The Mount Pleasant High School Lady Tiger basketball team attended Team Camp at East Texas Baptist University on June 14-16. At the end of camp, the Lady Tigers were the 3-0 undefeated ETBU Team Camp Champions taking down Brownsboro, Buffalo, and Wolfe City. In addition, two Lady Tigers earned individual accolades. Rising senior Kaylin Brannon [...]
On April 26, 2026, the Mt. Pleasant High School Chapter of the Chick-fil-A Leader Academy sponsored a Fun Day to help raise money for the Ava Claire Dellwood Park and Pool Fund. The group chose this cause for their Community Impact Project. The morning began with a 5K Color Run that drew over 90 runners [...]
Thirteen Mount Pleasant High School Tiger football team members competed in the Lineman Challenge on Friday, June 5 at the Gilmer High School Stadium. Five Tigers competed in each of ten events including the Big Man relay, medicine ball toss, harness pull, hoop dash, bench press, DB stack, team bus push, obstacle course, farmers walk [...]
Congratulations to MPHS rising senior Natalie Hines who was crowned the NETX Miss Juneteenth! Natalie will represent us at the Miss Juneteenth Texas pageant on July 10 and 11. Congratulations and good luck!
The Mount Pleasant High School Cheerleaders attended the Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA) cheer camp at The Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine from May 29-June 1. Both squads brought home multiple team and individual awards. As an entire program, Mount Pleasant High School won the prestigious Top Banana Award. This is the highest [...]
Nine members of the Mount Pleasant High School Choir competed at the UIL State Choir Solo and Ensemble Contest at Barton Middle School in Hays CISD just outside Austin on May 25. Four earned state silver medals for their vocal performances. Earning silver medals were 2026 graduates Emi Hobbs with “Orpheus With His Lute” by [...]
The Mount Pleasant Skeet Team competed in the Texas Skeet Shooting State Tournament on June 6 in Waco. Overall, MP placed 2nd place as a team with score of 419, just 2 points shy of first place at 421. In just their 3rd year in existence, MPISD has had team and individual state champions and [...]
Please enjoy the senior edition of Tigertalk for the 2025-2026 school year. Tigertalk is the MPHS campus newspaper produced by our journalism students under the guidance of journalism instructor, John Whitten. TIGERTALK
Members of the 2026-2027 Tiger Doll leadership team attended the American Dance/Drill Team Officer Camp from May 27-29 at the Hilton Dallas/Rockwall Lakefront Hotel in Rockwall. Throughout camp, officers and sergeants participated in dance training, leadership development sessions, and planning activities designed to prepare them for the upcoming school year. The officers were judged on [...]
Mount Pleasant High School senior, Brissia Alvarez, placed 4th in 5A News Writing at the UIL State Academic Meet on Monday, May 18, earning her second UIL State medal. Alvarez won silver in Ready Writing in 2024. Remarkably, Alvarez had never competed in News Writing until the district meet in March, due to the event [...]
