In 1982 federal judge Robert Parker mandated the merger of Forest Park and Hebert into a single integrated school, which students voted to name West Brook; initially, the Hebert campus housed the ninth and tenth grades, the Forest Park campus, the eleventh and twelfth.
Another tradition was for Mark Fiorenza and the Senior Athletics Supporting Association, or SASA, to lead colorful cheers at basketball games.
[5] From 1920 to the present, teams from the schools which made up this district in the 1970s played in 15 state championship games and won 7 times, including the 1975 Port Neches-Groves Indians and the 1984 Beaumont French Buffaloes.
"[7] Returning starters named in the Forest Park paragraph following were quarterback Jay Burton and running back Trey Barclay on offense and Casey Bobb, Tommy Osborne and Dimitri Geeker on defense.
The 1979-1980 squad placed second in the first round of District play, finished the season 24–9, was the first Forest Park basketball team to score 100 or more points in a game, and won the Liberty Tournament.
[10] Members named to All-District or All-Tournament teams were Britt Birmingham, Kevin Cokinos, Ben Davis, Greg Reimer, and Tommy Tubbs.
[11] The Forest Park baseball team went to the Texas State 3A (at that time, the second largest classification) Finals in 1967 but lost to South San Antonio High School 3 to 0.
[6] Archived 2007-03-14 at the Wayback Machine Coached by Ian Stewart,[12] a native of England and a Lamar distance great [7], the Forest Park Cross Country team won every district championship from 1962 until the school's merger in 1982.
[12] Notable runners included John Heffner, who won an individual Southwest Conference Championship while at Texas A&M in 1966,[8][permanent dead link] and Chris Russell,[12] the last Forest Park district champion in 1981.