Mount Vernon High School is a

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Mount Vernon, Texas Mount Vernon is a town and the county seat of Franklin County, Texas, Franklin County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,491 at the 2020 United States census. History Mount Vernon started as a settlement near the Fanning Springs (on Ho ...

, United States. It is part of the

Mount Vernon Independent School District Mount Vernon Independent School District is a school district based in Mount Vernon, Texas Mount Vernon is a town and the county seat of Franklin County, Texas, Franklin County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,491 at the 2020 Unite ...

and classified as a 3A school by the

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. In 2015, 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.

Athletics

The Mount Vernon Tigers compete in these sports: *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

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Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense Physical exercise, physical activity. It can be performed to motivate s ...

* Cross Country *

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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

Powerlifting Powerlifting is a competitive strength athletics, strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: Squat (exercise), squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athle ...

Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

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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 1948 Boys Basketball championship team was coached by Milburn "Catfish" Smith who won the title undefeated. In 2019, the school hired

Art Briles Arthur Ray Briles (born December 3, 1955) is an American football coach who is currently the head coach for the Guelfi Firenze in the Italian Football League. Briles was the head coach of the Houston Cougars from 2002 to 2007 and the Baylor B ...

, who had been previously fired from Baylor for his prominent role in their sexual assault scandal, as their head football coach.

State titles

*Boys Basketball **1948(1A) *Girls Basketball **2018 (3A) state champions *Softball **1994(3A) *One Act PlayUIL One Act Play Archives
/ref> **2000(3A), 2004(3A), 2014(2A) *Spirit (Cheerleading) **2016 3A State Champions (UIL Pilot Year) **2017 3A state champions **2018 3A state champions

Notable alumni

Judd Hambrick Judd Hambrick (born September 25, 1945, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American former television newscaster and reporter. Hambrick grew up in Mount Pleasant, Texas. Biography Career, accomplishments, and awards Hambrick started his career in ra ...

, television newscaster and reporter * Butch Maples, former professional football player *

Don Meredith Joseph Donald Meredith (April 10, 1938 – December 5, 2010), nicknamed "Dandy Don" was an American football player, sports commentator, and actor. He played as a quarterback for nine seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football Le ...

, former professional football player

Notable faculty

References

Schools in Franklin County, Texas Public high schools in Texas {{Texas-high-school-stub