Smithville High School is a
public high school
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located in
Smithville,
Texas
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(
USA
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) and classified as a 4A school by the
UIL. It is part of the
Smithville Independent School District
Smithville Independent School District is a public school district based in Smithville, Texas (USA).
Located in Bastrop County, in which it serves Smithville and Rosanky, a small portion of the district extends into Fayette County.
In 2009, ...
located in southeast
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 ...
. In 2013, the school was rated "
Met Standard" by the
Texas Education Agency
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States. .
Its service area includes Smithville and
Rosanky.
Athletics
The Smithville Tigers 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
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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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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 and Field
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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 ...
The Tiger Athletics iconic "T" was designed by Clayton Knight, a 2009 graduate of Smithville High School.
State titles
''Smithville'' (UIL)
*Boys Track
**1919(B)
''Smithville Brown'' (PVIL)
*Football
UIL Football Archives
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**1963(PVIL-1A)
References
External links
Smithville ISD
Schools in Bastrop County, Texas
Public high schools in Texas
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