Lake Norman High School


Lake Norman High School is located in Mooresville, North Carolina. The school is a part of the Iredell-Statesville school system. The name of the school comes from nearby Lake Norman. Lake Norman High School was built to relieve over-crowding at the nearby South Iredell High School. In 2009, Lake Norman High School had the highest graduation rate of North Carolina public non-charter schools with 95% of the senior class receiving a diploma. In June 2012, Lake Norman High School was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon Schools Program School of Excellence.

Size

As of August 2014, Lake Norman has over 1,800 students. The school was originally built for 1,300 students. In 2006, a new wing was added on to the school as the Freshmen Academy.

Athletics

The school has men's and women's teams in soccer, tennis, golf, basketball, swimming, diving, cross-country, track and field, and lacrosse. Men's sports also include football, wrestling, and baseball ; women's sports also include volleyball, softball, and cheerleading.
The school has won state championships in Cheerleading, women's lacrosse, men's lacrosse, men's soccer, men's tennis, baseball, men's basketball, and men's swimming. Individual state champions have been crowned in wrestling, women's tennis, and men's and women's swimming. The school also claimed their first football conference championship in 2014 by sweeping the conference at 7-0.
The school competes in the I-Meck Conference which includes: Mooresville, Lake Norman, North Meck, Hough, Hopewell, Mallard Creek, Vance, And West Charlotte. Lake Norman's biggest rivals include Mooresville Senior High School and South Iredell.
Notable athletes include swimmer Logan Heck, for achieving multiple Olympic cuts; swimmer Reed Wheeler, for achieving an Olympic cut; Cuttaman 100gran for basketball; runner Michael Rupinski, and many others. Numerous student-athletes have received NCAA Division 1 scholarships in a variety of sports.

Arts

With multiple art shows a year, many chorus concerts with different groups and vast amounts of drama plays, Lake Norman High School displays activity in almost all areas of the arts. All the different arts at the school have competitions where their art can be auditioned and moved on or perform in certain groups for example District Competitions and All State. The school supports the multi-discipline Spring Musical. LNHS has a competitive show choir, "Showformance".

Notable alumni