Latin teams and athletes have posted many impressive achievements throughout the School's long history. In the past 10 years, Latin's sports teams have won more than 40 conference championships and 10 regional championships. Both boys and girls water polo teams, for instance, often finish among the top 10 teams in the state.
Since 2000, highlights include:
- Girls badminton state champion in 2005.
- Boys baseball was ISL champion in 2001, 2005. ISL Player of the Year 2001.
- Boys basketball won the regional championship in 2000, 2003, and 2004, followed
by four consecutive league championships 2001 - 2004. One player finished second
in the state-wide slam-dunk competition in 2000. ISL POY 2002, 2003, 2007.
- Girls basketball captured its tenth consecutive league championship
in 2007; and its fifth regional title in 2006. ISL Player of the Year 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006.
- The boys cross-country team won the 2000 and 2001 ISL championships.
One harrier qualified for the state tournament in 2001 and 2002. ISL Runner of the Year 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000.
- The girls cross-country team won league titles in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
In 2002, it won regionals and came in second in the sectionals, qualifying
as a team for the state tournament. Girls cross country also won regionals in 2003, 2004, and 2006.
ISL Runner of the Year 2003, 2004.
- The girls field hockey team was the ISL champ in 2001. One athlete
was named Illinois Player of the Year and ISL Player of the Year.
- The boys golf team won regionals and ISL POY in 2003.
- A girls golf team member won the individual regional championship in 2002.
- The boys ice hockey team came in second in the state in 2002, 2005, and 2006. It won the regular season and playoff
championships of the Metro Central division of the Chicago Metropolitan High School Hockey League in 2003 and 2004.
- Girls ice hockey, in a combined team with two other schools, won the state championship in 2001.
- The boys soccer team became sectional champions in 2000.
- Girls soccer won the class A state championship in 2006, the first Chicago team ever to do so. It won ISL championships in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 the team also won a regional championship.
In 2006, the team was also sectional champions. A Latin player was selected ISL Player of the Year in 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
- Girls softball, undefeated in league play, won the league championship
in 2002. It was ranked No. 5 by the Chicago Sun-Times for two weeks. The team repeated as ISL champs in 2003 and 2005 and regional champions in 2005. ISL Player of the year in 202, 2003, 2005, 2007.
- Boys swimming: Since 2001, Latin has qualified numerous swimmers for the state meet, including 7 in 2004, and 4 in 2005 and in 2006.
- Girls swimming: Since 2000, numerous swimmers have qualified for the state meet, including the five meter race 2002, 2003, 2004, and 4 in 2001, 2005, 2006. One swimmer won back-to-back state championship in 2000 and 2001 in the 100-yard backstroke. In 2007, one swimmer finished 6th in the state in the 200-yard individual medley.
- Boys tennis' first doubles team won the sectional championship
in 2002, when they and the first singles player qualified for the state
meet. They were ISL and sectional champs in 2005 and 2006. They won sectionals in 2007. Also in 2007, Latin finished seventh in the state. In addition, in 2006 and 2007, a singles player finished sixth in state.
ISL Player of the Year in 2006 and 2007.
- In 2001 and 2002 the girls tennis team won its sectional championships;
in 2002, five girls from the league championship team qualified for the state tournament.
- Boys track ISL Athlete of the Year 2003.
- Girls track ISL Athlete of the Year 2004. ISL champions in 2004.
- After dominating the league in the 1990s, girls volleyball won
the ISL championship for the fourth consecutive year in 2000. It won the
regional championship in 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
They were sectional champions in 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
- Boys water polo played in the state championship Final Four, coming in third in 2004 and second in 2006 .
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