Elgin High School is a
public high school
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located in
Elgin,
Texas
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(
USA
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) and classified as a 5A school by the
UIL. It is part of the
Elgin Independent School District
Elgin Independent School District is a public school district based in Elgin, Texas (USA).
The district is located in northern Bastrop County and extends into small portions of Travis and Lee counties.
It includes parts of Manor.
In 2009, ...
located in north central
Bastrop County
Bastrop County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Bastrop.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 97,216. Bastrop County is included in the Austin–Round Rock, Texas, metropolita ...
and extends westward into
Travis County
Travis County is located in south central Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,290,188. It is the fifth-most populous county in Texas. Its county seat is Austin, the capital of Texas. The county was established in 1840 and is na ...
and eastward into
Lee County. In 2013, the school was rated "
Met Standard" by the
Texas Education Agency
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Athletics
The Elgin Wildcats compete in the following sports
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Cross Country
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Football
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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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Powerlifting
Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effor ...
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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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Swimming
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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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Track and Field
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Volleyball
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State Titles
*Boys Powerlifting
**2022(5A) Abdias Castillo - 242 class
*Boys Powerlifting
**2021(5A) Jordan Hood - 308 class
*Boys Cross Country
**2007(3A)
*Boys Golf
**1959(1A), 1960(1A)
*Girls Powerlifting
**2022(5A) Nya Kirk Jones - 259 class
*Girls Track
UIL Girls Track Archives
**1987(3A)
References
External links
Elgin ISD
Schools in Bastrop County, Texas
Public high schools in Texas
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