V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School

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Address
Skutt Catholic High School

3131 S. 156th Street Omaha, Nebraska 68130
Information
School board	Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic Schools
Principal	Patrick Slattery
Enrollment	715 (December 2006)
School type	high school
Grades	9-12
Language	English
Mascot	SkyHawk
Team name	SkyHawks
Color(s)	Green, black, silver
Founded	August 1993
Homepage	http://www.skuttcatholic.com/

V.J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School, located in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, is a Catholic high school established in 1993. It was named in honor of V.J. and Angela Skutt, a well-known entrepreneurial family in Omaha and large donor toward the school's construction. The school has a 1:16 teacher-student ratio.^[1] It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha.

1 Sports, clubs, and traditions
- 1.1 Athletic achievements
2 Drama
3 Notes and references
4 External links
- 4.1 Athletics department

[edit] Sports, clubs, and traditions

Every year the school hosts an "Angel Flight", which is a fundraising event. The school holds an All-Alumni Weekend for two days every July. They also host a Mr. Skyhawk Pageant. This is comical event that pokes fun at beauty pageants. Some others are Hawktober, Powder Puff Football, Popsicle Day, and Morp (Sadie Hawkins Dance.)

[edit] Athletic achievements

School sports are baseball, basketball (boys, girls), bowling, cross country, football, golf (boys, girls), ice hockey, powerlifting, soccer (girls), softball, swimming, tennis (boys, girls), track and field, trapshooting, volleyball, and wrestling, as well as intramurals. On 19 November 2005, Skutt won the Class B 2005 football title, versus the McCook Bisons.^[2] Other Skutt teams winning Class B State Championships in 2005-2006, included wrestling, boys basketball, girls soccer, girls tennis, and boys golf. Within trapshooting, titles were won by the 1st Squad for the Handicaped Division, and third overall in Class B. Skutt Catholic has also won the class B state wrestling title for 11 years running as of 2007. After three years with the Creighton University Soccer Team, Tony Schmitz (a 2004 Alumni), was selected in the 2008 MLS Superdraft by four time MLS Cup Champion DC United. ^[3]

[edit] Drama

In 2007 Skutt Catholic put on the broadway musical Beauty and the Beast as their winter musical. The Fall One-Act was Flowers for Algernon. The 2007 Spring play was Rebecca. The Skutt Music and Drama departments performed High School Musical in late February 2008. The performance starred sophomore Paul Dunning as Troy Bolton and senior Meghan Schmidtz as Gabrielle Montez.Also starring in this play was Sam Abboud. She won multiple awards for her performance. Also, in 2008 SCHS will perform The Philidelphia Story starring well known senior Andrew Nowak.