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May 16—MORGANTOWN — Section tournaments are a thing of the past for West Virginia high school basketball as the WVSSAC approved a change to the boys' and girls' basketball postseason format on ...
Apr. 3—With the addition of a fourth classification for several high school sports, the WVSSAC has announced the new sectional and regional alignments that will begin next season and run through ...
The institution now known as West Virginia State University funded an unofficial "state colored championship" in basketball and football until 1959. The WVSSAC historical records take no note of these champions, and does not note that its champions prior to that year competed in a system that excluded many of the state's best athletes.
1916–1956: Colored School State Champions. Before the historic Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, schools, and football games, were segregated. African-Americans were forced to play in their own league. The West Virginia Athletic Union governed African-American athletics during this time. 1937–1946: Single-class system.
The West Virginia High School Football State Championships have been held since the early 1900s. The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission (WVSSAC) began its formal recognition of WV State Football Championships in 1937 [1] with the state's sports writers' vote. The WVSSAC began a class system, dividing larger and smaller schools ...
Dec. 21—Several West Virginia high school sports will move to a four-class system as the WVSSAC board of directors approved the measure Wednesday evening in Parkersburg. Four classifications ...
John Marshall High School is a public high school in Glen Dale, West Virginia, United States.It is one of two high schools in the Marshall County School District.Athletic teams compete as the John Marshall Monarchs in the WVSSAC Class AAA, as well as the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference.
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