1910 1913 1920 1930 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 The first state high school basketball tournament was held at Carleton College in Northfield. Thirteen boys’ teams were invited to participate. Fosston defeated Mountain Lake 29 to 27 to win the state title. 1916 The Minnesota State High School Athletic Association was organized. The Association’s mission was to promote amateur sports for boys and establish uniform and equitable rules for interschool activities. James Naismith invented the game of basketball to provide an “athletic distraction” for a rowdy YMCA class in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1976 Winter became the official season and teams were divided into two classes. Redwood Falls won the Class A tournament. St. Paul Central won the Class AA tournament. Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington was the venue and 34,000 fans attended. 1990–1991 Rochester Lourdes won its second and third titles in 1990 and 1991 with a combined record of 57-1 as Lori Lawler and Stacy Sievers starred. The Eagles then added a fourth title in 1993 and in 1995 became the first program, boys or girls, ever to win a fifth title. 1995–1997 The Miller twins, Coco and Kelly, electrified tournament fans for three consecutive years with their up-tempo style of play. The twins led Rochester Mayo to two titles in ’95 and again in ’97. The Spartans still hold the record for most points, 241, in three games. 2005 Rochester Lourdes won its 8th state championship, the most of any team in tournament history. In 2010 Myron Glass, coach of the Lourdes team, becames the all-time leading coach in tournament appearances with 15. 2006 Minnesota became the first state in the nation to use instant replay during state tournament play. 1969 The League adopts bylaws to administer girls’ athletics. 1980 Class A champion Albany High School became the first undefeated team in tournament history with a perfect 26-0 record. 2004 The basketball tournament format changes from four eight-minute quarters to two 18-minute halves. 1999–2002 Fosston wins a record setting (boys/girls) 78 consecutive games. The Greyhounds, led by Kelly Roysland, won three championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002. 2007-2008 St. Paul Central wins back-to-back championships in ’07 and ’08, increasing the number of school state championships to four. The 2007 team, led by guard Angel Robinson finished the year 32-0. They were ranked third in the nation and were described by some as the greatest girls’ team in Minnesota history. 2009 Tayler Hill of Minneapolis South sets the state all-time scoring record, boys or girls, with 3,888 points. A McDonald’s All-American, Hill tied the tournament scoring record with 47 points in her final championship game which South won 68 -61 over Centennial. 1988 Tracy-Milroy, led by freshman sensation Mary Jo Miller, won its first of two state titles. The Panthers beat three undefeated teams to take the title. 1985 Little Falls became the first Class AA school to win three state championships. Other titles came in 1980 and 1984. Top-ranked Staples won its first title with a perfect record of 28-0. 1983 Albany won its second title and became the first school in tournament history to win both a Class A and Class AA championship. 1994 Williams Arena became the new home for the girls’ basketball tournament. The Blake School of Minneapolis won its first of three championships. After finishing second in 1996 and third in 1997, the Bears won back-to-back titles in 1998 and 1999. 1984 The smaller ball for girl’s basketball is introduced. The ball was 1-inch smaller and 2-ounces lighter. Three years later, the 3-point field goal is adopted. 1997 Two classes are replaced with four classes. 2008 Jordan guard Brittany Chambers scores a record setting 47 points in a single game, breaking the previous record of 45 set by Kelly Skalicky in 1981. 1981 Albany guard Kelly Skalicky set the single-game scoring record with 45 points. Skalicky’s record stood for 27 years. To date, she still holds tournament records for most assists – 17 (1979), most field goals in a single game—21 (1981), and most field goals in three games – 47 (1981). 1997-2009 After having appeared in the tournament in 1979 and 1980, Minneapolis North and coach Faith Johnson Patterson dominated the Class AAA field with back-to-back championships in ’98 and ’99, and a three-peat in ’03, ’04, and ’05. Patterson added a sixth title at DeLaSalle in 2011. Former WNBA player Tamara Moore, Mauri Horton, and Mia Johnson starred for the Polars. Patterson’s 12 state tournament appearances ranks her third among her peers. 1979 All three days of the 1979 tournament were televised for the first time. Viewers saw St. Paul Central win its second Class AA title and New York Mills win its third Class A title. Tournament attendance that year reached an all-time high of 53,702 spectators. 1974 Private schools became members of the Minnesota State High School League. The League added basketball as a girls’ sport. Some schools chose fall and others chose winter in which to play basketball. Two tournaments were conducted. Glencoe won the Fall 1974 event and Academy of Holy Angels won the Winter 1975 event. 1900–1940s Girls’ basketball was a statewide program in Minnesota with more than 300 high school teams. Concerned about the negative impact that strenuous sport could have on girls, interscholastic sports were replaced with intramural sports programs through the ’30s and ’40s. Two decades would pass before girls’ basketball returned to high school gymnasiums. 1975 The League Board of Directors voted unanimously to make girls’ basketball a winter sport. 1977–1979 Janet Karvonen and New York Mills became the first girls’ team ever to win three consecutive state championships from 1977-1979. Karvonen set tournament scoring records each of those years with 59, 78, and 98 points, respectively. She completed her high school career by setting the all-time tournament scoring record (regardless of gender) with 329 points. 1891 1929 The Athletic Association broadened its scope to include debate and speech, and the name was changed to Minnesota State High School League. A statewide qualifying format incorporating districts and regions was established to ensure geographic representation at state tournaments. From the moment of basketball’s invention in 1891, girls embraced the game just as much as the boys.