JACKSON – With the 2023-2024 MHSAA observe and discipline season within the books, it's time to acknowledge athletic applications which have excelled throughout the board this previous yr with the Blue Cross & Blue Protect Mississippi All-Sports activities Award sponsored by the MHSAA and SBLive.
The awards are designed to establish the highest faculties within the state in total athletic efficiency for a given faculty yr.
Winners are determined by a factors system wherein faculties are rewarded each for reaching the postseason and for advancing as soon as their groups get there.
State championships are price a complete of 30 factors, with runners-up receiving 25 and groups making the semifinals (or ending third) receiving 20, and so on. Every group that reached the postseason in a group sport or completed within the prime eight on the state meet obtained some factors.
This yr, the MHSAA sponsored 22 totally different sports activities, together with volleyball, ladies and boys swimming, girls and boys cross nation, soccer, girls and boys soccer, girls and boys bowling, girls and boys basketball, girls and boys powerlifting, observe and discipline for girls and boys. , ladies and boys golf, softball, baseball, tennis and archery.
With out additional ado, right here's a take a look at the MHSAA Class 1A faculties which have excelled on fields, courts and arenas throughout the Magnolia State. Congratulations to all our award winners.
2023-2024 MHSAA Class 1A All-Sports activities Champions
1. Tupelo Christian Prep Eagles (217.5)
State titles: Boys observe
Tupelo Christian was the highest athletic program within the MHSAA's smallest classification for the third yr in a row. To prime off the college's boys observe state championships, the Eagles completed third in ladies observe and boys powerlifting, second in ladies cross nation and reached the semifinals and finals in each ladies and boys soccer.
2. Myrtle Hawks (167.5)
State titles: Ladies Powerlifting, Ladies Cross Nation
Myrtle's whole rating jumped from a 150 in Class 2A final yr (when she additionally completed second) to a 167.5 in Class 1A this yr. They scored massive factors with two state titles, however the Hawks additionally completed second in boys energy play, reached the quarterfinals in baseball and the semifinals in softball.
T3. Biggersville Lions (150)
State titles: Soccer, boys basketball
If we had been solely rating massive, mainstream sports activities, Biggersville would win by a landslide. Along with the college's first-ever soccer championship, the Lions received the boys basketball title, reached the semifinals in ladies basketball and baseball, and reached the playoffs in volleyball, softball and tennis.
T3. Resurrection Catholic Eagles (150)
State titles: None
Resurrection improved on its year-over-year efficiency after ending fourth within the Class 1A All-Sports activities standings a yr in the past. The Eagles superior to the semifinals in baseball and tennis, completed second in boys cross nation, third in boys observe and fourth in boys golf.
The most effective of the remaining:
5. West Union (130)
6. Velma Jackson (125)
7. Baldwyn (122.5)
8. Sacred Coronary heart (120)
9. Pine Grove (105)
T10. Stringer (95)
T10. Taylorsville (95)
Editor's be aware: That is the primary in a sequence of posts saying the winners of the All-Sports activities Awards for the 2023-2024 athletic yr. Class 2A winners can be introduced Thursday, June 20, and Class 3A-7A winners can be introduced Monday, June 24 by Friday, June 29.
