Contact:  John Johnson 
517.332.5046 or [email protected]
 

EAST LANSING, Mich.  – June 30 –  There were 127 team champions were crowned in Michigan High School Athletic Association post-season tournaments during the 2010-11 school year.

Of the 127 team champions in classes or divisions, there were four schools winning their first MHSAA titles in any sport:  Clinton and Mattawan in softball, Dollar Bay in Girls cross country, and Wyandotte Roosevelt in ice hockey.   In addition, there were 35 other teams which won tournament titles in a given sport for the first time.

Sixteen of the 111 schools winning in 2010-11 took more than one crown, with three schools –Bloomfield Hills Marian, Grand Rapids Catholic Central and Petoskey -- each claiming at least two championships each in unified tournaments.  Catholic Central led the group with three such titles - winning in football, girls lacrosse and ice hockey; while the other two schools each had two unified championships – Marian in girls skiing and volleyball; and Petoskey in boys and girls skiing. Grand Rapids Catholic Central, Saline and St. Ignace each won three total titles; Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood, Detroit Catholic Central, Detroit Country Day, East Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern, Houghton, Hudson, Ishpeming Westwood, Madison Heights Bishop Foley, Marquette, Novi and Petoskey  each won two crowns. Sixteen of the MHSAA's 28 championship tournaments are unified, involving teams from the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, while separate competition to determine titlists in both Peninsulas is conducted in the other 12 sports.

Eight schools ran seven consecutive championship streaks to four or more in a given sport, including:   Marquette in girls swimming & diving (10); Birmingham Brother Rice in boys lacrosse (7); Battle Creek St. Philip in girls volleyball (7); East Grand Rapids in football (5);  Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern in girls tennis (5);  Farmington Hills Mercy in girls swimming & diving (4); Grand Ledge in girls gymnastics (4); and Ontonagon in girls golf (4).

For a sport-by-sport listing of MHSAA champions for 2010-11 - Click Here (PDF)

The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by over 1,500 public and private senior high schools and junior high/middle schools which exists to develop common rules for athletic eligibility and competition.  No government funds or tax dollars support the MHSAA, which was the first such association nationally to not accept membership dues or tournament entry fees from schools.  Member schools which enforce these rules are permitted to participate in MHSAA tournaments, which attract approximately 1.6 million spectators each year.

-0-