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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 ...
"High School Game Night" is a Wednesday and Friday 3 and 1/2 hour program that features live scores, interviews, and analysis of all the high school football games in progress throughout the state of West Virginia.
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 ...
Each year the Bill Evans Award is given to the person chosen as the best high school boys basketball player in the U.S. state of West Virginia.The award winner is selected by members of the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.
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.
Danny Heater (born 1942) is an American record holder for the highest single game scoring performance by one player in high school basketball history worldwide. [1]On January 26, 1960, [2] Heater, a then 17-year-old senior at Burnsville High School in Braxton County, West Virginia scored 135 points against Widen High School of Clay County.
This is a list of high schools in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Locations are the communities in which they are located, with postal location in parentheses if different. Barbour County
Early sports included football, baseball, basketball, and gymnastics, all for men only. Many WVWC alumni have gone on to play professional sports. Among them, two alumni have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame - Earl "Greasy" Neale '15 of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1969 and Cliff Battles '33 of the Washington Redskins in 1968. [3] [4]