Vision
Our vision at Seguin High School is to provide a quality education in an enriched environment that culminates in premier results.
Mission
Our mission at Seguin High is to ensure that all students receive a quality education in a safe, orderly, productive, and engaged environment.
Mascot: Cougar
Colors: Carolina Blue, Black, White
Motto: “Where Excellence is the Standard.”
Alma Mater
All Hail to Thee, Oh, Juan Seguin
With Cougar pride we stand.
You give us inspiration
To be the finest in the land.
With courage and with honor
We raise our torch on high.
All hail to thee, our Alma Mater,
Juan Seguin High.
Fight Song
Fight, Seguin Cougars!
Fight for victory.
When you hear us shout
Go! Fight! Win!
Do it for Seguin
Fight, Seguin Cougars!
Fight for victory
Fight, Seguin Cougars!
Win this game for old Seguin.
Go! Fight! Win! Go! Fight! Win!
S-E-G-U-I-N Go Cougars
S-E-G-U-I-N Go! Fight! Win!
Fight, Seguin Cougars!
Fight for victory.
Fight, Seguin Cougars!
History
Juan Seguin High School, whose namesake comes from one of Texas’ historical leaders, Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, opened its doors in August 2002. It is the youngest and only 5A high school in the entire 91ÖÆƬ³§. We Cougars are proud of our school, and we believe that students come first in our commitment to preparing them for their educational and life goals. Our mission is clear, and we look forward to continued growth and success.
Juan SeguÃn (1806 – 1890), political and military figure of the Texas Revolution and Republic of Texas, was born in San Antonio on October 27, 1806, the elder son of two children of Juan José MarÃa Erasmo SeguÃn and MarÃa Josefa Becerra. Although he had little formal schooling, Juan was encouraged by his father to read and write, and he appears to have taken some interest in music. At age nineteen, he married MarÃa Gertrudis Flores de Abrego, a member of one of San Antonio’s most important ranching families. They had ten children, among whom Santiago, whom was a mayor of Nuevo Laredo and Juan Jr., an officer in the Mexican military in the 1860s and 1870s. SeguÃn began his long career of public service at an early age. He helped his mother run his father’s post office while the latter served in Congress in 1823-24. SeguÃn’s election as alderman in December 1828 demonstrated his great potential. He subsequently served on various electoral boards before being elected alcalde±ç±¹Ìýin December 1833. He acted for most of 1834 as political chief of the Department of Bexar, after the previous chief became ill and retired.
SeguÃn’s military career began in 1835. In the spring, he responded to the Federalist state governor’s call for support against the Centralist opposition by leading a militia company to Monclova. After the battle of Gonzalesqv in October 1835, Stephen F. Austin granted a captain’s commission to SeguÃn, who raised a company of thirty-seven. His company was involved in the fall of 1835 in scouting and supply operations for the revolutionary army and, on December 5, it participated in the assault on Gen. MartÃn Perfecto de Cos’s army at San Antonio. SeguÃn entered the Alamo with the other Texan military when Antonio López de Santa Anna’s army arrived, but was sent out as a courier. Upon reaching Gonzales he organized a company that functioned as the rear guard of Sam Houston’s army, was the only Tejano unit to fight at the battle of San Jacinto, and afterward observed the Mexican army’s retreat. SeguÃn accepted the Mexican surrender of San Antonio on June 4, 1836, and served as the city’s military commander through the fall of 1837; during this time, he directed burial services for the remains of the Alamo dead. He resigned his commission upon election to the Texas Senate at the end of the year. SeguÃn, the only Mexican Texan in the Senate of the republic, served in the Second, Third, and Fourth Congress. He served on the Committee of Claims and Accounts and, despite his lack of English, was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. Among his legislative initiatives were efforts to have the laws of the new republic printed in Spanish. In the spring of 1840 he resigned his Senate seat to assist Gen. Antonio Canales, a Federalist, in an abortive campaign against the Centralists, but upon his return to San Antonio at the end of the year, he found himself selected mayor. In this office, SeguÃn became embroiled in growing hostilities between Anglos and Mexican Texans. He faced personal problems as well. He had gained the enmity of some residents by speculating in land. He financed his expedition in support of Canales by mortgaging property and undertook a smuggling venture in order to pay off the debt. Although upon his return from Mexico he came under suspicion of having betrayed the failed Texan Santa Fe expedition, he still managed to be reelected mayor at the end of 1841. His continuing conflicts with Anglo squatters on city property, combined with his business correspondence with Mexico, incriminated him in Gen. Rafael Vásquez’s invasion of San Antonio in March 1842. In fear for his safety, SeguÃn resigned as mayor on April 18, 1842, and shortly thereafter fled to Mexico with his family. He spent six years in Mexico and then attempted to reestablish himself in Texas. While living in Mexico he participated, according to him under duress, in Gen. Adrián Woll’s invasion of Texas in September 1842. Afterward his company served as a frontier defense unit, protecting the Rio Grande crossings and fighting Indians. During the Mexican War, his company saw action against United States forces. At the end of the war he decided to return to Texas, despite the consequences. He settled on land adjacent to his father’s ranch in what is now Wilson County. During the 1850s he became involved in local politics and served as a Bexar County constable and an election-precinct chairman. His business dealings took him back to Mexico on occasion, and at the end of the 1860s, after a brief tenure as Wilson county judge, SeguÃn retired to Nuevo Laredo, where his son Santiago had established himself. He died there on August 27, 1890. His remains were returned to Texas in 1974 and buried at Seguin, the town named in his honor, during ceremonies on July 4, 1976.BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jesús F. de la Teja, ed., A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. SeguÃn (Austin: State House Press, 1991).