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SECTION SEV EN Recognition

The Greensburg Pirates won the Class 3A boys basketball
tournament two years in a row. They defeated Bowman
Academy 89-76 in March 2014.

Saluting our 2013-14 State Champions While we enthusiastically congratulate the 42
state winners listed on the following page, we also
Every high school sports season ends with the take this opportunity to recognize those who were
crowning of a state champion. winners in less obvious ways—the teams that won a
conference championship, the individuals who ran
Although the task has never been an easy one and or swam their fastest time ever, the coaches who had
is becoming more difficult every year, the IHSAA’s their best season in recent memory, the schools that
principle responsibility is to do all it can to assure advanced farther in the state tournament than ever
that every individual and every team has a fair and before, the wrestlers who were finally able to defeat a
equal opportunity to win a state championship. long-time rival.

To this end, the IHSAA Board of Directors and Most importantly, we salute all those who had the
administrators are constantly examining the asso- courage, tenacity and will to compete, and in the
ciation’s By-Laws, listening to proposals for change, process learned important lessons that they will use
monitoring possible recruiting violations, ruling on for the rest of their lives. In a very real sense, they
eligibility issues, and staying abreast of educational are all winners.
trends and legislative developments to help assure
that no school has a competitive advantage.

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