Academic and Athletic Recognition
- De La Salle Collegiate continues to receive national recognition for its academics, athletics and fine arts. De La Salle Collegiate has averaged 11 National Merit recipients annually for the last five years. In the last ten years, 99.8% of its students have enrolled in college after graduation.
- In 2001, the concert and jazz bands, as well as the show choir and men's chorus performed in China. De La Salle’s band program was one of only two chosen throughout the United States to perform in China that year.Currently, De La Salle also offers Mandarin Chinese class from level 1 to level 3.
- De La Salle Collegiate sports teams have appeared in 15 state finals in various sports since 1982, finishing as finalists in basketball (1982), soccer (1994), and football (2006 & 2008), while winning its first State Championship in 1990 in soccer. In 2011, Brennan Kelly became the first and only all-state wrestler in DLS history, taking 8th at the state tournament. DLS has won ten more State Championships (four in soccer, three in baseball, two in bowling and one in lacrosse). The most recent state championship was won during the 2008-2009 school year when the school's baseball team won a state title en route to a 36-5 record.
- Their hockey team has consistently been among the top 10 teams in the state of Michigan for the last five years and has been to the Catholic League Championship game the past four years winning once in 2008 against Brother Rice. The team competes in the most elite league in the state, the MIHL.
- In 2009, De La Salle Collegiate had 5 athletic teams win the Catholic League Championship, setting a new school record. The 2009 football team had the best record in school history by going 13-1 losing in the State Championship. The class of '09 was the greatest sports class to go through the school. They also won a state championship in baseball.
- Sam Viviano became De La Salle's first Presidential Scholar in 1971.
- In 2010, De La Salle's second Presidential Scholar, Bernard VanBerkum, was named. Only 141 students across the country received the prestigious honor, having demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, leadership, citizenship, service, and contribution to school and community.
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