ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH CONTINUED ITS DOMINANCE IN THE GIRLS 4-A: COMPETITION BY ALSO WINNING ITS 3RD STRAIGHT STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. ALEXANDRIA OUTSCORED THEIR NEAREST OPPONENT BY 24 POINTS. LEADING ASH TO THIS 3RD CONSECUTIVE STATE TITLE WAS 123 LB. CHAMPION JENNIFER KIRK. SHE SET NEW STATE RECORDS IN THE SQUAT, BENCH, DEADLIFT AND TOTAL FOR HER WEIGHT CLASS.
IN THE GIRLS 3-A: COMPETITION McCALL HIGH SCHOOL WON ITS FIRST 3-A: STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. KATHERINE CONWAY LED THE GIRLS FROM McCALL TO THEIR 1ST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP BY WINNING THE 114 LB. WEIGHT CLASS. SHE SET A NEW TOTAL RECORD OF 625 LBS.
IN THE GIRLS 1-A AND BELOW: COMPETITION LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF SCORED 64 POINTS TO RUN AWAY WITH THE TITLE. IT WAS THE SCHOOL’S SECOND CONSECUTIVE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
THE 1994 LHSPLA GIRLS STATE MEET SHOWCASED 74 LIFTERS FROM 13 TEAMS AND SAW 25 STATE RECORDS WERE EITHER TIED OR SET.
CLASSIFICATION COMPETITION FINISHES FOR THE GIRLS STATE MEET WERE AS FOLLOWS:
5-A: - 1ST PLACE - WEST MONROE HIGH SCHOOL (3RD CONSECUTIVE STATE 5-A: TITLE),
2ND PLACE - LEE HIGH SCHOOL, 3RD PLACE - ST. AMANT HIGH SCHOOL.
4-A: - 1ST PLACE - ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (3RD CONSECUTIVE STATE 4-A:
TITLE), 2ND PLACE - TIOGA HIGH SCHOOL, 3RD PLACE - ZACHARY HIGH SCHOOL.
3-A: - 1ST PLACE - McCALL HIGH SCHOOL (1ST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP), 2ND PLACE -
JENA HIGH SCHOOL, 3RD PLACE - FARMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
2-A: - NO TEAMS COMPETED IN THE 2-A: COMPETITION AT THE 1994 LHSPLA STATE MEET.
1-A AND BELOW: - 1ST PLACE - LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (2ND CONSECUTIVE
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP), 2ND PLACE - LaSALLE HIGH SCHOOL.
IN THE BOYS 5-A: COMPETITION, THE TOP THREE TEAMS REPEATED THEIR 1993 FINISH. WEST MONROE CONTINUED ITS REIGN AT THE TOP OF THE 5-A: RANKS. THEY SCORED 25 POINTS TO WIN THE 5-A: TITLE FOLLOWED BY NATHCITOCHES CENTRAL AND LEE HIGH SCHOOL. THIS WAS WEST MONROE’S 6TH STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, TYING THEM WITH ZACHARY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE MOST STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS WON BY A SCHOOL UP TO THAT POINT IN LHSPLA MEET HISTORY. THE 198 LB. CHAMPION, CURTIS CORBIN AND THE 275 LB. CHAMPION, ALAN COOPER LED WEST MONROE. THIS WAS THE FIRST YEAR THAT THE 275 LB. WEIGHT CLASS WAS CONTESTED AT THE LHSPLA STATE MEET.
IN BOYS 4-A: COMPETITION ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH ONCE AGAIN DOMINATED. WINNING BY ITS BIGGEST MARGIN EVER USING THE NEW DIVISIONAL SCORING SYSTEM. ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH SCORED 35 POINTS IN THEIR WIN OVER SECOND PLACE OPELOUSAS HIGH SCHOOL (10 POINTS) AND THIRD PLACE TIOGA’S (9 POINTS). ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGHS CLINT ANDERSON (114 LB. WEIGHT CLASS), SAMUEL BASSET (148 LB. WEIGHT CLASS), CHARLES GREEN (165 LB. WEIGHT CLASS) AND CARLOS AUSTIN (SUPERHEAVYWEIGHT) ALL FINISHED AS WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPIONS, TYING THE RECORD SET BY BROTHER MARTIN IN 1988 WITH 4 INDIVIDUAL WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPIONS.
IN THE BOYS 3-A: COMPETITION, ST. THOMAS MORE OF LAFAYETTE WON ITS FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. THEY SCORED 9 POINTS TO SQUEAK BY 2ND PLACE BREAUX BRIDGE WITH 8 POINTS. PLACING THIRD IN 3-A: WAS FARMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. BRIAN LANDRY, WHO PLACED 2ND IN THE 220 LB. WEIGHT CLASS, LED ST. THOMAS MORE.
IN BOYS 2-A: ACTION, PICKERING HIGH SCHOOL WON ITS FIRST EVER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. PICKERING SCORED 21 POINTS TO FINISH AHEAD OF BOTH LAKE ARTHUR AND EPISCOPAL, BOTH WITH 18 POINTS. LAKE ARTHUR FINISHED 2ND ON THE LHSPLA TIE BREAKER CRITERIA.
IN THE BOYS 1-A AND BELOW: COMPETITION, A BATTLE BETWEEN SILLIMAN INSTITUTE AND LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF WENT TO THE WIRE. SILLIMAN PREVAILED TO WIN ITS FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP SCORING 34 POINTS TO LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF SCORE OF 33 POINTS. MIKE MILTON LED THE WAY FOR SILLIMAN WITH HIS 2ND PLACE FINISH IN THE 275 LB. WEIGHT CLASS. ROUNDING OUT THE TOP THREE IN 1-A AND BELOW: IN 1994 WAS ST. JOHN OF PLAQUEMINE, WITH 12 POINTS.
CLASSIFICATION COMPETITION FINISHES FOR THE BOYS STATE MEET WERE AS FOLLOWS:
5-A: - 1ST PLACE - WEST MONROE HIGH SCHOOL (WEST MONROE’S 6TH STATE CHAMPIONSHIP),
2ND PLACE - NATCHITOCHES CENTRAL, 3RD PLACE - LEE HIGH SCHOOL.
4-A: - 1ST PLACE - ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 2ND PLACE - OPELOUSAS HIGH
SCHOOL, 3RD PLACE - TIOGA HIGH SCHOOL.
3-A: - 1ST PLACE - ST. THOMAS MORE, 2ND PLACE - BREAUX BRIDGE, 3RD PLACE - FARMERVILLE
HIGH SCHOOL
2-A: - 1ST PLACE - PICKERING HIGH SCHOOL, 2ND PLACE - LAKE ARTHUR HIGH, 3RD
PLACE - EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL.
1-A AND BELOW: - 1ST PLACE - SILLIMAN INSTITUTE, 2ND PLACE - LOUISIANA SCHOOL
FOR THE DEAF, 3RD PLACE - ST. JOHN OF PLAQUEMINE.