Colonel By Secondary School
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| Colonel By Secondary School | |
 What We Have Begun, We Shall Finish |
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| 2381 Ogilvie Road Ottawa, Ontario, K1J 7N4, Canada |
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| School number | 902586 |
| School board | Ottawa Carleton District School Board |
| Superintendent | Barrie Hammond |
| Area trustee | David Moen |
| Principal | Alan Johnson |
| Vice principal | Barry Armstrong Sheilaeagh MacDonald |
| Chief custodian | Daryl McCorkell |
| School type | High school |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Mascot | Cougar |
| Colours | Royal Blue & Kelly Green |
| Founded | 1970, building inaugurated 1972 |
| Enrollment | 1087 |
| Homepage | http://www.colonelby.com/ |
Colonel By Secondary School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school. They are located in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Gloucester, Ontario (Gloucester in the city of Ottawa, Canada. It is a non-semestered school, and is the only English public school in Ottawa that offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. It was named for Colonel John By, the man who successfully built the Rideau Canal.
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[edit] Ratings
In 2005, Maclean's Magazine named Colonel By Secondary School the #3 academic high school in the country.[citation needed] In 2007, the Fraser Institute, a known conservative think-tank, rated Colonel By as the top academic school in Ottawa in its Report Card on Ontario's Secondary Schools.[1]
In 2008, the Fraser Institute rated Colonel By as the #11 public school in Ottawa in its 2008 Report Card on Ontario Secondary Schools, and 98th in the province[2].
[edit] Features
- Cougar Vision, First Digital High-School TV Station[citation needed]
- International Baccalaureate (IB) Program
- Home of the original Cougar Characters
[edit] Notable alumni
- Bryan Adams, a singer-songwriter[3]
- Tom Green, comedian and talk show host[4]
- Amber Macarthur, Canadian television and podcasting personality, best known for Call for Help and This week in tech (TWiT) [5]
- Gailea Momolu, Professional Skateboarder, currently rides for Darkstar, Osiris, LRG clothing and Tensor. [6] [7]
- Jesse Plunkett, founder of HipHopCanada.com, musician [8] [9] [10]
- Anne-Marie MacDonald, author and television host</ref> [11]. Anne-Marie was the Head Girl in 1972, the Colonel By equivalent of School Co-President.
- Vanessa Morgan, star of The Latest Buzz
[edit] Athletics
The 2005/2006 track season proved to be very successful for Colonel By; by sending several athletes to the East OFSAA and OFSAA track and field meet, they have achieved provincial recognition. Another notable achievement came from the 2002/2003 senior boys soccer team who became the first Colonel By boys soccer team to compete at OFSAA in more than a decade.[citation needed] Senior girls basketball is also a notable team at Colonel By, along with senior girls soccer. However, Colonel By is most mostly recognized in the city and province for its strong volleyball program.[citation needed] Colonel By has also competed at OFSAA for a few ski and snowboarding events in the 2006/2007 season. In addition, the Colonel By Badminton team has done well in Junior and Senior events. The Colonel By Nordic Ski team has also done well in the past finishing 4th last year in Junior Combined and now looking for the NCSSAA chamionships for the Senior Boys.
[edit] Track and Field
Colonel By is known for its recent surge of notable athletes in track and field. Four of Colonel By's athletes who competed in the 2007 OFSAA Track and Field Championships in Ottawa won medals (two gold, one silver and one bronze). Putting this into perspective, excluding this year, there has only been three athletes from eastern Ottawa from the past three years that have won medals in OFSAA.
One of this year's Colonel By's gold medalists, 15 year old Oluwasegun Makinde, set a new junior provincial record in the men's 200m running a personal best of 21.74 seconds, demolishing the old record of 22.75. He will attend the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics in the Czech Republic this summer.[12] Footage of the record-breaking 200m finals can be seen here
[edit] Reach for the Top
Colonel By also has a very good Reach for the Top team, which is constantly in competition with Lisgar S.S. The Colonel By Reach for the Top team has won provincials in 2001.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Report Card on Ontario's Secondary Schools: 2007 Edition, p. 47
- ^ Cowley, Peter; Easton, Stephen (March 2008). "Report Card on Ontario’s Secondary Schools". Studies in Education Policy. Fraser Institute.
- ^ CanWest MediaWorks. "Bryan Adams Profile". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-01-31.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0338381/bio IMDB trivia page for Tom Green
- ^ G4techTV.ca > Call for Help > Show Notes #411 - Transcripts
- ^ http://www.osirisshoes.com/team/momolu/
- ^ Skateboard-Gailea Momolu
- ^ http://www.hiphopcanada.com
- ^ http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/features/everyday_hero/story.html?id=e8a5d5ea-b034-4ca3-8f19-68632eb0f5cb
- ^ Canada's Hip-Hop Scene Stays Strong
- ^ Professionally Speaking: Remarkable Teachers
- ^ Orleans Online. "Colonel By trio turns in magical half hour at OFSAA Track and Field Championships". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.
[edit] External links
- Colonel By's School Website
- Cougar Vision
- Novell iChain Login
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
- International Baccalaureate Organization
- OFSAA 2006 Results
- OFSAA 2007 Results
- East OFSAA Results
- OCDSB Website
- 2005-2006 OCDSB School Profile
- Ottawa Citizen on Fraser Institute Secondary School Rankings for 2008
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