Athletics
The school offers a wide variety of sports, including soccer, football, golf, cross country, field hockey, volleyball, swimming and diving, basketball, wrestling, riflery, ice hockey, baseball, softball, track and field, tennis, and lacrosse.
In recent years, Western Reserve Academy has gained a reputation as one of the top high school lacrosse teams in the United States. In 2006 and 2009, WRA won the Midwest Scholastic Lacrosse Championship. Only three different teams have won the Midwest Championships since 1992; Brother Rice, Western Reserve Academy and Upper Arlington. Inside Lacrosse ranked the 2009 WRA lacrosse team number one in the Midwest.
WRA lacrosse national rankings according to Laxpower poll:
- 2004: 49th
- 2005: 49th
- 2006: 27th
- 2007: 23rd
- 2008: 41st
- 2009: 28th
The track and cross-country teams under Frank Longstreth, also the Latin department head, achieved extraordinary success from the 1940s through the 1980s, winning many Interstate League championships, with the cross country team at one time boasting a streak of 179-1.
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