Wilde Lake High School

• Name — Wilde Lake High School • Address — 5460 Trumpeter Road • City — Columbia • State — MD • Zipcode — 21044 • Country — United States • Type — Public high school • Established — 1971 • District — Howard County Public School System • Principal — Michael Brown • Grades — 9–12 • Mascot — Wildecat • Rival — Oakland Mills High, River Hill High, and Atholton High • Newspaper — The Paw Print • Website — http: wlhs.hcpss.org/ • Enrollment — 1,291 • Colors — Green and Gold

Bids were requested by January 1970 for a 1,350-seat school to be built for an estimated US$2.6 million. Opened in 1971 as a model school for the nation, it was Columbia's first high school. It had an open doughnut-shaped design with "open classrooms," and was a model school for new teaching settings. In 1994, the original 910-student building, which did not meet current safety standards, was demolished. A new $20 million 1,200-seat building with a more traditional style was reconstructed on the same site by Cochran, Stephenson and Donkevoet. The new building, which opened in 1996, replicates the open design, with a central "main street", and halls surrounding it and a bridge across the second floor.

• Illustration — Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake High School Wilde Lake has a modern 750-seat theater named for Columbia founder James Rouse, who went by "Jim". The theatre has its own separate entrance and is used by both school and community groups. The 12,500-square-foot performance space is also used for community meetings, sales rallies, exhibitions, and business training sessions. The theatre has a total of 739 seats and eight handicapped accessible locations. Coincidentally, Rouse’s grandson Edward graduated from Wilde Lake in 1987.

• Illustration — Wilde Lake High School stadium Wilde Lake High School has a number of sports teams for each season of the academic year, including football, soccer, golf, volleyball, basketball, and cross country. The school has won the following state championships:

• 1971 – Boys' cross country • 1996 – Girls' cross country • 1996 – Boys' cross country • 2005 – Boys' cross country • 2006 – Boys' cross country • 2007 – Boys' cross country

• 1985 – Football • 1990 – Football • 1991 – Football • 1992 – Football • 1997 – Football • 2010 – Football

• 1976 – Boys' soccer • 1981 – Boys' soccer • 1982 – Boys' soccer • 1983 – Boys' soccer • 1984 – Boys' soccer • 1991 – Boys' soccer • 1997 – Boys' soccer • 2019 – Boys' soccer

• 1985 – Boys' basketball • 1994 – Boys' basketball State Finalist • 1995 – Girls' basketball

• 2008 – State Finalist Wilde lake no longer fields an independent ice hockey team. From 20112018, a co-op team with players from Oakland Mills and Hammond High Schools was formed, known as the “WHO”. In 2018, Centennial and Long Reach High Schools joined the WHO to form the Wolves.

• 1985 – Boys' tennis doubles • 1986 – Mixed doubles • 2001 – Mixed doubles • 2006 – Boys' tennis singles

• 1975 – Boys' track and field In 2015, Carol Satterwhite, a physical education teacher at the Wilde Lake High School was selected for the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Hall of Fame.

The school has a band program consisting of groups including the marching band and wind ensemble.

Wilde Lake has a special education program. In addition to its programs for the disabled, Wilde Lake accommodates teen mothers through their in school daycare center.

Notable alumni include actors Edward Norton (1987), Carly Hughes (2000), Sara Lindsey (2007), and Adria Tennor (1988). Alumni also include the authors and journalists Laura Lippman (1977), and Robert Kolker (1987). David Bentley Hart (1982) is another writer, theologian, and cultural critic. Wilde Lake alumni lawyers of note include national security and human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack (1988), who has represented constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein and whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, John Kiriakou, and Daniel Hale. Wilde Lake also produced a number of prominent athletes, including Olympic gymnast Elise Ray (2000), Major League Baseball player Jim Traber (1979), and football players Zach Brown and Isaiah Coulter, who attended freshman through junior year. Politicians of note include Manhattan borough president Mark D. Levine (1987) and Dr. Terri L. Hill (1977), Maryland State Delegate, District 12 Notable musicians include Lo-Fang (2002) and Greg Saunier (1987). Teen prodigies who graduated from Wilde Lake High include John Overdeck (1986) (a billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist); and Curtis Yarvin (1988) (a computer scientist, political philosopher, and neoreactionary) thinker