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To honor and celebrate the Eastmoor Academy High School Boys Football Team on continuing the Eastmoor tradition of excellence by winning the 2018 Columbus City Schools High School Boys Football Championship.
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus and the members of Columbus City Council are proud to honor and celebrate the youth of this community - as they represent the life and future of this community; and
WHEREAS, Eastmoor Academy High School, founded in 1954 as Eastmoor High School, has a tradition of excellence which dates back more than 50 years - the Eastmoor Academy Hall of Fame includes two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin, Columbus City Council Member Priscilla R. Tyson, former State Senator Charleta B. Tavares, Attorney Scott Schiff, Scott Reeves, Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks-Sullivan, Gene Castlin, Rich Lech, Michael Feinstein, Ted Briggs, Robert Sessley, and many others - in 2018 the Boys Track & Field Team won the Columbus City Schools High School Track & Field Championship and was recognized by Columbus City Council for doing so for the eighth consecutive season; the school has consistently been recognized for its participation in the Annual Columbus Rotary Service Above Self High School Fair, including being named the Overall Most Exemplary Project Fair in 2011; and
WHEREAS, Eastmoor Academy High School, known as the Warriors,’ was redesigned in 2000 as an alternative school - with an academic focus that includes traditional high school aspirations - it has more than 743 students who are required to complete a rigorous academic curriculum while working and gaining hands on internship experience within the community; each Thursday an Eastmoor Academy student can be found working in doctors and dentist offices, with Moody-Nolan Architectural Firm, at Grant Hospital, COSI, at the Boys and Girls Club of Columbus, in Columbus Metropolitan Libraries, with the Ohio Sickle Cell and Health Association, at the Driving Park Animal Hospital, Sole Classics, Berkowitz Orthodontics, at the Ohio State University, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus, at Columbus City Schools and more; and
WHEREAS, Eastmoor Academy is proud of its scholastic excellence - last year Eastmoor Academy graduates were awarded more than $6 million in scholarships from colleges and universities across the United States - for the fourth consecutive year Eastmoor Academy graduates have received more than $4 million in scholarships - the school has a 96.2 % graduation rate and is among the top three academic high schools in the Columbus City School District; and
WHEREAS, Eastmoor Academy High School has a committed teaching staff that believes in academics, and opportunities to help students learn in ways that are meaningful to them - this year the Eastmoor Academy High School Boys Football Team, under the leadership of Head Coach Jim Miranda, who was named as the Coach of the Year by the Columbus Dispatch - with the support of parents, teachers, administrators, friends and a village of others successfully guided the team to the 2018 Columbus City Schools Boys High School Football Championship - the team also made it to the Division Three State Semifinals, and finished 7th in the State in the Associated Press poll for Division Three Football, now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS: That this Council does hereby honor and celebrate the Eastmoor Academy High School Boys Football Team on winning the Columbus City Schools High School Boys Football Championship and applaud the team and the school for its continued tradition of academic excellence.