NCHSAA Breaks Lacrosse State Championships into Two Brackets

Nov. 14, 2013

WEBB TO COMPETE FOR SPOT IN 3A/2A/1A STATE PLAYOFFS

The NCHSAA announced on Wednesday that the state championships for Lacrosse would be split by school size.  For this to happen, at least half of all schools in one bracket must sponser lacrosse.  The brackets will see 4A schools compete for a state title, while everyone else will compete for the 3A/2A/1A state title.  

While many of the state's best schools, such as Cardinal Gibbons and Chapel Hill, both members of the Big Eight conference with Webb, are smaller schools and will compete in this bracket as well, it allows schools of similar size to compete against each other.  In the long run, it will help even the playing field for smaller schools.  The NCHSAA has sponsered the sport for four years, and all four different state champions (Charlotte Myers Park, Northwest Guilford, Lake Norman, and Apex High Schools) are all 4A-classified schools.

Before the sport was sponsered by the NCHSAA, there were size-based brackets from 2005 until 2009, with 4A schools competing against each other for their respective state title and 3A/2A/1A schools competing for their respective state title.  Before that, every state championship except one dating from 1998 until 2004 was won by a school classified at the time as a 4A school (Riverside, Riverside, Southeast Guilford, Riverside, Riverside, Chapel Hill, East Chapel Hill).  Chapel Hill, after the construction of Carrboro High School, was re-classified down to 3A, while Southeast Guilford was classified as a 3A/2A school from 2005-2009 but is now classified by the state as a 4A school. 

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