High School offers the following sports: Fall Football Volleyball Boys' Cross-Country Girls' Cross-Country Boys' Soccer Girls' Tennis Cheerleading Dance Team (Cyclonettes) Winter Boys' Basketball Girls' Basketball Wrestling Winter Cheerleading Dance Team (Cyclonettes) Spring Baseball Boys' Golf Boys' Tennis Girls' Soccer Softball Boys' Track and Field Girls' Track and Field State championships Drama and theatre Fall musical and spring play Every year the Ottawa High School music department presents a fall musical. The performance is run by a student cast, stage crew, tech crew, and pit, and is put on at the Ottawa Municipal Auditorium. Ottawa High School puts on a play every spring at the Ottawa Municipal Auditorium with a student cast and crew. Debate and forensics Many Ottawa students participate in speaking and acting competitions throughout the school year. During the fall, Ottawa's Debate team is active, and during the spring the Forensics teams is active. Both teams, composed of 9th–12th graders, compete on Saturdays at area high schools. Ottawa annually hosts both debate and forensics tournaments. When competing nationally, Ottawa competes in the National Catholic Forensic League. Other Ottawa High School students actively participate in Student Council (STUCO). It also has a state-qualifying Scholar's Bowl team, a branch of the National Honor Society, a state-qualifying chess team, and a successful Science Olympiad competition team. Notable alumni Steve Grogan, former New England Patriots quarterback, led Ottawa to a runner-up place in state football and to a state championship in basketball Don Harrison, news anchor, one of the original anchors of CNN Headline News Semi Ojeleye, forward for the Milwaukee Bucks, selected 37th overall in the 2nd round of the 2017 NBA Draft. Ojeleye led Ottawa to a state championship and the school's all-time best record of 25–0 in 2013. Stanley Sheldon, bassist and vocalist for Peter Frampton, most notably on Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! album John G. Thompson, mathematician, awarded the Fields Medal in 1970 References External links Ottawa High School Website Ottawa USD 290 Website School Newspaper OHS in the 50s Alumni Website Public high schools in Kansas Schools in Franklin County, Kansas Buildings and structures in Ottawa, Kansas 1917 establishments in Kansas