Myrtle Beach High School (abbreviated MBHS) is a public school located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The school is one of nine high schools within Horry County Schools. The school serves the city of Myrtle Beach. MBHS has over 1,200 students and is home to the Myrtle Beach High School Seahawks.
History
Myrtle Beach High School has a long and honorable history. For many years before it's burning in the middle of the 1946-47 school year, MBHS shared a facility with all the lower grades in Myrtle Beach's public schools. The building occupied the entire city block bounded by N. Kings Highway, Oak Street, 5th Avenue North, and 6th Avenue North. After the fire had totally destroyed the building, classes for the remainder of the school year were held in The Seaside Inn, an already seasoned resort hotel located between 8th Avenue North and 9th Avenue North, near the intersection of 8th Avenue N. and Chester Street, just one block from the Ocean. This land was later occupied by the Myrtle Beach Pavilion Amusement Park when the Seaside Inn was long gone. Shortly after the destructive fire, the Myrtle Beach High School was built on a tract of land west of North Kings's Highway, northwest of the present intersection of North King's Highway (US17 Business) and 14th Avenue North in Myrtle Beach. During those years, MBHS was served by many dedicated teachers and administrators, notable among them J. Harry Spann, Superintendent of Schools, Keith Cribb, Principal of MBHS, and Mary M. Long, beloved and dedicated teacher of history and French, as well as informal guidance counselor (especially for those going on to higher education). That site and the athletic fields bordering Oak Street between 13th and 16th Avenues North served MBHS until 1990, when the site was sold by Horry County Schools for a commercial shopping center development, the site of the present Olive Garden, Taco Bell and Chic-fil-A and other shops, and relocated to its present site on Robert M. Grissom Parkway between 29th and 38th Avenues North. (Personal Recollection of a single graduate who studied in 1st to 12th grades in Myrtle Beach Public Schools between 1944 and 1956)
Sports
Myrtle Beach High School offers the following sports: baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, lacrosse, and wrestling.
The school's teams compete in South Carolina Region VII-3A sports with Georgetown High School, North Myrtle Beach High School, St. James High School, Wilson High School, and Lake City High School.
The football team's home field is the Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium. Doug Shaw was the former head football coach.
The Seahawks have won many state championships in school history, including:
Football: 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 2008, 2010, and 2013.
Boys Basketball: 1965, 1987, 2002, and 2008.
Girls Basketball: 1948, 1964, 1986, 1997, 2010, and 2011.
Boys Golf: 1981, 1992, and 2002.
Boys Tennis: 1979, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Girls Tennis: 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2014.
Individual Champions
Don Repec (Golf) 1967.
Will Bull (Tennis) 1986.
Ross Moyer (Tennis) 2006 and 2007.
Cena Hackler (Tennis) 1992.
Devrin Carr (Tennis) 1993.
Elizabeth Proctor (Tennis) 1997 and 1998.
Abby Diminich (Tennis) 2004.
Jack Montgomery (Track) 2013.
Kandes Soapes, Kennedy Drew, Olivia McGonigal and Maggie Langdale (Swimming-200 freestyle relay team) 2014.
Kandes Soapes (Swimming-100 m backstroke) 2014.
Notable Alumni
Lester Brown (Canadian football)
Ramon Sessions, American basketball player
Everett Golson, College Football player
Steven Metz, author and national security expert.
Bands
Myrtle Beach High School has a concert band and marching band. The marching band performs at home football games and competes at area competitions.
Theatre Arts
Myrtle Beach High School offers multiple Theatre courses including Drama I, II, III, and IV alongside Technical Theatre coursework where students learn stage lighting, sound, set construction, costuming, and makeup. The MBHS Performing Arts compete in the All County Theatre Festival in the fall and put on a major production in the spring. The current theatre director is Daniel Elliott. MBHS theatre recently launched their performing arts website where theatre goers may keep up with the happenings at Myrtle Beach High School and will soon offer online ticketing.
References
ArrayExternal links
- Myrtle Beach High School
- MBHS Theatre
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