MHSAA News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 26, 2007
Contact: John Johnson or Andy Frushour
517.332.5046 or www.mhsaa.com
2006-07 Parade of Champions
EAST LANSING, Mich. –June 26 – A total of 99 different schools were crowned champions in Michigan High School Athletic Association post-season tournaments during the 2006-07 school year.
The past year saw a total of 122 team champions in classes or divisions, and there were three schools winning their first MHSAA titles in any sport: New Baltimore Anchor Bay in girls bowling; Macomb Dakota in football; and Zeeland West in football. In addition, there were 35 other teams which won tournament titles in a given sport for the first time.
Fourteen of the 99 schools winning in 2006-07 took more than one crown, with five schools – Birmingham Brother Rice, East Grand Rapids, Hudsonville Unity Christian, Saginaw Nouvel and Traverse City West – each claiming two championships each in unified tournaments. Brother Rice won in boys skiing and boys lacrosse; East Grand Rapids won in football and boys lacrosse; Unity Christian won in girls basketball and girls soccer; Saginaw Nouvel became the third school to ever pull off the football-girls basketball double in a school year; and Traverse City West won in girls skiing and boys soccer. Marquette again won five total titles; while Dexter won four championships, and Ann Arbor Pioneer, Brother Rice, Detroit Country Day, East Grand Rapids, and Escanaba won three titles. Eighteen 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 10 sports.
Four schools ran nine consecutive championship streaks to four or more in a given sport, including:
Ann Arbor Pioneer in girls swimming and diving (7) and boys tennis (7); Marquette in girls cross country (7), and girls swimming and diving (6); Dexter in boys cross country (5); Birmingham Groves in girls swimming and diving (4); Breckenridge in girls competitive cheer (4); Detroit Country Day in girls tennis (4); Gladstone in boys track (4); Harper Woods Regina in softball (4); and Okemos in boys tennis (4).
The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by over 1,800 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.
Click here for a sport-by-sport listing (PDF) of MHSAA champions for 2006-07.
-0-
RL07-064
AT&T, Farm Bureau Insurance, Henry Ford Health System and MEEMIC Insurance
are year-round MHSAA Corporate Partners
