Sports
MLK Magnet offers a variety of sports and competes regularly, as shown by numerous awards and rankings. MLK has also won many TSSAA championships. MLK has won two state championships in boy's basketball (1991,1996) a state championship in boy's track in 2005, with Anderson Skaggs as MVP, 2009 and 2010, a state championship in boy's cross-country in 2008 and 2009, a state runner-up in boy's track in 2004, and a state championship in doubles tennis in 2007. Recently, the MLK Girls Track Team has won TSSAA State Track Meet for three years straight, 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Varsity Sports:
- Boys/girls tennis
- Baseball
- Cross country
- Boys/girls track
- Ice hockey
- Boys/girls soccer
- Softball
- Bowling
- Cheerleading
- Football(with Pearl-Cohn High School)
- Golf
- Mascot
- Swimming
- Volleyball
- Wrestling
- Ultimate
- Ping pong
Junior Varsity Sports:
- Boys/girls basketball
- Volleyball
Freshmen Sports:
- Boys/girls basketball
- Track (Boys)
- Volleyball
Middle School Sports:
- Boys/girls basketball
- Cheerleading
- Boys/girls soccer
- Boys/girls track
- Volleyball
- Wrestling
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)