HS Sports: "Champion of Champions" Winter Sports Edition

4/2/2025

The Eli Sports Network (ESN) began a tradition 3 years ago where at the end of the year we crown the “Champion of Champions”. This is a combined boys and girls overall sports Champion or the ultimate State Champion. We also crown a boys Champion and girls overall Champion. To do this we created a scoring system that rewards consistency over a single sport Championship. It’s great to be the State Basketball Champs for both girls and boys but how did your school’s cross country team or golf team or swim team do is what we wanted to know.

This system gives equal reward for State Titles whether it’s a Football Championship with 5,000 people in attendance to Slow-pitch with a few hundred to Golf where a few family members or friends come to watch. It’s not about popularity, it’s about results.

Some of the classification’s have an advantage over others when it comes to comparing classifications against others for example the B’s do not have Girls Bowling or boys Swimming so they cannot earn points in those sports. This is why our first focus is the individual classification of Champions for each boys and girls team. So we will have a Champion for 4A boys and 4A girls all the way down to 1B.

In the case of split schools coming together to play just a couple of sports then each get half of the points awarded. Those schools that play all their sports together and are known as a combined program get all the points and are identified as that entity. For instance, Morton-White Pass high schools have been together as a single sports program for many years now and they are credited as the combined program. Meantime, Toledo and Winlock boys soccer have played together for many years as team United but all their other sports are separate. In that case any points earned by team United would be split between Toledo and Winlock..

Finally, and this is where the larger schools do have an advantage with more sports to participate, the All Classification Combined Champion. This is how we scored each and every tournament. For tournaments that clearly had 8 places each place got the points assigned below to that placing. When there are multiple teams tied for one place such as all the quarterfinal losers in football all get 5th place which is a total of 4 teams. We add up the tied points 5th thru 8th which totals 20 points and divide them equally so each quarter final loser or 5th place gets 5 points.

Point Scale

25pts for 1st place
17pts for 2nd
14pts for 3rd
12pts for 4th
8pts for 5th
6pts for 6th
4pts for 7th
2pts for 8th

Reigning All-Classification Champion:

Columbia River 177 points

Winter Season All-Classification “Champion of Champions” Top 24

Classification Champions in Bold

Place	Team	Points	Class
1st	Bainbridge	104	2A
2nd	Bellevue	92	3A
3rd	Cedar Park Christian	89	1A
4th	Mercer Island	85	3A
5th	Mt Spokane	79	3A
6th	Seattle Prep	77	3A
6th	Freeman	77	2B
8th	Columbia River	76	2A
9th	Curtis	72	4A
9th	Okanogan	72	2B
11th	Issaquah	71	4A
12th	Ellensburg	67	2A
13th	Lake Stevens	66	4A
14th	Sumner	64	4A
14th	Chiawana	64	4A
16th	Woodinville	59	4A
16th	Sehome	59	2A
16th	Zillah	59	1A
19th	Tahoma	57	4A
20th	Anacortes	56	2A
20th	WF West	56	2A
22nd	Skyview	54	4A
23rd	Garfield-Palouse	51	1B
24th	Royal	50	1A
24th	W-C-K	50	1B

The Bainbridge Spartans jump to the top of the standings with a title in Boys Swimming and Diving while the Girls took home 2nd in Gymnastics and 7th in Basketball.

Bellevue Boys took home the 3A Swimming and Diving title as well as 7th in Basketball. A young Girls team earned a 4th place trophy in Basketball to push them to 2nd overall.

Cedar Park Christian drops 2 spots in the standings after not taking home any winter hardware but with both boys and girls winning cross country titles the track points could give them a push for the 2025 “Champion of Champions” title.

4A Overall Champion

1st Curtis 72 pts
2nd Issaquah 71 pts
3rd Lake Stevens 66 pts
4th Sumner 64 pts
4th Chiawana 64 pts
6th Woodinville 59 pts
7th Tahoma 57 pts
8th Skyview 54 pts

4A Girls

1st Curtis 60 pts 1st Volleyball, 2nd Swimming and Diving, 3rd Soccer, 7th Cross Country
2nd Woodinville 59 pts 1st Gymnastics, 2nd Soccer, 3rd Basketball, 7th Slow Pitch
3rd Lake Stevens 51 pts 1st Soccer, 3rd Wrestling, 4th Volleyball
4th Kennedy Catholic 42 pts 1st Swimming and Diving, 2nd Volleyball
5th Sumner 39 pts 2nd Basketball, 2nd Wrestling, 5th Soccer
6th Chiawana 37 pts 1st Slow Pitch, 4th Basketball
6th Skyview 37 pts 1st Bowling, 5th Slow Pitch, 5th Soccer
8th Davis 33 pts 1st Basketball, 5th Wrestling

4A Boys

1st Issaquah 42 pts 1st Swimming and Diving, 2nd Cross Country
2nd Tahoma 41 pts 1st Wrestling, 3rd Swimming and Diving, 8th Cross Country
3rd Gonzaga Prep 38 pts 1st Basketball, 3rd Football
4th Camas 27 pts 2nd Football, 6th Basketball, 7th Wrestling
4th Chiawana 27 pts 3rd Wrestling, 3rd Football
6th Lewis and Clark 25 pts 1st Cross Country
6th Sumner 25 pts 1st Football
8th Redmond 18 pts 4th Swimming and Diving, 6th Cross Country

3A Overall Champion

1st Bellevue 92 pts
2nd Mercer Island 85 pts
3rd Mount Spokane 79 pts
4th Seattle Prep 77 pts
5th Lakeside (Seattle) 45 pts
6th Roosevelt 44 pts
7th University 40 pts
8th Kennewick 38 pts

3A Girls

1st Mount Spokane 63 pts 1st Slow Pitch, 3rd Volleyball, 4th Cross Country, 4th Soccer
2nd Seattle Prep 58 pts 1st Soccer, 4th Volleyball, 5th Swimming and Diving, 5th Bowling, 7th Basketball, 8th Cross Country
3rd Mercer Island 50 pts 1st Cross Country, 1st Swimming and Diving
4th Bellevue 47 pts 2nd Swimming and Diving, 3rd Soccer, 4th Basketball, 7th Volleyball
5th Kelso 32 pts 1st Wrestling, 5th Slow Pitch
6th Lakeside 31 pts 2nd Basketball, 3rd Swimming and Diving
6th North Thurston 31 pts 2nd Volleyball, 3rd Basketball
6th Roosevelt 31 pts 2nd Soccer, 3rd Gymnastics

3A Boys

1st Bellevue 45 pts 1st Swimming and Diving, 2nd Football, 7th Basketball
2nd Mercer Island 35 pts 1st Cross Country, 4th Swimming and Diving, 8th Wrestling
3rd O’Dea 27 pts 1st Football, 8th Swimming and Diving
4th Rainier Beach 25 pts 1st Basketball
4th White River 25 pts 1st Wrestling
6th Lincoln (Tacoma) 22 pts 3rd Wrestling, 5th Football, 7th Basketball
7th Hermiston 21 pts 2nd Wrestling, 7th Cross Country
8th Seattle Prep 19 pts 4th Basketball, 5th Football, 8th Cross Country

2A Overall Champion

1st Bainbridge 104 pts
2nd Columbia River 76 pts
3rd Ellensburg 67 pts
4th Sehome 59 pts
5th Anacortes 56 pts
5th WF West 56 pts
7th Orting 47 pts
8th Toppenish 44 pts

2A Girls

1st Bainbridge 62 pts 1st Swimming and Diving, 2nd Gymnastics, 4th Cross Country, 5th Soccer,7th Basketball
2nd Columbia River 58 pts 1st Volleyball, 2nd Soccer, 5th Slow Pitch, 6th Gymnastics, 7th Basketball
3rd Ellensburg 53 pts 2nd Swimming and Diving, 2nd Basketball, 3rd Cross Country, 5th Soccer
4th Ridgefield 31 pts 1st Soccer, 6th Volleyball
5th WF West 30 pts 4th Bowling, 4th Wrestling, 6th Basketball
6th Sehome 29 pts 1st Cross Country, 7th Swimming and Diving
7th Toppenish 27 pts 1st Wrestling, 8th Volleyball
8th Hudson’s Bay 25 pts 1st Bowling
8th Lynden 25 pts 1st Basketball

2A Boys

1st Bainbridge 42 pts 1st Swimming and Diving, 2nd Cross Country
2nd Anacortes 39 pts 1st Football, 5th Swimming and Diving, 6th Wrestling
3rd Sehome 30 pts 1st Cross Country, 5th Football
4th Bremerton 25 pts 1st Basketball
4th Orting 25 pts 1st Wrestling
4th WF West 25 pts 3rd Football, 4th Wrestling
7th Columbia River 18 pts 4th Basketball, 6th Cross Country
8th 4 Schools tied at 17 pts

1A Overall Champion

1st Cedar Park Christian 89 pts
2nd Zillah 59 pts
3rd Royal 50 pts
4th Cashmere 44 pts
4th King’s 44 pts
6th Seton Catholic 43 pts
7th Bellevue Christian 42 pts
8th Lynden Christian 40 pts

1A Girls

1st Cedar Park Christian 64 pts 1st Soccer, 1st Cross Country, 3rd Volleyball
2nd Bellevue Christian 42 pts 1st Basketball, 2nd Soccer
3rd King’s 29 pts 2nd Basketball, 4th Cross Country
4th Klahowya 27 pts 3rd Bowling, 5th Cross Country, 5th Soccer
5th Zillah 26 pts 3rd Wrestling, 4th Basketball
6th Chelan 25 pts 1st Volleyball
7th Cashmere 23 pts 4th Soccer, 5th Volleyball, 7th Basketball
7th Seton Catholic 23 pts 3rd Soccer, 6th Swimming and Diving, 7th Basketball

1A Boys

1st Royal 33 pts 1st Football, 5th Basketball
2nd Zillah 31 pts 2nd Wrestling, 3rd Basketball
3rd Meridian 26 pts 3rd Cross Country, 4th Basketball
4th Annie Wright 25 pts 1st Basketball
4th Cedar Park Christian 25 pts 1st Cross Country
4th Wapato 25 pts 1st Wrestling
4th Montesano 25 pts 3rd Football, 4th Wrestling
8th Lynden Christian 22 pts 2nd Basketball, 5th Football

2B Overall Champion

1st Freeman 77 pts
2nd Okanogan 72 pts
3rd NW Christian (Colbert) 49 pts
4th Adna 39 pts
5th Rainier 37 pts
6th St. Georges 36 pts
6th Napavine 36 pts
8th Cle Elum-Roslyn 30 pts
8th Tonasket 30 pts

2B Boys

1st Okanogan 60 pts 1st Football, 2nd Wrestling, 4th Cross Country, 6th Basketball
2nd Freeman 38 pts 2nd Basketball, 3rd Football, 5th Cross Country
3rd Cle Elum-Roslyn 25 pts 1st Cross Country
3rd Columbia (Burbank) 25 pts 1st Basketball
3rd Orcas Island 25 pts 1st Soccer
3rd Tonasket 25 pts 1st Wrestling
7th Liberty Bell 23 pts 3rd Wrestling, 6th Cross Country, 7th Basketball
8th Jenkins 22 pts 3rd Cross Country, 5th Wrestling
8th St. Georges 22 pts 2nd Cross Country, 5th Soccer

2B Girls

1st Freeman 39 pts 1st Soccer, 3rd Volleyball
2nd NW Christian (Colbert) 37 pts 1st Basketball, 4th Soccer
2nd Rainier 37 pts 1st Cross Country, 5th Volleyball, 7th Wrestling
4th Adna 34 pts 2nd Volleyball, 2nd Basketball
5th Manson 29 pts 1st Volleyball, 7th Cross Country
6th Granger 25 pts 1st Wrestling
7th Mt. Vernon Christian 20 pts 2nd Soccer, 7th Basketball
8th Napavine 19 pts 3rd Basketball, 5th Soccer

1B Overall Champion

1st Garfield-Palouse 51 pts
2nd Wilbur-Creston-Keller 50 pts
3rd Neah Bay 38 pts
4th Valley Christian 33 pts
5th Pope John Paul II 31 pts
6th Almira-Coulee-Hartline 30 pts
7th Oakesdale 29 pts
8th Lummi Nation 25 pts

1B Boys

1st Almira-Coulee-Hartline 30 pts 2nd Basketball, 3rd Football
2nd Lummi Nation 25 pts 1st Basketball
2nd Valley Christian 25 pts 1st Cross Country
2nd Wilbur-Creston-Keller 25 pts 1st Football
5th Garfield-Palouse 22 pts 2nd Cross Country, 5th Football
6th DeSales 19 pts 3rd Basketball, 5th Football
7th Lopez Island 17 pts 2nd Soccer
7th Liberty Christian (Richland) 17 pts 2nd Football

1B Girls

1st Garfield-Palouse 29 pts 2nd Basketball, 4th Cross Country
1st Oakesdale 29 Pts 2nd Volleyball, 4th Basketball
3rd Neah Bay 25 pts 1st Basketball
3rd Wilbur-Creston-Keller 25 pts 1st Volleyball
5th Pope John Paul II 17 pts 2nd Cross Country
6th Crosspoint Christian 14 pts 3rd Soccer
6th Fellowship Christian 14 pts 3rd Volleyball
6th Wellpinit 14 pts 3rd Basketball

Fall Season All-Classification “Champion of Champions” Top 11