Video: MaxPreps Cup - Jesuit (Portland, Ore.)
Strong spring season propels Crusaders to the top of the list.Building on its strong winter performance,
Jesuit (Portland, Ore.) captured the MaxPreps Cup for the 2015-16 school year by winning four state championships during the spring.
The MaxPreps Cup uses state championship performances and national rankings to determine the nation's top overall high school sports programs. Jesuit won state titles in baseball, softball, boys tennis and girls track. Jesuit had previously won state titles in football, girls volleyball, girls swimming, girls soccer and boys swimming.
Jesuit's win ends the two-year reign of Bentonville (Ark.), which had won the MaxPreps Cup in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Bentonville finished in second place for 2015-16 with 958 points and seven state championships.
Jesuit wasn't the only Oregon school to score well in this year's MaxPreps Cup. Summit (Bend) won a total of 11 state titles at the 5A level in Oregon to finish in fourth place overall. Summit is the top performing medium school program in the standings.
A pair of Atlanta schools finished in the top five. Westminster, the 2012-13 MaxPreps Cup champion, finished at No. 3 with 877 points while Marist finished at No. 5 with 824.
Bishop England (Charleston, S.C.) comes in at No. 19 in the overall standings and is the top small schools program.
The MaxPreps Cup is determined by ranking all schools that win a state
championship or finish second at the state level (or section level if there is
no state competition).
Points are also weighted, rewarding states that have a large number of schools, as well as more
points to schools that compete in larger enrollment divisions. Sports
are also weighted differently, with football and basketball, among
others, receiving more points than sports like golf and tennis.
Teams
are also given points for being ranked in the Xcellent 25 football and
volleyball rankings, the MaxPreps soccer computer rankings and the DyeStat national cross country rankings.
MaxPreps Cup Final Standings 2015-16
1. (Winter Ranking 1) Jesuit (Portland, Ore.) - 1,122
State titles: Boys swimming, girls soccer, girls swimming, girls volleyball, football, baseball, boys tennis, girls track, softball.
2. (6) Bentonville (Ark.) - 958
State titles: Boys swimming, girls swimming, girls tennis, girls cross country, boys soccer, girls soccer, softball.
3. (NR) Westminster (Atlanta) – 877
State titles: Girls soccer, baseball, boys swimming, football, girls cross country, boys tennis, boys golf.
4. (11) Summit (Bend, Ore.) - 856
State titles: Boys cross country, football, girls soccer, girls swimming, girls volleyball, girls cross country, boys golf, girls golf, boys tennis, girls track, baseball.
5. (NR) Marist (Atlanta) – 824
State titles: boys cross country, girls swimming, girls cross country, boys golf, boys tennis.
6. (7) Baylor (Chattanooga, Tenn.) - 822
State titles: Boys golf, boys tennis, girls tennis, softball.
7. (NR) Punahou (Honolulu) – 814
State titles: boys soccer, boys swimming, girls swimming, girls cross country, girls golf, boys tennis, girls tennis, boys volleyball, girls water polo.
8. (14) Valor Christian (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) - 811
State titles: Football, girls basketball, girls softball, girls swimming, boys golf, baseball, boys lacrosse.
9. (2) Bozeman (Mont.) - 804
State titles: Boys cross country, football, girls basketball, girls volleyball, girls cross country, boys tennis, girls tennis.
10. (NR) Aquinas (Overland Park, Kan.) – 784
State titles: baseball, girls soccer, girls basketball , boys track, boys golf, boys cross country, girls cross country.
11. (8) Century (Bismarck, N.D.) - 778
State titles: Boys swimming, football, girls swimming, girls volleyball, boys track.
12. (3) Champlain Valley Union (Hinesburg, Vt.) - 770
State titles: Boys cross country, girls soccer, girls cross country, girls basketball, boys lacrosse, boys track, girls tennis.
13. (NR) Blessed Trinity (Roswell, Ga.) - 763
State titles: Boys cross country, girls volleyball, girls lacrosse.
14. (NR) Buchanan (Clovis, Calif.) – 752
State titles: Wrestling, baseball (section), boys volleyball (section), girls tennis (section), softball (section), boys soccer (section).
15. (13) St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) - 750
State titles: Boys cross country, football, girls volleyball, boys lacrosse, girls track.
16. (4) Brentwood Academy (Brentwood, Tenn.) - 744
State titles: Boys basketball, boys cross country, football, girls basketball, girls cross country, boys track.
17. (NR) Bolles (Jacksonville, Fla.) – 737
State titles: baseball, boys basketball, boys swimming, girls soccer, girls swimming, girls cross country.
18. (5) La Salle Academy (Providence, R.I.) - 732
State titles: Boys soccer, boys cross country, girls basketball, girls soccer, girls tennis, girls cross country, boys lacrosse.
19. (NR) Bishop England (Charleston, S.C.) - 722
State titles: Boys soccer, girls basketball, girls golf, girls soccer, girls tennis, boys track, girls volleyball, girls lacrosse.
20. (9) Fayetteville (Ark.) - 716
State titles: Boys golf, boys cross country, football, girls volleyball, boys track, girls track.
21. (NR) Blacksburg (Va.) – 683
State titles: Girls soccer, girls cross country.
22. (NR) Edmond North (Okla.) – 675
State titles: Boys swimming, girls volleyball, boys soccer, boys golf, girls tennis, boys track.
23. (NR) Webb (Knoxville, Tenn.) – 655
State titles: Girls volleyball, boys soccer, boys cross country, girls tennis, girls cross country.
24. (NR) St. Paul's Episcopal (Mobile, Ala.) – 651
State titles: Boys swimming, football, girls swimming, boys golf, boys track, girls track.
25. (T21) Bishop Miege (Shawnee Mission, Kan.) - 649
State titles: Boys basketball, football, girls basketball, girls volleyball, boys track, girls soccer.
