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The Starkville High School Cheer team earned Top 3 honors at the Universal Cheerleaders...

Jacket Dance Camp Honors

The Starkville High School Dance team earned Superior ratings and two Spirit Sticks alo...

Yellow Jacket Turf Project

Jacket Athletics will begin the 2025-2026 competitive season with new state-of-the-art ...

Jacket Football Staff Hires

When the Jackets open Spring football practice on Monday, they will begin a new era und...

Jacket Tryout dates

** Updated with new dates 5/9/25 Jacket Athletics has announced Fall and Winter spor...

Yellow Jacket Assistant Boys Soccer Coach Michael Adams (left) and Head Boys Soccer Coach Evinn Watson (right) have been selected to coach the North Half of the 2025 Randy West Boys Soccer All-Star Game.

Starkville High School Boys Soccer Head Coach, Evinn Watson, has been selected along wi...

Jacket Girls Wrestling

The Yellow Jacket varsity Boys and Girls wrestling squads travel to the MHSAA State Ind...

John Carr named SHS Head Football Coach

"He's an outstanding, classy guy –– a high character guy," said Jacket Director of Athletics, Jay Hopson. "He'll be blessed to have some really gifted athletes here at Starkville, and offense is key in facing the level of competition we see consistently in the 7A classification. I'm confident he'll be able to expand our tradition of developing players into strong collegiate prospects."