Oak Park High School Athletic Hall of Fame
- Oak Park High School (coached by Alvin Delidow) won the Class-A team championship trophy, at the 1972 Michigan High School Athletic Association Boys Track and Field Finals. At those same finals, the 440-yard relay team of Tony Craighead, Henry Staton, Dave Caplon, and Mike Rollins brought home gold for Oak Park.
- At the 2010 MHSAA Girls' Track and Field Finals, Dissa Swint-Cook won the 200-meter dash; becoming Oak Park High School's first individual state champion in nearly forty years.
- In 1984, Oak Park won the MHSAA Class-B boys basketball championship, with a 62-54 victory over Saginaw-Buena Vista High School.
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