Tumwater High School

Tumwater High School is a secondary school in Tumwater, Washington serving grades 9–12 in Thurston County. It is one of two comprehensive high schools in the Tumwater School District. Tumwater High School generally draws students from the portions of the Tumwater School District east of Interstate 5 and the Littlerock area west of I-5.

Tumwater High School
Address
700 Israel Road SE

Tumwater
,
Washington

USA
Coordinates46°59′10″N 122°54′59″W
Information
TypePublic secondary
Established1961
School districtTumwater School District
PrincipalJeff Broome
Faculty58.13 (FTE)[1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,231 (2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio21.18[1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Green and white    
MascotThunderbird
Websitewww.tumwater.k12.wa.us/ths

Athletics

Tumwater High School offers athletic teams in cross country, golf, football, soccer, dance, swim and dive, tennis, volleyball, basketball, bowling, wrestling, baseball, fastpitch, and track and field. Tumwater also offers a club rifle team, which currently holds two national championships.

The town has supported athletics at Tumwater High School and the recently formed Black Hills High School. The school's teams are known as the T-Birds, and have experienced success at the league, district and state level for all of their teams since the school's founding.

Tumwater is best known for its football program. Most of the success can be credited to long time head football coach Sid Otton, who coached from 1973–2016. In the 2005 season Otton broke the all-time Washington state wins record of 273 wins.[2] During Otton's tenure, Tumwater won five state titles, was nationally ranked four times, and made the state playoffs more than 23 times. The final state title won under Coach Otton was on December 4, 2010 against Archbishop Murphy High School in the 2A State Football Championship, with a score of 34–14. Otton compiled a career record of 394–131 in 49 seasons and retired following the 2016 season after 43 years at Tumwater. He retired as the all-time winningest high school football coach in Washington State history. He was elected to the Washington State Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1996[3] For the 2017 season, former Otton player Bill Beattie ('78) took over as head coach and has continued the "Tumwater Winning Football" tradition. The T-birds won their 6th State football title with a 48–34 win over Steilacoom High School on December 7, 2019.[4][5]

Tumwater has also experienced success on the basketball court with both the boys' (third year straight, a school record) and girls' basketball (second straight year) teams making state together in back-to-back years for the first time in school history.

The Tumwater volleyball program has also had a lot of success over the years, including winning the state championship in 2008 and 2014. Many of the former Tumwater Volleyball players have gone on to play at the collegiate level. They are attending colleges such as Gonzaga University, Northwest University, Eastern Oregon University, Western Oregon University, and many other schools.[6]

Tumwater High School is a 2A-division member of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.[7]

State championships
SeasonSportNumber of championshipsYear
FallFootball61987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2010, 2019
Volleyball, girls'22008, 2014
Winter0
SpringFastpitch softball, girls'21993, 2006
Total10

State championships, 2nd place:

  • Girls' basketball - 2007, 2010
  • Girls' cross country - 1984
  • Fastpitch softball - 1992
  • Boys' golf - 1997, 1998
  • Boys' tennis - 1986
  • Boys' track and field - 1992
  • Girls' volleyball - 2007, 2011

Tumwater Acting Company

The Theatre program at THS has an outstanding history, including many national and state titles for their multitude of talented students. Past TAC Directors include Amy Ullen, Kristina Cummins, Joann Boswell, Robin Tuckett, and Heidi Fredericks. The current TAC Director is Harrison Fry.

Past Shows Include:

2006–2007: Romeo and Juliet, Murder's In The Heir

2007–2008: The Miracle Worker, Ask Any Girl, Little Shop of Horrors

2008–2009: The 11 Variations of Friar John, The Crucible, Anything Goes

2009–2010: Trouble at the Talent Show, Anatomy of Gray, Much Ado About Nothing, Once On This Island

2010–2011: Little Women, The Ugly Duckling, The Brother's Grimm, The Music Man

2011–2012: Our Town, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Pirates of Penzance

2012–2013: Harvey, Aida, Woofer the Psychic Dog!

2013–2014: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Julius Caesar

2014–2015: The Voice of the Prairie, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Tempest

2015–2016: Macbeth, Arsenic and Old Lace, Oliver!

2016–2017: Twelfth Night, Little Shop of Horrors, The Mousetrap

2017–2018: Frankenstein, Guys And Dolls, The Wind in the Willows

2018–2019: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Check Please, Once Upon a Mattress

Notable alumni

Sources
  1. "Tumwater High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  2. https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/high-school/banner-night-in-tumwater-as-sid-otton-sets-states-wins-record/
  3. https://www.washcoach.net/football/WSFCA_HOF.php
  4. https://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/high-school/article238129969.html
  5. https://www.thedailyworld.com/sports/bill-beattie-to-take-over-as-tumwater-head-football-coach/
  6. "Tumwater High School Volleyball". www.tumwatervolleyball.com.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-01. Retrieved 2008-10-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Latin Grammy winner with Tumwater roots comes home to launch new album". theolympian. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
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