{"id":1545,"date":"2021-06-01T20:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/sport_championships\/state_champions_history\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:23:24","slug":"state_champions_history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/sport_championships\/state_champions_history\/","title":{"rendered":"State Champions History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DIAA has a rich championship history.  In historical context, from 1947 to 1966, interscholastic athletics was governed by the Delaware Association of Secondary Administrators (DASA). In 1966, DSSAA was formed because the growth of interscholastic athletics necessitated a separate governing body.  In July 2002, DSSAA was dissolved and DIAA took its place with the same goals, objectives and responsibilities.<\/p>\n

The first high school state championship was sponsored in 1963 for girls and boys tennis.  The first boys basketball state champion was crowned in 1969 and in 1970, boys cross country and boys soccer championships were also added.<\/p>\n

From the first interscholastic state champions that were crowned in boys and girls tennis in 1963, the growth and opportunities for student athletes to participate in high school athletics continues to grow.  Participation in high school sports promote physical health and wellbeing and the experience also develops social emotional learning skills which provide life skills.  In the past 59 years, DIAA has grown to sponsor 38 state championships in 18 different sports.<\/p>\n

State championship summaries are compiled below and organized by season, sport, gender, championship classification, and conference.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i>FALL CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i>WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i>SPRING CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1540,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"checksum":["da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709"],"sw_mod_date":[""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1545\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/diaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}