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East Davidson High School (commonly referred to as "East") is a public
high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...
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Thomasville, North Carolina Thomasville is a city in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 27,183 at the 2020 census. The city was once notable for its furniture industry, as were its neighbors High Point and Lexington. This Piedmont Triad comm ...
. The students of East Davidson are known as the Golden Eagles. The colors for East Davidson are gold, black, and white.


Athletics

East Davidson is a member of the 2A Central Carolina Conference. The sports teams of East Davidson are: *
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sporting achievements


Notable alumni

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Chad Barefoot John Chadwick "Chad" Barefoot (born May 10, 1983) is a former Republican member of the North Carolina Senate, representing North Carolina's 18th Senate district from 2013 to 2018. Senate District 18 covers Franklin County and parts of eastern a ...
, North Carolina senator representing the 18th District *
Victoria Livengood Victoria Livengood (born August 8, 1959) is an American mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. She is most renown for her extensive and prestigious international operatic career spanning over 35 years and counting. Her past and current career sees her ...
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mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C ...
and voice teacher(Aug 8, 2000). Helms, Chris
Dixie Diva: Opera Star Returns\ Metropolitan Opera Singer Victoria Livengood, Who Grew Up In Thomasville, Hasn't Lost Her Southern Charm
''Greensboro News & Record''. Retrieved June 9, 2020.


References

Public high schools in North Carolina Schools in Davidson County, North Carolina {{NorthCarolina-school-stub