Van Horn High School is a
public high school
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located in
Van Horn,
Texas
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(
USA
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) and classified as a 1A school by the
UIL. It is part of the
Culberson County-Allamoore Independent School District
Culberson County-Allamoore Independent School District is a public school district based in Van Horn, Texas (USA). The district serves all of Culberson County, and eastern portions of Hudspeth County. As of the 2021-2022 school year, the distr ...
located in southwest
Culberson County and serves students countywide. In 2015, the school was rated "
Met Standard" by the
Texas Education Agency
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Athletics
The Van Horn Eagles compete in the following sports:
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Baseball
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Basketball
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Cross Country
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Six-man football
Six-man football is a variant of gridiron football played with six players per team, instead of the standard 11 or 12. It is generally played by high schools in rural areas of the United States and Canada.
History
Six-man football was developed ...
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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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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 ...
Eagle Field
In 2014, Van Horn High School replaced their old grass football field with a new stadium that included a Matrix Synthetic Turf system and an Epic Tracks V300 400 meter track.
The construction also included a new field house complete with weight room. The cost of the project, according to various sources, was somewhere between $4.2 and $6 million.
State Titles
*Baseball
**1991(2A)
*Boys Basketball
**1971(1A)
*One Act Play
**1983(2A)
*Girls Track & Field
**2014(1A Div 1)
*UIL Calculator Applications
**1989-90 (2A)-Keith Taylor
**1990-91 (2A)-Keith Taylor
References
External links
Culberson County-Allamoore ISD
Public high schools in Texas
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