Metro League State Champions
The list of Metro League state championships grew by two this month as Rainier Beach won the boys 3A basketball crown and Garfield won the 4A.
Here is the list of all-time city state champion teams. (Poll champions for years before state playoffs are not included):
Boys
Basketball
Biggest classification: Lincoln - 1945, 1956, 1957.
Garfield - 1955, 1961, 1962, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1998.
Roosevelt - 1946, 1973, 1982.
Ingraham - 1969.
Blanchet - 1963 (not a Metro member at time).
Cleveland - 1976.
Second-biggest classification:
Cleveland - 1975.
Rainier Beach - 1988, 1998.
Chief Sealth - 1989.
Franklin - 1994, 1995.
O'Dea - 1993, 1997.
Baseball
Second-biggest classification:
Blanchet, 1996.
Cross-country
Biggest classification: Franklin, 1964, 1967.
Hale - 1966.
Blanchet - 1983, 1984, 1986.
Second-biggest classification:
Seattle Prep - 1972 (not a Metro member at the time).
Lakeside - 1980.
Blanchet - 1991, 1992.
Third-biggest classification:
Seattle Prep - 1966 (not a Metro member at the time).
Football
Biggest classification: Blanchet - 1974 (not a Metro member at time).
Ingraham - 1988.
Second-biggest classification:
O'Dea - 1991, 1994, 1995.
Golf
Biggest classification: Ingraham, 1972.
Second-biggest classification:
Lakeside, 1986.
Seattle Prep, 1995.
Gymnastics
Biggest classification: Hale, 1970.
West Seattle, 1971.
Soccer
Biggest classification: Blanchet, 1980.
Second-biggest classification:
Hale, 1985; O'Dea, 1990.
Swimming
Second-biggest classification:
Seattle Prep, 1996.
Tennis
Biggest classification: Seattle Prep, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964 (not a Metro member for these titles).
Lakeside, 1971.
Second-biggest classification:
Lakeside, 1976, 1985, 1986, 1994.
Seattle Prep, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997.
Track
Biggest classification: Franklin 1964 (tie with Aberdeen), 1967; Ingraham, 1965.
Garfield, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 (tie with Lakes), 1989 (tie with Mead).
Second-biggest classification:
Rainier Beach, 1986, 1987.
O'Dea, 1995.
Girls
Basketball
Biggest classification: Garfield - 1980, 1987.
Second-biggest classification:
Lakeside, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994.
Blanchet - 1995, 1996.
Cross-country
Biggest classification: Chief Sealth, 1975.
Second-biggest classification:
Lakeside, 1982, 1991.
Soccer
Second-biggest classification:
Lakeside, 1995, 1996.
Softball
Biggest classification: Blanchet, 1980.
Tennis
Second-biggest classification:
Lakeside, 1979 (tie with Mark Morris-Longview), 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994.
Seattle Prep, 1993, 1996, 1997.
Track
Biggest classification: Hale, 1971 (invitational meet).
West Seattle, 1974.
Garfield, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1997.
Second-biggest classification:
Rainier Beach, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988.
Cleveland, 1989.
Lakeside, 1991, 1992, 1996.
Garfield, 1993.
Volleyball
Biggest classification: Ingraham, 1973, 1974.
West Seattle, 1975.
Second biggest classification:
Blanchet, 1991.