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unusual facts about State Championship



Glenorchy Knights FC

However, re-branded as the Glenorchy Knights, they have slowly established a new sense of self, culminating in winning the State Championship for the first time in 13 years in 2005, and narrowly missing out on back to back state titles by losing a penalty shoot-out to Somerset in 2006.

Lance Shaw

Lance Joseph Shaw (born 24 August 1983) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the Auckland Aces in the State Championship and the Auckland Stars in the NBL, and has recently signed as the marquee player of the New Zealand Breakers in the HUMMER NBL Championship.

Martyn Croy

Martyn Gilbert Croy (born 23 January 1974 in Hamilton) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played for the Otago Volts in the State Championship and the State Shield.

Stephen Gellatly

Gellatly made his State Shield debut on 3 January 2008 against the Otago Volts at Molyneux Park, Alexandra, and his State Championship debut on 6 March 2008, scoring 67* as Wellington beat Auckland by an innings.


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Beebe High School

The baseball Badgers defeated Monticello High by a score of 6-2 in the Class 5A state championship game, which was played at Baum Stadium, located on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville.

Benson Henderson

WIAA 4A High School State Championship Runner-up (2001)

Bishop Guilfoyle High School

The Lady Marauders capped off their season by winning the single A state championship at the Bryce Jordan Center.

Brent Richards

His most notable year was his fourth and final year, where he led the team to a victory in the WIAA 3A state championship game, alongside future University of Washington teammate Quinton Beasley.

Brian Gordon

At Round Rock High School, his career record was 43-3, and his team, the Dragons, won the Texas class 5A state championship in 1997.

Bridge City Independent School District

Bridge City won its only state championship in football in 1966 against McKinney High School 30-6 under head coach Harold "Chief" Wilson after losing to Brownwood High School the previous year.

Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino

The Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino (Carioca Women's Football Championship, in English), organized by the Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation (FFERJ) is the women's football state championship of Rio de Janeiro State, and is contested since 1983.

Chiney Ogwumike

She attended Cypress Fairbanks High School in Cypress, Texas, winning the 5A State Championship in her sophomore and senior seasons.

Coney Island Velodrome

At the height of popularity for both American bicycle racing and boxing in the 1920s, Coney Island drome was host to regional and state championship bicycle races, and boxing heroes including Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

Crispus Attucks High School

In 1955, the school's basketball team, led by future professional star and Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson, gained fame by winning the Indiana state championship, becoming the first all-black school in the nation to win a state title.

Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School

The Dolphins eventually won the Division 2A State Championship against Wakefield by a score of 35-0, and completed an undefeated season at 13-0.

Don Greco

Greco was also the head coach of the Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri varsity football team's first run at the state championship in 2001.

Elvis Burrows

He won a state championship title for the sprint freestyle in 2005, and later emerged as the most valuable swimmer of the year at Seneca High School MCA in Louisville, Kentucky.

Erik Storkson

That fall, he entered Green River Community College where he was part of the school’s Washington state championship soccer team.

Gabe Norwood

In high school, he and his brother (Jordan Norwood, a former football player at Penn State where his father coached until 2007) were part of the state championship team at State College Area High School in State College, Pennsylvania.

Graham Mink

Undrafted, Mink originally played high school hockey with Stowe High School, winning the Division III state championship in his sophomore year and Division II state championship in his senior year.

Halls High School

The Red Devils football team won the AAA state championship in 1986, and finished runner-up behind Pearl Cohn in 1996.

Idaho State Bengals football

ISU also produced several players who went on to be very successful high school football coaches, including Jim and Brent Koetter (both of whom won Idaho state championships at both Pocatello and Highland high schools), and former Bengal quarterback Paul Peterson who led Eagle to the Idaho 5A state championship game three times in four seasons.

J. R. House

A top high school football player at Nitro, J.R. House set a national high school record with 10 touchdown passes in the 1998 West Virginia state championship game against Morgantown.

Jason Brilz

Brilz won the Nebraska Class A state championship in 1993 wrestling for Omaha Central High School; a school that was ranked the 10th best athletic program in the nation by Sports Illustrated in 2008.

Jason Varitek

His Lake Brantley High School baseball team won the Florida State Championship his senior year in 1990 and was named the number one high school baseball team in the nation by a USA Today poll.

Jeff McWaters

He attended Paducah Tilghman High School in his home town of Paducah, playing on the football team and participating on Paducah Tilghman's 1974 state championship team.

Jessie Armstead

Armstead was part of a highly talented team that featured four other future NFL players — Clifton Abraham, Joe Burch, Le'Shai Maston, Darius Smith — and won the 1988 5A state championship (however, the title was later forfeited due to eligibility infringements).

Jim Morris

He attended Brownwood High School, but as Brownwood did not yet have a baseball program, he played football for the Lions from 1979-82 and won the state championship as a wingback, punter and kicker with Gordon Wood as a head coach.

Joe Lutz

Following his major league career, Lutz coached high school baseball, football and basketball in Argyle, Iowa and Davenport, Iowa, where he led Davenport's baseball to a state championship, and was an athletic coach at Parsons College in Iowa.

Kelly Holcomb

Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.

LaMarr Woodley

Woodley teamed with former Detroit Lions wide receiver Charles Rogers and former Chicago Bulls point guard Anthony Roberson at Saginaw High School in 2000 to win Michigan's Division II state championship in football.

Le'Shai Maston

Maston graduated from David W. Carter High School of Dallas in 1989 and was a member of the Carter 1988 Texas state championship football team.

Mashpee, Massachusetts

In 2011, the high school football team won the Massachusetts Division 4 State Championship by defeating Cardinal Spellman, 34-8 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.

MDW Heavyweight Championship

On March 16, 2002, Hunter lost the NWA Tri-State Championship to Matt Vandal in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Milan, Indiana

Gene White - Member of the 1954 Milan High School Indiana State Championship Basketball team.

Muskogee High School

Charles Thompson Graduate of 1987 and only MVP of state championship football team in Muskogee High history

Nneka Ogwumike

She attended Cypress Fairbanks High School in Cypress, Texas and led them to a 5A State Championship in her senior season.

Oran Pape

He played high school football at Dubuque Senior High School, where he was part of the 1924 Iowa State championship football team.

Peruna

The first football teams at SMU were unofficially known as the "Parsons" because of the large number of theology students on the team, but after SMU won a state championship in women's basketball, it was determined that the university's teams needed an official mascot.

Rex Frederick

He was a star athlete in high school and led Corner High School in Jefferson County to the Alabama state championship.

Robert Garth

Garth attended Flint Northern High School and was a member of their state championship basketball and football team.

Ron Hassey

He was born and raised in Tuscon, Arizona, and attended Tuscon High School where, in 1972, his team went undefeated and won the state championship.

Roy Spence

He attended Brownwood High School, where he played football and was a member of the 1965 Class 3A state championship football team.

Tam Hollingshead

Prior to that, he served as head coach at famed Permian High School of Odessa, Texas, guiding the Panthers to a Class 5A State championship in 1991 and amassing a 43–4–2 record in four seasons.

Ted Karras

In 1996, Karras became the head football coach for Andrean High School in Merrillville, Indiana, and took his team to the state championship, where they lost to Bishop Chatard High School of Indianapolis.

Travis Wiuff

While at Owatonna High School, he also played football and had to face adversity with wrestling as he was injured during his senior year and had to miss out on the state championship tournament despite being ranked number one in the state of Minnesota.

Warroad, Minnesota

T. J. Oshie, NHL player (St. Louis Blues), helped Warroad's high school hockey team win the state championship.

Webster Groves School District

In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton visited WGHS to commend the district's drug and violence prevention efforts, the same year that their basketball team won the District 4A State Championship against West Plains High School.

Willie May

As a coach, May led the Wildkits to 24 consecutive Central Suburban League conference championships from 1976 to 1999, five IHSA state trophies, and one state championship (1979).

Yale golf course

The Yale course has been the site of every significant state championship, two USGA Junior National events, the 1991 and 2004 NCAA Eastern Regional championships, the 1991 ECAC Men's Championship, and the 1992 ECAC Women's Championship, as well as the Nike Connecticut Open.

Zach Thomas

Thomas and his older brother, Bart, were high school teammates at White Deer High School in White Deer, Texas; in 1988, Thomas' freshman year, the White Deer team went 16–0 and won the Class 1A state championship.