{"id":2396,"date":"2025-11-04T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:21:43","slug":"russell-wilson-high-school-yearbook-photo-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/russell-wilson-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Wilson High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"celeb_name\">Russell Wilson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Professional football player<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Birthdate:&nbsp;<\/strong>Nov 29, 1988<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>High School:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/places\/class\/Collegiate-High-School\/9176?communityType=1&amp;year=2000&amp;?s=80640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Collegiate High School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yearbooks:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/yearbooks\/Collegiate-High-School\/1000241832?page=0&amp;?s=80640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Yearbook photos of Russell Wilson from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/places\/class\/Collegiate-High-School\/9176?communityType=1&amp;year=2000&amp;?s=80640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Collegiate High School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" data-id=\"2444\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/young-russell-wilson.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Wilson high school yearbook photo\" class=\"wp-image-2444\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"431\" data-id=\"2445\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CollegiateHS-2000-YBcover.jpg\" alt=\"Collegiate High School 2000 yearbook\" class=\"wp-image-2445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CollegiateHS-2000-YBcover.jpg 323w, https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CollegiateHS-2000-YBcover-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/yearbooks\/Collegiate-High-School\/1000241832?page=48&amp;?s=80640\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Russell Carrington Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0(born November 29, 1988) is an NFL quarterback. He graduated from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classmates.com\/places\/class\/Collegiate-High-School\/9176?communityType=1&amp;year=2000&amp;?s=80640\">Collegiate High School<\/a>, in Richmond, Virginia, in 2007. A young Russell Wilson played football, baseball, and basketball in high school and was actually drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in 2008. However, Wilson chose to attend college instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After an impressive college career, where he played football for both NC State and University of Wisconsin, Wilson was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the third round of the 2012 NFL draft. Although small for a quarterback, Wilson has demonstrated excellent passing and rushing skills. He led the Seahawks to their first Super Bowl victory in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NFL&nbsp;<strong>Offensive Rookie of the Month<\/strong>. December 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pepsi&nbsp;<strong>NFL Rookie of the Week<\/strong>. Week 10 of 2012 season<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Steve Largent Award<\/strong>. 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pro Football Writers&nbsp;<strong>Good Guy Award<\/strong>. 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5x&nbsp;<strong>NFC Offensive Player of the Week<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3x FedEx Air&nbsp;<strong>Player of the Week<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/celebrities\/\">Celeb Yearbook Blogs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/dan-marino-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/\">Dan Marino High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/joe-montana-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/\">Joe Montana High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/terry-bradshaw-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/\">Terry Bradshaw High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/brett-favre-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/\">Brett Favre High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/john-madden-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/\">John Madden High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/frank-gifford-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/\">Frank Gifford High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/lawrence-taylor-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/\">Lawrence Taylor High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/nick-foles-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/\">Nick Foles High School Yearbook Photo &amp; Education<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell_Wilson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russell Wilson Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/sports\/article_47fd8579-220c-5270-8ef7-c09cc5f84b30.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russell Wilson Richmond Times article<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/russell-wilson\/stats\/career\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russell Wilson NFL.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Wilson Professional football player Birthdate:&nbsp;Nov 29, 1988 High School:&nbsp;Collegiate High School Yearbooks:&nbsp;2000 Yearbook photos of Russell Wilson from&nbsp;Collegiate High School &nbsp; Russell Carrington Wilson\u00a0(born November 29, 1988) is an NFL quarterback. He graduated from\u00a0Collegiate High School, in Richmond, Virginia, in 2007. A young Russell Wilson played football, baseball, and basketball in high school and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8826,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/8826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}