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Sultan High School is located in the small town of Sultan, Washington, only about 40 miles from Seattle. It is located between the Cascade Mountain Range and the Sky Valley, along the Sultan River and the Skykomish River.

History

Sultan High School opened its doors in 1888. First starting in a building where the Sultan Middle School presently stands, a new high school facility was completed in the fall of 1987, located only 2 blocks from the old location. The first event held in the then new school was a sold-out basketball game in the winter of 1988. This game saw the first basket scored in the just-completed gymnasium by high flying Turk foward Richard Casey on an ally-oop assist by Turk point-guard Dusty Boucher.

The City of Sultan

The City of Sultan was named afer Chief Sultan, former tribal overlord of the upper Sky Valley region.

Campus

Sultan High School consists of buildings in an open campus layout. Classrooms surround a courtyard that connects a majority of all classrooms. The campus consists of 21 classrooms, 9 portables, a weight room, a gym, a wrestling room, a courtyard, a stage, and a music room.

Sports Complex

Sultan High School has a large on-campus sports facility. Football, track, and soccer all use the track and football field area. An exceptional field to begin with, overuse and poor maintenance has given way to the demise of the playing surface quality. The practice facility is roughly ¾ the size of a normal field. Limited budget and lack of appropriate soil amendments, drainage, and irrigation has led to an inadequate playing surface and because of this there is believed to be an increase in the number of injuries. It is a large field with covered grandstands that hold a concession stand in the back. Track athletes have it much better, though the track is the same age it seems to be holding up better and is in very good condition. Many track athletes from Sultan have gone off too great schools. Baseball uses the Mariner-sponsored baseball field. Softball uses the newly renovated softball field and batting cages. The football team also uses the state of the art weight room and practice field. Boys’ and girls’ basketball teams, as well as the volleyball team, play on their hardwood courts located on the lower floor of Sultan High School. Wrestlers love to practice in the padded wrestling room with brand new wrestling mats. The cross country team runs at the local Osprey Park. It has a maze of trails that are all near the scenic Sultan River. Both boys’ and girls’ soccer practice and occasionally play at Osprey Park. Lastly, the golf teams use the Blue Boy Golf Course, located off Old Owen Road.

Sports

Sultan Senior High School is a member of the Cascade Conference and classified as a 2A school by the WIAA. Competing against the schools of Cedarcrest, Granite Falls, Lakewood, King's Garden, Coupeville, South Whidbey, and Archbishop Murphy.

Fall Sports

• Football
  • State appearances: 1973, 1979, 1980, 1984, 2000
• Girls’ Soccer
  • State appearances: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004
  • State achievements: 1st – 2002, 2nd – 1992, 1997, 1998, 4th – 2001, 2004
• Cross Country
• Volleyball
  • State appearances: 1978
• Cheerleading

Winter Sports

• Boys’ Basketball
  • State appearances: 1961, 2009
• Girls’ Basketball
• Wrestling
  • Team State Achievements: WIAA State Academic Champions, 2003
  • State 1st Place Winners:
    • Dave Lemke, 1974, UNL
    • Mark Anderson, 1978, 108
    • Ben Nachtrieb, 1992, 190
    • Ryan Conley, 2003, 125
• Cheerleading
  • A stunt squad of boys was added in 2007.
  • State Achievement: WIAA Academic State Champions 2007

Spring Sports

• Baseball
  • State appearances: 2004
• Fastpitch
• Girls’ Golf
  • First season started in 2007
• Boys’ Golf
• First season started in 2007
• Boys’ Soccer
  • State appearances: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
  • State achievement: 2nd – 2003, 4th - 2004
• Track & Field
• State 1st Place Winners:
  • 1969 – Sharon Sherman 400m
  • 1970 – Sharon Sherman 400m
  • 1999 – Cheyanna Brokofsky High Jump
  • 2003 – Holly Jones, Heather Howard, Jessica Monson, Chelsea York Girls 4x100
  • 2005 – Krystal Pasczkeicz, Discus, Andy Kincaid, High Jump
  • 2006 – Krystal Pasczkeicz Discus

Clubs and Activities

Sultan Senior High School offers an array of extracurricular clubs.

Associated Student Body (ASB)

This ASB organization consists of a president, vice-president, secretary/treasurer, and ASB representative from each grade, as well as school-wide ASB president, ASB vice-president, ASB secretary, ASB treasurer, and ASB business manager.

ASB Officers

These officers are in charge of maintaining the budget of all sports, clubs, and activities. They meet once a week to approve such things as POs and fund raiser requests. They are also in charge of all general ASB issues.

Class Officers

The jobs of class officers are to create fund raisers to earn money for their class. Class also have their own jobs given to them by the ASB. The freshman class is in charge of clean up at school events. The sophomore class is in charge of coronation for both Homecoming and Prom. The junior class is in charge of planning and decorating for both Homecoming and Prom. The senior class is in charge of Homecoming coronation at the football game and planning and decorating for Tolo.

National Honors Society (NHS)

A club for juniors and seniors that excel academically. This club helps run the Puget Sound Blood Drive at the high school every fall and spring. They also start drives such as food drives during the holiday season to donate to the Sultan Food Bank, clothing drives for Tabitha’s House, and book drives for the elementary school.

Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)

The FBLA is a club designed to help students learn about the business world. Members of this club attend business conferences throughout the year and attend the “Pro Sports Career Day” put on by the business team of the Seattle Storm and Sonics.

Pep Club

This club was created to boost the growth of school spirit and raise pride.

Random Acts of Turkness

A point system between class for attendance to school events. If you are attending a school event that the club decides to take down points at, you reward your class with one point. If you are “Turked Out” your class will receive an additional point. The class with the most amount of points at the end of the year will be known as the class with the most spirit.

Turkin’ Out

The concept of “Turkin’ Out” or being “Turked Out” means that you have dressed yourself from head to toe in Turk colors. Also known as getting "G'd up from the feet up."

Future Farmers of America

This club attends a regional event every summer for FFA. It was created to develop assertive agricultural leadership.

Link Leaders

Made up of a selected group of juniors and seniors, this club was created to help the incoming freshmen to get to know their school before the first day. An orientation is held a day or two before the first day of school and groups play bonding games and take tours of the school and learn random facts to help the freshmen become more aware.

International Club

This club was created to promote culture awareness. Every year during the springtime, this club puts on International Week. The club takes time out to recognize the current foreign exchange students and the their cultures, as well as other cultures, at an International Assembly. Cuisine from various cultures are also served throughout the week.

Yearbook

Though considered a credited class, you must qualify to be a part of the class. You must have experience with computers and cameras.

Scimitar

The name of the SHS yearbook, based on the name given to the sword that a Turkish warrior uses.

Fight Song

Fight, fight, fight for ole Sultan High, win the Meth.
You’ve gotta fight, fight, fight for the blue and the white.
Best in the west, so we’ll all do our best to cook up the meth!
On, on, on, on, fight ‘til the end.
Honor and glory we will win.
So, fight, fight, fight for ole Sultan High, and victory.
S! U! L! T! A! N! Sultan! Turks!
On, on, on, on, fight ‘til the end.
Honor and glory we will win.
So, fight, fight, fight for ole Sultan High, and victory. Meth!

External links

• Sultan Senior High School Official Website
• Sultan School District Website

Fight, fight, fight for ole Sultan High, win the victory You’ve gotta fight, fight, fight for the blue and the white. Best in the west, so we’ll all do our best! On, on, on, on, fight ‘til the end. Honor and glory we will win. So, fight, fight, fight for ole Sultan High, and victory. S! U! L! T! A! N! Sultan! Turks! On, on, on, on, fight ‘til the end. Honor and glory we will win. So, fight, fight, fight for ole Sultan High, and victory.

• High schools in Washington (U.S. state)
• Educational institutions established in 1888
• Snohomish County, Washington