Hobbs High School

Hobbs High School
Location
800 N. Jefferson
Hobbs, New Mexico, 88240
United States
Information
Type Public high school
Established 1912
Principal Zeke Kaney
Grades 10-12
Enrollment 1,500
Campus Rural (suburban)
Color(s)               
Black, Gold, and White
Athletics conference NMAA, 6A Dist. 3
Nickname Eagles
Newspaper The Eagle's Cry
Yearbook Sandstorm
Website

Hobbs High School (HHS) is located in Hobbs, New Mexico, and has a student population of about 1500 students as of 2009. Ralph Tasker coached basketball at HHS for 49 years, from 1949 to 1998.

Campus

The Campus is a fairly standard indoor campus with several classrooms that can be entered from the outside. The High School also has a new auditorium and athletic center. Up until May 2002, Hobbs freshmen went to one of three junior high schools: Highland, Houston, and Heizer. All three schools housed 7th through 9th grade. The decision was made to convert Heizer Junior High School into a freshman high school to help transition 9th grade students into high school curriculum and behavioral expectations. Heizer was chosen because of its ability to expand, being surrounded by an open field. Both Highland and Houston were surrounded by housing and other problems that would have prevented expansions.

Until the summer of 2011, the freshmen were either bussed or transported to the campus, which drew the ire of many parents because of its location in the extreme southern location of Hobbs. After a few years of discussion, the Hobbs Municipal Schools Board of Education decided that the best way to transition the freshmen to high school would be to build what would be known as the Hobbs Freshman High School (HFHS) next to the existing high school. The first freshman class at the new school entered in August 2011. Heizer, meanwhile, returned to being a junior high school.

School song

In the west mid oil derricks

Friendly flares to view

Stands the best of noble high schools

Hobbs High heres to you

Watch the night flares send a radiance

And a grand Hello

Golden land of all that's worthwhile

Hobbs, New Mexico!!!!

Mascot and colors

The mascot of Hobbs High School is the Eagles and the colors are primarily black and gold, with white being a secondary color. One of the more prominent features of the campus is the eagle on a globe statue outside the front of the campus, facing Jefferson Street. Over the years, students from rival high schools have repeatedly painted this statue in their own colors as a prank.

Athletics

HHS competes in the New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA), as a class 6A school in District 3. In 2015, the NMAA realigned the state's schools in to six classifications and adjusted district boundaries for the 2016-2017 & 2017-2018 school years.[1] In addition to Hobbs High School, the schools in District 3-6A include Las Cruces High School, Mayfield High School, Oñate High School, Centennial High School, Gadsden High School, and Carlsbad High School.[2]

Hobbs High School has a total of 42 state titles and competes in a wide variety of sports as the Eagles and Lady Eagles, which include:

State Championships

Boys

  • Football (2): 1970, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1999
  • Soccer (1): 1997, 2003
  • Basketball (17): 1956, 1957, 1958, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1988, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2015
  • Golf (6): 1957, 1961, 1970, 1987, 1988, 2012
  • Track and Field (11): 1938, 1939, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1992
  • Cross Country (3): 1965, 2015, 2016

Girls

  • Basketball (1): 1996, 2003
  • Softball (1): 1986, 1998
  • Tennis (3):1999, 2000, 2001
  • Track and Field (2): 1975, 1978, 1981, 1989, 1997

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nmact.org/file/Section_4.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/sports/high-school/2015/11/19/nmaa-approves-new-alignment-and-classification/76065262/
  3. ↑ http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LINNEAUB01
  4. ↑ http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=SMITHTIM02

Coordinates: 32°42′36″N 103°07′14″W / 32.71000°N 103.12056°W / 32.71000; -103.12056

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