The school's male athletic teams include baseball, basketball, football, swimming/diving, cross country, soccer, golf, wrestling, hockey, track, and tennis.

Female athletic teams include basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, and wrestling.

In 2007, after the shootings at Virginia Tech, students at Standley Lake founded an event called Day Without Hate.

[3] They asked their classmates to wear white in order to show a commitment and trust in each other to make their school a safer place.

A faculty member was able to douse the blaze with a fire extinguisher, suffering minor injuries from breaking the glass in order to obtain it.