Barstow High School
Barstow High School is a public high school located in Barstow, California. The school serves about 1,400 students in grades 9 to 12 from across the city and in outlying areas. History. Founded in 1915, the school soon expanded and relocated to its current location in 1938. In recent years, funding from the city has allowed the school to expand greatly, including revamping of older buildings, as well as the construction of a science lab and a gym. Athletics. The school is known for having excellent D3 State winning cross country teams, an award winning competition cheer  squad and the Aztec Marching Band. In Track & Field DSL Championships held on April 30, 2008, Anthony Solis broke the DSL record for the 3200m in 9:37 and later went on to run 9:11 at the 2008 California State Championships for 3200m, after winning CIF-SS D3 3200m individual title. Barstow High School had the Individual Champion in cross country at the Southern Section Finals with Anthony Solis winning in 2007 with a time of 15:01 and Isaac Chavez winning in 2008 with a time of 15:04 (both on the Mt.Sac cross country course). As of  the 2008–2009 school year, the school offers sports in: Basketball, Football (1969 CIF State Champions), Baseball, Softball, Soccer, Girls' volleyball, Track and Field, Cross Country (6-time State Champions: 01,02,05,06,07,08), Wrestling, Golf, Tennis, Cheerleading (co-ed). The 1969 Barstow Riffian Football Team was a group of 32 young men (Paul Veloz #11, Lonnie Geary #12, Tim Lambirth #20, Raymond Tabet #21, Paul Ortiz #24, Mark Griffith #25, Alan Bloomingdale #30, Eric Korn #32, Steve Zualet #33, Robert Evans #34, Dennis Owens #40, Barney Hailey #42, Garland Evans #44, Mark Beckham #50, Walter Dill #52, Dana Lewis #53, Brad Howard #60 , Ronnie Most #61, Mike Hanify #62, Richard Tabet #63, Tom Dwight #64, Gary Fulbright #65, Bill McCaffrey #66, Rick Tullis #67, Dennis Quigley #70, Jeff Box #74, Dave Schneider #75, Merrill McCarty #76, Dennis Parke #77, Mark Stringer #80, Forrest Dill #81, Terry Welsh #83) that were coached by Head Coach Art Davis, Assistant Coaches Paul Boazman, John ShKurensky and Jerry Villars who in 1969 were undefeated in both pre-season and regular season play. This team won the Golden League Football Conference. Entered seventh place in the playoffs where they then continued their undefeated streak beating in the first  round fourth place undefeated Ontario 30 - 6 and then beat in the second round second placed Santa Paula 45 - 14. The final playoff game of the season against first place undefeated Los Alamitos they came from behind to out play their opponent, beating Los Alamitos 33 - 14 and winning the CIF AA Southern Section Championship on their home field, before a sold out crowd of 11,000 fans. This team is the only football team in the school history to win a State Championship. It was also the first school in football to go undefeated in a season in the history  of San Bernardino County (largest county in the nation) and held this undefeated record for another 20 years. Since 1932, the Barstow High School Aztecs have played the Victor Valley High School Jackrabbits in the Axe Game. It is the second longest high school rivalry in southern California. The mascot. Originally the Bulldogs, "Riffian" became the mascot following popularity of the movie, The Desert Song (1943). When the school merged with the Kennedy High School "Spartans" across town the beginning of the 1977–1978 school year, the mascot was officially changed to the Aztecs. Student demographics. As of 2008: Barstow High