who wishes to participate on that level may, and nearly 65% of U-Highers participate on at least one team. The school's athletic teams, the Maroons, compete in the Independent School League (ISL) and are members of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). The 2019 boys soccer team won the IHSA 1A state championship. The 2019 girls tennis team won the IHSA 1A state championship, becoming the first U-High girls team to win a state championship. The 2021 girls tennis team was also 1A state champion. The boys basketball team, under ISL Coach of the Year Andre Battle, were 2022 IHSA Regional Champions. Notable teachers Here are a few of the teachers who have worked at Lab: Eight Lab teachers have received Chicago’s prestigious Golden Apple Award—more than from any other school in the city. (2009 Christina Hayward; 2007 David Derbes; 2004 Rosa McCullagh; 1994 Michael (Spike) Wilson; 1992 Jan Yourist; 1989 Catharine Bell; 1987 Hanna Goldschmidt; 1986 Randy Fowler.) Others have received the Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Award. Mima Maxey (1885–1965) and Marjorie Fay (1893–1977) taught Latin at Lab in the 1930s, following a "credo" that emphasised extended reading of "easy and repetitious" material, without teaching of formal grammar. They wrote A New Latin Primer (1933) based on this approach, along with supplementary Latin reading texts Cornelia (Maxey, 1933) and Carolus et Maria (Fay, 1933). Their work received interest initially, but this declined by the 1940s. Evan Dutmer argues that their teaching approach was "virtually without precedent in American Latin education" and anticipated the theory of comprehensible input as used later in language education. A MacArthur “genius” award and the Erikson Institute Award for Service to Children are among the achievements of author/teacher Vivian Paley, who spent most of her career at Lab. (Lessons from her acclaimed book You Can’t Say You Can’t Play shape Lab’s approach.) Created and funded in honor of Zena Sutherland (a former U. of C. faculty member and still considered among the world’s most influential scholars of young people’s literature), the annual Sutherland Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature is one of the only student-selected book awards in the United States. Lab teachers contributed to the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, the largest university-based mathematics curriculum project in the country. Their results included the nationally acclaimed Everyday Mathematics texts for elementary school students and Transition Mathematics, a middle school pre-algebra text. Blue Balliett,