
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  23. Rauch, Paul. "Bill Anschell: Curiosity and Invention", All About Jazz, November 9, 2017. Accessed September 16, 2019. "I went to Mercer Island High School, we had a stage band, and an alcoholic teacher."
  24. "Five Things You Didn't Know About Daniel Bonjour". TVOvermind. 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  25. Matt Boyd, Oregon State Beavers baseball. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Mercer Island High School - Played his freshman season, 2005-06, for head coach Doug Williams"
  26. Meet Steve Bunin, KING-TV, updated August 28, 2019. Accessed September 16, 2019. "I have three brothers, and graduated from Mercer Island High School in 1992 and Syracuse University in 1996."
  27. Brewer, Jerry. "Montana’s new coach very much a product of Seattle basketball", The Seattle Times, November 22, 2014. "He’s a product of Seattle basketball in every way imaginable, from his Rainier Valley upbringing to his days as a star guard at Mercer Island High School to his first head-coaching job at Sammamish High School to his junior-college experience at Green River Community College."
  28. Jones, Tim. "Family portraits: Strong personalities shaped a future senator, Barack Obama.", Chicago Tribune, March 27, 2007. Accessed May 21, 2008. "For Wall and a few dozen others, Obama on the campaign trail often brings to mind Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama's mother and a strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960."
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  30. "Getting the shot Teen spends summer making a film with friends", Mercer Island Reporter, November 24, 2008. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Goyette polished his pitch for access to locations while making some 200 calls. The 16-year-old Mercer Island High School student is spending the summer making a movie."
  31. Adrian Hanauer, Seattle Sounders FC. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Hanauer’s interest in soccer began at the age of three, and he saw his first NASL Sounders game at the age of eight. He went on to play for Mercer Island High School and remains active in the Greater Seattle Soccer League."
  32. Steve Hawes, Basketball-Reference.com. Accessed November 28, 2007.
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  34. via Mercury News. "Penny-pinching entrepreneurs changing world of venture capital", Mercury News, August 10, 2007. Accessed March 22, 2012. "Levie and Smith were 15-year-olds at Mercer Island High School near Seattle who teamed up on class projects and later made a film for fun."
  35. Miller, Ted. "Mahdavi calm, confident; UW linebacker listens to opera to relax before games", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 29, 2002. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Mahdavi is tough. At 211 pounds, he won a state heavyweight wrestling championship for Mercer Island High School, despite often giving up as much as 60 pounds to his opponents."
  36. Brodeur, Nicole. "From Mercer Island, jumping into "The Soup"", The Seattle Times, August 22, 2004. Accessed October 6, 2007.
  37. Evans, Jayda. "Mercer Island High School retires jersey of Sounders star Jordan Morris", The Seattle Times, April 25, 2019. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Mercer Island’s stadium has been renovated, but the memories of Jordan Morris tearing up the soccer field resurfaced Tuesday. The Sounders FC forward returned to his alma mater to be inducted into its Hall of Fame."
  38. Annemarie Cancelmi Archived 2008-01-19 at the Wayback Machine, As the World Turns. Accessed December 10, 2007. "Graduated from Mercer Island High School, near Seattle, WA."
  39. Popper, Steve. "Pro Football; Fledgling Punter Steps Forward After Six-Year Layoff to Do the Kicking for the Giants", The New York Times, November 10, 2001. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Owen Pochman remembers the last time he stood behind the line of scrimmage waiting for the ball to be snapped to him for a punt. It was at Mercer Island High School in Washington, where, a proud Pochman says, he never had a punt blocked."
  40. Macdonald, Moira (January 25, 2011). "Mercer Island's Anne Rosellini receives 'surreal' Oscar nod for 'Winter's Bone'". The Seattle Times. Retrieved February 12, 2015.
  41. "Ethan Sandler's Epitaph; Actor Ethan Sandler, a 1991 Mercer Island High School grad (and former 'flag dude' at MIHS), has written a play with old college chum Adrian Wenner called Epitaph, that will be performed at Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse on May 27.", Mercer Island Reporter, November 24, 2008. Accessed September 16, 2019.
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  43. via Associated press. Also as of 2014 became the coach of the Utah Jazz (Basketball team) "Missouri coach Quin Snyder resigns", The Seattle Times, February 10, 2006. Accessed May 20, 2008. "Snyder, a graduate of Mercer Island High School, spoke to his team before practice today and said he was leaving."
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  48. Raley, Dan. "Where Are They Now: Dave Wainhouse; Former Mercer Island, Washington State pitcher played briefly with the Mariners", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 1, 2007. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Even at Mercer Island High School, Wainhouse didn't land a permanent spot on the varsity until he was a senior, and he finished 0-6 on the mound that season."
  49. "Flashback: Mary Wayte Bradburne, Mercer Island, Class of 1983", October 14, 2003. Accessed September 16, 2019.
  50. "Former Islander White debuts with Mariners", Mercer Island Reporter, November 24, 2008. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Sean White, a 1999 Mercer Island High graduate, made his debut with the Seattle Mariners Wednesday at Safeco Field against the Oakland Athletics."
  51. "MIHS grad charged in 1997 animal terrorism", Mercer Island Reporter, November 24, 2008. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Peter Daniel Young, the 1995 Mercer Island High School graduate charged with releasing thousands of minks from Midwest farms..."
  52. Scott, Shaun. "State-champion coach resigns from position; Gillian d’Hondt departs after three seasons of leading the Islanders girls hoops program.", Mercer Island Reporter, June 15, 2008. Accessed September 16, 2019. "Gillian d’Hondt recently turned in her coaching clipboard after three seasons with the Mercer Island Islanders girls basketball program."
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