Activities
The following sports are offered under the supervision of the MSHSL. All of these sports have a single elimination tournament at the end of the season which awards a state championship to the winning team (some sports also award individual championships as well).
At the end of the season, teams participate in a sectional tournament. For each class, the state is divided into 8 sections. Every two years, the MSHSL determines a school's activity classification and section placement. Different sections have different numbers of teams depending upon the class and activity in question. For example, most sections in football have 8 teams. In a typical 8-team section, all 8 teams will make the playoffs regardless of their regular season record. If a football section has 9 teams, then the ninth team will not make the playoffs. In all other sports, every team advances to the postseason. In basketball, for Classes AAAA and AAA, a typical section has 8 team, whereas a typical section in Class AA has about 16 teams, and a Class A section can have 20 or more. In these cases where a section has more or less teams than an even 8 or 16, higher seeded teams may receive byes, or lower seeded teams may have to play an extra play-in game. The other option is for a section to be divided in to two 8-team (or more) sub-sections with the sub-section champions playing for the section title.
These sections are strictly geographical, and are normally numbered from Southeast to Northwest. Thus, with football, for example, Section 1AAA would have schools in Class AAA that are from the Southeastern part of the state, while Section 7AAAA will have Class AAAA schools from the Northeastern part of the state. As a general rule, this serves pretty well, however it breaks down when dealing with the larger classes. In Class AAAAA Football, given the concentration of large schools in the Twin Cities Metro, Section 1AAAAA comprises the three Rochester public schools, Owatonna, and four southern suburbs. At the other end, Section 8AAAAA covers the entire northern half of the state with Bemidji, Brainerd, Moorhead, one of the St. Cloud public schools, and three northern exurbs. Sections 2AAAAA-7AAAAA are a mixture of suburbs, exurbs and Minneapolis/St. Paul schools.
Each section has its own methods and procedures for determining seeding in the section tournament. Some sections use elaborate point systems while others base seeding simply on records. The winner of the section tournament advances to State. Pairings at State are predetermined before the season, matching one section champion against another. In the Fall of 2005, the MSHSL experimented by having coaches seed the State Soccer Tournament .
For a complete list of state championship winners by sport see the list of Minnesota State High School League State Championships.
| Sports | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Classes | Winter | Classes | Spring | Classes |
| Adapted Soccer | None | Adapted Floor Hockey | None | Adapted Bowling | None |
| Tennis, Girls | A AA |
Nordic Ski Racing, Boys and Girls | None | Adapted Softball | None |
| Soccer, Boys and Girls | A AA |
Hockey, Boys and Girls | A AA |
Golf, Boys and Girls | A AA AAA (boys) |
| Cross Country, Boys and Girls | A AA |
Alpine Skiing, Boys and Girls | None | Track and Field, Boys and Girls | A AA |
| Volleyball, Girls | A AA AAA |
Dance Team, Girls | A AA AAA |
Softball, Girls | A AA AAA |
| Football | 9-man A AA AAA AAAA AAAAA AAAAAA (starting in 2012) |
Wrestling | A AA AAA |
Baseball, Boys | A AA AAA |
| Swimming and Diving, Girls | A AA |
Swimming and Diving, Boys | A AA |
Synchronized Swimming, Girls | None |
| Basketball, Boys and Girls | A AA AAA AAAA |
Lacrosse, Boys and Girls | None | ||
| Gymnastics, Girls | A AA |
Tennis, Boys | A AA |
||
- ^ - 9-Man is for schools too small to be placed in Class A.
| Activities | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Classes | Winter | Classes | Spring | Classes |
| One Act Play | A AA |
Speech | A AA |
||
| Debate | None | Visual Arts | A AA |
||
| Music | A AA |
||||
- ^ - Sections 3, 6, and 8 do not sponsor a competition
- ^ - only Sections 4A, 5A, and 6A sponsor competition
- ^ - All sections, 1AA through 8AA, have a competition
Read more about this topic: Minnesota State High School League
Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one’s own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)