Harwich High School is a public secondary school located in
Harwich, MA. The school is located at 75 Oak St. The school colors are Royal Blue and Gold and is nicknamed the Rough Riders.
Overview
Harwich High School has an approximate enrollment of 450 students in grades 9-12. The school's nickname is the Rough Riders and its colors are Royal Blue, Gold and White. The school has one of the most successful sports programs in the state, especially baseball.
- Over the past couple of years, Harwich has been in negotiations with the town of Chatham to create a regionalized school district due to declining student populations in each town. If the plan is approved, Harwich and Chatham will send its student populations to separate elementary schools within the towns, and once in middle school, students from both towns will attended a regional middle school and high school. Also, if the plan is approved, a new high school will be constructed due to inefficient space in the schools and the deteriorating condition of both high schools. The new name of the school district would be the Harwich-Chatham Regional School District. Harwich originally planned to merge with the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth and join the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District, but that plan was quickly disapproved. If the current plan with Chatham fails, Harwich will likely filter its middle school students into the high school, becoming a 7-12 high school.
Sports
Harwich is notable for having an outstanding baseball team. The baseball team won the Dvision 3 State Championship in 1996, 2006, and 2007, under the helm of legendary Massachusetts Hall of Fame coach Fred Thacher, who passed away in 2007 from cancer. Harwich plays at
Whitehouse Field, which is a first class baseball park which is also home to the
Harwich Mariners of the
Cape Cod Baseball League. It has also hosted the
NCAA Dvision 3 New England Regional Championships on numerous occasions. Harwich also has sent numerous players to prestigious schools for baseball including
Boston College,
Vanderbilt,
Wheaton,
UMass-Amherst,
South Florida, and
George Mason. Harwich currently has two baseball alumni in the Major Leagues, Cody Crowell and Ryan Soares.
Hariwch's field hockey team is one of the best in New England. In the past 7 years, Harwich has lost just one league game and has been the top seed in the state tournament 5 times. They have had 3 undefeated seasons in the past 6 years. In 2009, the team amassed 96 goals for the season while only allowing 6 goals the whole season.
Harwich has a longstanding co-op football team with
Cape Cod Regional Technical High School. Under coach David Currid, the football team has been to two Eastern Massachusetts Super Bowls in 2000 and 2007. In 2000, the football team rolled through the regular season and won a playoff berth. They played powerhouse
Georgetown and were defeated handily. In 2007, the football team rolled to a 9-1 regular season record, on the shoulders of Division 3A Player of the Year, James Hamilton, who ran for well over 2,000 yards on the season. The lone loss being at the hands of rival
Mashpee on Thanksgiving Day. They played
West Roxbury in the first round, defeating them 35-27 and earned a spot in the Division 3A State Championship game, which they lost 7-0 to
Ipswich in a heartbreaking defeat.
The girls basketball team was a powerhouse in the early part of the decade. They won back-to-back State Titles in 2003 and 2004.
Notable Alumni
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