Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School

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| name = Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School

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| address = 301 4th St

| location = Walker, Minnesota

| zipcode = 56484

| country = United States

| coordinates = {{Coord|47|5|53|N|94|34|46|W|display=inline,title}}

| district = Independent School District #113

| principal = Ryan Jensen

| staff = 46

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| students = 300 (2023{{ndash}}2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=2702910&ID=270291001737|title=WALKER-HACKENSACK-AKELEY SEC.|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=April 6, 2025}}

| type = Public high school

| grades = 7 to 12

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| mascot = Wolf

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| nickname = WHA

| colors = Blue and Silver
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| homepage = http://www.wha.k12.mn.us

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Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School (WHA) is a public high school located in Walker, Minnesota, United States. It is part of Independent School District #113. Students come from Walker, Hackensack, Akeley, Onigum, and Laporte, Minnesota.

The school offers honors classes as well as Post Secondary Enrollment Options. PSEO is a Minnesota Department of Education program that allows qualifying high school juniors and seniors to take college classes for high school credit at no cost to the student.{{Cite web|publisher=Minnesota Department of Education|url=http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/Academic_Excellence/College_Career_Readi/PSEO/index.html|title=Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO)-Concurrent Enrollment}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.mnscu.edu/students/specialprograms/pseo.html|publisher=Minnesota State Colleges and Universities|title=Post-Secondary Enrollment Options}} Foreign languages at WHA include Spanish for grades 9 through 12 and German, although being phased out, for eleventh and twelfth grades.

Athletics

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The school has football, volleyball, girls and boys soccer, girls and boys basketball, wrestling, hockey, baseball, softball, boys and girls golf, boys and girls track, and cheerleading teams.

Speech

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The WHA speech team has competed for 44 years. In those 44 years, participants have earned 209 state speech medals, 39 state championships,{{Cite web|publisher=Minnesota State High School League|url=http://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/publications/code/yearbook/Speech.pdf|title=2010 Wells Fargo Spotlight on the Arts Award of Excellence}} and speakers have competed 32 times on the national level.{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}

WHA has a number{{Cite web|publisher=National Forensic League Rostrum Magazine Archive|url=http://www.nflonline.org/Rostrum/HonorsArchive|title=Rostrum Archive}} of National Forensic League Academic All-Americans.

At the 2007 state tournament, the WHA speech team had a record five state champions. The WHA team also had a record number of state medals with 17 total medals in 2007.{{citation needed|date=March 2011}} In 2008, the WHA speech team won the section tournament for the 17th consecutive year.

At the 2008 NFL National Qualifying tournament, a record six speakers qualified for the NFL National Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada in June 2008.

In the 2010 speech season, WHA won sections for the 20th year in a row.

Theater

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WHA has a theater department, which as performed plays including:

Music

WHA's music department consists of a concert band, stage band, and concert choir who each perform a winter and spring concert every year. They also compete in a fall solo contest and spring ensemble contest.

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