Traditions
Started in 2021, the Cougar Games are two days filled with friendly competition between classes each spring. A service component was added to the Games in 2024, which had to be completed for a class to even be eligible to participate in the rest of the games.
Games played throughout the event have included: basketball, indoor soccer, volleyball, speedball, dodgeball, Mario Kart, obstacle courses, Minute-to-Win-It games, cooking contests, chess, escape rooms, Cougar Jeopardy, and much more.
The winning classes have been:
- 2021: Class of 2023
- 2022: Class of 2022
- 2023: Class of 2023
- 2024: Class of 2025
- 2025: Class of 2025
2025 Champions - Class of 2025
Incoming freshmen are welcomed to Lake Catholic at the Frosh Fire.
Part of the freshman welcome experience continues with the frosh fire, typically the Saturday after orientation and the first few days of classes. There is music, games, food and a giant bonfire. It is a great tradition where the freshman class is able to start to build their community.
At the event, there is music, games and of course a bonfire.



This solemn tradition takes place at the end of every school year.
The senior class student government and the school's executive board “passes the torch” to the newly elected officers from the current junior class who will lead the student body the next school year.
At the ceremony:
- Freshmen become Sophomores, Leaders in Unity
- Sophomores become Juniors, Leaders of Community
- Juniors become Seniors, Leaders of Lake Catholic, and
- Seniors become Alumni, New Leaders of Society
The annual flag football game pits the girls from the senior class against the girls from the junior class. The game is typically played in the spring.
The two teams are coached by the football players from their respective classes.

The giant rock outside our front door was brought to our campus in 2017. It has quickly become a tradition for classes, clubs and/or teams to paint the rock at night only have the new design revealed the next morning.




Each Halloween, the senior class dresses up in costumes and parades through the halls of school as the underclassmen line up to watch the parade.

Each spring, the members of that year's sophomore class have their class rings blessed after an all-school mass. Before the final blessing, the priest calls those who are to have their rings blessed up to the altar. A prayer is said over those class members and the rings are blessed with Holy Water.
After the mass a small reception is held for those who had their rings blessed and their immediate family members.
What had started off as a Thanksgiving feast for friends to enjoy each other as an entire senior class, has turned into much more at Lake Catholic.
Turkey Day, one of the school’s longest standing tradition started back in 1974, demonstrates one of Lake Catholic’s core values – it’s willingness to serve.
he day starts with a prayer service, asking for our students and adult leaders to have the grace and courage to see the face of Jesus in those we serve, and to be the face of Jesus to all they encounter this day. The seniors are sent to different service projects around the North East Ohio area.
After the community service, the students come back to school for a catered Thanksgiving feast, which was what Turkey Day started as back in the ‘70s.























































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