Seattle Prep Athletics and Activities
Seattle Prep has a mixed athletic tradition, winning numerous league and state titles in many different men's and women's sports. As of 2010, by size Prep is a high-end 1A class school, but plays up in 3A classification.
The girls' soccer team has had unprecedented success at Prep. Led by Hall of Fame coach, Andy Hendricks, the girls are back-to-back State Champions (2011 and 2012) and have four other appearances in the State Championship game.
The girls basketball team has qualified for State an astonishing 14 years in a row, winning it all in 2002.
Prep's volleyball team dominated the early part of the new century winning three straight state titles from 2001–2003, and returned to the champions cirlce in 2010.
The boys' basketball team won State Titles in 2000 and 2006 and narrowly missed another title in 2012 losing in the State Championship game. The team has qualified for State 6 of the last 7 seasons. Prep boys' basketball has a rich tradition of players who have gone on to star in college and the NBA, including Spencer Hawes(UW and Philadelphia 76ers), Martell Webster(Minnesota Timberwolves), Erik Bond(St. Mary's College and Cal), Patrick Nyeko(Nevada), David Emslie(Santa Clara), Jeffrey Day(Creighton and UW), Chad Troyer(Pacific), Mitch Brewe(UC Santa Barbara) and a number of other players at DII and DIII schools.
Prep men's cross country team won the title in 1966 (led by future 4th place finisher in the Montreal Olympics marathon Don Kardong), 1972 and 2000. Under current coaches Dr. John "Doc" Robertson and Mr. Savage, Prep's men's cross country teams have finished as one of the top four 3A teams for every year but one since 1996. During that span, Prep never placed lower than second in the Metro League. 2006 saw Prep gain its first All-American in cross country, Max O'Donoghue-McDonald, who placed 15th at the Footlocker Nationals meet. Max also broke a longstanding Lower Woodland course record, clocking 15:22 for the 5 kilometer distance. Also in 2006, Prep won its first women's Metro League team title.
In 1998, Seattle Prep junior Patrick Fowler set the national high school 100-yard-breaststroke record in a time of 53.66. As of March 1, 2009, this record still stands.
Athletics is not the only programming that has experienced success amongst the best in the state.
The Mock Trial program boasts 8 state titles in the last 10 years (winning State in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012). They have gone on to compete nationally each of these years finishing in the top half of the nation on several occasions.
The Prep Chess Team has played in the Washington High School State Team Championship in each of the past 17 years. Its highest finishes were 2nd (2002), 3rd (2009), 5th (2005 and 2010), and 6th (1999). In 1999, they also won the Metro Championship.
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