School spotlight: Mountlake Terrace High School

Location/district: Mountlake Terrace /Edmonds

Mascot: Hawks

Colors: Silver and red

League/class: WesCo/4A

Enrollment: 1,800 (grades 10-12)

Biggest rival: Lynnwood

Last state championship: Boys soccer (1992)

When it opened: 1961

Notable alumni: Mark O'Connor (widely recognized as one of the world's most gifted violinists/fiddlers/composers); Darrin Tegman (video editor for KOMO, has won six Northwest Emmys); Terry Ransom (former Mr. Teen USA); Dan Caldwell (former Husky, selected by New York Knicks in 1982 NBA draft); Jacob Abbott (national champion arm wrestler).

Bet you didn't know: In less than two days in 1989, students and staff secretly raised enough money to reunite then-custodian Chum Pen with his son, who had been left in Cambodia during the "Killing Fields" evacuation.

Fight song:

Hail to the hawks so valiant,

Hail to the conquering heroes,

Hail to the Terrace Hawks,

The leaders of the west.

Web site: www.mtag-wa.org/schools/mtterrhs/mtterrhs.htm