Delphi Community High School is a

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located in

Delphi, Indiana Delphi () is a city in and the county seat of Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Located twenty minutes northeast of Lafayette, it is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,893 at the 2010 c ...

. The school serves more than 500 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Delphi Community School Corporation district. The students of

Delphi Community School Corporation Delphi Community School Corporation (DCSC) is a school district headquartered in Delphi, Indiana. Schools * Delphi Community High School Delphi Community High School is a Public school (government funded), public secondary school located in Del ...

reside in the cities of

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and Camden, as well as in the townships of Deer Creek, Madison, Jackson, Liberty, Rock Creek, and Tippecanoe.

Athletics

Delphi Community High School competes in the Hoosier Athletic Conference. The school mascot is the

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and the school colors are black and gold.

Fall

*Varsity

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

*Varsity

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

*Boys/Girls Cross Country *Varsity Boys

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

*Varsity Girls

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

*Varsity

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

Winter

*Girls Varsity

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

*Boys Varsity

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*Boys/Girls Varsity

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Spring

*Varsity

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

*Varsity

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

*Varsity Boys/Girls

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*Varsity Girls

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

Clubs

* FFA *

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*Class Officers *Fellowship of Christian Athletes *

Chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

Club *French Club *Spanish Club

Notable alumni

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–

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contestant *

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– former

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Doxie Moore John Doxie Moore (February 13, 1911 – April 23, 1986) was an American basketball player and coach. He attended Delphi Community High School, Delphi High School in Delphi, Indiana, and played college basketball at Purdue University from 1930 to ...

– former professional basketball player for the

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and the

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References

External links

Official website
Public high schools in Indiana Schools in Carroll County, Indiana Delphi, Indiana {{Indiana-school-stub

Athletics

Fall

Winter

Spring

Clubs

Notable alumni

See also

References

External links