Lindsay High School (Texas)
Lindsay High School (LHS, also referred to as Lindsay Secondary School) is a public high school located in Lindsay, Texas.
LHS is the only high school in the Lindsay Independent School District. It is a combined junior high and high school, and serves all students in the district in grades 7-12.
Achievements
Athletic State Championships
- 2005 Boys Track
- 2007 Girls Basketball
- 2007 Girls Track
- 2007 Girls Cross Country
- 2010 Boys Track
Lindsay has always had a respected football team. In 2009 they were Regional Champions with a record of 12-2. Lindsay had a good shot at advancing to State until four two way starters and 2 others became injured, which was too much for the Knights to overcome against Albany in the State Quarter Finals.
UIL Academic State Championships
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- Overall UIL Academic Champion – 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010
- The 1998 and 1999 championships were in Class AA; all others were in Class A. The 14 overall academic titles is the most of any high school in Texas in any classification.
- Lindsay is the only school to score more than 200 points at the UIL State Academic Meet; it has done so three times (274 points in 2005, 263 points in 2007, and 280 points in 2009). It has also held the last three records for most overall points at the state meet by any school (187 points in 2001, 274 in 2005, 280 in 2009). The 280 points in 2009 equaled the combined total of the next five highest placing schools in Class A, and the margin between first place Lindsay and the second place Class A finisher was 204 points, a larger point total than the winning scores of any of the other conference winners.[5]
- Calculator Applications:
- Individual – 2008, 2009
- Team – 2009
- Computer Applications – 1999 (this is an individual event only)
- Current Issues and Events:
- Individual – 2001, 2002
- Team – 1992, 1994, 1995 (co-champion), 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Journalism Events (all events are individual events only; however, beginning in 2004 UIL began to recognize the school with the best overall performance in all Journalism events):
- Editorial Writing – 2001, 2007
- Headline Writing – 1987, 2002
- News Writing – 1992, 1999
- Overall Team Award – 2007
- Literary Criticism:
- Individual – 1996, 2000, 2005
- Team – 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003
- Mathematics:
- Individual – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Team – 1994, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Number Sense:
- Individual – 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Team – 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- One Act Play – 1994, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 (this is a team event only)
- Ready Writing – 1968, 1996
- Science:
- Individual (overall) – 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994
- Individual (biology) – 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994
- Individual (chemistry) – 1987, 1994, 1995, 2009
- Individual (physics) – 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994
- Team – 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2009
- Shorthand – 1978, 1980, 1981 (now discontinued, was an individual event only)
- Social Studies:
- Individual – 2010
- Team – 2005
- Speech Events (all events are individual events except for Cross-Examination Debate; however, beginning in 2004 UIL began to recognize the school with the best overall performance in all Speech events):
- Cross-Examination Team Debate – 1994, 1996, 1999
- Lincoln-Douglas Debate – 1992, 2007
- Extemporaneous Informative Speaking – 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Persuasive Speaking – 1974 (boys)
- Poetry Interpretation – 2007
- Prose Interpretation – 2004, 2007
- Overall Team Award – 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Spelling and Vocabulary:
- Individual – 1980, 1992, 2005
- Team – 1992, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010
- Prior to the 1992-1993 school year the event was known as Spelling and Plain Writing.
References
- ^ UIL: Media: Lonestar Cup Champions
- ^ UIL State Academic Champions
- ^ Click on State Meet Academic Champions
- ^ [Texas Almanac, 2000-2001]
- ^ http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/spring_meet/Academic_Champions_2009.html