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2001 Maniacs

Six prep college students and a biker couple travel south towards Daytona Beach for Spring Break, but a detour leads them into the seemingly idyllic Georgia town of Pleasant Valley, which is holding its annual "Guts and Glory Jubilee" in honor of the American Civil War.

Agustín Ramírez

Born in San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato, Mexico, Agustín attended Seminario "Misioneros de María Niña" (an all-boys Catholic prep school), where he sang in the choir along with his brother and fellow Los Caminantes member Brígido Ramírez.

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr.

He was educated at two prep schools: St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.

Ashton Youboty

His family settled in Philadelphia, where he attended Girard College, a college prep boarding school for single parent kids and low income families.

Bishopsgate School

The Duke of York opened the Jubilee Building (years 3 to 8) in 2003, and the Windsor Building(pre-prep) in 2006.Since then the school has opened several other new facilities, including a Design Technology Centre, floodlit all-weather pitch and Performing Arts Studio.

Brayden McNabb

He attended Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a prep school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, where he played alongside current Buffalo Sabre Tyler Myers, also a defenceman.

Brophy College Preparatory

In 2012 Brophy College Prep announced that starting with the class of 2016 the Tablet PC program would be ended and new students would use iPads instead of the Lenovo ThinkPads.

Cal Lee

Known as one of the nation's most successful high school coaches, Lee led the St. Louis Crusaders to 14 Prep Bowl titles, 18 Interscholastic League of Honolulu championships, and the inaugural HHSAA State Championship in 1999.

Cathedral Prep Events Center

In its inaugural game on September 10, 2010, the Cathedral Prep Ramblers defeated the Central Tech Falcons 55-9.

Cervical screening

Two of the types are Sure-Path (TriPath Imaging) and Thin-Prep (Cytyc Corp).

Dan Housego

Dan Housego was educated; first at Moulsford Prep School, Oxford, then at The Oratory School, Woodcote.

Dennis Packard

During his high-school years Packard played for the Wyoming Seminary Blue Knights, a national prep school program.

Derek Pegues

Pegues enjoyed an outstanding prep career at South Panola High School in Batesville, Mississippi.

Dunn School, Los Olivos

Dunn School is a private, college prep boarding and day school for grades 6 - 12 located on 55 acres outside of Los Olivos, California.

Edgar Christian

He attended prep school at the Grange School, Shorncliffe Road, Folkestone and hoped to follow his brother Charles to Marlborough College; in the end he went on to Dover College which was more local, despite the fact the family moved in 1919 to Bron Dirion in North Wales.

Gary T. Smith

The 90s brought more opportunities as he co-developed and directed the television series Prep Sports + for Georgia Public Television, and directed the internationally broadcast program Praise the Lord for the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

James Bohanek

He currently works as a drama teacher at Durham Academy, a small, high-rated prep school in North Carolina.

Jerrell Powe

Powe returned to Waynesboro to retake courses, attended Penn Foster Career School, a prep school in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and took correspondence courses in 2006.

Joe Staley

Staley earned two letters in football and two in track at Rockford High School, he caught 24 passes for 559 yards and seven touchdowns as a prep senior.

Joern Meissner

He is the founder of Manhattan Review, a multi-national test prep, MBA admissions consulting, and career training company.

John Stocco

Stocco is now a teacher at Chicago Bulls College Prep located in Chicago, Illinois, which is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools.

John Torchetti

Before attending New Prep School, Torchetti played for Jamaica Plain High School in the Boston City League, where he set state scoring records, superseding the ones achieved in the late 1960s by the legendary Robbie Ftorek of Needham High School.

Keith Cronin

He won the 2009 British Rally Championship, in his first year in the series, defeating multiple champion Mark Higgins in his privately entered TTec Rally Prep, Cronin Motorsport Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX.

Kevin Burnett

He was a member of the 1999 Prep Star All-American team, a second-team All-State choice, and a member of the "Best of the West" by the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Kim Peyton

Peyton-McDonald was honored in 1975 with the Bill Hayward Johnny Carpenter Prep athlete of the year award as the Outstanding Amateur Athlete in Oregon.

Lisa Birnbach

In 2010, she wrote True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World with Chip Kidd.

Lucton School

Recently, the Senior School has produced "Daisy Pulls It Off", "Teechers", "A Christmas Carol" and "Hi-de-Hi!"; the Middle School has offered "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "Toad of Toad Hall", "The Phantom Tollbooth" and "Wyrd Sisters"; Prep School productions have included "Cinderella and Rockerfella" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream", whilst the Nursery produces a traditional Nativity each year.

Mars Analogue Research Station Program

Also on the lower deck of the FMARS and MDRS are the airlocks and the Extra-vehicular Activity preparation room (EVA prep room).

Mel Hein

His senior year Hein earned the Skagit County Football MVP, the highest award for a prep player in the Skagit Valley in those days.

Melbourne City School

Melbourne City School was an independent, co-educational Prep to Year 9 school located in the Melbourne Central Business District on King Street.

Mernda, Victoria

The two higher secondary colleges Gilson College, Mernda campus and Ivanhoe Grammar School plenty campus co-educational from Prep to Year 12 are located in Bridge Inn Road in Mernda.

Mesa Preparatory Academy

In May 2012, Mesa Preparatory Academy won the Charter Athletic Association state baseball championship, after Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Phoenix, a traditionalist Catholic school affiliated with the Society of St. Pius X, refused to play in (and thus forfeited) the championship game against Mesa Prep because Mesa's team included a female infielder.

Michèle Stephenson

In 1999, Brewster and Stephenson set out to document the experiences of their son and his best friend from the time both boys entered kindergarten at a private Manhattan prep school through their upcoming high school graduation in 2012 in the documentary film, American Promise.

Nick Greenstock

Educated at Port Regis prep school and later Sherborne School, he is the son of Sir Jeremy Greenstock, a former high ranking British diplomat and the former United Kingdom Ambassador to the United Nations.

Percy Ellsworth

Ellsworth attended Southampton High School in Courtland, Virginia, where he was a Super Prep All-American as a senior.

Pinnacle Race Course

The long-term plans call for racing annually from March through November, with the Michigan Derby for three-year-olds running in April, as a prep race for the Kentucky Derby.

Randy Hughes

Hughes played football at Tulsa Memorial High School, where he was chosen by the Tulsa World newspaper as the Prep Player of the Year, becoming the first defensive back to ever win the award.

Red Faber

As a teenager, Faber attended college prep academies in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and Dubuque, Iowa.

Revolution Prep

Students in the class improved up to 240 points on their official SAT exams, and Revolution Prep was commended in an open letter by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Roy Geronemus

Dr. Geronemus was educated at the The Lawrenceville School (1967-1971) where he was the school president and a three time prep All-American swimmer.

Royal Delta

On February 17, 2013 Royal Delta made her 2013 debut in the $98,000 Grade III Sabin Stakes at Gulfstream Park as a prep for the Group I, $10,000,000 Dubai World Cup.

Sam Barthe School for Boys

Much like the popular quiz shows Jeopardy!, the Prep Quiz Bowl featured teams of highly gifted academic students from schools of all sizes from around the region, testing students knowledge and game strategy in a head-to-head elimination tournament lasting several weeks.

Seton Hall Preparatory School

Prep alumni including: Ira Bowman, Brevin Knight and Brandin Knight have gone on to play in the National Basketball Association as well as numerous others with notable success overseas and in the NBADL.

Temperence Hill

After showing strong potential throughout the spring of 1980, with wins in Kentucky Derby prep races, the Rebel Stakes and Arkansas Derby, Temperence Hill's breakthrough performance came in the 1980 Belmont Stakes where he defeated Kentucky Derby winner Genuine Risk and Preakness Stakes winner Codex at odds of 53-1.

Terrell Myers

Terrell attended James Hillhouse after graduation then attended St. Thomas More Prep school in Waterbury, Connecticut, followed by Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he studied and played basketball from 1993-1997.

Tom Nissalke

Nissalke, who is a graduate of Florida State University, first got his start in coaching on the high school-prep level at the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Ty G. Allushuski

Allushuski mainly covered prep sports in Shelby County in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.

United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School

Nine prep school graduates have held the Cadet Wing's top leadership position as cadet wing commander, and prep school graduates have earned prestigious awards, including the Rhodes Scholarship, Fulbright Scholarship, Order of the Daedalians Scholarship, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Walter Luckett

Luckett starred at the prep level for Kolbe High School in his hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut before playing at Ohio University for the Bobcats between 1972–73 and 1974–75.


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