Twin Falls High School is a public secondary school in

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, one of two traditional high schools operated by the Twin Falls School District.

School history

Twin Falls High School was founded in 1907. Citizens passed a bond in 1909 to construct the high school building and a supplemental

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in 1911 to complete construction. Formal dedication of the original high school, located on Shoshone Street next to the

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Courthouse, occurred in February 1912. The current Twin Falls High School on Filer Avenue opened in September 1954. The original high school building became Twin Falls Junior High School (now O'Leary Middle School). The original building was condemned and torn down in the early 1980s after O'Leary moved to a new location in 1979.

Athletics

Until 2009, TFHS was among the largest high schools in the state, classified as 5A (enrollment over 1,280 students) by the IHSAA. With the opening of

Canyon Ridge High School Canyon Ridge High School is a public secondary school in Twin Falls, Idaho, operated by the Twin Falls School District. It is the second traditional high school in the district and opened in August 2009. The school colors are crimson and silver ...

in western Twin Falls in August 2009, both schools were classified as 4A (four-year enrollment between 640 and 1,279). A

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between TFHS and CRHS has since developed. With the move to down to 4A in 2009, TFHS also changed conferences. It is currently a member of the Great Basin (West) Conference, competing against Canyon Ridge, Burley,

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, Minico, and Wood River, all located in south central Idaho's

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. Twin Falls won the 5A state championship in football in 2004 and in boys'

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in 2006. After dropping to Class 4A, the Bruins won the boys' state basketball championship in 2010, and the state baseball championship in 2011 and 2014. The

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team and bowling team won state championships in 2007. The boys' cross country has won three state titles in a row since 2007, and both golf teams have won many state titles, as well. The Bruin track team won many championships in the 1970s and continue to be a state power. The last state team track championship was in 1997. The boys' soccer team became state champions in 1992, only three years after the team was founded.

State titles

Boys * Football (1): 2004idhsaa.org
– Idaho high school football – state champions * Cross Country (6): ''fall'' 1970, 1971, 1976, 2007, 2008; (4A) 2009 idhsaa.org
Cross Country champions through 2011 * Soccer (1): 1992 ''(unofficial until 2000)'' idhsaa.org
Soccer champions – through 2011 * Basketball (3): 1974, 2006; (4A) 2010 idhsaa.org
– Basketball champions – through 2012 * Baseball (4): 1988, 1990; (4A) 2011, 2014 * Track (11): 1925, 1928, 1948, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1993, 1997 * Golf (18): 1956, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1981, 1993, 1997, 2005, 2007; (4A) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 idhsaa.org
– Golf champions – through 2012 Girls * Cross Country (8): 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 2016 * Track (9): 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1987 * Golf (11): 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 Coed * Tennis (1): 2000 idhsaa.org
– Tennis champions – through 2012

Enrollment

Twin Falls High School's final year as the only regular public high school in Twin Falls was 2008–09. The year also represented the final year Twin Falls High School did not include

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. Beginning in August 2009, both Twin Falls and Canyon Ridge included grades 9 through 12. Twin Falls High School draws its students from the eastern half of the city.

Notable alumni

* Keith G. Allred – Columbia and Harvard professor, mediator, 2010

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gubernatorial candidate, Class of 1983 * Bruce Bastian – WordPerfect co-founder, Class of 1966 * G. Richard Bevan –

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justice, Class of 1977 * King Block – college football coach, Class of 1947 * Logan Easley – professional baseball player *

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– Watergate informant " Deep Throat",

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executive, Class of 1931 * H. George Frederickson – president of Eastern Washington University 1977–1987,

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professor 1987–present, Class of 1952 * Bob Martyn – professional baseball player (

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), Class of 1948 * Gary Puckett – pop singer, musician, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Class of 1960 * Andy Toolson –

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NBA player,

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basketball player,

assistant basketball coach, Class of 1984 *

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– professional baseball player * Allyson Swan – 2004 Miss Rodeo Idaho, 2005

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first runner-up, 2006 Miss Idaho USA, Class of 2001 *

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– musician, Class of 1990 * Paul Durham - musician, lead singer Black Lab, Class of 1986

References

External links

*
TFHSAlumni.com

TFHS Football

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