Littlestown Senior High School is a small, rural public high school located in Littlestown,

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, United States. It is part of the

Littlestown Area School District Littlestown Area School District is a small, rural, public school district located in southeastern Adams County. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. The district encompasses approximately . The district serv ...

. In 2013, Littlestown Senior High School enrollment was reported at 605 pupils. The current (interim) principal is Joel Moran. The school's colors are blue and gold, and the mascot is the Thunderbolt.

Athletics

Throughout the history of Littlestown Senior High School, athletic programs have been emphasized through the years. Current athletic programs of the school include:

Boys

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 ...

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 ...

* Cross country *

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 ...

* Outdoor

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Girls

* Basketball * Cheer * Cross country *

Field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

* Outdoor track and field *

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 ...

* Tennis *

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 ...

* Soccer

References

External links

Littlestown Senior High's official website

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110928183606/http://www.lasd.k12.pa.us/LHS/Activities/FFA/FFAwebsite.htm Littlestown Senior High's official FFA website
Littlestown Senior High's official Band Boosters website
{{authority control Public high schools in Pennsylvania Schools in Adams County, Pennsylvania Educational institutions established in 1962 1962 establishments in Pennsylvania