Auburn High School Tigers

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Auburn High School currently fields a varsity team in eleven men's and ten women's sports.Auburn High School, [http://www.auburnschools.org/ahs/administration/Student%20Handbook%202006-2007.htm Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006–2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061015043335/http://www.auburnschools.org/ahs/administration/Student%20Handbook%202006-2007.htm |date=2006-10-15 }}. They are:

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Men's sports

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Cross country
• Indoor track
• Track and Field
• Golf
• Football
• Soccer
• Swimming and diving
• Tennis
• Marching Band
• Wrestling

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Women's sports

• Basketball
• Cross country
• Golf
• Indoor track
• Soccer
• Softball
• Swimming and diving
• Tennis
• Track and field
• Volleyball

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Football was one of the first sports organized at Auburn High, with the first game being played in 1911.Alabama High School Football Historical Society, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/gamesbyyear.asp?Team=Auburn&Year=1911 Auburn – 1911], retrieved July 28, 2008. 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."Lee Co. High Will Meet Tallassee on Ross Field Friday", Opelika Daily News, September 21, 1922; Alabama High School Football Historical Society, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/yearlytotals.asp?Team=Auburn Auburn Yearly Record], retrieved July 28, 2008. 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.Alabama High School Football Historical Society, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/yearlytotals.asp?Team=Auburn Auburn Yearly Record]; Alabama High School Football Historical Society, [http://ahsfhs.org/records/teamrecords1.asp Team Records], retrieved July 28, 2008. AHS's overall record of 558–357–33 is the second–winningest overall record in class 7A."Lee Co. High Will Meet Tallassee on Ross Field Friday", Opelika Daily News, September 21, 1922; Alabama High School Football Historical Society, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/teampage.asp?Team=Auburn Auburn Football Team History], retrieved August 8, 2014; Alabama High School Football Historical Society, [http://ahsfhs.org/records/records2a.asp All–Time Team Records Sorted by Total Wins], retrieved August 8, 2014. Record as of the end of the 2013 season. Of teams in AHSAA Class 7A, only Enterprise (618 wins) has more wins than Auburn.

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.Alabama High School Football Historical Society, [http://www.ahsfhs.org/Articles2014/new7A.asp 2014 Reclassification], retrieved August 8, 2014. 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.Alabama High School Football Historical Society, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/opponents.asp?Opponent=Opelika&Team=Auburn Auburn vs. Opelika], retrieved August 8, 2014. Auburn also has traditional rivalries with Central High School of Phenix City (48 games) and Valley High School (53 games).AHSFHS, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/opponents.asp?Opponent=Central%20Phenix%20City&Team=Auburn Auburn vs. Central Phenix City], retrieved November 21, 2008; AHSFHS, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/opponents.asp?Opponent=Valley&Team=Auburn Auburn vs. Central Phenix City], retrieved November 21, 2008; AHSFHS, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/opponents.asp?Opponent=Fairfax&Team=Auburn Auburn vs. Fairfax], retrieved November 21, 2008. Fairfax was a previous name of Valley High School. 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.Thomas Hall, "Auburn High School Team Wins Annual Game from Sidney Lanier" Montgomery Advertiser, November 28, 1919; AHSFHS, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/opponenttotals.asp?Team=Auburn Auburn vs. All Opponents] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724230618/http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/opponenttotals.asp?Team=Auburn |date=July 24, 2011 }}, retrieved July 28, 2008. Columbus Industrial was a previous name of Jordan High School.

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Since 2004, Auburn High has produced more All-Pro National Football League players than any other high school. AHS alumni in the NFL include Marcus Washington of the Washington Redskins (Pro Bowl 2005), Osi Umenyiora of the New York Giants (Pro Bowl 2006, 2008), and DeMarcus Ware of the Denver Broncos (Pro Bowl 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010).NFL Enterprises, LLC, [http://www.nfl.com/probowl/ NFL.com - Probowl], retrieved January 21, 2007; databaseSports.com, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090804190456/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerlist.htm Player List]}}, retrieved January 21, 2007. Auburn High's football program has produced four All-Americans: Rashaan Evans was an Under Armour All-American in 2013, Reuben Foster was a consensus All-American in 2012, and Dee Finley and Philip Yost were USA Today All-Americans in 2007 and 1999, respectively.naplesnews.com, [http://m.naplesnews.com/news/2008/Feb/06/signing-day-gators-announce-2008-class/ Signing Day: Gators announce 2008 class] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714153517/http://m.naplesnews.com/news/2008/Feb/06/signing-day-gators-announce-2008-class/ |date=2011-07-14 }}, retrieved July 28, 2008; Scott Cain "[http://www.wholehogsports.com/adg/35314 Tigers primed to roar]{{dead link|date=October 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}", Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, August 7, 2003.

Auburn High has twice been ranked first in the state (in 1967 and 2009) and rose to 17th nationally in the USA Today rankings in 2009. The Tigers proceeded deepest into the playoffs in 2013, when the team fell in the 6A Championship Game.AHSFHS, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/polls1.asp?Team=Auburn Auburn Rankings], retrieved July 28, 2008; AHSFHS, [http://ahsfhs.org/Teams2/gamesbyyear.asp?year=2001&Team=Auburn Auburn – 2001]. AHS has won the region, area or conference championship on twenty-one occasions since 1921: in 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1952, 1967, 1972, 1973, 1987, 1990, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2013.Region championship data collated from accounts in the Auburn Bulletin/Lee County Bulletin (1937–1969), Opelika Daily News(1921–1936), Opelika–Auburn News (1970–2006), and the Auburn Plainsman (1921–1936).

The football team's home field since 1968 is 8,310 seat Duck Samford Stadium."{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20101206191604/http://www.wani1400.com/News/frmArticle.aspx?NewID=2294 Rep. Mike Hubbard Secures Funding for Duck Samford Stadium Renovations]}}", August 17, 2010. AHS previously played at Felton Little Park (1949—1968), Auburn Stadium (1939–1947), Drake Field (1911–1920, 1935–1939), and Ross Field (1921–1935). The head coach of the Tigers is Keith Etheredge, hired in 2021, who had most recently coached at Oxford High School.{{Cite web|title=Auburn High hires Coach Keith Etheredge |website=The Auburn Plainsman |url=https://www.theplainsman.com/article/2021/04/auburn-high-hires-coach-keith-etheredge|access-date=2021-08-27}} Etheredge replaced Adam Winegarden, who made it to Round 2 of the AHSAA playoffs or further in all six years as Auburn High's Coach.{{Cite web|title=Alabama High School Football History|url=http://www.ahsfhs.org/teams2/coachestop1.asp?Coach=Adam%20Winegarden&Team=Auburn|access-date=2021-08-27|website=www.ahsfhs.org}} Winegardgen left in 2021 to become the head coach of Tuscaloosa County High School.{{Cite web|author=JORDAN D. HILL|title=Auburn High football coach Adam Winegarden leaves for Tuscaloosa County|url=https://oanow.com/sports/high-school/auburn-high-football-coach-adam-winegarden-leaves-for-tuscaloosa-county/article_50dbc0ea-6a62-11eb-b66a-fb1cf66908b8.html|access-date=2021-08-27|url-access=subscription |website=OANow.com|date=8 February 2021 |language=en}} Auburn High Football games are broadcast on the radio and over the Internet by Scott Bagwell, Blake Ramsey, and Noah Gardner on Wings 94.3 (WGZZ-FM).{{cite web |title=AHS Sports |publisher=Auburn Network, Inc. |url=http://www.ahstigers.com/ |accessdate=2014-08-09 |url-status=dead |archivedate=2014-08-09 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809195634/http://www.ahstigers.com/}}

Basketball was the first sport organized at Auburn High, with the first recorded men's match in the 1910–1911 season and the first recorded women's game in 1917."Basketball Game on Friday Night", Columbus Enquirer–Sun, March 1, 1911; "Columbus High Girls Won Game", Columbus Ledger, February 4, 1917. Two state championships have been won by AHS: the women claimed the 1919 state title, while the men won the 2005 crown. The 1919 women's squad were undefeated in–state, playing with men's rules (five-player) on outdoor courts; that team's Margaret Brown, Mary Tamplin, and Alice Beasley later led Auburn University to three straight undefeated seasons."Lee County High Girls Claim Honors", Montgomery Advertiser, March 12, 1919; Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village (Auburn: s.n., 1996), 112. The 2005 men's team won the state tournament with a 59–35 defeat of previously unbeaten and USA Today's nationally 2nd–ranked LeFlore."[http://legacy.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/sports/050306/butler.shtml Butler does it with 2nd straight title: In 6A, Auburn knocks out LeFlore] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709005250/http://legacy.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/sports/050306/butler.shtml |date=2011-07-09 }}", Decatur Daily, March 6, 2005; Chris Monter, [http://minnesota.scout.com/a.z?s=176&p=2&c=479209 Talent ladened Academy National Invitational], retrieved July 28, 2008.

The men's basketball program is coached by 28-year veteran Frank Tolbert, who holds a 650–315 record. Under Tolbert, Auburn has won the region championship twelve times, reached the playoffs twenty-one times, and the state final four seven times.Bill Bailey, Auburn High School Basketball, December 8, 2007; AHSAA.com, [http://www.ahsaa.com/hall_of_fame/2005/ 2005 Hall of Fame] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503005302/http://www.ahsaa.com/hall_of_fame/2005/ |date=May 3, 2008 }}, retrieved July 28, 2008. In addition to the squad's 2005 state title, Auburn High has been state runner-up in 1924, 1987, 1991, and 1996.Alabama High School Athletic Association, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/basketball/champions_boys.asp Basketball Past State Champions (Boys)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213212333/http://www.ahsaasports.com/basketball/champions_boys.asp |date=February 13, 2008 }}, retrieved January 21, 2007.

The women's basketball program began sometime around 1914, but only lasted for about 15 years before being canceled amidst the cutbacks of the Great Depression.Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village, 87. Alabama law later prohibited state high schools from fielding women's basketball teams, but a 1975 repeal of that law allowed Auburn High to bring back women's basketball in 1978.Jane Reid Petty, Almost as fairly: the first year of title IX implementation in six Southern States (Atlanta: The Program, 1977), 49; Minutes of City Board of Education, Auburn, Alabama, April 1978. The modern program's first coach was current AHS men's coach Frank Tolbert. Head coach of the women's basketball team is Terryland Dawson. Dawson's 2007 and 2008 squads both made the state tournament regionals, having generated 26–7 and 25–5 records, respectively.[http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Team.mxp/AreaID-cf13fd1c-3b7d-4977-a7d7-47cce64a8ac8/SchoolID-fcbe2ee5-0c01-409a-858e-6ccca19f49a9/Girls_Varsity_Basketball_Winter_06-07/Alabama Auburn Tigers Girls High School Basketball Winter 06-07], retrieved July 28, 2008; [http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Team.mxp/AreaID-cf13fd1c-3b7d-4977-a7d7-47cce64a8ac8/SchoolID-fcbe2ee5-0c01-409a-858e-6ccca19f49a9/Girls_Varsity_Basketball_Winter_07-08/Alabama Auburn Tigers Girls High School Basketball Winter 07-08], retrieved July 28, 2008.

Both basketball squads compete in Area 4 of class 7A along with Central of Phenix City and Smiths Station high schools.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/Realignment/2010-12_basketball/basketball6a.pdf 2010 - 2012 AHSAA Basketball Alignment 6A]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, retrieved July 28, 2008. The basketball teams play at the 1,500 seat Auburn Fieldhouse on the Auburn High campus. Basketball games are broadcast on the radio and over the Internet by Scott Bagwell and Johnathon Middleton on ESPN 106.7.[http://www.waudradio.com/auburnhighschool.htm Auburn High School Sports from Tiger Communications] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024152516/http://www.waudradio.com/auburnhighschool.htm |date=October 24, 2007 }}, retrieved January 21, 2007.

The Auburn High baseball Tigers trace their lineage back to teams which played at least as early as 1912."Even Break at Auburn", Montgomery Advertiser, April 28, 1912. A school baseball team was still playing as late as 1923, but by the late 1930s had been replaced by a team playing in an FFA league."Young Earle Smith Makes Good Record With Auburn High", Montgomery Advertiser, May 27, 1923; "Lee County High School News", Lee County Bulletin, April 22, 1937. By 1947, Auburn High again fielded a team. The baseball Tigers have won five state titles, in 1986, 2009, 2010, 2018, and 2021. They were state runners-up in 1973, 2016, and 2017.AHSAAsports.com, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/baseball/PastChampions.asp Baseball Past State Champions] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071003055800/http://www.ahsaasports.com/baseball/PastChampions.asp |date=October 3, 2007 }}, retrieved July 28, 2008; Alabama Laws and Joint Resolutions, 1973 v.1, 44. .

Matt Cimo is the head coach of the AHS baseball team. Auburn High has reached the state playoffs eleven of the past thirteen years, reaching the semifinals in 1998 and 2001, the state championship in 2009, 2010, 2016, 2017, and 2021. Auburn won state championships in 2009 and 2010.[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/baseball/about%20AHS/program.htm About the Baseball Program] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719001946/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/baseball/about%20AHS/program.htm |date=July 19, 2008 }}, retrieved July 28, 2008; AHSAAsports.com, "Baseball Playoff Bracket" [http://www.ahsaasports.com/baseball/Playoff%20Brackets/2006/class6a06.asp 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070806051647/http://www.ahsaasports.com/baseball/Playoff%20Brackets/2006/class6a06.asp |date=August 6, 2007 }}, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/baseball/Playoff%20Brackets/2007/class6a07.asp 2007] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010050620/http://www.ahsaasports.com/baseball/Playoff%20Brackets/2007/class6a07.asp |date=October 10, 2007 }}, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/baseball/Playoff%20Brackets/2008/class6a08.asp 2008] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421001121/http://www.ahsaasports.com/baseball/Playoff%20Brackets/2008/class6a08.asp |date=April 21, 2008 }}, retrieved July 28, 2008. The most notable player produced by the Auburn High School baseball program is pitcher Joe Beckwith, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1979–1983, 1986) and Kansas City Royals (1984–1985).Kimberly Shumack, [http://www.auburndixie.com/News/frmArticle.aspx?NEW_ID=1023 Feature Story on Joe Beckwith] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616042652/http://www.auburndixie.com/News/frmArticle.aspx?NEW_ID=1023 |date=2008-06-16 }}'', retrieved July 13, 2007.

The baseball team competes in Area 3 of class 7A along with Central of Phenix City and Smiths Station high schools.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/Realignment/2008-10_baseball.asp 2008-10 Baseball Alignment] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225120833/http://www.ahsaa.com/Realignment/2008-10_baseball.asp |date=December 25, 2007 }}, retrieved July 28, 2008. Baseball games are broadcast on the radio and over the Internet by Scott Bagwell and Riley Hubbard on ESPN 106.7.

File:Auburn High girls baseball team 1910s.jpgWhile Auburn High fielded a women's baseball team as early as 1914 (see photo, at right), Auburn's first softball team wasn't organized until the 1980s. That team played in the AHSAA slowpitch league for a decade until moving to the new fastpitch division in the 1990s.Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village, 36

Until 2009, Auburn High softball team was coached by 15–year veteran Ed Crum, under whom the Tigers have a 393-250 record.[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Softball/camp.htm Auburn High School fall softball camps] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820065615/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Softball/camp.htm |date=August 20, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008; The Tiger, vol. 51 (1995), 157; David Morrison, "{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120223075447/http://www2.oanow.com/oan/sports/high_school_prep/article/prep_softball_crum_steps_down_as_auburn_high_head_coach/73342/ Crum Steps Down as Auburn High Head Coach]}}", Opelika-Auburn News, May 19, 2009. AHS softball competes in Area 3 of class 7A along with Central of Phenix City and Smiths Station high schools.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/Realignment/2008-10_softball.asp 2008-10 Softball Alignment] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225112046/http://www.ahsaa.com/Realignment/2008-10_softball.asp |date=December 25, 2007 }}, retrieved July 28, 2008. Auburn High softball plays home matches at the five–field Auburn Softball Complex The softball head coach is Chris Spencer.[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Softball/springtournament.htm Auburn High School Spring Invitational 2008] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719074504/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Softball/springtournament.htm |date=July 19, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008.

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Auburn High has fielded a men's golf program since at least 1969, while women's golf, started in the late 1990s, is AHS's newest sport.Minutes of City Board of Education, Auburn, Alabama, June 1969. The men's golf team won four team state championships, in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Under 15–year coach Duke Smith, the Tigers won nine sectional championships (1997, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), and were state runners–up in 1999.[http://www.auburnschools.org/athletics/Golf/index_files/Historyandrecords/History.htm History Auburn Golf Championships] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719073212/http://www.auburnschools.org/athletics/Golf/index_files/Historyandrecords/History.htm |date=July 19, 2008 }}, retrieved July 29, 2008. The men's golf program has produced four individual state titles, Bob Dumas in 1969 and 1970, John Oswalt in 2004, and Lowery Thomas in 2005.AHSAAsports.com, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/golf/champions_boys.asp Golf Past State Champions (Boys)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071003043948/http://www.ahsaasports.com/golf/champions_boys.asp |date=October 3, 2007 }}, retrieved July 29, 2008.

The AHS women's golf squad won the state title in 2010, and placed second at the state tournament in 2007, 2008, and 2009, with additional top–five finishes in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2006.AHSAAsports.com, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/golf/Results/default.asp Golf Results] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615162907/http://www.ahsaasports.com/golf/Results/default.asp |date=June 15, 2006 }}, retrieved July 29, 2008.

The men's golf team competes in Section 2 of class 7A along with Central of Phenix City, Enterprise, Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee of Montgomery, Prattville, and Smiths Station high schools. The women's golf team competes in Section 2 of class 6A-7A.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/publications/2007-2008/2008SpringSports.pdf 2008 Spring Sports Book] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020214350/http://www.ahsaa.com/publications/2007-2008/2008SpringSports.pdf |date=October 20, 2007 }}, 108 & 114, retrieved July 28, 2008. Auburn High's official home golf course is Indian Pines Golf Course, though the Auburn University Club, Saugahachee Country Club, and the Robert Trent Jones–designed Grand National are often used as home courses. Billy Ramsey is currently the boys golf head coach.

Track and other running sports have been offered at Auburn High since 1921, when AHS won Alabama's first state track and field championship meet. The Tigers six track family sports—men's and women's outdoor track, men's and women's indoor track, and men's and women's cross country—have combined for twenty state championships."LCHS wins Alabama Inter-high school track and field meet", Orange and Blue, April 2, 1921.

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The Auburn men's track and field team is the oldest of Auburn's track family sports, having been founded prior to 1921 and fielded continually since 1966, while the women's track and field team was first formed in 1975.[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Crosscountry/Track/Records/VBrecords.html Track and Field Top Performances-Varsity Boys (Grades 9-12): 1966-Present] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011110438/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Crosscountry/Track/Records/VBrecords.html |date=October 11, 2008 }}, retrieved July 29, 2008; [http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Crosscountry/Track/Records/VGrecords.html Track and Field Top Performances-Varsity Girls (Grades 9-12): 1975-Present] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015161230/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Crosscountry/Track/Records/VGrecords.html |date=October 15, 2008 }}, retrieved July 29, 2008. The men's squad has won ten state titles: 1921, 1923, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 2013."LCHS wins Alabama Inter-high school track and field meet", Orange and Blue, April 2, 1921; The Atlanta Constitution, April 15, 1923; Alabama High School Athletic Association, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/track_and_field/champions_boys.asp Track & Field Past State Champions (Boys)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928104638/http://www.ahsaasports.com/track_and_field/champions_boys.asp |date=September 28, 2007 }}, retrieved January 21, 2007. Auburn's seven consecutive tiles between 1965 and 1971 is the state record for men's track.[http://www.ahsaa.com/records/trackandfield-boys.asp State Meet Track and Field Records - Boys] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514194117/http://www.ahsaa.com/records/trackandfield-boys.asp |date=May 14, 2008 }}, retrieved July 29, 2008. The Auburn women's track team won the state crown in 1986.Alabama High School Athletic Association, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/track_and_field/champions_girls.asp Track & Field Past State Champions (Girls)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617105005/http://www.ahsaasports.com/track_and_field/champions_girls.asp |date=June 17, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. Men's and women's teams also compete in Alabama's winter indoor track season. The men's indoor track squad has won seven state titles, in 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 2015, 2016, and 2017.Alabama High School Athletic Association, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/indoor_track/champions_boys.asp Indoor Track - Past State Champions - Boys] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210111136/http://www.ahsaasports.com/indoor_track/champions_boys.asp |date=February 10, 2006 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. Auburn High's Steve Bear won the state decathlon in 1970.AHSAAsports.com, [http://www.ahsaa.com/records/decathlon.asp Decathlon] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514194042/http://www.ahsaa.com/records/decathlon.asp |date=May 14, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008.

Both track squads compete in Section 2 of class 7A along with Central of Phenix City, Enterprise, Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee of Montgomery, Prattville, and Smiths Station high schools.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/publications/2007-2008/2008SpringSports.pdf 2008 Spring Sports Book] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020214350/http://www.ahsaa.com/publications/2007-2008/2008SpringSports.pdf |date=October 20, 2007 }}, 17, retrieved July 28, 2008. Dan Norton coaches the men's team, while Ladextric Oliver coaches the women's teamAuburn High School, [http://www.auburnschools.org], retrieved May 15, 2013.

Auburn High's men's cross country team has won ten state titles, in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1979, 1980, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. The men's squad has also produced eight individual state champions: Joe Elliot in 1967, 1968, and 1969, Alvin Floyd in 1970, Sam Barall in 1990 and 1991, Patrick Gomez in 2008 and Paul Barlow in 2014 and 2015.; while the women's team has three individual state championships: Rachel Hawk in 1993 and 1994, and Tara Enebak in 2002.AHSAAsports.com, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/cross_country/paststatechampions_boys.asp Past State Champions (Boys)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928000000/http://www.ahsaasports.com/cross_country/paststatechampions_boys.asp |date=September 28, 2007 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008; AHSAAsports.com, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/cross_country/paststatechampions_girls.asp Past State Champions (Girls)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928103406/http://www.ahsaasports.com/cross_country/paststatechampions_girls.asp |date=September 28, 2007 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008 Both squads compete in Section 2 of class 7A along with Central High School of Phenix City, Jeff Davis, Northview, Enterprise, Opelika, Russell County, and Smiths Station High Schools.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/publications/2007-2008/2008FallSports.pdf 2008 Fall Sports Book]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 93, retrieved July 28, 2008. Tony Benitez coaches the men's team.

The first varsity volleyball program at Auburn was started in 1978, but ended soon after and did not restart again until 2000.Minutes of City Board of Education, Auburn, Alabama, April 1978; Minutes of City Board of Education, Auburn, Alabama, July 1980; AHSAAsports.com, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/includes/Alignments.asp?SportID=2&Era=2 2000 - 2002 Volleyball Alignments] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071003060304/http://www.ahsaasports.com/includes/Alignments.asp?SportID=2&Era=2 |date=October 3, 2007 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. Since 2004, the volleyball team has lost only twice in area play, progressing to the state elite eight in four of the last six years.[http://stats.sportshuddle.com/FanPages/Sports/volleyball/Common/Team.asp?TeamID=%7BB7F5F46E-40EB-454D-A23D-8844F50DB3B4%7D&setTeamType=27&setAffiliate=MA04&setSeason=%7BA33126F7-7230-45E9-9927-92C40088C55C%7D Auburn (35-6)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060525105529/http://stats.sportshuddle.com/FanPages/Sports/volleyball/Common/Team.asp?TeamID=%7BB7F5F46E-40EB-454D-A23D-8844F50DB3B4%7D&setTeamType=27&setAffiliate=MA04&setSeason=%7BA33126F7-7230-45E9-9927-92C40088C55C%7D |date=May 25, 2006 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008; [http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Team.mxp/AreaID-cf13fd1c-3b7d-4977-a7d7-47cce64a8ac8/SchoolID-fcbe2ee5-0c01-409a-858e-6ccca19f49a9/Girls_Varsity_Volleyball_Fall_06-07/Alabama Auburn Tigers Girls High School Volleyball Fall 06-07], retrieved July 30, 2008; [http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Team.mxp/AreaID-cf13fd1c-3b7d-4977-a7d7-47cce64a8ac8/SchoolID-fcbe2ee5-0c01-409a-858e-6ccca19f49a9/Girls_Varsity_Volleyball_Fall_07-08/Alabama Auburn Tigers Girls High School Volleyball Fall 06-07], retrieved July 30, 2008; AHSAAsports.com, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/volleyball/ Volleyball] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720010057/http://www.ahsaasports.com/volleyball/ |date=July 20, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. The coach of the Auburn High School volleyball program is Jan Vaughn.[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Volleyball/index.html Auburn High School Volleyball] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723172046/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Volleyball/index.html |date=July 23, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. AHS volleyball competes in Area 3 of class 7A along with Central of Phenix City and Smiths Station high schools.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/Realignment/2008-10_volleyball.asp 2008-10 Volleyball Alignment] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212014755/http://www.ahsaa.com/Realignment/2008-10_volleyball.asp |date=December 12, 2007 }}, retrieved July 28, 2008. The team plays home matches at the Auburn Fieldhouse.

Men's tennis was a varsity sport at AHS as early as 1937; the women's tennis team was organized after female students tried out for the men's team in 1974."Prep Net Tourney on in Birmingham", Anniston Star, May 14, 1937; Jane Reid Petty, Almost as fairly: the first year of title IX implementation in six Southern States (Atlanta: The Program, 1977), 49. Tennis coaches are Matthew Hooper (men) and Bob Cloud (women).[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Tennis/index.html 2008 Auburn Tennis] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929111254/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Tennis/index.html |date=September 29, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. AHS tennis teams compete in Section 2 of class 7A along with Central of Phenix City, Enterprise, Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee of Montgomery, Prattville, and Smiths Station high schools.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/publications/2007-2008/2008SpringSports.pdf 2008 Spring Sports Book] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020214350/http://www.ahsaa.com/publications/2007-2008/2008SpringSports.pdf |date=October 20, 2007 }}, 45, retrieved July 28, 2008. Auburn High Tennis' home court is the Samford Avenue Tennis Center.

Auburn High's men's soccer program originated as a club sport in 1976, with the first interscholastic competition in 1979. The program played its first varsity season in 1983.Kenneth Rose, "AHS Soccer Progresses", Tiger Tales, October 21, 1983. In 1995, the first women joined the men's squad, leading to the full-fledged addition of women's soccer in 1997.The Tiger, vol 51, 162;[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Soccer/Womens/ProgramStatistics.htm AHS Women's Soccer Statistics] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015202131/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Soccer/Womens/ProgramStatistics.htm |date=October 15, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. The men's team reached the state final four in 2005, 2009, and 2010; placing as runner-up in 2010.[http://www.ahsaasports.com/soccer/Results/2005/brktb6a05.asp Soccer Playoff Brackets - 2005 (Boys) Class 6A] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027155908/http://www.ahsaasports.com/soccer/Results/2005/brktb6a05.asp |date=October 27, 2007 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. Coach of the Tiger men is Bill Ferguson.[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Soccer/Boys/coaches.htm Auburn High School Men's Soccer Coaches] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121221055/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Soccer/Boys/coaches.htm |date=November 21, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008.

The Auburn women's soccer team has reached the state final four for six of the last seven years: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, taking the state runner–up trophy in 2008. The team progressed to the elite eight in 2003, and has won eight straight section titles.[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Soccer/Womens/ProgramStatistics.htm AHS Women's Soccer Statistics] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015202131/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Soccer/Womens/ProgramStatistics.htm |date=October 15, 2008 }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. The Lady Tigers' coach is Bill Ferguson."{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120908212941/http://www.oanow.com/oan/sports/high_school_prep/article/ahs_girls_soccer_advances_to_championship_game/13291/ AHS girls soccer advances to championship game]}}", Opelika-Auburn News, May 10, 2008.

Both squads compete in Area 3 of class 7A along with Central of Phenix City and Smiths Station High Schools.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/Realignment/2008-10_soccer.pdf 2008-09; 2009-10 Soccer Alignment]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. Auburn High School soccer plays at Duck Samford Stadium.Tom Peavy, "{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120905073257/http://www.oanow.com/oan/sports/high_school_prep/article/ahsaa_soccer_auburn_highs_girls_advance_with_lopsided_win/12285/ AHSAA SOCCER: Auburn High’s girls advance with lopsided win]}}", Opelika-Auburn News, April 28, 2008.

Wrestling has been a sport at AHS since at least 1974.Minutes of City Board of Education, Auburn, Alabama, September 1974. The wrestling team competes in the South Supersection of class 7A.Alabama High School Athletic Association [http://www.ahsaa.com/Realignment/2008-10_wrestling.asp Wrestling Alignment - 2008-10]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, retrieved July 30, 2008. The head wrestling coach at Auburn High is Bo Bailey. AHS wrestling had a state champion in 2016, Kalil Johnson.

The Auburn High wrestling program was also the source of historic jurisprudence in Alabama case law on the topic of State–agent immunity. In 2000, then–coach Michael Douglas wrestled a "challenge match" with student Jake Giambrone, resulting in Giambrone suffering a severe spinal cord injury which left him quadriplegic. The following year, Giambrone's family sued Douglas for negligence. Douglas, however, claimed "State–agent immunity"—that as the injury occurred during Douglas's duties as an agent of the state of Alabama in his capacity as coach, he was immune from litigation under the principle of sovereign immunity. In {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100918062553/http://birminghambar.org/data/SlipOpinions/SupCt/1020234.htm Giambrone v. Douglas]}}, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Douglas did not enjoy State–agent immunity because he failed to follow the guidelines of the AHSAA and the National Federation of Wrestling provided to him by Auburn High officials. The limitation on State–agent immunity first elucidated in Giambrone v. Douglas has been cited in several cases since.[http://www.birminghambar.org/data/SlipOpinions/SupCt/1020234.htm Giambrone v. Douglas, 874 So. 2d 1046, 1052 (Ala. 2003)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918062553/http://www.birminghambar.org/data/SlipOpinions/SupCt/1020234.htm |date=September 18, 2010 }}; [http://www.bradleyarant.com/publications_opinions.php?ID=4682 Feagins v. Waddy, (Ms. 1051349, August 3, 2007)]{{dead link|date=October 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}; [http://www.bradleyarant.com/publications_opinions.php?ID=3929 Wilson v. Colbert County Board of Education, 2006 WL 825089 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006)]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; [http://www.bradleyarant.com/publications_opinions.php?ID=4043 Ex parte The Estate of Johnny Reynolds And Charles Cole]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.

Auburn High's swimming and diving program competes in class 6A-7A of the AHSAA. Divers on the swimming and diving team have won ten state championships since 1988, the men's swimming and diving team placed second in the state in 1994, 1995, 2008, 2009, and 2010, and the women's swimming team was state runner-up in 2008 and 2009.Alabama High School Athletic Association, [http://www.ahsaasports.com/swimming_diving/PastChampions_Girls.asp Swimming & Diving Past Champions (Girls)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212002213/http://www.ahsaasports.com/swimming_diving/PastChampions_Girls.asp |date=February 12, 2008 }}, retrieved May 15, 2007, [http://www.ahsaa.com/Portals/0/pdf/sports/2008%20boys%20swimming%20results.pdf AHSAA Swimming and Diving Championships, The University of Alabama Aquatic Center, Results - Swimming Finals] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917070425/http://www.ahsaa.com/Portals/0/pdf/sports/2008%20boys%20swimming%20results.pdf |date=September 17, 2010 }}, retrieved December 7, 2008. Auburn shares practices and facilities with the 13-time national champion Auburn University swimming and diving program, including the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.[http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Swimming/index.html Auburn City Schools Swimming Program] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231115348/http://www.auburnschools.org/Athletics/Swimming/index.html |date=December 31, 2008 }}, retrieved September 26, 2007. The coach of the Tigers' swim program is Jeff Dellinger.{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120909175525/http://www.oanow.com/oan/sports/high_school_prep/article/ahs_swimming_finishes_second/50036/ "AHS swimming finishes second"]}}, Opelika-Auburn News, December 8, 2008.

Auburn High School swimmers and divers hold four of twelve state records in men's swimming and diving and two of twelve state records in women's swimming and diving.

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:Baseball (3)

:* 1986, 2009, 2010

:Men's Basketball (1)

:* 2005

:Men's Cross Country (10)

:* 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1979, 1980, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

:Men's Diving (3)

:* 1991, 1998, 2013

:Men's Golf (4)

:* 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

:Men's Indoor Track (7)

:* 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 2015, 2016, 2017

:Men's Soccer (2)

:* 2012, 2018

:Men's Track and Field (11)

:* 1921, 1923, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 2013, 2016

:Women's Basketball (1)

:* 1919 (outdoor)

: Women’s Cross Country (5)

:* 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

:Women's Diving (9)

:* 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2009

:Women's Swimming (3)

:* 2014, 2015, 2016

:Women's Track and Field (1)

:* 1986

:Women's Golf (1)

:* 2010

• Reuben Foster, UFL player for the Arlington Renegades
• Osi Umenyiora, former NFL player
• DeMarcus Ware, retired NFL player
• Marcus Washington, former NFL player
• Rashaan Evans, NFL player
• Cody Core, former NFL player

File:Duck Samford Stadium home stands.jpg

Major sporting facilities and their main use include:

• Duck Samford Stadium—football, soccer
• New Auburn High school Gym—basketball, volleyball
• New Auburn high baseball field—baseball
• New Auburn high track- Track and Field
• New Auburn high softball field- softball
• James E. Martin Aquatic Center—swimming and diving
• New Auburn high tennis courts—tennis

Former facilities include:

• Felton Little Park—football, baseball (1949–1968)
• Drake Field—football, baseball (1911–1949)
• Auburn Stadium—football (1939–1947)
• Ross Field—football (1921–1935)

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Auburn High School's primary fight song is "Hooray for Auburn!". The lyrics to "Hooray for Auburn!" come from a cheer that was commonly used in the mid-twentieth century. In 1961, Auburn High School band director Tommy Goff wrote music to fit those lyrics to create the current fight song. In subsequent years, the fight song was adopted by other schools, including Prattville High School and Opelika High School. At football games, "Hooray for Auburn!" is played after a touchdown.Auburn High School Band music library, "Hooray for Auburn!"; interview with Tommy Goff, 2002; Jimmy White, "Friday pep rally sends team on the road to state", Prattville Progress, December 13, 2006; . The lyrics to "Hooray for Auburn!" fall into the public domain because they were legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed. See also the [http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html Rutgers copyright renewal records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012195447/http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html |date=2007-10-12 }} and [http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home Stanford Copyright Renewal Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101123203/http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home |date=2012-11-01 }} for further information. The act of publication occurred when the music and lyrics were offered by the copyright holder to LaFayette High School in 1963.

"Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn"—often simply "Glory"—was Auburn High's fight song before "Hooray for Auburn!" was written in 1961 and is currently a secondary fight song of Auburn High. "Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn" has the tune of the chorus of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", while the lyrics are identical to those of the University of Georgia's "Glory, Glory" but substitute the word "Auburn" for "Georgia". At football games, "Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn" is played after a successful PAT conversion.Interview with Tommy Goff, 2002. The lyrics to "Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn" fall into the public domain because they are a rewording of the chorus of Amherst's "Marching Song of the Alumni" and Georgia's Glory, Glory both of which were published prior to 1923. See Amherst Graduates' Quarterly (1911), p. 15."

For the 1955 football season, Auburn High used the Alabama Polytechnic Institute fight song "War Eagle". An earlier school song, "Auburn Loyalty", was used from the 1920s through the 1940s. "Auburn Loyalty" has the melody of "Illinois Loyalty".Carolyn Jenkins, "Ephemera – Lee County High School", Carolyn Jenkins Collection, RG 93, Auburn University Special Collections and Archives (1927); "Drips from Leaky High", Lee County Bulletin, October 14, 1944.

Auburn High's mascot is the tiger. The tiger was chosen because of its association with Auburn in Oliver Goldsmith's 1770 poem The Deserted Village. The first line of the poem is "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain", while a later line describes Auburn as, "where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey."

Auburn High's costumed mascot is Samford, an anthropomorphic tiger. Samford was created in 1995 and named for three symbols of the school: Samford Avenue, which runs by the school; Duck Samford Stadium, Auburn High's football stadium; and Samford Hall, the most prominent building in Auburn. Kari Pierce was the first Samford in 1995.Auburn High School, The Tiger, vol. 52.

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