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    • Source: Collegiate School (Richmond, Virginia)

      • Collegiate School is a preparatory school for boys and girls located in Richmond, Virginia. The student body of Collegiate comprises about 1,600 total students from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 12. The Lower School and Upper School are coeducational, while the Middle School is coordinated with boys and girls in separate classes.


      History


      Collegiate was founded in 1915, by Helen Baker as the Collegiate School for Girls, a college preparatory school located in downtown Richmond. In addition to this campus in town, Collegiate opened the Collegiate Country Day School, off Mooreland and River Roads, in 1953 Collegiate's Town School and the Country Day School merged on Mooreland Road in 1960. Today, Collegiate still remains on the Mooreland Road campus and has purchased over 155 acres (0.63 km2) in Goochland County. Collegiate had already developed 60 of these acres for athletic purposes.


      Notable alumni


      Ann Cottrell Free (1934), journalist and author
      Eugene Welch Hickok (1968), former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education
      Ray Easterling (1968), former safety for Atlanta Falcons
      Stanley Druckenmiller (1971), investment manager
      Steve Kelley (1977), syndicated cartoonist
      Robert Wrenn (1977), professional golfer
      Eric Cantor (1981), House Majority Leader (2011–2014), Member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia's 7th district (2001–2014)
      David Allen Schools (1983), Widespread Panic bassist
      Mike Henry (1984), actor, producer, and screenwriter for "Family Guy", voice of Cleveland Brown, Herbert, Consuela, Bruce and various other characters
      Robert Ukrop (1988), former professional soccer player for the Davidson Wildcats, Richmond Kickers, and New England Revolution
      Thomas T. Cullen (1996), United States District Judge and former United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia
      Matt Reid (1996), baseball coach for the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles
      Scottie Thompson (2000), actress (NCIS, Trauma)
      Bret Myers (2002), soccer player and professor
      Russell Wilson (2007), quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Super Bowl XLVIII champion, businessman, and a minority owner of the Seattle Sounders FC
      Jake McGee (2010), professional football tight end
      Wilton Speight (2014), starting quarterback at University of California, Los Angeles (2018) and University of Michigan (2016–2017)
      Evan Justice (2017), pitcher for the Colorado Rockies


      External links


      Official website


      Footnotes

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