Athletics
Eastern offers varsity and Jr. varsity teams in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, chess, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, lacrosse, ping pong, softball, soccer, swimming, track and field, tennis, volleyball & wrestling. Within the past decade Eastern has won state championships in girls' track as well as boys' soccer. The James A. Sexton athletic complex, which includes a football, baseball, softball, soccer, and field hockey field, as well as tennis courts, is regarded as the best in the city of Louisville.
The boys basketball team was the state runner up in 1957, losing the championship game to Lexington Lafayette 55-52. In 1997 Eastern's boys basketball team won the state championship & finished the season with a 35-2 record. In 2003 & in 2006 the boys basketball team won the LIT (Louisville Invitational Tournament).
In the 2008-2009 season, the boys basketball team won the LIT & made it to the Elite Eight in the state tournament, losing to Central High School of Louisville Kentucky. They are coached by Jason Couch.
The girls track team has won 9 state championships (most recently in 2006) & has been the state runner up 6 times. The boys track team won the state championship in 1990 & has been the state runner up 5 times.
The boys soccer team won the state championship in 1996.
Eastern has won several state tennis championships and won the 1955 state golf championship.
Eastern has won the state chess titles 3 times, the last coming in 1989.
Eastern's wrestling team has been the state runner up twice, in 1979 & 1993.
Eastern's cheerleading team placed 2nd in the NCA High School Cheerleading Championship in 2004.
The volleyball team has been repeatedly ranked second in the state for public schools for a couple of years now.
Eastern's fight song lyrics:
It is Rumored that a Band Director at Eastern wrote what is now the University of Kentucky fight song. Although this is a rumor that spreads throughout the Band Hall. It is Ironic that the tunes are so similar compared to other high schools in the surrounding Jefferson County / Louisville area.
(to the tune of the University of Kentucky fight song, "On, On, U of K")
On, on Eastern High,
For you its do or die!
Hold that ball and hit that line,
Every Eagle star will shine!
We'll fight, fight, fight
For the blue and white
As we roll to that goal varsity!
We will kick, pass and run
'Til the battle is won
And we bring home the victory!
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