Lindsay High School or Lindsay Secondary School is a

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located in Lindsay, Texas, in Cooke County (

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) and classified as a 2A school by the UIL. It is a part of the

Lindsay Independent School District Lindsay Independent School District (LISD) is a public school district based in Lindsay, Texas ( USA). Lindsay ISD has a strong record of success in all fields, as evidenced by the Texas Education Agency accountability ratings system. Since th ...

located in west central Cooke County. In 2015, the school was rated " Met Standard" by the

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Achievements

*Texas

Lone Star Cup The Texas Lone Star Cup is given by the University Interscholastic League (UIL) and is based on a school district’s combined academic and athletic achievements. All UIL member high schools A secondary school describes an institution that pro ...

Champions **2006(1A), 2007(1A), 2008(1A), 2009(1A), 2011(1A), 2012(1A)

Academics

*UIL Academic Meet Champions **1992(1A), 1993(1A), 1994(1A), 1995(1A), 1998(2A), 1999(1A), 2001(1A), 2003(1A), 2004(1A), 2005(1A), 2007(1A), 2008(1A), 2009(1A), 2010(1A) The 14 overall academic titles is the most of any high school in Texas in any classification. Lindsay is the only school to score more than 200 points at the UIL State Academic Meet; it has done so three times (274 points in 2005, 263 points in 2007, and 280 points in 2009). It has also held the last three records for most overall points at the state meet by any school (187 points in 2001, 274 in 2005, 280 in 2009). The 280 points in 2009 equaled the combined total of the next five highest placing schools in Class A, and the margin between first place Lindsay and the second place Class A finisher was 204 points, a larger point total than the winning scores of any of the other conference winners. * Calculator Applications: **Individual – 2008, 2009 **Team – 2009 *

Computer Applications A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These progra ...

– 1999 (this is an individual event only) * Current Issues and Events: **Individual – 2001, 2002 **Team – 1992, 1994, 1995 (co-champion), 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003 *Journalism Events (all events are individual events only; however, beginning in 2004 UIL began to recognize the school with the best overall performance in all Journalism events): **Editorial Writing – 2001, 2007 **Headline Writing – 1987, 2002 **News Writing – 1992, 1999 **Overall Team Award – 2007 *

Literary Criticism Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...

: **Individual – 1996, 2000, 2005 **Team – 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003 *

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

: **Individual – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 **Team – 1994, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 *

Number Sense In psychology, number sense is the term used for the hypothesis that some animals, particularly humans, have a biologically determined ability that allows them to represent and manipulate large numerical quantities. The term was popularized by St ...

: **Individual – 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 **Team – 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 *Ready Writing – 1968, 1996 *

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

: **Individual (overall) – 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994 **Individual (biology) – 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994 **Individual (chemistry) – 1987, 1994, 1995, 2009 **Individual (physics) – 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994 **Team – 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2009 *Shorthand – 1978, 1980, 1981 (now discontinued, was an individual event only) *Social Studies: **Individual – 2010 **Team – 2005 *Speech Events (all events are individual events except for Cross-Examination Debate; however, beginning in 2004 UIL began to recognize the school with the best overall performance in all Speech events): **Cross-Examination Team Debate – 1994, 1996, 1999 **Lincoln-Douglas Debate – 1992, 2007 **Extemporaneous Informative Speaking – 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 **Persuasive Speaking – 1974 (boys) **Poetry Interpretation – 2007 **Prose Interpretation – 2004, 2007 **Overall Team Award – 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 *Spelling and Vocabulary: **Individual – 1980, 1992, 2005 **Team – 1992, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 **Prior to the 1992-1993 school year the event was known as Spelling and Plain Writing. *One Act Play **1994(1A), 2003(1A), 2004(1A), 2005(1A), 2007(1A), 2009(1A)

Athletics

The Lindsay Knights compete in the following sports: *

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

State Titles

*Girls Basketball - **2007(1A/D1) *Girls Cross Country - **2007(1A) *Boys Track - **2005(1A), 2010(1A) *Girls Track - UIL Girls Track Archives
**2007(1A) *Boys Golf - **2022 (2A) In 2009 they were Regional Champions with a record of 12-2. Lindsay had a good shot at advancing to State until four two way starters and 2 others became injured, in which the Knights were unable to overcome and lost to Albany in the State Quarter Finals.

References

External links

Lindsay ISD
{{authority control Public middle schools in Texas High schools in Cooke County, Texas Public high schools in Texas