multiple time Pro Bowl and Super Bowl champion Dwight Clark who made 'the catch' in the 1982 NFC Championship game, and Troy Pelshak who won Super Bowl XXXIV with the St. Louis Rams. From around the early 1990s and onward however, the team has struggled. From 2002–2007 Garinger was stricken by North Carolina's longest active losing streak. In September 2007 the streak reached a staggering 51 games before news broke of violations by North Mecklenburg, Providence, and Vance High Schools. Garinger was retroactively awarded wins against North Meck and Vance ending the streak. The streak was also reduced to 49 games as a result of having played Vance in August. Garinger's final record for 2007 was declared to be 4–7, the school's best record in well over two decades. On October 6, 2008, while celebrating the school's 100th anniversary and homecoming, Garinger had their first honorable win against West Mecklenburg High School, beating them 32–12. They went on to end the season with a couple more wins and even made it to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 2008 playoffs, the first time in 18 years. From 2011–2017 Garinger was stricken by another long losing streak. This time spanning 6 seasons and 55 games. On September 8, 2017, the streak finally came to a close when the team beat Monroe's Central Academy of Technology and Arts by a final score of 42–0. Notable alumni Sunshine Anderson, R&B artist, soul singer, and songwriter Jim Beatty, first man to break the four-minute mile on an indoor track (Central High) John Belk, business man, benefactor, and former mayor of Charlotte (Central High) Mary Gardner Belk, member of the North Carolina General Assembly Camilo Benitez, professional soccer player Dwight Clark, former NFL wide receiver, two-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time Super Bowl champion with the San Francisco 49ers Michael Colina, musician, composer, and producer Mark Davidson, MLB outfielder from 1986 to 1991; member of 1987 Minnesota Twins World Series Champion team Walter E. Dellinger III, professor and solicitor (Central High) Sonny Dixon, MLB pitcher (Central High) John Donaldson, MLB second baseman Shalom Dutey, professional soccer player Chris Folk, served in the office of School Community Relations for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools during desegregation and helped in implementing desegregation policies (Central High) K-Ci (Cedric Hailey), singer/songwriter Jack Helms, NFL player (Central High) Gary Hill, former MLB pitcher Patsy Kinsey, served as Mayor of Charlotte, North