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An eight team Rhode Island High School League existed from 1918-1929. Below is what is known about its champions: Hope won 4 Baseball Championships Hope won 3 Football Championships Providence Tech (Now Central) won 1918 Football Championship Burrillville won the 1927 Baseball championship St. Raphael won the 1928 Class B Baseball championship Burrillville won the 1929 Class B Baseball championship Rogers won the 1930-31 Boys Basketball championship (Pawtucket won the regular season title, De La Salle the Conference A and Colt the conference B) Rogers won the 1920 + 1928 Football championships La Salle won the 1929 Football championship South Kingstown won the 1929 Football Class B championship Pawtucket (now Tolman) won the 1931 + 1932 Soccer championships (Beat Cranston for the 1932 title 4-2)
State Interscholastic Outdoor Track Meet Champions: 1917- Hope 1918- Pawtucket 1919- Woonsocket 1920- Woonsocket 1921- Pawtucket 1922- Providence Tech + Pawtucket (Class A) Westerly (Class B) 1923- Providence Tech (Class A) Cumberland (Class B) 1924- Providence Tech (Class A) Westerly (Class B) 1925- Providence Tech (Class A) Barrington (Class B) 1926- Providence Tech (Class A) Barrington (Class B) 1927- Brockton (Class A) Warwick (Class B) 1928- Hope (Class A) Stonington (Class B) 1929- Providence Tech (Class A) Stonington (Class B) 1930- Hope (Class A) Stonington (Class B) 1931- La Salle (Class A) Warwick (Class B) 1932- Moses Brown (Class A) Warwick (Class B)
In 1926-27 the first Ice Hockey League was formed containing: Cranston Hope La Salle Mount Saint Charles A few years later, some other public schools joined to form an official league. Cranston won the 1930-31 Interscholastic State and League (regular season) title while Mount Saint Charles won the Interscholastic Conference title
In the 1932-33 season, the Rhode Island Interscholastic League was formed:
In the 1953-54 Season, Wrestling was added Boys Swimming in 1959-60 (After no competition from 1943-44 through 1958-59) Boys Soccer in 1965 Boys Volleyball in 1987 Boys Lacrosse in 2001 The earliest known Girls Tennis tournament was the 1969 Singles Tournament. Unsure of the first year. In 1970-71 Golf Became a co-ed sport, with an individual Girls Golf champion being crowned for the first time In the 1971-72 Season, the following Girls sports were initiated:
In 1973 Girls Tennis crowned its first team champions, signifying the addition of Girls Tennis Girls Soccer in 1983 Fast-Pitch Softball in 1986 Girls Indoor Track in the 1990-91 Season Swimming became the second co-ed sport in the 1991-92 season with the first all-girls postseason. Swimming remained a co-ed sport from 1991-92 to 1999-00. In 2000-01, Swimming was separated into a Boys Swimming individual sport and a Girls Swimming individual sport) Girls Lacrosse in 2001 Girls Ice Hockey in the 2002-03 season Cheerleading in the 2007-08 season |
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