Final Minnesota State High School Soccer Rankings for 2012
The final Minnesota high school soccer rankings are in for 2012 as the regular soccer season has concluded. This weekend, section coaches met for both boys and girls teams to determine seeds for sections championships which start on Tuesday October 9th and should conclude by Friday October 19th. The State Tournament will start October 24 and run through November 1, with the quarterfinals held at four locations and the semifinals and finals played at the Metrodome.
Seedings for sectionals can be found here at the MSHSL site when available.
Here are the final rankings for 2012.
Place – Team
Boys 2A
1) North St. Paul 15-0-0
2) Champlin Park 13-0-1
3) Stillwater 11-1-4
4) Apple Valley 12-1-3
5) Eastview 9-2-5
6) Minneapolis South 13-1-2
7) Bloomington Jefferson 12-3-1
8) Blaine 12-3-1
9) Mounds View 13-2-0
10) St. Louis Park 11-2-1
Boys 1A
1) St. Paul Academy 14-0-2
2) Prairie Seeds Academy 11-0-0
3) Totino-Grace 12-3-1
4) Rochester Lourdes 15-1-0
5) Holy Angels 11-0-2
6) St. Paul Como Park 15-1-0
7) St. Cloud Cathedral 13-0-2
8) Waconia 15-0-1
9) Mpls. Washburn 9-4-1
10) Austin 13-3-0
Girls 2A
1) Lakeville North 13-1-2
2) Maple Grove 13-2-1
3) Minnetonka 10-1-4
4) Centennial 12-1-2
5) Eastview 10-3-1
6) Woodbury 11-1-4
7) White Bear Lake 13-1-2
8) Wayzata 11-2-2
9) Burnsville 14-4-0
10) Prior Lake 12-3-0
Girls 1A
1) Benilde-St. Margaret’s 15-0-1
2) Blake 12-2-2
3) Orono 14-2-0
4) Totino Grace 12-2-2
5) Minnehaha Academy 12-3-1
6) Mpls. Washburn 14-2-0
7) St. Paul Academy 11-3-0
8) Holy Angles 10-6-0
9) South St. Paul 10-4-2
10) Park Center 7-6-2
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It’s a shame that the AA sections are so imbalanced with the in-metro and out-state teams. Section 3 has Burnsville, Eagan, Valley, Eastview, and Sibley…. all five of those sides could do serious damage in the State tournament. Meanwhile Blaine (only 8th in state) is #1 in their section and they get a bye in their first round game thanks to an incompetent MSHSL. What a joke.
Gattuso – generally the point is valid about lack of balance although Burnsville is actually section 2 in your example. Section 2 is strong with Burnsville, Prior Lake, Eden Prarie and Edina. Most of the other sections only go 2 deep. Should be a good tournament and hopefully the top teams will win so the best players make it to the dome to show their skills.
Section 3AA: The section of death
#1 Eastview H.S.
#8 Hastings H.S.
#4 Eagan H.S.
#5 Burnsville H.S.
#2 Apple Valley H.S.
#7 Park H.S.
#3 Henry Sibley H.S.
#6 Rosemount H.S.
Section 2AA features an 8-8 Edina as the 3 seed, and a 5-6-4 Minnetonka side. Talk about a pedestrian section.
5-6-4 Minnetonka as the 4 seed*
not compared to Section 3A……which has 5 of the top 8 ranked teams in the STATE all in the SAME SECTION, but there is really nothing we can do but to wish all the players good luck and that they stay healthy (and warm).
Maybe it’s a message to some of these private schools to test their might against the big boys in AA. looking at you Holy Angels, SPA, Totino Grace, Prairie Seeds etc.
They certainly have the advantage of being able to attract kids from all over the metro. That makes up for the size disadvantage.
Schools like Sibley and possibly North St. Paul are small enough to go class A and rack up multiple poor-man’s championships, but they insist on testing themselves against the best.
so schools with 750 kids should compete with schools with over 2000? i could see it in basketbal (5 on the floor) or hockey (where there are only 6 out there and many of these schools do step up) but soccer is a “depth” sport. few kids choose a high school based on their soccer program as the youth game is all club driven. different story in high school hockey where it is much more “local” driven due to the lack of freedom for players to move around. basketball at the high end is all AAU driven so although you do see some consolidation (ummm Hopkins) it is also less important.
Schools like SPA and TG get players from some of the best clubs all over the metro. Granted they won’t have guaranteed powerhouse status every year like Wayzata, EP, or Stillwater, but they could realistically compete for state tourney berths in AA 2 out of 3 years.
Compare that to most public schools who draw primarily from their district. North St. Paul has figured out a way to work the system a little bit with the stillwater/woodbury kids they’ve open-enrolled.
And the answer to powerhouse schools that are just so dang huge is to split them in half like the lakevilles. EP needs to split soon for sure.
not sure about TG, but on the girls side SPA lost to Wayzata 3-0, Burnsville 4-0, and Woodbury 3-1, but did beat Eastview 3-2. To recap, that’s 1-3 (and got drilled in the losses) against some of the stronger AA teams. So would this be one of the years they could realistically compete for a state berth?
i agree with your sentiments regarding the larger schools, but EP is never going to split as their enrollment has topped off.
I don’t see EP splitting anytime soon. They had a lot of kids leave the school district this year due to parents being upset with the redistricting of the elementary schools.
Agree with EP never splitting up. If they were going to do that it would have happened sometime ago. I give them credit for not wasting money on a new HS structure that will become something else in 10-15 years. At least they had the common sense to learn from history of surrounding cities. Chaska and Chanhassen didn’t heed that lesson.
Soccer a depth sport . . . ha, ha, not the way our coach understands it. Surprise, surprise, another year with talent to match any team in the state and not even make it to the sectional finals.
EP will never split up, gotta keep that factory running, opportunity for a select few and lots of spectators. What a fun high school experience for the 2500 spectators.
#1 and the defending champs are done. What happened to North St. Paul?
Funny, because none of the double A teams wanna play against us.
gattuso Blaine only beat Eagan 6-0. Hmmmmm.