The Culinary Arts program is for students that want to pursue a career in the kitchen. It is a 4-year program where they get to meet chefs from around the Coachella Valley, create Culinary Showdowns much like in the television show Chopped, and cater meals to events valley wide as well as provide some of the food for La Quinta High Schools' events. In 2016, The Clinton Foundation brought their Clinton Day of Action to La Quinta High School and built a greenhouse for the culinary arts students to use in their state of the art kitchen. Information & Communications Technology Academy The Information & Communications Technology Academy is the newest academy in La Quinta High School. It was added in the 2015–2016 school year. The academy is for students who are interested in technology. It is a dynamic program set up to give interested students the opportunity to be exposed to fields related to Information Support and Services, Networking, Software and Systems Development, Cybersecurity, and Games and Simulation. The program is a 4-year course and offers students technical training as well as educational core classes, and an optional public speaking course for fourth year students. Athletics La Quinta High's mascot is the "Blackhawk", they participate in the Desert Valley League and their main rival is Palm Desert High School. La Quinta is the only school in the Coachella Valley with a rugby union program. It was the first school in the Coachella Valley to win two consecutive CIF football championships. The school has also won three consecutive CIF wrestling championships in 2009, 2010, and 2011. The school's water polo team has also to win the CIF water polo championships in 2012 to become the first team to win CIF in the Coachella Valley. The boys soccer team also won CIF Division 2 in 2015. Notable alumni Tyler Hilton - American actor and singer-songwriter Jeff Webb - American football player for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League Anthony Kim - American pro golfer Johnathan Ingram- professional football player with the NFL Sabrina Cervantes - state representative for California's 60th Assembly District References External links La Quinta, California High schools in Riverside County, California La Quinta, High School International Baccalaureate schools in California Public high schools in California 1994 establishments in California Educational institutions established in 1994