Columbia High School is a

public high school A state school, public school, or government school is a primary school, primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation and operated by the government of the state. State-f ...

Columbia, Illinois Columbia is a city mainly in Monroe County with a small portion in St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Illinois, about south of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 10,999 at the 2020 census. History Columbia was first incorporated i ...

. It is part of

Columbia Community Unit School District 4 Columbia Community Unit School District 4 is a unified school district that services Columbia, Illinois, Columbia, a city located on the Mississippi River in the western reaches of Monroe County, Illinois, Monroe County, Illinois, just south of ...

Athletics

Columbia High School's athletic teams compete as members of the

Illinois High School Association The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) is an association that regulates competition of interscholastic sports and some interscholastic activities at the high school level for the state of Illinois. It is a charter member of the National F ...

in the Mississippi Division of the

Cahokia Conference The Cahokia Conference is a high school athletic and competitive activity organization which currently consists of 18 schools in southwestern Illinois. All of the schools are located in Clinton County, Illinois, Clinton, Madison County, Illinois, ...

. Columbia High School offers the following interscholastic sports at the varsity level: *Boys

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

*Boys and Girls

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

*Boys and Girls

Bowling Bowling is a Throwing sports#Target sports, target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a bowling ball, ball toward Bowling pin, pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). Most references to ''bowling'' are ...

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense Physical exercise, physical activity. It can be performed to motivate s ...

*Boys and Girls Cross country *Boys

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

*Boys and Girls

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

Scholastic Bowl Quiz bowl (quizbowl, scholars' bowl, scholastic bowl, academic bowl, academic team, academic challenge, etc.) is a family of quiz-based competitions that test players on a wide variety of academic subjects. Standardized quiz bowl formats are pl ...

*Boys and Girls

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

*Girls

Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

*Boys and Girls Track *Girls

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

*Boys

Hockey ''Hockey'' is a family of List of stick sports, stick sports where two opposing teams use hockey sticks to propel a ball or disk into a goal. There are many types of hockey, and the individual sports vary in rules, numbers of players, apparel, ...

(Club) *Boys

Water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...

Columbia has enjoyed a number of successes on the state level of athletic competitions. The boys baseball team won the state title in 1987 under Coach Jim Stuart and again in 2007 under Coach Dustin Nail. In 2010, Columbia's Cheerleading squad swept both statewide competitive cheerleading competitions by winning the IHSA (Illinois High School Association) and ICCA (Illinois Cheerleading Coaches Association) Championships in the small varsity division. The cheerleaders continued their winning ways by repeating that feat in 2011 and 2012, the only small varsity squad in the entire state to win more than once. In 2012, the Eagles cheerleaders also took first place in the Advanced Co-Ed Division of the NCA High School Open National Championship held in Louisville, KY. In 2013, due to increased enrollment, Columbia cheerleading competed at the medium varsity level against schools with enrollments more than double that of Columbia. They again brought home both the IHSA and ICCA titles in their division. Columbia High School teams have trophied numerous times in many sports at the state level: *1987 Boys Baseball - Illinois State Championship *2005 Girls Volleyball Runner-Up *2006 Girls Soccer Runner-Up *2006 Baseball 4th Place *2007 Boys Baseball - Illinois State Championship *2007 Scholastic Bowl Runner-Up *2007 Football Runner-Up *2008 Girls Soccer 3rd Place *2008 Football Semi-finalist *2009 Competitive Cheerleading Small Varsity 3rd Place *2010 Competitive Cheerleading Small Varsity IHSA and ICCA State Champions *2010 Boys soccer 3rd Place *2011 Boys soccer IHSA Sectional Champions *2011 Competitive Cheerleading Small Varsity IHSA and ICCA State Champions *2012 Competitive Cheerleading Small Varsity IHSA and ICCA State Champions *2012 Competitive Cheerleading NCA High School Open National Champions Advanced Co-ed Division *2013 Competitive Cheerleading Medium Varsity IHSA and ICCA State Champions *2014 Boys Soccer Class 1A State Champions *2019 Girls Soccer Class 1A State Champions

Notable alumni

* Trent Blank, baseball coach *

Jim Kremmel James Louis Kremmel (February 28, 1949 – October 12, 2012) was an American left-handed pitcher who spent two seasons in Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers (1973 Texas Rangers ...

, Former

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player ( Texas Rangers,

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) * T. J. Mathews, professional baseball player (MLB 1995–2002) * Josh Fleming, professional baseball player (

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) *

Nelson Mathews Nelson Elmer Mathews (born July 21, 1941) is a retired American professional baseball outfielder who appeared in the Major Leagues (MLB) from 1960 to 1965 for the Chicago Cubs and Kansas City Athletics. Born in Columbia, Illinois, he graduated f ...

, professional baseball player (MLB 1960–1965)Nelson Mathews Statistics - Baseball Reference
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References

External links

* {{authority control Public high schools in Illinois Columbia, Illinois Education in the Metro East Schools in Monroe County, Illinois