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Gibson Southern High School is a public high school located near Fort Branch in Gibson County in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the largest of the three high schools in the county, which also include Princeton Community, and Wood Memorial High Schools.

Description

Completed in 1973, Gibson Southern was created as a consolidation of Fort Branch Community High School, Haubstadt Johnson, and Owensville Montgomery High Schools. Gibson Southern High School graduated its first class of Seniors in the Spring of 1975.

Three junior high schools feed into Gibson Southern to form its student body: Fort Branch Community School, Haubstadt Community School and Owensville Community School. Gibson Southern and these three community schools are the schools which compromise the South Gibson School Corporation.

Renovation

In February 2008, Gibson Southern High School began a multimillion-dollar renovation project. This overhaul was expected to be completed by August 2010, but was not finished until March, 2011.

Academics

Gibson Southern High School has received the Indiana Four Star School Award twelve of fourteen years, from 1994 through 2008.

Student life

Athletics

In 1974, Gibson Southern was originally a member of the Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC). In 1980, the school left the PAC to form the Big 8 Conference with 7 former Southern Indiana Athletic Conference schools, some of which were also once members of the PAC. In 1994, Gibson Southern left the Big 8 to rejoin the PAC. Another Big 8 and former member, Tell City, returned a decade later.

The school won state championships in softball in 2003, 2005, 2015 and State Runners-Up in 2001 and 2014. Because of making consecutive appearances at the State Finals, Gibson Southern's softball team will compete in Class 4A until the 2017 season. The softball team has followed up these successes with new achievements in the 2016 season, becoming the only public school known to have won sectionals and regionals in 3 separate classes; AA, AAA, and now, AAAA, winning against schools at least twice their size.

The Lady Titan soccer team finished state runner-up in 2013.

The Titan Baseball team finished runner-up in 2014.

Activities

The Academic Spell Bowl team won its first and last ever state championship at Purdue University. The previous two years the team placed third.

The Marching Titans won the ISSMA State Championship in Class C in 2001, 2004, and 2007. In 2010, the Marching Titans was the smallest band, consisting of only 22 members, to make it to Indiana State School Music Association State Finals in Class C. In 2013, The Marching Titans program disbanded, instead focusing on concert band, due to declining participation.

In March 2012, GSHS Theater was one of only 20 departments nationwide to put on a production of Legally Blonde.

School Colors

Historically Gibson Southern's school colors have been Maroon, Gold, and White. However starting around 2010, some teams have occasionally or even regularly, used Black in place of the White, resulting in a Maroon-Gold-Black color scheme, typically seen during games where their team is the visitor team. Some have even used all four colors. These have included the boys and girls' basketball, volleyball, baseball, and softball teams over the years. This has been seen as a throwback to two of the three schools that formed Gibson Southern, Fort Branch and Owensville, both of whom had black and gold as their colors.

Notable alumni

• Casey Whitten (1990) 2nd Rd pick (53rd overall) - Cleveland Indians draft pick
• Eric Campbell (2004) 2nd Rd pick (71st overall) - Atlanta Braves
• Stacy May (1997) Local Television personality. Meteorologist on WEHT and WTVW.
• Jon Adams (1997) Former assistant baseball coach, Purdue University. 2016 inductee Greater Evansville Baseball Hall of Fame. Current Assistant Principal/Athletic Director at GSHS
• Gary May (1975) Won IHSAA 3A Softball State Championship 2015 as head coach. Won State in 2003, 2005 as assistant coach.

Gallery

• Gibson Southern High School as it looked in 2007 from CR325W prior to its extensive renovation from 2008 to 2010.
• Same vantage point in 2016.
• Front of the school from the west, including the school's new Theater and Art Studios in 2016.

See also

• List of high schools in Indiana

References

1. http://www.sgibson.k12.in.us/gshs_new/gshs_index.htm
2. "Gibson Southern High School". Retrieved September 19, 2017.
3. ^ "Schools Directory" (PDF).
4. ^ IHSSA Membership Guide. Indiana High School Athletic Association: 55. 2009 http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=s_vFIg5iTiM%3d&tabid=585. Retrieved 6 April 2010. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. sgsc_super
6. South Gibson School Corporation
7. Indiana Department of Education
9. http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/Sports/Girls/Softball/TeamStateChampions/tabid/444/Default.aspx
10. http://www.iasp.org/iace/SpellStateResultsSenior.html
11. http://www.gshstheatre.com/history
12. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=whitte001cha
13. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=campbe001eri

External links

• Gibson Southern High School Website
• Public School Review - Gibson Southern HS
• Indiana School Tree.org - Gibson Southern HS
• List of Schools in Gibson County - Indiana Department of Education
• Gibson Southern's Indiana Department of Education Profile

v t e Indiana's Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC)
Large School Division	Boonville Gibson Southern Heritage Hills Mt Vernon Princeton Washington
Small School Division	Forest Park North Posey Pike Central South Spencer Southridge Tell City Tecumseh (Independent in Football)
Former Members	Cannelton (Southern Roads) Wood Memorial (Blue Chip / Southwest Seven)

• Public high schools in Indiana
• High schools in Southwestern Indiana
• Fort Branch, Indiana
• Haubstadt, Indiana
• Owensville, Indiana
• Educational institutions established in 1974
• Evansville metropolitan area
• Pocket Athletic Conference
• Big Eight Conference (IHSAA)
• Schools in Gibson County, Indiana