Sports
In 2012 the 1st XI and U15 XI footballers were both Cheshire Cup winners whilst the senior Rugby Sevens team became the first ever non-selective team to win the Birkenhead School Invitation Sevens and they then went on to win the Plate competition at the Cheshire 7s Tournament.
In 2009/10, the school 1st XV rugby team became the first Cheshire School to win both the Daily Mail Vase (14-3 vs Norwich School) and the Cheshire Cup (28-25 vs Lymm HS).
In 2006–2007, the 1st XV rugby squad became Cheshire county champions beating Lymm High School and reached the 5th round of the Daily Mail Cup. The 1st XI hockey squad reached the final of the Cheshire Cup (beaten by Birkenhead School 2-0; the two sides also met again in the following year's final, Sandbach losing 3–2).
The Orienteering Club were 2008 winners of the Cheshire and Merseyside Schools League.
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—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
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—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)