Sports
Glenwood participates in various Illinois High School Association (IHSA) sports, including: baseball (boys), basketball (boys' teams and girls' teams), competitive cheerleading (girls' teams and boys/girls team), competitive dance team (girls), cross country (boys/girls), football (boys), golf (boys' teams and girls' teams), soccer (boys' teams and girls' teams), softball (girls), swimming (boys' teams and girls' teams), tennis (boys' teams and girls' teams), track & field (boys' teams and girls' teams), volleyball (girls), wrestling (boys), Mock Trial, Show Choir, Speech, and Scholastic Bowl. The school also participates in ice hockey competition outside the IHSA.
GHS is noted regionally for its sports teams. They have a longstanding rivalry with Sacred Heart-Griffin High School, a Catholic school in nearby Springfield. Most notably, Glenwood won the 1996 IHSA Class AA State Baseball Championship, 1998 IHSA Class 4A State Football Championship, 2005 IHSA Class AA State Boys' Soccer Championship, 2007 IHSA Class AA State Cross-Country Runner-up, 2009 IHSA Class 3A State Softball Runner-up, 2009 IHSA 3A State Baseball Runner-up, 2009 IHSA 2A State Girl's Soccer Runner-up, and the 2010 IHSA 3A State Baseball Championship. Additionally, the boys' cross-country team won the Central State Eight Conference from 1992 to 2002. Recently, the Titans won the 3A State baseball championship in 2010, and both the baseball and softball teams finished second in the state in their respective divisions in 2009.
The Scholastic Bowl team has recently found great success at Glenwood. Under the tutelage of longtime coach and former teacher Dale Boyd, the Titans have won four regional championships in the past five years. In the 2009-10 season, Glenwood found their impressive run interrupted at the sectional championship by Carbondale High School, the defending AA state champions. However, the Titans nonetheless competed in their first ever national championship appearance in late May, the NAQT HSNCT in Chicago. Glenwood was impressive, finishing with a record of 7-3 after pool play, advancing into the playoff bracket, where they would finish in the top 35 of 200 competing teams nationally. The Titans finished the season with a record of 93-14, and Coach Boyd garnered his 1000th career win and an induction into the Illinois High School Scholastic Bowl Hall of Fame.
The mascot of Glenwood High is the Titans. The previous mascot, the Redskins, was changed to the more culturally sensitive "Titans" by the school district in August 2001, upon the opening of the new high-school facility. This action upset some Chatham residents who had previously defeated several referendums seeking to change the Redskin mascot. The Redskin mascot continues to appear on the Chatham water tower.
Notable athletes from Glenwood High School include Major League Baseball player Jayson Werth.
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