Factoids


		*Akins Eagles Baseball 2006*

*Factoids*

	Stuff you didn’t even know you wanted to know


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The Akins Eagles are a Class 5A team, competing in District 16-5A against local schools with similar enrollment numbers, under the auspices of the University Interscholastic League (UIL).

Here are the schools in District 16-5A:

SCHOOL

ENROLLMENT

Bowie

   2,498

Westlake

   2,345

Akins

   2,174

Austin

   2,165

Bastrop

   2,107

Hays

   1,989

Anderson

   1,949

Crockett

   1,936

[Source: University Interscholastic League - August 5, 2005]

The official team colors for the Akins Eagles are Navy Blue and Old Gold.

   Baseball is the fourth-most popular sport for boys at the high school level with 455,305 participants during the 1998-99 season, according to the athletics participation survey conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations. In terms of school sponsorship it ranks third with 14,486 schools nationwide offering the sport. In addition, there are 1,331 girls in 136 schools across the country who participated in baseball during the 1998-99 season.

   [Source: National Federation of State High School Associations]

   By the time boys reach ages 13 and 14, seventy percent have dropped out of organized baseball.

   [Source: National Youth Sports Coaches Association]


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