Sports
The sports program at Quartz Hill High School includes Marching band, football, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, cross country, track and field, tennis, swimming, wrestling, volleyball, golf and dance.
The mascot of Quartz Hill High School is the Rebel, a soldier. Rebel teams began interscholastic competition in the mid-1960s.
In the 2008 season, the cross country team placed 1st in Golden League for the first time in 25 years, repeating in 2009.
In the 2008 season, the volleyball team placed 1st in CIF division 3.
In 1990 the Quartz Hill High School Football team led by Jon Albee and Ken Hettinger won 8 straight games and made it to the Division One Southern Section finals in Anaheim Stadium ranked in the top 25. This was in the Golden League's first season in division one CIF football.
The 2006 Rebel baseball team was the first, and still only, baseball program from the Antelope Valley to win a C.I.F. Southern Section Championship
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