For the past month we've been highlighting schools of the week that are doing a super job in one aspect or another.
Stratford gets a nod as our school of the week for its athletic program.
It's a history that goes back over a half a century.
Mark Farriba is Stratford's Athletic Director.
One of the very first Christmas' I wanted my mother to make me a Stratford jersey so she got an old t-shirt dyed it gray and put a five on it," he recalled. "That's what I wanted for Christmas."
Farriba earned a jersey playing for the Eagle's football team in 1970.
The school opened in 1960 and it only took a few years for the golf team to put the first statue in the trophy room.
Now they're in the GHSA and the Eagles added quite a few trophies to the collection.
"Our tennis teams have been really dominant over the last few years," Farriba said.
A couple of years ago both our girls and boys basketball teams were region champions in the same year our girls have been region champions for three straight years.
Our football team we've lost in the quarter finals twice in the last three years. We've had final four soccer teams in the past few years."
The tennis team has quite a few slots in that trophy room too.
Jaime Kaplan is the coach.
"Our tennis titles I think we are at 86," she rattled off.
Kaplan says a few of those came in the last four years and there's a reason for their success.
"They come to practice and then they go to drills over at the club and they just push each other they're such a high level of player," she said.
Success is great, trophies are icing on the cake, but coaches say the real benefit of athletics is when the elementary school kids look up to their more 'senior' heroes..
"One thing about our kids is they interact daily with the younger kids and believe me I know the younger kids they know if you play football basketball or soccer," Farriba explained.
"Their young eyes are watching there are young kids looking at you and we need you to set a good example for them because their going to take your place and then someones going to take their place and it's just gonna keep going."
Tennis is a no-cut team so if you want to play you're on the team, not all sports can do that but tennis is one that does.
Congratulations to Stratford Academy!