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Edmonds-Woodway High School is one of five High Schools in the Edmonds School District . Located in Edmonds, Washington , it serves students in grades 9-12. The school's mascot is the Warrior. The current principal is Alan Weiss, with two assistant principals, Michelle Trifunovic and Geoff Bennett. Alan Weiss is retiring at the end of the 2006-07 school year, and Michelle Trifunovic has been selected as the new principal, slated to start the 2007-08 school year. The school's schedule consists of 95 minute periods on days other than Wednesdays and 90 minute periods with an advisory period on Wednesdays, both in an odd/even day format. Furthermore, the school follows a semester schedule. HISTORY Edmonds-Woodway is the product of the merging of Edmonds High School and Woodway High School. These two schools had a long standing rivalry for most of the 20th Century . Their merger happened in the fall of 1990, with students from both schools combining on the former site of Woodway High. The former Edmonds High School building was demolished and a new structure erected in its place, which opened in the fall of 1998. The building received that year's MIW Masonry Excellence Award, for the use of Masonry throughout the project. The Architect was Bassetti Architects of Seattle . CULTURE Key phrases In 1995, during a pep assembly, Principal Alan Weiss coined a phrase as a means of encouraging the student body: '''' This phrase has been repeated countless times and appears on posters, signs, and printed media throughout the school, and has since been the subject of both praise and derision among students as well as a uniting factor among graduates of disparate classes. Fight song ''At Edmonds Woodway we will win, we’ll set out to succeed'' ''We’re looking out for number one, we know that we will lead'' ''Our pride and honor will be strong, our fame will reach the sky'' ''We’re setting out to be the best, at Edmonds Woodway High'' ''GO! FIGHT! WIN! WARRIORS! GO! FIGHT! WIN! WARRIORS!''
''So on for Edmonds Woodway, we’ll give it our best try'' ''Forever we shall stand as one, at Edmonds Woodway High'' http://www.geocities.com/lifeofajamminwriter/fightsong Alma Mater
ACHIEVEMENTS Academics The school currently hosts the only International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme in the Edmonds School District , is only one of eight in the state of Washington to do so, and is one of the largest in the Pacific Northwest , with 600 IB-enrolled students and 55 Diploma Programme graduates in 2006. In 2005, the school boasted 8 Team competed for the first time. It was the first team in the history of the Academic Bowl to win a Regional competition their first year. Athletics In 2006, the Edmonds Woodway Warriors football team made school history, making it to the semi-finals of the 4A state championships. They recorded their only loss of the season, losing 28-14 to Bothell High School to finish the season 12-1. The Seattle Times: Long rebuild effort brought Warriors a season to savor. November 29, 2006. http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=edmonds29n&date=20061129 NOTABLE ALUMNI
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