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Hendersonville High School (Tennessee)

Hendersonville High School is one of three public high schools located in Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee. Since July 1, 2023, the principal has been Mel Sawyers, who formerly served as principal at Millersville and Guild Elementary Schools. HHS is part of Sumner County Schools. Two middle schools feed into Hendersonville High: Ellis Middle School and Hawkins Middle School.

Hendersonville High School

Public School

"A quality education for quality living"

Mel Sawyers

93.00 (FTE)[1]

1,537 (2022-23)[1]

16.52[1]

     

The school's colors have been black and gold ever since the first Commando football team in 1941, when the Vanderbilt University football program provided the first Commando football team with older, used jerseys. The black and gold colors have remained ever since. Hendersonville is known as the Commandos because 54 men were sent to fight in World War II.


Hendersonville participates in 6A level sports as a part of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, and maintains athletic programs including track, swimming, softball, bowling, baseball, wrestling, golf, hockey, soccer, football, cross country, marching band, and basketball. The school has rivalries with Gallatin High School, Beech High School and Station Camp High School.


Taylor Swift attended the school until she left to begin homeschooling on her tour bus. The school's auditorium was renamed "Taylor Swift Auditorium" in her honor after she contributed funds to refurbish the lighting and sound equipment.[2]


Family Circle magazine gave Hendersonville High School a gold star for 315 seniors who logged around 20,000 hours of community service.[3] Academically, Hendersonville has a 9/10 rating on greatschools.net.[4]

Baseball

Boys' Basketball

Girls' Basketball

Boys' Bowling 2002, 2003, 2004

Girls' Bowling 2008, 2009

Cheerleading 1997, 1998, 2001, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019

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Boys' Cross Country

Girls' Cross Country

Football

Golden Girls Dance Team

Boys' Golf 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014

Girls' Golf

Boys' Soccer 1989, 1998, 2010

Girls' Soccer

Softball

Boys' Tennis

Girls' Tennis

Boys' Track 1974, 1975, 1976, 1989, 1990

Girls' Track 1985, 1993, 2004, 2005

Wrestling 1993, 2004, 2006

Dual Wrestling

Girls' Wrestling

Volleyball

songwriter, record producer, studio musician

Max T. Barnes

NASCAR driver

Josh Berry

singer-songwriter, daughter of June Carter Cash

Carlene Carter

professional baseball pitcher

Zac Curtis

retired football player

DeWayne Dotson

golfer, 2012 U.S. Amateur champion

Steven Fox

professional wrestler, founder of TNA Wrestling

Jeff Jarrett

songwriter, singer, producer

Lennon Murphy

(Diplo), record producer, DJ; attended Hendersonville High School for two years

Thomas Wesley Pentz

lead singer of band Lake Street Dive

Rachael Price

professional wrestler

Thomas Richardson aka, Tommy "Wildfire" Rich

journalist and Tony Award-winning producer

Zach Stafford

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter

Taylor Swift

professional football kicker

James Wilhoit

professional football defensive back

Joejuan Williams

Official school website