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The first state high school basketballtournament was held at Carleton Collegein Northfield. Thirteen boys’ teams wereinvited to participate. Fosston defeatedMountain Lake 29 to 27 to win the state title.

1916The Minnesota State HighSchool Athletic Associationwas organized. TheAssociation’s mission was topromote amateur sports forboys and establish uniformand equitable rules forinterschool activities.

James Naismith invented thegame of basketball to providean “athletic distraction” for arowdy YMCA class inSpringfield, Massachusetts.

1976Winter became the official season

and teams were divided into two classes.Redwood Falls won the Class A tournament.

St. Paul Central won the Class AAtournament. Metropolitan Sports Center in

Bloomington was the venue and 34,000fans attended.

1990–1991Rochester Lourdes won its second andthird titles in 1990 and 1991 with acombined record of 57-1 as Lori Lawlerand Stacy Sievers starred. The Eaglesthen added a fourth title in 1993 and in1995 became the first program, boys orgirls, ever to win a fifth title.

1995–1997The Miller twins, Coco

and Kelly, electrifiedtournament fans for

three consecutiveyears with their

up-tempo style of play. The twins led

Rochester Mayo to twotitles in ’95 and again

in ’97. The Spartansstill hold the record for

most points, 241, inthree games.

2005Rochester Lourdes won its

8th state championship,the most of any team in

tournament history. In 2010 Myron Glass,coach of the Lourdes

team, becames the all-time leading coach intournament appearances

with 15.

2006Minnesota became the first

state in the nation to useinstant replay during state

tournament play.

1969The League

adopts bylawsto administer

girls’ athletics.

1980Class A champion

Albany High Schoolbecame the first

undefeated team intournament history witha perfect 26-0 record.

2004The basketball

tournament formatchanges from four

eight-minutequarters to two

18-minute halves.

1999–2002Fosston wins a record setting(boys/girls) 78 consecutive games.The Greyhounds, led by KellyRoysland, won three championshipsin 2000, 2001, and 2002.

2007-2008St. Paul Central wins back-to-back championships

in ’07 and ’08, increasing the number of schoolstate championships to four. The 2007 team,

led by guard Angel Robinson finished the year32-0. They were ranked third in the nation

and were described by some as the greatest girls’ team in Minnesota history.

2009Tayler Hill ofMinneapolis Southsets the state all-timescoring record, boysor girls, with 3,888points. A McDonald’s All-American, Hill tiedthe tournamentscoring record with 47 points in herfinal championshipgame which Southwon 68 -61 overCentennial.

1988Tracy-Milroy, led by freshman sensationMary Jo Miller, won its first of two state

titles. The Panthers beat threeundefeated teams to take the title.

1985Little Falls became the first

Class AA school to win three state championships. Other titles

came in 1980 and 1984. Top-ranked Staples won its first

title with a perfect record of 28-0.

1983Albany won its second title

and became the first schoolin tournament history to winboth a Class A and Class AA

championship.

1994Williams Arena became the new home forthe girls’ basketball tournament. The BlakeSchool of Minneapolis won its first of threechampionships. After finishing second in1996 and third in 1997, the Bears wonback-to-back titles in 1998 and 1999.

1984The smaller ball for girl’s basketball isintroduced. The ballwas 1-inch smaller and 2-ounces lighter. Threeyears later, the 3-pointfield goal is adopted.

1997Two classes arereplaced withfour classes.

2008Jordan guard BrittanyChambers scores a recordsetting 47 points in asingle game, breaking the previous record of 45 set by Kelly Skalicky in 1981.1981

Albany guard Kelly Skalicky set thesingle-game scoring record with 45points. Skalicky’s record stood for 27years. To date, she still holdstournament records for most assists –17 (1979), most field goals in a singlegame—21 (1981), and most fieldgoals in three games – 47 (1981).

1997-2009After having appeared in the tournament in 1979 and 1980,Minneapolis North and coach Faith Johnson Pattersondominated the Class AAA field with back-to-backchampionships in ’98 and ’99, and a three-peat in ’03, ’04,and ’05. Patterson added a sixth title at DeLaSalle in 2011.Former WNBA player Tamara Moore, Mauri Horton, and MiaJohnson starred for the Polars. Patterson’s 12 state tournamentappearances ranks her third among her peers.

1979All three days of the 1979 tournament weretelevised for the first time. Viewers saw St. Paul Central win its second Class AA titleand New York Mills win itsthird Class A title.Tournament attendancethat year reached an all-time high of 53,702spectators.

1974Private schools became members of the

Minnesota State High School League. TheLeague added basketball as a girls’ sport.Some schools chose fall and others chose

winter in which to play basketball. Twotournaments were conducted. Glencoe won

the Fall 1974 event and Academy of HolyAngels won the Winter 1975 event.

1900–1940sGirls’ basketball was a statewide program inMinnesota with more than 300 high schoolteams. Concerned about the negative impactthat strenuous sport could have on girls,interscholastic sports were replaced withintramural sports programs through the ’30s and’40s. Two decades would pass before girls’basketball returned to high school gymnasiums.

1975The League Board of

Directors votedunanimously to make

girls’ basketball awinter sport.

1977–1979Janet Karvonen and New York Mills became

the first girls’ team ever to win threeconsecutive state championships from 1977-1979. Karvonen set tournament

scoring records each of those years with 59,78, and 98 points, respectively. She

completed her high school career by settingthe all-time tournament scoring record(regardless of gender) with 329 points.

1891

1929The Athletic Associationbroadened its scope to includedebate and speech, and thename was changed toMinnesota State High SchoolLeague. A statewide qualifyingformat incorporating districtsand regions was established toensure geographicrepresentation at statetournaments.

From the moment of basketball’s invention in 1891, girls embraced the game just as much as the boys.

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