Warren Central High School (Kentucky) - Athletics

Athletics

Warren Central High School participates in the following Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) sanctioned varsity athletics: Boys and Girls Basketball, Baseball, Boys and Girls Cross Country, Football, Boys and Girls Golf, Boys and Girls Soccer, Softball, Boys and Girls Tennis, Boys and Girls Track and Field and Girls Volleyball.

Many of the varsity sports are a part of a rivalry with the cross-town Bowling Green High School. The varsity football team competes in KHSAA Class 5A, Region 1, District 2. The team was state runner-up in 1989 and 1990 and has won their region seven times, most recently in 2005.

The varsity boys' basketball team competes in the 14th District within the 4th Region. The team has had recent success, winning the 4th Region six straight years from 2002 through 2007, a feat that had never been accomplished in 4th Region history. The team won the KHSAA Sweet 16 state basketball championship in 2004 and finished runner-up in 2005 despite the loss of four senior starters from the state champion team. They advanced to the final four of the Sweet 16 for the third time in four years in 2007, falling to Louisville Ballard in the state semifinals. In 2010 Warren Central returned to the Sweet 16 for the first time since their six-year run ended in 2007, where they advanced to the quarterfinals. They also advanced again in 2011. They have won eleven total 14th District championships and eleven total 4th Region championships. They have additionally been 14th District runners-up eight times and 4th Region runners-up three times. 2007 alum Jeremy Anderson played in the Sweet 16 five consecutive years, only the 2nd player in the state of Kentucky to accomplish that feat.

The varsity girls' basketball team competes in the same district and region as the men's teams. The 1983 girls' team won the KHSAA state basketball championship, a culmination of many years of outstanding girls' teams. Several WCHS girls' players played their college basketball at Western Kentucky University (Clemette Haskins, Melinda Carlson), and helped Western achieve national status, playing in Women's NCAA Final 4 tournaments in the mid-1980s.