South Pasadena High School ( SPHS or " South Pas ") is the one public high school serving grades 9–12 in the city of South Pasadena, California . With the South Pasadena Middle School and three elementary schools (Arroyo Vista, Marengo, and Monterey Hills) it makes up the South Pasadena Unified School District .
20-563: [REDACTED] Look up fired up in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fired Up may refer to: Fired Up! , a 2009 comedy film Fired Up (TV series) , an American sitcom Fired Up (video game) , a vehicular combat game for the PlayStation Portable Fired Up (Dan Seals album) Fired Up (Alesha album) , or the title song Fired Up (Randy Houser album) , or
40-422: A $ 20 million budget. Nick Brady and Shawn Colfax are two popular football players at the fictional Gerald R. Ford High School who manage to get out of football camp and later con their way into the cheerleading squad after overhearing a conversation about the camp's abundant female population of three hundred cheerleaders. Their objective is to infiltrate the cheerleading camp in order to meet girls. While attending
60-436: A 400-m outdoor track, and three athletic fields. The school's motto is "Scholarship, Leadership, Strength, and Fair Play." The school colors are orange and black, and the mascot is a tiger. SPHS opened in 1906 after South Pasadena city officials approved a measure to construct a public high school in 1904. Until 1955, South Pasadena High School was known as South Pasadena-San Marino High School and served both cities. In 1954,
80-475: A cheer camp, Nick and Shawn realize that they actually enjoy cheering and they start to care about their squad as well as the cheer competition. Shawn develops feelings for the head cheerleader, Carly Davidson, and Nick chases after Diora, their camp coach's wife. Carly and the rest of the squad soon find out about the boys' true motives for attending cheer camp. Carly's boyfriend, Dr. Rick, also reveals that Nick and Shawn initially planned to leave cheer camp before
100-436: Is also credited with writing the film under the pseudonym Freedom Jones. The film's plot revolves around two popular high school football players who decide to attend a cheerleading camp for the summer to get close to its 300 female cheerleaders. The film was released on February 2, 2009, by Screen Gems . The film received negative reviews from critics and audiences and was a commercial flop , having grossed $ 18.5 million against
120-522: Is collected, evaluated, and assessed to study athletes biomechanics . In 2019 the school was recognized due to its U.S. News & World Report ranking. It was ranked #1 in California's 41st State Assembly District, #87 in the state and #622 out of 17,000 public high schools within the United States, placing in the top 5% of schools nationwide. It was also ranked #675 out of 5,000 by Newsweek for
140-464: Is known today as Ray Solari Stadium in honor of the former football head coach, where South Pasadena High's football team plays their home games. It is also used for boys and girls' soccer teams and for track and field meets as well as for graduation ceremonies. The school was one of the first to work with the Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the mobile Sports Analysis Lab, to help demonstrate how data
160-404: The ages 30 and 27 at the time of filming, respectively. Gluck also points out negative reviews by Roger Ebert , The New York Times , and The Washington Post . One of the more positive reviews, from Hollywood.com, admits the film is satisfying for the audience it is aimed towards: "An outrageous, sex-obsessed teen comedy that's something to cheer about -- especially if you're 16." The film
180-461: The average teen comedy, Fired Up is also not as funny." Metacritic gave the film a "generally unfavorable" score of 31% based on a normalized average of 18 reviews. A common criticism, addressed by director Will Gluck in the film's commentary track, is that the filmmakers "casted a little bit older." Star Eric Christian Olsen adds, "If by 'older,' you mean thirteen years!" Lead actors Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto were playing high school students at
200-479: The business it did (or lack thereof) is discussed, with director Will Gluck stating, "In retrospect, we probably should have done R , but I kind of like the idea of doing a movie that everyone can go see, and not just 'over 18 or have to sneak into it.'" It left American cinemas after seven weeks. The movie was released on DVD , UMD , and Blu-ray formats June 9, 2009. An unrated version was also released containing non-censored profanity and brief nudity not seen in
220-478: The cheer competition. They leave camp after being ejected from the squad. While attending a party at their friend's house, the guys discover that they are genuinely fond of cheer camp and want their squad to succeed. They decide to return to cheer camp and help the squad in the cheer competition. While the guys are doing their routine, Carly notices Rick is cheating on her with their rivals' head cheerleader, Gwyneth. Shawn and Carly later focus all of their attention to
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#1732880909185240-425: The city of San Marino chose to withdraw from SPHS and to established San Marino Unified School District , along with San Marino High School The school offers a variety of sports such as baseball, volleyball, football, water polo, basketball, cross country, soccer, track and field, tennis, and others. A new athletic director, Anthony Chan, was hired in 2019. The football field at South Pasadena High School
260-486: The fictional Gerald R. Ford High School's mascot was made the "Tigers" since South Pasadena High's mascot is a tiger. Some of the South Pasadena Tigers Football team's gear such as pads, were borrowed for use in the film. However, filming for the football game scene took place at Calabasas High School . The filming of the pool scene took place at Long Beach Polytechnic High School . The cheerleader camp
280-444: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fired_Up&oldid=1169891995 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fired Up! Fired Up! is a 2009 American teen sex comedy film directed by Will Gluck (in his directorial debut) who
300-470: The routine. The squad's routine results in their best finish yet, with a perfect attempt at executing the "Fountain of Troy" maneuver. However, when the squad go for executing the forbidden maneuver, Shawn accidentally goes for a triple backflip instead of a double like Carly and backflips into the water in front of them. The crowd gasps at the impact and the squad rushes to help, but Shawn manages to emerge and yells "Tigers!" before losing consciousness. Although
320-557: The squad did not win the contest, they place ten spots better than they did last year. The film ends when Nick and Shawn end up with their love interests, with Shawn and Carly kissing each other. Taking place in Illinois, almost all of the filming shots of the high school in the film were taken at South Pasadena High School in 2008. However, the hallway scene was filmed at John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California . To make filming easier,
340-487: The theatrical cut. Canadian singer Avril Lavigne 's song " Girlfriend " was on the film's soundtrack. South Pasadena High School Established in 1905, it is the only public high school in South Pasadena. The campus is on the west side of the city on Fremont Avenue. The school contains several main academic buildings, a performing arts auditorium, a swimming pool, two sets of tennis courts, two indoor gymnasiums,
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380-447: Was considered financially unsuccessful. Fired Up! had a budget of $ 20 million and took in a box office gross of $ 18,599,102 worldwide before leaving theaters. It opened up to the U.S. box office at number 9 with $ 5.4 million behind films like Paul Blart: Mall Cop , which was in its sixth week of release at the time, and Confessions of a Shopaholic , in its second. On the DVD commentary,
400-647: Was filmed at Occidental College , which incidentally also has the tiger as a mascot. In one of the early scenes, the train passing by is the Metro Gold Line . The location where the cheerleaders were practicing was filmed in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden . When the film was released, it was screened to negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 25% based on 106 reviews, with an average score of 4.10/10. The site's consensus states: "Though not as raunchy or juvenile as
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