Skyline High School (the seven-year defending champions) to become the OAL champions. They won the league with a record of six wins and no losses. Along with athletic talent, the badminton team also maintained a very high average GPA, and were named Oakland High's 2007 Outstanding Spring Sports Team. The Oakland High Catfish Swim Team is another of the many strong teams at Oakland High School. The Catfish have roughly 40 people on the Varsity and JV teams. At the 2008 OAL finals, the Catfish defeated Skyline in both men's Varsity and JV, becoming OAL champions. In the fall of 2007, the bowling team became OAL champions without a single loss. The Lady Wildcats Volleyball team finished third in the OAL for the 2014 season. In 2002, the basketball team played Dela Sale in the State Champions Semi-Finals. They also won the OAL (Oakland Athletic League) basketball against Oakland Tech High School in 2000. Sports Notable alumni Herbert Anderson, actor, Dennis The Menace television series. Carroll Borland (1931), actress, author, Professor of Education Jabari Brown (2011), Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Chris Burford (1955), NFL player and NCAA Football Hall of Fame Sway Calloway, rapper and radio personality David Carradine (1954), actor King Lan Chew (1921), dancer George Cooper Pardee (1875), Governor of California, 1903–1907 Denny Dent (1966), painter Sheila E., percussionist Ralph Edwards (1930), television producer Ben Fong-Torres (1962), journalist Shirley Fong-Torres (1964), chef, tour operator, and popular travel and food writer Chick Gandil (1906), professional baseball player Paul Gemignani (1955), jazz drummer and Broadway music director Sylvia Gerrish (as Lillian Rollins), (1878), musical comedy actress Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1896), industrial engineer Bob Grottkau, NFL player and college coach George J. Hatfield (1907), Lieutenant Governor of California, 1935–39 Marsha Hunt (1964), actress, singer and novelist Jackie Jensen (1945), athlete, College Football Hall of Fame, 1958 AL MVP Franklin Knight Lane (1880), US Secretary of Interior, 1913–1920 Fay Lanphier (1924), Miss California, 1924 and 1925; Miss America, 1925 Damian Lillard (2008), Portland Trail Blazers basketball player and rapper Jack London (1896), writer Lorenzo Lynch, NFL football player Judah Leon Magnes (1894), rabbi, Chancellor/President Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1925-1948 Dudley Manlove (1931), vaudeville, radio and B-movie actor Yōsuke Matsuoka (1896), Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs during WWII Armand Mauss (1946), sociologist Stanley Mazor (1959), engineer Ken McAlister, NFL football player and college basketball player Edwin Meese (1949), US Attorney General, 1985–1988 Clark