Many students see CHS as your typical high school, a high school that does what a high school needs to do. It teaches its students on how to do advanced math, English, science, and history, while also allowing its students to experiment and choose a career path. These students would eventually become the everyday person, but also has the ability to create the rich and the famous, the young and the talented, and the founders and politicians.

Over the course of CHS’s history, the school has provided a number of famous people. From NFL players to the mayor of Charlottesville, this article will show that CHS has the potential to make anyone in it become a person known throughout the county, country, and possibly even the world. 

Rashard Davis is an American football player who was born on September 14, 1995 here in Charlottesville, Virginia. His position is wide receiver and return specialist and is currently a free agent. He played with the Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs, Tennessee Titans, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and New York Jets. But, before all of that, he played college football at James Madison University (JMU), and, before that, he played as a dual threat quarterback here at CHS. In his senior year, he managed 17 touchdowns, ran for 1,383 yards, and threw for 1,074 yards. This earned him First Team All-District honors as an athlete and Second Team-All District accolades as quarterback. He graduated from CHS with honors in 2012.

Mike Cubbage was a MLB player. He was a third baseman, coach, and manager. He was born on July 21, 1950 in Charlottesville Virginia. Cubbage went to CHS and then to UVA where he played for the baseball and football team. After graduating from UVA, Cubbage would soon be drafted into the Washington Senators in the second round of the 1971 Entry Drafts. After spending 4 seasons in the minor league Cubbage would join the Texas Rangers on April 7, 1974. Appearing in 9 games with the Rangers, Cubbage would collect his first major league hit when the Rangers went against the California Angels, he went 3-for-5 with four RBIs. In 1976 Cubbage would be traded to the Minnesota Twin, and in 1981 he would join the New York Mets. Throughout his MLB career Cubbage played 8 seasons, appeared in 703 games, batting ,258 with 34 home runs, and 251 RBIs. Cubbage would later become a manager for the New York Mets, and then a coach for the Mets, Houston Astros, and Boston Red Sox. 

These two are just a few people who came in and went from CHS. Some honorable mentions would be Lloyd Burruss (former Kansas City Chiefs player), Alex Plank( autism advocator, founder of Wrong Planet, consulting and acting on FX’s The Bridge and The Good Doctor), Will Anderson (vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, and lead singer for the band Parachute), and of course Nikuyah Walker (Charlottesville mayor 2018-2022). All of these people went to CHS at some point and have become people known throughout the county, country, and even the world. CHS has the capability to make its students famous and recognized, and who knows? Maybe the next famous person from CHS could be you.