From 1975 to 1982, the Lone Pine Golden Eagles football team lost 55 straight games in the Desert-Inyo League, which they had been a member for many years.

After the long losing streak and failing to win a single league title, starting at least in 1957, when other much larger schools joined in the Desert-Inyo League(DIL), the school ditched 11-man football for eight-man football in 1982 after being an 11-man team for most of its program's history and only seeing pockets of success over those years.

Ironically enough, Mojave, Trona, and Mammoth High have all since become 8-man football teams as well, which has resulted in the return of the annual rivalry games between the 4 schools.

Kemp also coached the 2013-16 teams that current European Basketball player and UC Irvine collegiate athlete, Bradley Greene played for.

The early 2000s basketball teams saw some great success as well, led by Lone Pine High alumnus Wayne Geiger, who was later killed in action in Iraq in 2007.