Sports
Boys
Wrestling - 3 Time Team State Champions in 1991, 2008, and 2010. IHSWCA Coaches Trophy Winners in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. The team was ranked 18th nationally in the Amateur Wrestling News Prep 40 rankings released on March 16, 2010.
Football - Three-time Indiana big school football champions since 1920, the Cavemen, in 2009 (after a 28-year drought), defeated perennial state power and arch-rival Penn High School twice, advancing to the "Elite Eight" in the state. The 2010 Cavemen responded with an undefeated season and successfully defended their sectional title by scoring with 5.6 seconds in the game to force a tie against.Penn and then winning in overtime, 14-7. The football team was ranked as high as #3 in Indiana (Associated Press 5A Poll) in 2010 before losing to Valparaiso 21-14 in the regional title game. Joe Herman, the varsity kicker, has never missed a point-after-touchdown conversion. This year, 2012, the mishawaka football team made it to state champions, going against indianapolis' cathedral, but lost. Mishawaka's Sam Schrader, senior, won Indiana's football player of the year.
Girls
Volleyball - Mishawaka volleyball was a dominant force in IHSAA volleyball under the coaching of Steve Anderson with 16 appearances in the IHSAA state finals, winning state titles in 1980, 1983, and 1988. Mishawaka volleyball teams have also won a total of 12 semi-state titles (currently a state record), 18 regional titles, and 20 sectional titles.
The Mishawaka Dance Team- second runner up in the state champions in the kick dance division in the year 2000, 2011 Novice Pom state champions and 2012 Novice Pom state champions.
Rivals include Penn, Mishawaka Marian, South Bend St. Joseph, and South Bend Clay.
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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
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—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)