District 11 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association

Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc. is one of the governing bodies of high school and junior high school sports for the state of Pennsylvania, United States....

 is an interscholastic athletic association in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

. District 11 is one of the PIAA's 12 athletic conferences and comprises mostly high schools within the Lehigh Valley and a few surrounding counties. Member schools are classified by enrollment into four categories: A, AA, AAA, AAAA. District 11 is commonly referred to as D-11 and is sometimes notated with the Roman Numerals "XI". The District XI is known to be one of the more competitive of the twelve districts within the PIAA; it owns many state championship and state runner-up trophies.

Member schools

The league is made up of 53 public schools and private school

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

s located in Lehigh

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

-Climate:Most of the county's climate is considered to fall in the humid continental climate zone. Summers are typically hot and muggy, fall and spring are generally mild, and winter is cold. Precipitation is almost uniformly distributed throughout the year....

, Carbon

Carbon County, Pennsylvania

As of the census of 2000, there were 58,802 people, 23,701 households, and 16,424 families residing in the county. The population density was 154 people per square mile . There were 30,492 housing units at an average density of 80 per square mile...

, Northampton

Northampton County, Pennsylvania

As of the 2010 census, the county was 86.3% White, 5.0% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American or Alaskan Native, 2.4% Asian, 0.0% Native Hawaiian, 2.2% were two or more races, and 3.8% were some other race. 10.5% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.As of the census of...

, Schuylkill

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

-Notable people:*Boxing heavyweight great Muhammad Ali had his training camp in Deer Lake.*Charles Justin Bailey, commanding general of the 81st Division in World War I, was born in Tamaqua on June 21, 1859....

, Monroe

Monroe County, Pennsylvania

-National protected areas:* Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area * Middle Delaware National Scenic River -Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there are 176,567 people, 49,454 households, and 36,447 families residing in the county. The population density was 228 people per square mile...

, Luzerne

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

- Demographics :As of the 2010 census, the county was 90.7% White, 3.4% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 3.3% were of some other race, and 1.5% were two or more races. 6.7% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino ancestry...

, and Bucks

Bucks County, Pennsylvania

- Industry and commerce :The boroughs of Bristol and Morrisville were prominent industrial centers along the Northeast Corridor during World War II. Suburban development accelerated in Lower Bucks in the 1950s with the opening of Levittown, Pennsylvania, the second such "Levittown" designed by...

  counties.

Lehigh Valley Conference

Lehigh Valley Conference

The Lehigh Valley Interscholastic Athletic Conference is an athletic conference consisting of 12 large high schools from Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States...

• Allentown Central Catholic
  Allentown Central Catholic High School
  Allentown Central Catholic High School is a private, parochial school located at 301 North Fourth Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States...
  
  
• Bethlehem Catholic
• Easton
• Emmaus
  Emmaus High School
  Emmaus High School is a public high school located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The school serves grades 9 through 12 in Pennsylvania's East Penn School District in the Lehigh Valley region of the state....
  
  
• Freedom
  Freedom High School (Pennsylvania)
  Freedom High School is a public high school, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Freedom is one of two public high schools in the Bethlehem Area School District. It is located at 3149 Chester Avenue, Bethlehem Township.The total...
  
  
• Liberty
  Liberty High School (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
  For schools with similar names, see Liberty High School.Liberty High School is a public high school located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the United States....
  
  
• Louis E. Dieruff
  Louis E. Dieruff High School
  Louis E. Dieruff High School is a public high school located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The school is named after Louis E. Dieruff, a noted educator in the Allentown School District....
  
  
• Nazareth
  Nazareth Area High School
  Nazareth High School is a public high school located in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the only high school in the Nazareth Area School District and serves grades 9 through 12. Its mascot is the Blue Eagle and school colors are blue and white. Student enrollment for the...
  
  
• Northampton
  Northampton Area High School
  Northampton Area High School is the secondary school in the Northampton Area School District, located in Northampton, Pennsylvania, in the United States....
  
  
• Parkland
  Parkland High School (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
  Parkland High School, located near Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, is a public high school serving students in grades 9 to 12. It is the only high school for the Parkland School District....
  
  
• Whitehall
  Whitehall High School (Pennsylvania)
  Whitehall High School is a public high school, based in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley region, in the United States. It is the only high school in the Whitehall-Coplay School District. As of the 2006-2007 academic school year, 1,393 students attend the...
  
  
• William Allen
  William Allen High School
  William Allen High School is one of two public high schools of the Allentown School District located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States....
  
  

Mountain Valley Conference

Mountain Valley Conference (PA)

The Mountain Valley Conference ' is an athletic conference consisting of 6 large high schools and 4 School Districts from Monroe County and the Lehighton Area School District from Carbon County, in the United States...

• East Stroudsburg North
  East Stroudsburg Area School District
  East Stroudsburg Area School District is a public school district located in the Poconos of northeast Pennsylvania. The headquarters are located on North Courtland Street in the Borough of East Stroudsburg...
  
  
• East Stroudsburg South
  East Stroudsburg South High School
  East Stroudsburg Senior High School South is a public high school located at 279 North Courtland Street in East Stroudsburg, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The school's mascot is the cavalier. The school is part of the East Stroudsburg Area School District....
  
  
• Lehighton
  Lehighton Area School District
  The Lehighton Area School District is located just north of the Blue Mountain range extending along the Lehigh River in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Carbon County is located in eastern Pennsylvania and is considered part of the Pocono region. The 2000 Census reports that Carbon County had a...
  
  
• Pleasant Valley
  Pleasant Valley High School (Pennsylvania)
  Pleasant Valley High School is a high school in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania. The school's name was given by its founder, John C. Mills, who took it from a common name for the area of the locals. Over two thousand students attend the school....
  
  
• Pocono Mountain East
  Pocono Mountain School District
  Pocono Mountain School District is located in Northeast Pennsylvania, USA, in Monroe County. It encompasses approximately 304 square miles. According to 2000 local census data, it serves a resident population of approximately 60,000...
  
  
• Pocono Mountain West
• Stroudsburg
  Stroudsburg High School
  Stroudsburg High School is a public high school located at 1100 West Main Street in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The school's mascot is the Mountaineer. The school is part of the Stroudsburg Area School District.-Academics:...
  
  

Colonial League

• Bangor
  Bangor Area High School
  Bangor Area High School is a four-year public high school located in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the only high school in the Bangor Area School District. Its colors are maroon and white and its mascot is the Slater....
  
  
• Catasauqua
  Catasauqua High School
  Catasauqua High School is a public high school serving grades 9 through 12 in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. The school's mascot is the Rough Rider...
  
  
• Moravian Academy
  Moravian Academy
  Moravian Academy, whose headmaster is George King, is a prekindergarten through 12th grade coeducational college preparatory school located in historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the United States...
  
  
• Northern Lehigh
  Northern Lehigh High School
  Northern Lehigh High School is a public high school located in Slatington, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America. It is the only high school in the Northern Lehigh School District....
  
  
• Northwestern Lehigh
• Notre Dame - Green Pond
  Notre Dame High School (Easton, Pennsylvania)
  Notre Dame High School also known as Notre Dame Green Pond, is a private, Roman Catholic high school near Easton, Pennsylvania, United States, in Bethlehem Township. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown.-Background:...
  
  
• Notre Dame - East Stroudsburg
  Notre Dame High School (East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)
  Notre Dame High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton.-Background:...
  
  
• Palisades
  Palisades High School (Pennsylvania)
  Palisades High School is a public high school in Kintnersville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The school mascot is the pirate. It is the only public high school that serves the Palisades School District, with students coming from Tinicum, Nockamixon, Springfield, Durham, and Bridgeton...
  
  
• Palmerton
  Palmerton High School
  Palmerton High School is a four-year public high school in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is located at 3525 Fireline Rd, Palmerton, PA 18071, within Carbon County.Its colors are blue and white and its mascot is the Blue Bomber....
  
  
• Pen Argyl
  Pen Argyl Area High School
  Pen Argyl Area High School is a four-year public high school located in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the only high school in the Pen Argyl Area School District.Its colors are green and white and its mascot is the Green Knight....
  
  
• Salisbury
  Salisbury High School (Pennsylvania)
  Salisbury High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA.-History:Salisbury Township was started in 1753, and the educational system consisted of single room schools, however as time passed the need for an organized school...
  
  
• Saucon Valley
  Saucon Valley High School
  Saucon Valley High School is a four-year public high school in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is located at 2100 Polk Valley Road, Hellertown, PA, 18055, within Northampton County....
  
  
• Southern Lehigh
  Southern Lehigh High School
  Southern Lehigh High School is a four-year public high school located in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the only high school in the Southern Lehigh School District....
  
  
• Wilson
  Wilson Area High School
  Wilson Area High School is a four-year public high school located in Wilson, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States...
  
  

Schuylkill League

• Blue Mountain
  Blue Mountain High School
  Blue Mountain High School is located at 1076 W Market St, Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1957 and renovated from 1999 to 2001. It is part of the Blue Mountain School District, which grew out of necessity from Orwigsburg School. An original Wanamaker Eagle was donated to the school...
  
  
• Jim Thorpe
  Jim Thorpe Area School District
  The Jim Thorpe Area School District is located in the United States state of Pennsylvania. It comprises the borough of Jim Thorpe and the townships of Penn Forest and South Kidder. It covers a total area of . It operates three schools: L.B Morris Pre-K - 6, Penn Kidder Pre-K - 8, and Jim Thorpe...
  
  
• Mahanoy Area
  Mahanoy Area School District
  The Mahanoy Area School District is a public school district in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It serves the municipalties of Mahanoy City, Mahanoy Township, Delano Township, Ryan Township, and Gilberton. Mahanoy Area School District encompasses approximately 53 square miles. According to 2000...
  
  
• Marian Catholic
  Marian Catholic High School (Pennsylvania)
  Marian Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown....
  
  
• Minersville
  Minersville Area School District
  The Minersville Area School District is a public school district in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It is centered on the borough of Minerville and also serves the townships of Branch, Cass, Foster, and Reilly. The district features on elementary school and a combined junior-senior high school....
  
  
• Nativity BVM
  Nativity BVM High School
  Nativity B. V. M. High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown.-Background:...
  
  
• North Schuylkill
  North Schuylkill School District
  The North Schuylkill School District is a public school district in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It includes the municipalities of Frackville, Ringtown, Union Township, Girardville, Fountain Springs, Ashland, Gordon, and Butler Township in Schuylkill County,...
  
  
• Panther Valley
  Panther Valley High School
  Panther Valley High School located on U.S. Route 209 in Lansford, Pennsylvania, United States, is a public high school serving students in grades 9 to 12. It is the only high school for the Panther Valley School District.- History :...
  
  
• Pine Grove
  Pine Grove Area School District
  The Pine Grove Area School District is a public school district in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It serves the municipalities of Pine Grove, Tremont, Frailey Township, Washington Township, Pine Grove Township, and Tremont Township. The district features one elementary, one middle, and one high...
  
  
• Pottsville
  Pottsville Area High School
  Pottsville Area High School is a coeducational public high school located in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Pottsville Area School District and is the largest public high school in Schuylkill County. It was founded in 1853 and has an enrollment of approximately 1,250 students in ninth...
  
  
• Schuylkill Haven
  Schuylkill Haven Area School District
  The Schuylkill Haven School District is a public school district in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It serves the municipalties of Port Clinton, Landingville, Schuylkill Haven, and South Manheim Township. Schuylkill Haven Area encompasses approximately 55 square miles. According to 2000 federal...
  
  
• Shenandoah Valley
  Shenandoah Valley School District
  The Shenandoah Valley School District is a public school district in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It serves the municipalties of Shenandoah, Altamont, and West Mahanoy Township. The district encompasses approximately 11 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident...
  
  
• Tamaqua
  Tamaqua Area School District
  The Tamaqua Area School District is a public school district in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. It is centered on the borough of Tamaqua and the townships of Rush Township, Walker Township, Schuylkill Township, and West Penn Township. It encompasses approximately 123 square miles. According...
  
  
• Tri-Valley
  Tri-Valley School District
  The Tri-Valley School District is a public school district in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It serves the municipalities of Eldred, Hegins, Hubley, Barry, and Upper Mahantongo Townships. The district features two elementary schools and one combined junior/senior high school....
  
  
• Weatherly
  Weatherly Area School District
  The Weatherly Area School District is a public school district in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It is centered on Weatherly and also serves the borough of East Side, plus Lehigh, Packer, Lausanne, and northern Kidder Townships...
  
  
• Williams Valley
  Williams Valley School District
  The Williams Valley School District is a public school district located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania and Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses the boroughs of Williamstown and Tower City as well as the townships of Porter, Rush, Williams, and Wiconisco. The district features one...
  
  

No League

• Lehigh Valley Christian
  Lehigh Valley Christian High School
  Lehigh Valley Christian High School is a private, parochial, high school located in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania.-History:LVCHS was established in 1988 as a cooperative among three Lehigh Valley, Christian elementary schools -- Bethlehem Christian School, Lehigh Christian Academy, and Phillipsburg...
  
  
• Lincoln Leadership Academy
• Pius X - Roseto
  Pius X High School (Pennsylvania)
  Pius X High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Bangor, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown.-Background:...
  
  
• Salem Christian School

Sports

District 11 hosts thirteen different sports over three athletic seasons: fall, winter, and spring.

Fall: Football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, Soccer (boys), Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 (girls), Cross Country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 (girls), Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

Winter: Swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 & Diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

, Wrestling

Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the collegiate and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling emerged from the folk wrestling styles practised in the early history of the United States...

, Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

Spring: Tennis (boys), Softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, Volleyball (boys), Track & Field, Soccer (girls), Lacrosse

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...

Note: While some sports are dominated by one sex

Sex

In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety . Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents...

, there is no rule that mandates sex segregation

Sex segregation

Sex segregation is the separation of people according to their sex.The term gender apartheid also has been applied to segregation of people by gender, implying that it is sexual discrimination...

 in PIAA sports, even if a school has teams for each sex.

Current champions

The following is a list of champions by sport and classification for the 2011-2012 academic school year. Each winner advanced to the PIAA State Championships.

NOTE: As the seasons end, the champions will be updated. This will be approximately late October/early November for Fall sports, late February/early March for Winter sports, and June for Spring sports.

Boys Cross Country

• AAA Team: Parkland
• AA Team: Notre Dame-Green Pond

• AAA Individual: Cole Campbell, Emmaus
• AA Individual: Brendan Shearn, North Schuylkill $$

$$ - PIAA State Champion

Girls Cross Country

• AAA Team: Parkland
• AA Team: Notre Dame-Green Pond

• AAA Individual: Paige Stoner, Pottsville
• AA Inividual: Katherine Downing, Notre Dame-Green Pond

Golf

• Boys Team: Parkland
• Boys Individual: Cole Miller (Northwestern Lehigh)
• Girls Individual: Gabrielle Weiss (Emmaus)

Girls Tennis

• AAA Team: Parkland
• AAA Singles: Marielle McIntyre (Freedom)
• AAA Doubles: Brittany Poje / Kaitlyn Poje (East Stroudsburg South)

• AA Team: Moravian Academy
• AA Singles: Robin Ferraro (Southern Lehigh)
• AA Doubles: Paige Gurski / Nina Kopy (Bethlehem Catholic)

Girls Volleyball

• AAA: Parkland $$
• AA: Southern Lehigh
• A: Nativity BVM

$$ - State Champion

AAA

Weight	Name	School
103
112
119
125
130
135
140
145
152
160
171
189
215
285

AA

Weight	Name	School
103
112
119
125
130
135
140
145
152
160
171
189
215
285

Boys Tennis

• AAA Team: Southern Lehigh
• AAA Singles: Eric Perez (Southern Lehigh)
• AAA Doubles:

• AA Team:
• AA Singles:
• AA Doubles:

AAA

Event	Name	School	Time / Distance
100
200
400
800
1600
3200
400 Relay	-
1600 Relay	-
3200 Relay	-
110 HH
300 IH
Shot Put
Discus
Javelin
High Jump
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Pole Vault

AA

Event	Name	School	Time / Distance
100
200
400
800
1600
3200
400 Relay	-
1600 Relay	-
3200 Relay	-
110 HH
300 IH
Shot Put
Discus
Javelin
High Jump
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Pole Vault

AAA

Event	Name	School	Time / Distance
100
200
400
800
1600
3200
400 Relay	-
1600 Relay	-
3200 Relay	-
110 HH
300 IH
Shot Put
Discus
Javelin
High Jump
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Pole Vault

AA

Event	Name	School	Time / Distance
100
200
400
800
1600
3200
400 Relay	-
1600 Relay	-
3200 Relay	-
110 HH
300 IH
Shot Put
Discus
Javelin
High Jump
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Pole Vault

See also

• Colonial League
• Lehigh Valley Conference
  Lehigh Valley Conference
  The Lehigh Valley Interscholastic Athletic Conference is an athletic conference consisting of 12 large high schools from Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States...
  
  
• Mountain Valley Conference
  Mountain Valley Conference (PA)
  The Mountain Valley Conference ' is an athletic conference consisting of 6 large high schools and 4 School Districts from Monroe County and the Lehighton Area School District from Carbon County, in the United States...