Auburn High School Tigers
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| School | Auburn High School |
| Conference | G |
| Alabama High School Athletic Association | 7A |
| Athletic director | Blay McCall |
| Location | Auburn, Alabama |
| Varsity teams | 21 |
| Football stadium | Duck Samford Stadium |
| Basketball arena | Auburn Fieldhouse |
| Mascot | Samford |
| Nickname | Tigers |
| Fight song | "Hooray for Auburn!" |
| Colors | Royal blue and White |
| Website | auburnschools |
The Auburn High School Tigers are the athletic teams which represent Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama. Auburn High School's athletics program fields twenty-one varsity teams as a member of the large-school classification (7A) of the Alabama High School Athletic Association. The Tigers' school colors are royal blue and white and the school's mascot is a tiger named Samford.
AHS's track and field teams have won fourteen state championships, while the cross country squad has won eight state titles. The golf teams have won four state championships since 2004. Auburn High's women's and men's basketball teams have each won a state title, in 1919 and 2005, respectively, while the baseball squad won titles in 1986, 2009, and 2010. Overall, the Auburn High Tigers have won 45 state championships since the program fielded its earliest teams around 1910.
The Auburn High School Tigers are generally referred to as the Auburn Tigers when context precludes confusion with the Auburn University Tigers.
Auburn High School currently fields a varsity team in eleven men's and ten women's sports. They are:
Men's sports
Women's sports
Football was one of the first sports organized at Auburn High, with the first game being played in 1911. In the nine seasons between 1915 and 1923, Auburn High lost only 5 of 62 games, scoring unbeaten records in 1915, 1918, 1919, 1921, and 1923. The Tigers also had unbeaten regular seasons in 1934, 1952, 2008, and 2009—Auburn's nine unbeaten seasons rank second among class 7A schools in Alabama. AHS's overall record of 558–357–33 is the second–winningest overall record in class 7A.
Auburn High's football team competes in Region 2 of class 7A along with Central High School of Phenix City, Enterprise, Jeff Davis High School of Montgomery, Robert E. Lee High School of Montgomery, Prattville , and Smiths Station high schools. AHS's primary football rival is the Opelika High School Bulldogs from nearby Opelika, Alabama. Auburn and Opelika have played 88 times, including each year since 1933. Auburn also has traditional rivalries with Central High School of Phenix City (48 games) and Valley High School (53 games). The Tigers had previous rivalries with Sidney Lanier High School in the 1910s and Columbus and Jordan High Schools of Columbus, Georgia in the 1920s and 1930s.
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