students. The school offers an American Sign Language (ASL) program. Lifeskills program Edmonds-Woodway has a Lifeskill Program for students with "mild to moderate developmental disabilities." Lifeskills students often take part in the annual Washington State Special Olympics. During the 2011 Winter Games in Wenatchee, Edmonds-Woodway students brought home awards. Athletics The school is the location of the Edmonds School District Stadium, the home field for all high schools in the Edmonds School District. EW's traditional in-district athletics rival is Meadowdale High School. In 2008, the boys' tennis team won state in doubles tennis. The boys' wrestling program has produced multiple State and Academic State champions. Music programs The Jazz Ensemble I has been accepted into the Essentially Ellington jazz festival on five occasions, in 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2017. The band regularly participates in Starbucks' Hot Java Cool Jazz performance held at the historic Paramount Theater each March. They have attended the Portland Jazz Festival (Portland, Oregon), where the two outstanding soloists of the festival (band and choir) were both EWHS students. They have also participated regularly in the University of Idaho Jazz Festival Moscow, Idaho at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, where they won the Sweepstakes Award in 2018. The program has a thriving jazz combo culture and has supported winning jazz combos several times, including in 2018. Edmonds-Woodway has three concert bands: Concert Band, Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony. Choirs include Bel-Canto, Mello-Aires and Dorian Singers. Orchestral groups include the Concert Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra and the auditioned Philharmonic Orchestra. For select concerts, the Full Orchestra includes advanced wind and percussion players from the Wind Symphony group. One academic music course is also offered: IB Music, which teaches music theory and music history. In 2019 Mello-Aires were awarded best Large Vocal Jazz Ensemble by the Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards, and are scheduled to perform at the Jazz Education Network Conference in 2020 in New Orleans. Jazz Alley Spring Jazz Night is a celebration of senior jazz band performers and is held at Jazz Alley in Seattle. All current jazz bands perform, as well as an alumni band with several notable professional jazz alumni. Big Band Dance Held every spring, the dance is set to live swing music, mostly from the 1920s to 1950s. The school's jazz bands perform, as well as the College Place Middle School jazz band and Madrona Middle School's jazz band. Notable alumni Guy