3 IL fall teams join the list of state champs

The wrapping up of the Illinois High School Association football finals in Champaign this evening gives us the opportunity to recognize, formally, the schools whose championship teams this fall won a state title for the first time in any sport.

Prairie Ridge defeated Sacred Heart-Griffin in the 6A football title game. (NFHS)

The following teams won state titles this year in the given sports, marking the first team title in any sport for these schools.

• Charleston High School won in girls’ golf, Class 1A
• Harvest Christian Academy in Elgin won in boys’ cross country, Class 1A
• West Prairie High School in Sciota won in girls’ volleyball, Class 1A

For a complete list of all state championships, compiled into a sortable, searchable table, see our SLICE project for IHSA state title winners. Our data, which comes directly from the IHSA, begins in 1892 and continues through the fall sports listed on this page.

We summarize below the teams that won IHSA state titles this fall, showing the number of times each team has won a title in that sport and the number of state championships the school has won in any IHSA sport or activity.

Boys’ cross country

Boys’ football

Boys’ golf

Girls’ cross country

Girls’ golf

Girls’ tennis

Girls’ volleyball

A small disclaimer: Sometimes schools change names. For example, IC Catholic in Elmhurst was formerly known in the IHSA databases as Immaculate Conception. We tried to catch as many of these as we could, but when, for example, Hinsdale Township changed its name to Hinsdale Central, the name of the state title team can’t be tracked automatically and has to be manually computed. Accuracy is very important to us, so if you notice an error here, let us know.