Extracurricular Activities
The band and orchestra program at Round Rock High School often does well in competitions, consistently placing well in UIL competitions.
The forensics program at RRHS has had a history of success in Cross-Examination Debate. Numerous students have reached state and national levels throughout the school's past. Round Rock High School has qualified for TOC, TFA, and UIL many times.
In 1995, sophomore Abbi Fuchs won the Texas slalom skiing championship for her age group. The school's baseball team won a Texas class 5A state championship in 1997.
Round Rock received national attention for its 1994-95 yearbook, believed to be the first ever released in CD-ROM format. The yearbook was produced by Electric Tours Group of Round Rock, Texas, and contained 2,000 photographs, 25 minutes of video and 20 minutes of audio material.
The Current Issues and Events team typically does very well in UIL competition and won the 5A state championship in 1991, 1993, 1999, 2005 and 2006.
The Computer Science team won the 5A State Championship in 1998.
The Round Rock High School Choir has also done quite well each year at competitions and has sent many of its students to compete for a spot in the All-State choir under the direction of Steve White, and was under the direction of Dr. Tod Fish but is now under the direction of Jamieson McCaffity.
The Round Rock High School Drumline, under the direction of Steve Roeder, has won the statewide Lonestar Drumline Competition two years running, first in 2007 and again in 2008, beating the next best competitor by at least 1.5 points out of 100 each time. They nearly won in 2006, but took Second Place by six hundredths of a point. They also took home two State Championships in the TCGC State Indoor Drumline Competition Marching Open Class: once in March 2009 with their show "Relative", and again in March 2010 with their show "Breathe".
The Round Rock High School Chapters for the Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) was established in 2006. They have won several awards in various medical-related competitions in recent years. In 2009, at the state competition, they placed third in Medical Spelling and Physical Therapy, fourth in Forensic Science, and fifth in Personal Care. Two members also advanced to the national competition by doing well on the Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Issues Exam.
The Round Rock Dragon Lacrosse team started up in 2010. Although it started small it quickly grew to have fifty-two players as of September 2011. The Round Rock Dragon Lacrosse team is split into three different teams; Varsity, Jr. Varsity (white) and Jr. Varsity (Maroon). Because of the fact that Lacrosse is not a UIL sport the Round Rock Dragon Lacrosse team is a club sport. In its first year the Round Rock Dragon Lacrosse team lost its first season however it is still growing quickly in size and capability. The website for Round Rock Dragon Lacrosse is http://roundrocklacrosse.com/
The Round Rock Color Guard does well consistently during their winter season. In 2011, their show "Come In From the Rain" placed sixth at the state winterguard competition. In 2012, the Varsity winterguard placed second at state with their show "Errol Flynn", while the Junior Varsity placed sixth with their show entitled "Helios".
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