Rockhurst won 35 state championships in the decade beginning in 2005, and six state championships in 2008-2009 alone. Its record for placings in a single year is 2007, with seven. Also, in 1987 Rockhurst became the only institution in the history of Missouri high school athletics to win football and basketball state championships in the same year. Rockhurst's athletics program was named by Sports Illustrated as the best in Missouri and one of the top ten in the country in 2009. In 2012 MaxPreps ranked the school's football team as having been the most consistently highly ranked state team since 2004. In 2016 Rockhurst's soccer team reached the number one ranking in the nation.