The phrase
"state champion" is used to describe someone or a team who wins a competition or tournament within a particular state. It means they are the best in that state in a specific sport or activity.
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She is also a co-captain of Buffalo Grove's two - time
defending state champion cheerleading team and is No. 1 in her class with a 5.0 grade point average.
Despite his frame (measured at 5» 10, 178 at a Nike SPARQ combine), Murray was a three -
time state champion QB with a 43 - 0 record from the DFW powerhouse Allen Eagles.
Congrats to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School varsity hockey program on leaving Southwest Florida
as state champions!
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Eagles are Florida
State Champions for the first time in school history.
The defending
state champion team had all five of its starters returning for their senior year, and the expectation was that they'd win again and the starters would all go off to become college and NBA greats.
Bishop O'Dowd is the defending
State Champions with its only two losses this season coming against De La Salle and Freedom who earned the # 2 seed in the D1 NCS bracket.
Mater Dei also improved its record to 6 - 0, which includes a 35 - 21 win over the same Bishop Gorman - Las Vegas team that later beat seven - time
CIF state champion De La Salle - Concord 34 - 7.
Earlier this year, the high school celebrated its first - ever
individual state champion when sophomore Katie McBratney won two events at the AIA State Swim Championships.
And coming into the 2011 season, the Spartans were a two - time defending CIF Open
Division state champion while St. Thomas Aquinas was still happy about being mythical national champions both in 2008 and 2010.
A year later Placer fell 61 - 40 in the SJS finals to eventual -
state champion Modesto Christian and future NFL talent Isaiah Burse.
One can expect some similar suspense in the Sac - Joaquin Section «'' in essentially every division except for Division II, which four - time defending
state champion St. Mary's - Stockton should be able to win in its sleep.
That was a bunch from Grant of Sacramento that got in because the voters were impressed by a pair of wins over
state champions from Utah and Idaho.
Texas» Gustafson had coached high school baseball there for 13 years (he had seven
state champions at South San Antonio High); Pan Am's Ogletree was born there, both teams had players from there and there were enough University of Texas partisans around to balance the cheering of native Mexican - Americans who were Pan American fans.
A high
school state champion in the half mile, Shane didn't run cross-country during his freshman year at Wyoming, but he showed up last January in Sanchez's office.
California's experience illustrates the value of chronic absence being adopted, over time, as a priority by a cross-section
of state champions who are now working together to cultivate awareness and action.
She had been the
amateur state champion in Arizona at the age of 13, was a world - beater in three years at Arizona State and, at 20 years old, qualified for the tour on her very first try.
The top local teams are defending CIF Division
III state champion Bishop O'Dowd - Oakland, and CIF Central Coast Section Open Division champion Sacred Heart Cathedral - San Francisco.
Grant also defeated two
state champions during the season «'' Highland - Pocatello (Idaho) and Alta - Sandy (Utah) «'' and had major weapons on both sides of the ball, including QB Kipeli Koniseti, junior RB Devontae Butler, WR Darvin McCauley and LBs Jordan Wallace and Jeremiah Toma.
-LSB-...] at a Nike SPARQ combine), Murray was a three - time
state champion QB with a 43 - 0 record from the DFW powerhouse Allen Eagles.
In a tough preliminary round, Aida beat the 2018 LD debate
Texas state champion Matthew Chen with a unanimous three ballots in her favor.
Billy Rappo (125 Council Rock South Holland, Pa.) Prep: Two - time PIAA
AAA state champion and three - time medalist... FILA Cadet National Freestyle finalist
The Rebels became the first team to repeat as team
state champions since Downers Grove North (2003 - 04) by finishing with 16 points, slightly edging out Buffalo Grove (15 points) Saturday at Eastern Illinois University.
The new talent will be tested early as McKeever set up another challenging nonleague schedule for his team which includes top talent at the Oak Ridge Shootout and West Coast Jamboree in December before the Eagles
face state champion Berkeley in early January.
DIAMOND DIVISION Despite playing without Nevada - bound star Mariah Williams, who was out with an MCL sprain, Vanden - Fairfield was the only Northern California team to win a top bracket after the Vikings handily beat
former state champion Narbonne - Harbor City, 62 - 28 in the No. 2 bracket's title game.
And after the game, they walked arm - in - arm back to their locker room, in the wide tunnel underneath Power Balance Pavilion, chanting «We are Mater Dei, back - to - back - to -
back state champions.»
That's before we get to the endless amounts of government support provided to
industry state champions, rendering them impractical to compete with.
To clinch the esteemed title of 2017 Bendix Grand Champion, Bolduc's driving accuracy and knowledge of truck safety surpassed the more than 420
other state champion professional truck drivers competing in all vehicle classes in Orlando, Florida this week.
The win not only gave the storied Vacaville program its
11th state champion (and second in as many years), but also lifted the Bulldogs to a third - place team finish in California.
Coaching in the event will be Derek Walker (pictured above) of Division
IV state champion St. Patrick - St.
Sounds like Detroit
King state champion WR Donnie Corley is planning to visit #Michigan tomorrow.
Wight has coached five of Vacaville's 11
state champions through the years, including Sweany and last year's heavyweight champ Johnny Schupp.
While it's a little easier to see defending
state champions eliminated in the Open bracket, we'd be bummed out to see a program like Menlo - Atherton - Atherton become a casualty.
It's the type of mail haul one would expect the head coach of a nationally - ranked, four - time defending
state champion program to receive — and recycle — on a daily basis.
In addition to Sacramento Bee No. 1 Christian Brothers, the Troubadours travel to No. 6 Oak Ridge Tuesday and host defending
state champion Granite Bay on Thursday.
«He's a terrific motivator,» two - time
state champion coach Bill Mellis of Salesian - Richmond told SportStars when DeLuca was hired at Berkeley in 2013.
THE FAVORITE: Central Catholic - Modesto (7 - 3)-- While the two - time defending
state champion Raiders suffered as many defeats this season than in the last two years combined, they are still the favorite to get a shot at returning to a CIF State Bowl game.
Matthews is a returning
Pennsylvania state champion and two - time Walsh Ironman finalist who earned a scholarship to wrestle at the University of Pittsburgh.