Evergreen High School (Vancouver, Washington)

Evergreen High School, located in Vancouver, Washington. Founded in the mid 1950's, Evergreen was the first high school in the Evergreen School District. As of 2006 it has about 2200 students. Their mascot is the Plainsmen. It has had many great state championship teams throughout its history, including men's basketball in 1995 and football in 2004.

In 2007, Tom Smythe, a football coach who won three state championships in Oregon, became the head coach of the Evergreen Plainsmen.

Evergreen was jokingly called "Ghetto-Green" by other rival high schools in the Evergreen School District before the reconstruction project, which took place during 2005-2007.

Evergreen is home to one of the best marching bands in Washington state, the Evergreen Marching Band (EMB). Directors, Steve Kuske and Danny Orrantia are dedicated to the improvement and growth of the program.

2004 Football State Championship

In 2004, the Evergreen High School Football Team made history by becoming the first large school team from Southwest Washington to make a state championship game. After falling behind early 14-0 to Skyline, the Plainsmen rallied to win the game. Running back Taylor Rank stood out for the Plainsmen all year rushing for 2,013 yards and 33 touchdowns. This game was no exception for Rank. He carried the ball 28 times for 211 yards and three touchdowns.Rank is currently playing football at South Carolina. Other alumni playing Division 1 football are Greg Peach (Eastern Washington) and Lonnie Hosley (Eastern Washington). Defensive End Greg Peach was recently named 1st Team All-Big Sky.

Notable alumni

*Randy Myers, Baseball player (New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, and other teams)

External links

* [https://www.edline.net/pages/Evergreen_High_School Evergreen High School website]
* [http://www.gshlfootball.com/4a/evergreen GSHL Football - Evergreen High School]
* [http://seattlepi.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/wa/574 GreatSchools.org]
* [http://www.ehsboosters.com/ Marching Band webpage]
* [http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/randy_myers.shtml thebaseballcube.com]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9800E2DB1630F933A25750C0A9649C8B63 Forever Young ] , New York Times.
* [http://www.columbian.com/printArticle.cfm?story=99951 New Evergreen football coach is proven winner]