EAST LANSING, Mich. – June 18 – A total of 99 schools won one or more of the 127 team Final championships awarded by the Michigan High School Athletic Association during the 2013-14 school year – with six programs winning the first MHSAA team titles in any sport for their schools.
Detroit Consortium boys basketball, Jonesville boys bowling, Croswell-Lexington girls bowling, Bark River-Harris girls golf, Farmington ice hockey, and Ann Arbor Skyline boys soccer teams all brought home the first MHSAA team championships in their schools’ histories.
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 remaining sports.
For the second straight school year, 33 teams won their first MHSAA titles. A total of 40 champions were repeat winners from 2012-13, and 25 of those won for at least the third straight season. The Brother Rice boys lacrosse team has the longest title streak, 10 seasons, while the St. Philip Catholic Central volleyball team has won eight straight titles for the second-longest streak overall and longest among girls’ programs.
Marquette claimed the most championships, six, winning in Division 1 boys’ skiing, Upper Peninsula Division 1 boys’ and girls’ cross country, Upper Peninsula boys’ and girls’ swimming and diving, and Upper Peninsula Division 1 girls’ track and field. Five schools won three titles apiece: Brother Rice, Cranbrook-Kingswood, Birmingham Seaholm, Detroit Country Day, and East Grand Rapids.