<P> The male varsity sports offered at Dunbar are baseball, basketball, football, soccer, and wrestling . The women's varsity sports offered are badminton, basketball, soccer, softball, and volleyball . The four varsity teams that are coed are cross country, swimming, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field . </P> <P> The Baltimore City Public Schools withdrew from the Maryland Scholastic Association (MSA) in 1993, its long - time home since 1909 and the home of the formerly segregated schools, Dunbar and Douglass, since 1956 . The schools then joined the larger, statewide Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA), and since then Dunbar has had great success in the class 1A division . The Dunbar football team, the Poets, won state championships in 1994; 1995; 2004; 2006; 2007; 2008 </P> <P> Since 1993, the school's basketball team, the Poets, have won the State Championship fifteen times . Additionally, the Poets were National Champions in 1983, 1985 and 1992 . Dunbar's girls basketball team, the Lady Poets, have excelled as well, winning the state girls basketball title in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2011, and 2012 . </P> <P> Dunbar is one of the partner schools of Thread, formerly the Incentive Mentoring Program, an organization formed by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine that tutors high school students so to prevent them from failing high school . Struggling students selected by the principal can receive one - on - one tutoring from Thread mentors, as well as social support to address any personal challenges that may be affecting their school performance . </P>

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