And, so, the (Alfred Victor) duPont Manual Lady Crimsons of Louisville join the list of Kentucky's state champions in girls' basketball. I noted in yesterday's Funky Winkerbean that Westview's new state-championship trophy is for the "Division III" girls' basketball title. Not Manual's crown--it's for the whole Commonwealth.
1920 Paris
1921 Ashland
1922 Ashland
1923 West Louisville
1924 Ashland
1925 Georgetown
1926 Maysville
1927 West Louisville
1928 Ashland
1929 Ashland
1930 Hazard
1931 Woodburn
1932 Woodburn
1975 Louisville Butler Traditional
1976 Louisville Sacred Heart
1977 Laurel County
1978 Laurel County
1979 Laurel County
1980 Louisville Butler
1981 Pulaski County
1982 Marshall County
1983 Bowling Green Warren Central
1984 Marshall County
1985 Whitley County
1986 Oldham County
1987 Laurel County
1988 Louisville Southern
1989 Clay County
1990 Lexington Henry Clay
1991 Laurel County
1992 Louisville Mercy
1993 Nicholas County
1994 Hazard M.C. Napier
1995 Scott County
1996 Union County
1997 Hazard
1998 Elizabethtown
1999 Lexington Catholic
2000 Olive Hill West Carter
2001 Lexington Catholic
2002 Louisville Sacred Heart
2003 Louisville Sacred Heart
2004 Louisville Sacred Heart
2005 Lexington Catholic
2006 Lexington Catholic
2007 Lexington Catholic
2008 Louisville Butler
2009 Louisville Iroquois
2010 Louisville Mercy
2011 Rockcastle County
2012 Louisville duPont Manual
I would like to know more about the following questions:
-- Whatever happened to W.B. Jackson, who coached all five Ashland Kittens winners in the early era?
-- Why did Louisville (in 1927) and Lexington (in '28) discontinue girls' basketball sooner than the rest of the state?
-- Were there teams around Kentucky that continued playing interscholastically after 1932 when the KHSAA stopped sponsoring regional and state tournaments?
-- Why did West Louisville, a community in Daviess County that today seemingly turns up in the direct path of any tornado that makes its way across western Kentucky, excel at girls' basketball, and how was Owensboro doing at the same time? Same question for Woodburn, a community in Warren County, in relationship to Bowling Green?
-- Why Laurel County five times in 15 seasons, and why none in the last 21?
Maybe we'll learn more about those next KHSAA girls' basketball season.
Today, by the way, Westview's championship is the Ohio "Division One" title.
ReplyDeleteDuh. Question 5b: Why not Laurel County since 1991? Because it no longer exists, Idiot Me. Of course, it split in North and South Laurel highs, both of London.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Laurel County did with all of their state tournament trophies.
ReplyDeleteShoutout from back home in Columbia to Manual's "Coach P"/Houston Pendleton's boy.
ReplyDeleteDid I mention that I've seen the future of journalism and that its name is ColumbiaMagazine.com?
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