1988 STATE MEET
IN 1988, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT LIFTERS FROM 35 HIGH SCHOOLS WOULD SEE BROTHER
MARTIN DOMINATE THE COMPETITION WITH A TEAM POINT TOTAL OF 85, SHATTERING THE
OLD RECORD OF 50 POINTS, PREVIOUSLY HELD BY PINEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, AND WINNING
ITS FIRST COMPOSITE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF COACH RANDY JOHNSON,
BROTHER MARTIN HAD 4 INDIVIDUAL STATE CHAMPIONS, A RECORD THAT STILL STANDS. ZACHARY
WOULD RETURN AS THE STATE’S 2ND BEST OVERALL TEAM (4TH CONSECUTIVE COMPOSITE RUNNER-UP
FINISH) SCORING 47 TEAM POINTS. CATHOLIC OF POINTE COUPEE ROUNDED OUT THE TOP
THREE COMPOSITE TEAMS SCORING 47 POINTS TO PLACE THIRD IN THE COMPOSITE STANDINGS.
CLASS FINISHERS WERE AS FOLLOWS:
4-A: 1ST PLACE, BROTHER MARTIN, 2ND PLACE, PINEVILLE, AND 3RD PLACE, ARCHBISHOP
SHAW.
3-A: - 1ST PLACE, ZACHARY HIGH SCHOOL (4TH CONSECUTIVE CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP),
2ND PLACE, ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 3RD PLACE, TIOGA HIGH SCHOOL.
2-A: - 1ST PLACE, CATHOLIC OF POINTE COUPEE, 2ND PLACE, LAKE ARTHUR HIGH SCHOOL,
AND 3RD PLACE, SOUTH BEAUREGARD.
1-1-A AND BELOW: - 1ST PLACE, LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (1ST CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP),
2ND PLACE, ASCENSION CATHOLIC, AND 3RD PLACE, OUACHITA CHRISTIAN.
NINE NEW LHSPLA STATE RECORDS WERE SET AT THE 1988 STATE MEET.