The Washington High School Senators athletic teams competed in the Indiana Lake Shore conference from 1969 until the school closed in 1986. Prior to 1969, the school was a member of the Northern Indiana conference (1927–1962), the Northwestern conference (1963–1967) and the Tri-City conference (1968). The school was also a member of the
Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA), the organization which governs athletic activities in Indiana. The school sponsored various interscholastic athletics teams. The Senators won state championships in basketball (1960, 1971). The 1971 "Dream Team" was ranked No.1 in the state for the entire season, and went undefeated (29–0) and won the Indiana state high school basketball championship. The team featured Tim Stoddard (who played baseball and basketball at
N.C. State and spent 15 year in
Major League Baseball ), Pete Trgovich (who played at
UCLA), and Junior Bridgeman (who played at
Louisville and in the
NBA). The three would all go on to reach the
Final Four.
Kenny Lofton is a retired MLB All-Star center fielder who played for several teams in the 1990s and 2000s. Lofton graduated from East Chicago Washington in 1985. He played in an NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four in 1987 with Arizona, and joins Stoddard (who played in the 1983 World Series with the Baltimore Orioles) as the only two athletes to play in a baseball World Series and an NCAA basketball Final Four; Lofton batted in the lead off spot in the 1995 World Series for the Cleveland Indians. ==Notable alumni==