T. C. Williams High School

Our teams choose and watched Remember the Titans (drama) and Guess Who (comedy). Both movies have great examples of intercultural communications. In Remember the Titans, was made in 2000 and is based on a true story of an all-white school that is racially integrated with African American coaches and players. Boone played by Denzel Washington took over as head coach. He knew that in order for the team to success that they must put their racial conflict aside and work together to become a winning…

After “he worked so hard, mama left him” (pg. 1), Sheryl was all Yoast had. She helps him not only on the field, but also with his emotions: when he feels conflicted about leaving T.C. Williams and coaching at Loudon, Sheryl comforts him, saying “We’ll be alright, Coach” (pg. 9). They care so much about each other because all they have is football and each…

Based on a true story set during the years of integration between the black and white students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria Virginia circa 1971. Remember the Titans tell of the famed Titans football team which was headed up that very same year by the team's first black coach, earnest family man Herman Boone. At first previous head Coach Bill Yoast Will Patton is upset to be put down as the assisting coach to Herman Boone’s. But just as Boone teaches his team how to get along and…

Aggie shared: “Someone suggested that Cleveland PH might attempt to send speakers to all the Cleveland-area high schools to talk about sororities. I was so enthusiastic that, you guessed it, they made me chairwoman. This will be a major undertaking for Cleveland PH and I am looking forward to setting up this new type of speaker’s…

Former QB/WR David Sills left the program to attend a JUCO school in California but in a surprise move made his way back to WVU and looks to have the inside track to start at WR this season with Gibson and Shorts leaving. WVU also added Reggie Roberson and Dominique Maiden to the fold at wide receiver. Roberson…

In the early 1970’s, the small football town of Alexandria, Virginia was struggling to overcome racial discrimination. Two schools were being forced to integrate black and white students along with Denzel Washington as the head coach of the football team. As the integration took place, the football team from the coaches down to members of the local community was in complete disarray. This is where the team building begins. Individuals began to form groups, where they had their own clicks,…

The movie ‘Undefeated’ is a 2011 documentary directed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin. This film displays the struggles and success of a high school football team the Manassas Tigers of Memphis, Tennessee. The Tigers attempt to complete their first winning season after decades of losing. The team is turned around with the help of dedicated volunteer coaches led by Bill Courtney, who struggles to transform the attitudes of young men both academically and athletically. The team had to overcome…

Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. The film is about a high school football team. However, it's much more than that. Remember the Titans is about the struggle to succeed, not just as a football team, but also succeed in making and keeping a friendship, despite the circumstances. The team struggled for many reasons the main one being race, but also because of having a new coach who wants them to achieve perfection. Despite the circumstances, the T.C. Williams High School Titans succeeded as a football…

1) The coach had the ideals that the value of the team as a whole was far more valuable than one individual player. The team followed the same path as the “Part of the House” tale where each member realized the value of the system as a whole and eventually came to support it. First, the idea of systems thinking is introduced when the head coach plans to run his team off of a combination of the Russian and Canadian teams’ approach where each player serves a specific purpose. Next, the principles…

Summer Reading Analytical Essay Final Draft This summer I read The Running Dream and watched “Remember The Titans.” The protagonists in these stories both overcome huge challenges. The protagonist in ”Remember The Titans” is the football team as a whole. Their antagonist was the whites not wanting blacks and whites together. In The Running Dream the protagonist was Jessica. Her antagonist was a thing rather than a person. Her new leg and learning how to walk again was her antagonist.…