Northwest High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)
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This article is about the Montgomery County, Maryland high school. For other places, see Northwest High School (disambiguation).
Northwest High School is a public high school (grades 9-12) in Germantown, Maryland.
Northwest is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools. As of 2006, its enrollment is over 2,000 students. It opened in 1998 as the second high school in Germantown, the first being Seneca Valley High School. The school also serves small sections of the city of Gaithersburg.
Its school mascot is the Jaguar and, since its opening, it has developed an athletic rivalry, especially in football, with Seneca Valley HS, which is a twelve-time state champion in high school football (the most in the state of Maryland).
The school colors are black, silver, and white.
[edit] Notable graduates
- Anwar Phillips, professional American football player with the New Orleans Saints.
- Allyson Hardy, professional women's basketball player with the Los Angeles Sparks.[citation needed]
- Katy Lang, professional women's soccer player with the Washington Freedom.[citation needed]