Sports
The sports fielded by Woodstock include:
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Cheerleading (both Competition/Football, and Basketball)
- Cross Country
- Football
- Golf
- Lacrosse
- Soccer
- Softball
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track
- Volleyball
- Wrestling
Woodstock High School's top rival, Etowah High School, is known to be one of the greatest rivalries in the state of Georgia. This is due to the fact that some Etowah students moved to WHS when it opened its doors in 1996. The students eventually adapted to the school and had a natural competition among each other (WHS and EHS). Also, the schools are relatively close to each other, about two miles apart. Their competitions between each other are often referred to as the "Battle for Towne Lake".
The football team made it to the Elite 8 in 2008 with and 8-5 record and the Sweet 16 in 2009 going 10-2, also making it to the 1st round in the playoffs in 2010, making it the 1st time Woodstock HS has made the playoffs 3 years in a row in school history.
The softball team won the 5AAAAA State Championship in 2006.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)