Jim Ned High School

Jim Ned High School is a secondary school part of the the Jim Ned Consolidated Independent School District. Located in Tuscola, Texas, USA, the high school serves approximately 330 students from approximately 380 square milescite news|url=http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/doc_lib/Oklahoman_-_McCoy_still_big_news_in_small_town.pdf |title=McCoy still big news in small town | publisher=Oklahoman | author=Schroeder, George | format=PDF | date=October 5 2006 |accessdate=2007-01-04] in southeastern Taylor County, including the towns of Tuscola, Buffalo Gap, and Lawn. A small portion of northeastern Runnels County lies within the district also. The district and the school are both named after the Jim Ned creek which runs through all 3 towns. The creek is named after Jim Ned who was an Indian cavalry scout for the United States Army.

Colt McCoy, the starting quarterback for the University of Texas Longhorns, graduated from Jim Ned High School, where he was coached in football by his father, Brad McCoy. Colt ranks as the all-time leading passer in Texas Division 2A high school history and is fourth overall in Texas high school history.cite news | url=http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=15&change_well_id=17&member_id=115 | title=McCoy Bio at official web-site of Texas Longhorns Football | publisher=MackBrownTexasFootball | accessdate=2007-01-05]

Jim Ned varsity basketball girls won the 08 2A state championship defeating poth 64-46. The boys basketball was runner-up in state losing to ponder in the championship game. Jim Ned also was the 2A uil state champions. Lane Quinney, and Amanda Burley both placed first place. Quinney in Accounting and Burley in Calculator. Payden Johnson and Jada Yarbrough placed second individually Johnson in Social Studies and Yarbrough in Accounting. The Social Studies team won first, Accounting and Spelling were runner-up. This marks the first time Jim Ned has won the state acedemic meet

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