Look out Milwaukee Washington and Cuba City. You’ve got company.
Tiny Flambeau High School cemented its place in WIAA girls basketball lore Saturday, beating Neenah St. Mary Central, 61-36, in the Division 4 state championship game at the Alliant Energy Center. It became the third team — and the first in Division 4 — to win three straight titles.
Milwaukee Washington won three straight Division 1 titles from 1994-’96, while Cuba City won three straight from 2005-’07.
Although the WIAA didn’t sponsor a girls basketball state tournament until 1976, winning three straight championships is nothing to sneeze at. Other than Flambeau, Washington and Cuba City, only nine schools have won two straight titles. In boys basketball, which started a state tournament in 1916, only 30 teams have won consecutive titles and five have won three straight.
Randolph is the only school in boys or girls basketball to win four straight titles.
Flambeau is also just the sixth girls team to have won four state titles. It’s other championship game in 2000.
- John Casper Jr.
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