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Proviso West High School (PWHS) is a public high school located in Hillside, Illinois, United States. It is a part of Proviso Township High Schools District 209 , and was opened in 1958. Its sister schools are Proviso East High School and Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy .
Covington attended Proviso West High School in Hillside, Illinois. As a senior in 2008–09, he averaged 18 points, 11 rebounds and seven blocks per game as he was named the West Suburban Conference Player of the Year after leading Proviso West to the West Suburban Championship. He was also an All-Area and All-Conference first-team honoree. [2]
Boatright, an Aurora, Illinois native, averaged 31.2 points per game as a senior at East Aurora High School and was named Illinois Co-Mr. Basketball with Chasson Randle. [1] [2] As a senior, he scored 63 points in a game against Proviso West, and another outing scoring 55 against St. Charles North. [3]
The Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship is a single elimination tournament held each spring in the United States. It is organized by the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). In 1939, H. V. Porter of the IHSA coined the term "March Madness"
Proviso East's class of 2009 had an average composite ACT score of 15.6. [ 4 ] 88.3% of the senior class graduated. [ 4 ] Proviso East did not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on the Prairie State Achievements Examination, which with the ACT comprises the state assessments used to fulfill the federal No Child Left Behind Act .
Illinois advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament after earning a No. 5 seed in the West Regional. The Illini defense was the Big Ten's best as Illinois finished the year first in scoring defense, fieldgoal defense and three-point defense in conference games.
When it withdrew from the conference in 1966, Proviso West took its place. [1] In 1972, charter member Maine East (which began as Maine) left the league. When the Suburban League broke up in the spring of 1975, two of those league members, Oak Park River Forest and Proviso East (which began as Proviso), joined the West Suburban League the ...
The school was originally named Proviso Township High School, but was renamed Proviso East in 1958 with the opening of its sister school. Proviso West High School in Hillside opened in 1958. The school was designed by the noted Chicago architectural firm of Perkins and Will. The Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy in Forest Park opened in ...