Welcome to the Marcos de Niza High School boys basketball new website! The 2007/2008 Cager Club has decided that the boys basketball program is too great not to share with all of our friends, families, and supporters! So please do keep checking back to see how wonderful this website is going to be.
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2008: Photo by Lisa Olson, Tribune
(photo of Coach Steve Garrison, Devin Barnes, JT Tolle, Erden Jakupi)
2007/2008 State-Runner Up Champions!!!!
Playoff game against Tuscon Ironwood Ridge
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Marcos de Niza High School
6000 South Lakeshore Drive, Tempe, AZ 85283
Phone: (480) 838-3200
Fax: (480) 730-7665
Principal: Frank Mirizio
Assistant Principal/Registrar: Susan Jilek
Assistant Principal/Athletics: Mike Griffith
Assistant Principal/Activities: Brent Brown
Enrollment: 2010
Marcos de Niza High School has a 30-year history of growth and success. Marcos de Niza cultivates respect for diversity, having the largest multicultural student population of any of the seven schools comprising the Tempe Union High School District. “Target the Future” is the mission of the high school.
http://www.tuhsd.k12.az.us/view.php?page=27
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| Marcos de Niza School History |
When the Tempe Union High School District made plans to build a third high school in what was then the southern tip of the city's urban development, the name "Marcos de Niza High School" was proposed and unanimously accepted. Historians and longtime city residents knew the saga behind the search for the Seven Cities of Cibola and the role played by Fray Marcos de Niza.
The Tempe Union High School District chose the name for its new school which would reflect the history, mystery, and flavor of the southwest. The first group of students researched the padre's history and used it to select their mascot and school colors of Padre Brown and Gold.
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| Marcos de Niza Padre Logo |
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The original MdN Padre mascot was designed by a student, Albert Turrubiartes, in 1971. A lovable little mascot resembling the cartoon character "Ziggy," (http://www.tuhsd.k12.az.us/mdn/images/ziggy.gif) he sometimes appeared in the pages of the school newspaper or yearbook with a tonsure or dressed for special occasions. This character remained until 1981 when it evolved through the Death Padre, the Super Padre, the Shepherd Padre, and finally the image (http://www.tuhsd.k12.az.us/mdn/images/padre.gif) that is used by the school and sports teams today.
Shortly after Marcos de Niza High School opened in the fall of 1971, students voted brown and gold as the school's colors in keeping with the brown tones of the robe worn by the Franciscan padre, Marcos de Niza, and the gold he was sent to find. His mission, in 1539, was to find the fabled city of Cibola, whose streets were supposedly lined with gold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_de_Niza_High_School
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