Sporting Achievements
While Walls has a very small pool of students from which to select its athletes, they do quite well in many sports, consistently placing 2nd in men's baseball. Finishing first has been deemed nearly impossible as Woodrow Wilson High School has won for more than a decade.
Walls has many other sports programs including: tennis, soccer, crew, basketball, baseball, girl's volleyball, softball, golf, lacrosse, track and field, and skiing are all available. The Track and Field team is going to Penn Relay 2011. The softball team won citywide championships in 2011, beating out rivals from Wilson in the semifinals and Anacostia in the finals. The team had lost to both in the regular season, so the championship win came as a rewarding surprise. They reciprocated their win in 2012 by winning another city title. Lacrosse was recently made available to School Without Walls, along with Ballou and Coolidge High Schools. Girls field hockey was also made available recently.
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