Rice High School (Altair, Texas)
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Rice High School or Altair Rice is a public high school located near the community of
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) and classified as a 3A school by the UIL. It is a part of the
Rice Consolidated Independent School District Rice Consolidated Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Altair, Texas ( USA). In addition to Altair, the district serves the city of Eagle Lake, the communities of Garwood and Sheridan, as well as ru ...
located in southeastern Colorado County. The school is the result of the consolidation of high schools in
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and Sheridan. In 2015, the school was rated " Met Standard" by the
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Athletics

The Rice Raiders 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 t ...
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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 court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
* Cross Country * Football *
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 ...
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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 effo ...
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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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Track & 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 eve ...
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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 Sum ...


State Titles

*Boys Basketball - **1981(3A) *Girls Track - UIL Girls Track Archives
**1984(3A)


References


External links


Rice Consolidated ISD website
Public high schools in Texas Schools in Colorado County, Texas {{Texas-high-school-stub