Thomasville High School

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Location
Thomasville High School
315 South Hansell Street Thomasville Georgia 31792 USA
Information
School district	Thomasville City Schools
Principal	Todd Mobley
Enrollment	789^[1] (2005-06)
Faculty	52.4 (on FTE basis)^[1]
Student:teacher ratio	15.1^[1]
Type	Public
Grades	9 to 12
Athletics conference	GHSA
Motto	Bulldog Pride
Mascot	Bulldog
Homepage	www.tcitys.org/ths

Thomasville High School is a public secondary school located in Thomasville Georgia. It is one of only a handful of city school systems left in the state of Georgia. It is considered by the Georgia High School Association to be an AA school system.

1 Sports
2 Notable alumni
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Sports

Thomasville High is most known for their football program. When the football program began in 1910 they were known as the Thomasville Red Cyclones. This changed in 1923 when they were given permission by the University of Georgia to use the Bulldog mascot. The school colors were initially red and black. These did not change until segregation came to an end and the school merged with Douglas High School and took on the color gold, while doing away with black. In 97 years of football the school has one high school football national championship (1974), five state championships (1925, 1945, 1958 co-champs, 1973, 1974, 1988). They have also won 24 region titles, with the most recent coming in 2007. Thomas County Central High School and Cairo High School are their primary rivals, while there was a suspension of the 2 series' in the late 1990's they now play the 2 schools in their first 2 games of the season each year. The school has produced numerous major college and NFL players including: William Andrews, Mike Bobo, Shawn Jones, Mike Jones (University of Georgia), Eric Curry, Guy McIntyre and many others.

Though not known for baseball until recent years the school won a state championship in 1999. Levale Speigner was part of the 1999 team and he has gone on to play professional baseball.