Campus and Student Life
Campus buildings include a newly built hockey arena and 50,000 volume library, a Marian grotto, a three-story residence hall, a bookstore, two gymnasiums, a science center, administration buildings, a fully equipped laboratory and science building, a dining hall and the prominent Shrine Chapel. The campus also features a quarter mile of beach on Orchard Lake. Only students, facility and staff are allowed use of the beach and docks.
St. Mary's prides itself on its students being scholar-athletes. Over 75% of the school participates in sports. The school offers 13 varsity sports: football, basketball, baseball, track and field, cross country, golf, wrestling, rowing, hockey, soccer, lacrosse, skiing, and snowboarding. The Eaglets have won many league, district, and regional titles in its history. It owns a total of 31 Michigan State Championships to its name. In the past seven years, the Eaglet football, baseball, hockey, basketball, and rowing teams have all captured state titles. In 1998, the school's rowing team gained international prominence for placing second in the Henley Royal Regatta. Since 1994, the Eaglet football team has reached the state finals eight times coming away with four victories.
The athletic facilities include the new St. Mary's Athletic Center which has a 1,500 seat hockey arena, a weight room, an indoor track, locker rooms and a banquet hall. Attached to the Athletic Center is the Dombroski Fieldhouse with its 1,000 seat basketball gymnasium. The crew team has its own boathouse just off Orchard Lake. Outdoors, St. Mary's offers two football fields, two baseball diamonds, and a basketball court. The St. Mary's Ski team practices at Alpine Valley Snow Ski Area in White Lake, Michigan.
The Eaglet's compete in the MHSAA Division I (ice hockey), II, and III, depending on the sport. In the Detroit Catholic League, they compete in the Central Division. St. Mary's fiercest rivals are De La Salle Collegiate High School, Birmingham Brother Rice, U of D Jesuit, Catholic Central High School, and Detroit Country Day School and a new rivalry with East Grand Rapids High school is growing.
St. Mary's holds the largest high school fair in the country every year for fund-raising attracting thousands of people (http://www.stmaryspolishcountryfair.com/). Parents and students must participate as volunteers.
The "Ark Building" (#9) contains the Polish Home Army Museum.
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