Spalding Catholic High School

Spalding Catholic High School
Address
521 Broad Street Granville, Iowa, (Sioux County) 51022 United States
Coordinates	42°58′56″N 95°52′25″W / 42.98222°N 95.87361°W / 42.98222; -95.87361Coordinates: 42°58′56″N 95°52′25″W / 42.98222°N 95.87361°W / 42.98222; -95.87361
Information
Type	Private, Coeducational
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1962
Status	Closed
Closed	May 2013
Grades	9–12
Color(s)	Black and Gold
Athletics conference	War Eagle
Team name	Spartans
Rival	St. Mary's High School (Remsen, Iowa)
Website	http://www.spaldingcatholic.org

Spalding Catholic High School was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Granville, Iowa. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City. The high school closed at the end of the 2013 school year and unified into Gehlen Catholic High School in LeMars, Iowa. Spalding Catholic School is now a PreK through 8th grade system.

Background

Spalding High School was opened in 1962. It replaced several smaller high schools run by parishes in and around Granville, including St. Mary's (Alton, Iowa), St. Anthony's (Hospers, Iowa), and St. Joseph's (Granville, Iowa).^[1]

Athletics

Spalding Catholic was a member of the Iowa High School Athletic Association. They won the following IHSAA State Championships:^[2]

Boys Baseball - 1974, 1975, 1989, 2000, 2001 (Runner-Up - 1992, 2003, 2005)
Boys Baseball (Fall League) - 1971, 1976 (Runner-Up - 1965, 1973, 1974)

Notable alumni

Dennis Marion Schnurr, Archbishop of Cincinnati, former Bishop of Duluth^[3]^[4]

Closure

Spalding Catholic High School merged with Gehlen Catholic High School for the 2013-14 school year. Spalding maintains an independent PreK through 8th grade system.^[5]^[6]

External links

School Website

Notes and references

↑ CatholicGlobe.org. "Alton-St. Mary History". Retrieved 2007-05-11.
↑ IHSAA. "Iowa High School Athletic Association Web site". Retrieved 2007-05-10.
↑ Welp, Jenny (October 17, 2004). "Bishop's Catholic education spotlight of dinner". Sioux City Journal. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
↑ Lefebvre, Katie (September 9, 2004). "Bishop's Dinner". The Catholic Globe. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
↑ Gausman, Kayah (August 22, 2013). "First bell rings for merged Gehlen, Spalding school". KTIV. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
↑ Christoffel, Ryan (March 11, 2013). "War Eagle Conference accepts Harris-Lake Park". Dickinson County News. Retrieved October 8, 2013.

Diocese of Sioux City

Bishops	Philip Garrigan Edmond Heelan Joseph M. Mueller Frank H. Greteman Lawrence D. Soens Daniel N. Dinardo R. Walker Nickless

Churches	Cathedral Cathedral of the Epiphany Parishes Corpus Christi Church, Fort Dodge St. Boniface Church, Sioux City Former Parishes St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Cedar Saints Peter and Paul Church, Pocahontas St. Casimir Church, Sioux City

Education	Higher Education Briar Cliff University High Schools Bishop Garrigan High School, Algona Bishop Heelan Catholic High School, Sioux City Gehlen Catholic High School, Le Mars Kuemper Catholic High School, Carroll St. Edmond High School, Fort Dodge St. Mary's High School, Remsen St. Mary's High School, Storm Lake Spalding Catholic High School, Granville

Priests	Kevin McCoy Dennis Marion Schnurr

Miscellany	Grotto of the Redemption

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