Jack C. Hays High School

Coordinates: 30°01′52″N 97°53′23″W / 30.0311°N 97.8896°W / 30.0311; -97.8896

Jack C. Hays High School is located in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District in Buda, Texas. Hays High School is the oldest existing high school in Hays CISD, but was thoroughly renovated in the 2000s. The school is named for John Coffee Hays, a frontier defender, Texas Ranger, and hero to those he fought to protect. He achieved fame after leaving Texas in 1849 for California, where he became the first elected sheriff of San Francisco and helped found the city of Oakland. In 2011, the school was rated "Academically Acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.^[4]

Mascot

The school mascot is a Yosemite Sam-like character dressed in the standard gray uniform of the Army of the Confederate States of America known as "Colonel Jack". While "Colonel Jack" formerly wielded dual revolvers and a confederate flag belt buckle, he is currently shown with a Texas flag in his left hand and a white flag bearing an H in his right with a script R on his belt buckle. As with other institutions which draw upon confederate imagery, Hays High School encountered controversy on and off for years before ultimately discarding the confederate flag as an official symbol in 2000 and banning it from official functions entirely in 2012,^[5] but has retained Dixie as a fight song.

Athletics

Hays High School competes in the following sports -

Cross Country, Band, Swim, Volleyball, Football, Basketball, Powerlifting, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, Track, Baseball & Softball.

State Titles

• Volleyball - ^[6]
  • 1968(B)
• Softball-
  • 2013(Varsity)

Notable alumni

• Donnie Joseph, Major League Baseball pitcher^[7]

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