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14-629: The former Las Cruces High School is located at the corner of Alameda and Picacho Avenues near Downtown Las Cruces and Holy Cross Catholic Church. The current campus (opened in 1954) inherited the Bulldog mascot and school colors from the former school. After the opening of the current campus, the old LCHS building was joined to the Third Judicial District Court of Las Cruces. The current campus has undergone numerous renovations and expansions since opening its doors in 1956. The vocational building

28-584: A class 6A school in District 3. In 2014, NMAA realigned the state's schools in to six classifications and adjusted district boundaries. In addition to Las Cruces High School, the schools in District 3-6A include: Organ Mountain High School , Mayfield High School , Gadsden High School , Hobbs High School , and Carlsbad High School (New Mexico) . From its opening until the opening of the Pan American Center ,

42-671: A regional network that primarily covered college sports in the Southeast of the United States, in January 2000. At its peak, Rivals.com employed close to 200 people, operated a network of 700 independent websites, filed for an initial public offering worth $ 100 million led by Goldman Sachs, and sponsored the Hula Bowl in Hawaii. However, economic troubles and the collapse of the dot-com "bubble" soon led

56-546: Is a network of websites that focus mainly on college football and basketball recruiting in the United States. The network was started in 1998 and employs more than 300 personnel. Rivals.com was founded in 1998 by Jim Heckman in Seattle , Washington, with a cadre of outside investors. Heckman was once the son-in-law of Don James , the former head football coach at the University of Washington, where Heckman attended school and

70-751: The New Mexico State Aggies men's basketball team played its home games at the LCHS gym, and the West first round games of the 1959 NCAA University Division basketball tournament were held there, one of only two high school gymnasiums to host games of the tournament (the other being Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City). (*) Las Cruces Union High School (†) Not officially recognized by NMAA, which does not recognize any state football titles before 1950. Rivals.com Rivals.com (stylized as rivals )

84-689: The Rivals Network, the parent company of Rivals.com, to cease operations in 2001, though it never sought bankruptcy protection. Executives from AllianceSports purchased the Rivals.com assets and subsequently relaunched the website. Heckman, who had been fired as chief executive officer, later started a competitor network named The Insiders, which was later renamed Scout.com and sold to Fox Interactive Media in 2005. Led by former AllianceSports executive Shannon Terry, Rivals.com became profitable. On June 21, 2007, Yahoo! agreed to acquire Rivals.com. Terms of

98-693: The United States). Schools featured at Rivals include all members of the Power Five conferences : Rivals also has sites for all football members of the American Athletic Conference (though not for incoming non-football member Wichita State ). Conferences that have sites for some of their schools include: Scout.com Scout Media was an integrated sports publishing company that produced Internet content covering hundreds of professional and college teams across America. The company

112-466: The deal were not disclosed, but several sources reported Yahoo! paid around $ 100 million. Rivals subscribers automatically have their subscription renewed for a term equal to the original term upon expiration of the then-current term, and continually thereafter, unless the subscriber terminates the subscription by phone at least 48 hours prior to the renewal date. The individual collegiate sites at rivals.com can be found here (viewable only from within

126-422: The entire student body present. St. Genevieve is the patron saint of LCHS. The school used to display the church of St. Genevieve on the front page of the yearbook in the early 20th century. LCHS has a long-standing rivalry with Mayfield, the city's second-oldest public high school, with the annual football clash between the schools routinely attracting more than 20,000 fans. LCHS and MHS have combined to win 11 of

140-479: The past 20 New Mexico state championships in football, with the annual year-end game between the schools almost invariably determining the district title. The Mayfield-Las Cruces high school football rivalry was voted the 9th best in the nation by rivals.com in 2008. The documentary film Cruces Divided is based on this rivalry. LCHS competes in the New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA), as

154-420: The site. The Internet publishing division consists of a network of over 300 web sites that publish inside and exclusive content focusing on high school , college , Fantasy Sports and professional team sports . The network is managed on the 247 platform publishing technology that allows publishers to rapidly write, cross-reference, distribute and syndicate stories and information about sports from anywhere in

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168-528: Was constructed in 1993, and D wing was built in 1997. The music wing was renovated between 1996 and 1998. The cafeteria was renovated in 2000. That same year, the Gym Lobby, a Chapel-like space inside LCHS, was also constructed. Beginning in the summer of 2013, the rest of the campus underwent renovation, with a proposed budget of $ 84 million USD. Every renovation of LCHS was finalized at the August 2019 Fall Assembly with

182-564: Was founded in 2001 and was acquired by Fox Sports in 2005. In 2013, Fox Sports sold Scout to North American Membership Group which later rebranded to Scout Media. Scout filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2016 and was then acquired by CBS Corporation (now Paramount Global ) in February 2017 for $ 9.5 million after submitting the only bid for the bankrupt company. Paramount later folded Scout into 247Sports , with Scout.com redirecting to

196-434: Was later involved in a recruiting scandal. Initial deriving revenue solely from advertising, Rivals.com later employed a subscription fee of $ 10.00 per month to users for access to the latest recruiting news and to participate in various message boards dedicated to schools covered by the network. Rivals was funded by money from venture capital firms including the venture funds of Fox and Intel. Rivals acquired AllianceSports,

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