Extracurriculars
As of 2007, Grissom has football, boys' and girls' basketball, volleyball, baseball, cross country, softball, track, golf, swim/dive, boys' and girls' soccer, boys' and girls' tennis, wrestling, and cheerleading teams, a dance program, a choral program, a theatre program, as well as marching, symphonic, and jazz bands. Other notable extracurricular activities include an academic team and an extremely competitive math team, that in addition to competing in contests, runs numerous mathematics programs, camps, and competitions. Rocket City Math League is an international mathematics competition run by Grissom math team students. A wide variety of extracurricular clubs are also present at Grissom.
Grissom's academic team has won 8 Alabama UAB/Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA) state championships (1982 (4A), 1987 (5A-6A), 1991, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, & 2004 (ASCA)) - the most of any Alabama high school - with runner-up finishes in 1994 and 2005. Grissom has been to 11 known Alabama state final fours (1982, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, & 2012). Grissom finished 5th in the 1992 Texaco Star National Academic Championship in Houston, Texas and 6th in the 2000 Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence National Scholastics Championship in Orlando, Florida.
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