Sullivan Central High School is a 9th through 12th grade high school in Blountville, Tennessee. The two middle schools that feed into Central are Blountville Middle School and Holston Middle School. The school's mascot is the cougar. The current principal is Loren Foster.HistoryThe school opened in 1968 with its main building and eventually expanded by means of a classroom addition and a vocational building in 1978. The only construction since that time has been a football fieldhouse, which opened in the fall of 1997.Athletics and electivesThe school has athletic teams in all traditional varsity sports, including football, swimming, soccer, basketball, track, cross country, tennis, baseball, softball, and volleyball. Despite its relatively small enrollment, the school fields three men's basketball teams and two to three women's basketball teams in the same divisions. The majority of Central athletics maintain intense rivalries with the other three Sullivan County schools, South, North, and East High Schools, and in select sports with the local city schools of Dobyns Bennett, Tennessee High and Science Hill.CheerleadingSullivan Central High School has tryouts every spring for Varsity, Junior Varsity, and just recently, Competition Team members. A new edition to Central includes a Varsity Twirling team that performs at Varsity Football and Basketball games. The Varsity cheerleading squad cheers for the Varsity football team, and Varsity Boys' Basketball team. The Junior Varsity cheerleaders cheer for the Junior Varsity football team, as well as the Varsity Girls' Basketball team.SwimmingThe heat to the Sullivan Central Pool went out in 2008. This is related to then-principal Melanie Riden asking for the pool to be closed in a meeting with Sullivan County in October 2008. The swim team then had to practice at sister school Sullivan North High School. The pool was reopened in January 2011, and was dedicated to Bradley Brock, a senior who died of cancer in September 2010.
