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Southside Independent School District Southside Independent School District is a public school district located in southern Bexar County, Texas (USA). It serves the far south side of the city of San Antonio. In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas ...

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). Southside High School serves the far south side of the city of San Antonio. In 2015, the school was rated " Met Standard" by the

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Athletics

The Southside Cardinals compete in the following sports:The Athletics Department
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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 t ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

* Soccer *

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 ...

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 eve ...

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 ...

The golf team have won consecutive district titles. The boys won in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, and 2012. The girls won in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Activities

Band

The Southside marching band, also known as the Mighty Cardinal Band, has around 100 members. It was also one of the featured bands for Battle of the Bands 2014 for its 2013-2014 show "Conquistador".

References

External links

Southside ISD
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