That is one of the nearly state championships the school has won, which the school claims it is the most of any high school in the nation. Student-athletes in Hawaii know they need to find a way to end up at Punahou if they want to be part of a top-notch athletics program. For the academic year, the school finished second in the national MaxPreps Cup standings. The standings are determined by state titles and runner-up finishes, and Punahou finished in the top two in 17 of their 30 teams for that year.
A three-year high school grades , Boise High has 17 sanctioned sports and has won state titles in 15 of them. With Idaho neighboring Oregon, whose unofficial state sport is running, track and field plus cross country are both popular at Boise High.
The baseball and basketball teams each won a championship and produced Denny McLain and Antoine Walker, respectively. Not too shabby. James Naismith, who invented the game of basketball, said that Indiana is where high school basketball was born. Thus, it comes as no surprise that basketball programs dominate the athletic landscape throughout the state.
Mary of Ohio, which had one LeBron James. The school has won 27 state championships, with all of them coming since This success includes a stretch of 11 straight titles and two other streaks of at least four straight championship wins. Located in the shadow of the University of Kansas, the Lawrence High Chesty Lions have won nearly as many state championships as KU has conference championships.
While basketball is king around this part of town, hoops takes a back seat to two other notable Lawrence High teams. Lawrence High dominated boys gymnastics before the sport was cut from Kansas high schools. Lawrence won 21 state titles in the sport between and , but that total is no match for the football team, which has won 27 state titles.
Maybe even more impressive than that number is the fact that the school has posted 31 undefeated seasons, a national record, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations record book.
Founded in , St. Xavier is the oldest all-boys high school in Kentucky, and all of that history has lent itself to many championships — of them to be exact. In fact, the school has won at least three state titles in every sport offered.
Xavier's swimming and diving team has racked up 54 titles, but the St. Xavier Tigers football team gets the most recognition. Xavier and its rival, Trinity High, routinely have nearly 40, fans in attendance at the University of Louisville's Cardinal Stadium to watch their annual matchup.
The crowd is just a few thousand short of what Louisville football averages for its home attendance. Founded in , Jesuit High School made its mark in Louisiana high school sports history 99 years later.
In , the Jesuit Blue Jays had four teams that won the state championship and went undefeated in their respective sports. One of those sports was baseball, and the diamond is where Jesuit has had its most success. The school has won 24 baseball state championships, 11 more than any other high school in Louisiana. Additionally, Jesuit has participated in American Legion Baseball a number of times and won another eight American League Baseball state championships.
Speaking of the boys, their lacrosse team also started competing in and won its first state title in Gilman's prestigious lacrosse program has reached the No. Gilman also has experienced success in a number of other sports, winning at least 10 state titles in basketball, football, tennis and wrestling. Their students are supplied with world-class facilities, including a hockey rink that NHL players used during the lockout.
Hall of Famer Ray Bourque was so impressed with the school and the hockey team that he served as a volunteer coach for the squad after hanging up his skates. The school leads Michigan with 18 state titles, and four of those have come since Paul Molitor and Joe Mauer both graduated from Cretin-Derham and, coincidentally, spent at least part of their major league careers with the hometown Twins.
As the largest independent school in Mississippi, Jackson Academy has a lot of student-athletes. Sojourner has spent over 30 years leading the program and has racked up nine state championships during her time. When you think of St. Louis, baseball usually is the first sport that comes to mind. Christian Brothers College High does have a successful program on the diamond — winning two state titles — but that pales in comparison to its hockey program.
The CBC ice hockey team has 16 state titles, including 12 since It has two separate three-peats over that stretch as well as a four-peat from to Louis Blues. Montana fields more six-man football teams than any other state besides Texas, but the normal man variety earns Butte High its spot on this list.
The Butte Bulldogs have won 26 state titles in football, the most of any high school in the state. Most of those championships came before World War II, but Butte High also has had a sustained level of dominance by winning at least one championship in 10 different decades. So baseball and swimming are two of the most popular and prestigious sports programs at Creighton Prep.
The swimming team has done even better with 27 state titles, including a Michael Phelps-like 12 straight from to Who says you have to be 21 to have fun in Las Vegas? The high school kids at Bishop Gorman have had lots of fun over the years thanks to the powerhouse athletic program built there. In , Bishop Gorman became the first Nevada school in over 40 years to win state championships in football, basketball and baseball in the same year.
They have since accomplished that feat two more times. The cornerstone of its athletics program is the football team, which won three straight national championships from to The success of the football team led to a rarity in sports as its coach, Tony Sanchez, used the success at Gorman to land a head coaching job at UNLV in Sanchez became just the fourth-ever high school coach to be hired as the head coach of an FBS school.
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Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Ad Choices. Skip to Main Content. In March the girls won the CIF southern section, powered by freshman Jasmine Dixon, a 5'10" guard whom Poly principal Shawn Ashley refers to as "this school's next franchise athlete.
At Poly, losing transcends disappointment and produces something closer to shame. The day after the hoops streak ended, senior guard Chris Peys says, "I didn't want to come to school.
I put my hood up and beelined to class. It's like not only did we let the whole student body down, we also let down their parents who went to Poly, their brothers who went to Poly, their cousins Of course football, basketball and track are the kinds of sports at which a big, urban school might be expected to excel, but Poly is also a powerhouse in the country club games. The boys' golf team went undefeated in the league last year, and the boys' tennis team has been to the CIF section finals two years in a row.
Even the cross-country and badminton teams kick serious butt, each having won three straight league titles. But what is all the more remarkable about Poly is that many of the athletes really are scholars, just as the sign says. Senior Pat Traughber, the No. The star of the badminton squad is junior Samantha Jinadasa, who carries a 3. In her minimal free time she is part of a biomedical-research program, working with doctors at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles studying methods to improve the success rate of kidney transplants.
Oh, by the way, last March Jinadasa finished second at the Pan Am Games, competing in mixed doubles with her brother Nick, a Poly grad. Definitely--as long as you win," Jinadasa says. We're proud of our mathletes [academic competitors], we're proud of our band. The things that aren't cool at other high schools are looked at differently here because they achieve tremendous success.
At Poly even the football stars play against type. Senior wideout Desean Jackson was the Los Angeles Times's player of the year in , thanks to his game-breaking elusiveness and leadership skills, which propelled a young team to the CIF championship. Jackson, whose older brother Byron played for the Chiefs in , is one of seven players from this year's team to have earned Division I-A scholarships, which is slightly lower than usual, as typically a dozen or so Jackrabbits score full rides in any given year.
Every six weeks players must give their tutors a progress report, which is prepared by one of their teachers and covers grades and attitude.
Entrance standards are so tough that last year an applicant who had a 3. The kids who get in are as competitive in athletics as they are in academics. Says principal Ashley, "College is all the PACE kids ever talk about, all they ever think about, and that becomes part of the culture of the school.
It makes college a tangible goal and a reachable destination for students who might otherwise never have considered it. According to Poly that was the most from any high school in the state. About the only homogeneity at Poly is on the playing fields. The boys' and the girls' basketball teams are almost entirely black, the golf teams mostly white, the coed badminton squad overwhelmingly Asian, the linemen on the football team traditionally Somoan.
But even amidst this apparent sameness there is variety; the badminton team comprises players of Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese or Sri Lankan descent, and coach Steve Meckna can shout encouragement in three languages. Long Beach is California's fifth-largest city, with a population just under , Like any large metropolitan area, it has its good and bad neighborhoods, but the school's proximity to both extremes makes the differences more jarring.
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