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Description
Wheeler High School is located in northeast Cobb County, Georgia, United States. It is near the city of Marietta, about 15mi northwest of downtown Atlanta. Wheeler has been in operation since 1965. It is a public high school of the State of Georgia and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Georgia High School Association.Notable achievementsNewsweek magazine ranked Wheeler in the top 5% of high schools in America in 2007, and Atlanta Magazine named Wheeler number 3 of the top 32 high schools in Georgia in 2006.Wheeler's basketball team, led by coach Doug Lipscomb, is a nationally ranked program, winning four state titles between 2002 and 2009. Wheeler won the state title in 1994, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2015. It was also the state runner-up in 1995, 2008 and 2014. The school has had many wins over regional teams from Alabama, Oregon, Arizona, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Canada. Many of Lipscomb's players have gone on to play D-1 Basketball. Four of his players have gone on to play in the NBA. Lipscomb was also a coach for the east in the 2010 McDonald's All American Game (where he coached his own player Jelan Kendrick). Other players to come out of the Wheeler program include J.J. Hickson, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, and Jaylen Brown.The robotics club participates in the FIRST Robotics League, the VEX Robotics Competition and the BEST Robotics Competition each year, and has earned the Chairman's Award three years in a row.
