[7] Wilde Lake High School has a number of sports teams for each season of the academic year, including football, soccer, golf, volleyball, basketball, and cross country.

[8] The school has won the following state championships: Wilde lake no longer fields an independent ice hockey team.

In 2015, Carol Satterwhite, a physical education teacher at the Wilde Lake High School was selected for the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Hall of Fame.

Alumni also include the authors and journalists Laura Lippman (1977),[27] Robert Kolker (1987),[28] and National Public Radio diplomatic correspondent Michele Kelemen (1986).

Maria L. Oesterreicher (1986) became the first female Circuit Court Judge in Carroll County Maryland[31] and Donna Hill Staton (1976) became the first African-American judge in Howard County.https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/012300/012376/html/12376extbio.html Wilde Lake also produced a number of prominent athletes, including Olympic gymnast Elise Ray (2000),[32] Major League Baseball player Jim Traber (1979), and football players Zach Brown and Isaiah Coulter, who attended freshman through junior year.

Former child prodigies who graduated from Wilde Lake High include John Overdeck, a billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist.