Longtime and current Auburn High School Basketball coach Frank Tolbert is in his 30th year as the boys basketball coach at Auburn – has led the Tigers to a state championship (2005), two state runner up finishes, six Final Four appearances and 12 area tournament titles. He has also won 11 different regular-season tournaments.
He’s complied a 672-333 record as a basketball coach (.669 winning percentage) – averaging more than 21 wins per year – and a 532-265 record as Auburn’s boys coach. Tolbert went 30-8 in two years as the Tigers’ girls basketball coach (1978-80).
He has also served Auburn as a football coach (1970-94), wrestling coach (1973-76) and girls track coach (1983-87), winning a state track title in 1986.
About Auburn High School:
Auburn High School is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama, that serves students in grades 10th through 12th. We offer technical, academic, and International Baccalaureate programs.
Auburn High School is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama, that serves students in grades 10th through 12th. We offer technical, academic, and International Baccalaureate programs, as well as joint enrollment with Southern Union State Community College and Auburn University.
Founded in 1837 as Auburn Academy, Auburn High School is the oldest public secondary school in Alabama. Auburn High became Lee County’s flagship high school in 1914 as Lee County High School, and gained its present name, Auburn High School, in 1956. The school moved to its current campus in 1965.
Auburn High was ranked the 28th best non-magnet public high school and 77th best public high school in the United States by Newsweek in May 2006, and the second best educational value in the Southeastern United States by SchoolMatch, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. Auburn High School averages seven National Merit Finalists a year, and has scored among the top five percent of Alabama high schools on state-wide standardized tests each year since testing began in 1995. Auburn High’s varsity sporting teams have won 40 team state championships, and the Auburn High School Band has been rated one of the top high school concert band programs in the United States, winning the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s Sudler Flag of Honor in 1987.
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