Sports
Priory is a member of the suburban Metro League, which was reconstituted out of the former ABC League. Priory students are required to participate in a sport each of the three seasons. In the fall, the school offers cross country, football, and soccer. In the winter, the school offers basketball, ice hockey, and wrestling. Students may choose to participate in the winter musical in order to fill their sports requirement. The ice hockey team is a club team that is not sponsored by the school or state. However, according to a rule change starting in the 2009-2010 school year, it now fulfills the sports requirement for the winter term. In the spring, the school offers golf, track and field, tennis, rugby, baseball, lacrosse, and ultimate frisbee. As with ice hockey, the rugby and ultimate frisbee teams are club teams. (Although the school has racquetball and squash facilities, it does not field teams in these sports, nor does it have a swimming and diving team, as it once did.)
In the winter of 2004, the hockey team received a bid to play in the Wickenheiser Cup, a memorial tournament named for the late St. Louis Blues Center Doug Wickenheiser. Priory won the championship game, played at the Scottrade Center, giving the school its first state sports title since 1973. In 2007, the hockey team won the Wickenheiser Cup for the second time.
In the fall of 2005, the Priory varsity soccer team became the first in this sport in Missouri's high school sports history, and the first since state titles were officially sanctioned by the Missouri State High School Activities Association, to compete for a full season with no losses or ties. The soccer Rebels ended the season with a perfect 26-0-0 record, winning the state Class 2 title.In November 2011, the soccer Rebels again produced a perfect season, finishing 27-0-0 and winning the Missouri State High School Class 2 championship with a 2-0 victory over Trinity High School. In so doing they became the only school in Missouri high school soccer history to twice post a perfect season, with no losses and no ties. The soccer Rebels' team record included 24 shutouts, and they outscored opponents 107-5.
In the spring of 2007, the Priory golf team won its first state title, winning by 27 shots. The final team score was 583.
The spring of 2007 brought upon another great change to Priory sports; fielding an Ultimate Frisbee team, nicknamed "The Jeromans" after an esteemed Priory classics teacher, Mr. Jerome Miller, Priory went undefeated in the regular season and ultimately, after a tough semifinals game against DeSmet Jesuit High School, went to the State Finals against Rockhurst High School, against whom they lost. In 2008, the team repeated its undefeated season, defeating Rockhurst (this time in the semifinals) before then falling to a very strong DeSmet team. In 2009, the team again went undefeated up until its third consecutive State Final loss, again to a nationally ranked DeSmet squad. 2010 brought on a tough year where the team struggled during the season before pulling off several upsets against St. Louis University High School, Kirkwood High School, and Parkway North High School before falling to DeSmet during the State Finals for the third year in a row.
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