The school has excelled in sports for both girls and boys, including basketball, football, soccer, cross country, track, various academic teams, marching band and volleyball. In 2008, the marching band made it to the KMEA State Finals, making it the second marching band from Pike County to earn this distinction. In 1990 the varsity football team made KHSAA history as the first team ever to make the state playoffs in its first year of existence. Known as "The Crunch Bunch," the team finished with a 7–4 regular season record that stood for nearly ten years as the schools winningest season until it was finally bested in 1999 when they finished 9–2. In 2014 the football team with a 11–3 record advanced to the KHSAA 2A State Semi-finals (https://scoreboard.12dt.com/scoreboard/khsaa/kyfb14/tournament_134002) marking their highest yearly win total. They followed up the next year winning their first back-to-back District title. In 2010, the school won the
2010 PNC Bank/KHSAA Boys' Sweet Sixteen basketball championship. It was the first school from Pike County to win the title and also the first team in the state to win the Sweet 16 and the All "A" State Title in the same year. The next season Shelby Valley returned to the Sweet Sixteen but lost in the first round to Christian County. ==References==