The Tri-Metro Conference is a

MSHSL The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) is a voluntary, non-profit association for the support and governance of interscholastic activities at high schools in Minnesota, United States. The association supports interscholastic athletics an ...

-sanctioned athletic conference composed of schools found in the

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metro area. The conference competes in the majority of sports offered in the MSHSL. Most teams in the Tri-Metro compete in basketball and football tournaments at the AA or AAA level. While for the past twenty years a majority of schools in the conference had been private, the conference make up has changed in the past decade, with

Brooklyn Center Brooklyn Center is a first-ring suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. In 1911, the area became a village formed from parts of Brooklyn Township and Crystal Lake Township. I ...

and St. Anthony, Columbia Heights and Fridley being public schools. Conference membership has changed several times in recent years. Richfield High School will join the conference in 2019. The

Academy of Holy Angels Academy of Holy Angels (AHA) is a private, Catholic, coeducational high school in Richfield, Minnesota. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, the nationally recognized college-preparatory school educates more t ...

, Fridley High School, and Columbia Heights High School joined the conference in 2014, the latter two forced by the disbanding of the North Suburban Conference. These additions were coupled with the withdrawal of six of the traditional private school members at the same time, following the 2013–14 school year, citing differences in enrollment size between the newer members and the smaller private schools. Before these shifts, Brooklyn Center and St. Anthony rejoined the conference in the 2006-07 school year. The Tri-Metro initially rejected the applications of St. Anthony and Brooklyn Center for membership before the MSHSL placed the schools in the conference. Previously, the conference underwent a major team shift in the late 1990s. For the 1997–98 school year, St. Anthony and Brooklyn Center, which had been members, left the conference for the

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, along with Mahtomedi High School, Mound Westonka High School, and Orono High School; Farmington High School, which joined the Missota Conference, also departed at the same time. For the 1998-99 school year, St. Paul Academy, Visitation, and Mounds Park Academy left the Tri-Valley Conference to join the Tri-Metro, giving it the predominantly private school line-up had for years. Tri-Metro teams compete in the following sports:

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(girls and boys), soccer (girls and boys), football,

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(girls and boys),

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

(girls and boys),

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

(girls),

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

(girls and boys),

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

, and

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. They have had recent success at the state-level in competition. The Blake School won the MSHSL Challenge Cup in 2005, 2007, and 2009 as the most successful school in

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at the Class A level. Since joining the Tri-Metro, DeLaSalle has won nine state championships in boys' basketball 1998, 1999, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), three in girls' basketball (2011, 2012, and 2013) and one in football (1999). In 2007, 2008, and 2009, the

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boys track & field team won the Minnesota True Team State Track and Field championship. St. Anthony won the 2006 and 2008 2A baseball state championships. Also in 2008, The Blake School won the Class A state title in boys Cross Country.

Members

Brooklyn Center High School Brooklyn Center High School is a public high school located in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. School overview Brooklyn Center High School is the only high school serving ISD #286, and has approximately 850 students in grades 6–12. One of the hig ...

* Columbia Heights High School *

DeLaSalle High School DeLaSalle High School is a Catholic, college preparatory high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is located on Nicollet Island. History DeLaSalle opened in 1900 and has been administered by the De La Salle Brothers (French Christian Brothers) ...

* Fridley High School * St. Anthony Village High School *

Convent of the Visitation School Visitation School, also known as Visitation or Vis, is an independent, all-girls, Roman Catholic, college-preparatory, school in Minnesota. It is located in Mendota Heights near Saint Paul. Visitation is a coeducational school for grades Monte ...

* Richfield High School *

Bloomington Kennedy High School John F. Kennedy High School is one of two public high schools located in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. Named after former president John F. Kennedy, it was opened in 1965 due to the rapid growth of Bloomington at the time. Athletics The schoo ...

* Robbinsdale Cooper High School

Former members

* The Blake School *

Breck School Breck School is an independent college-preparatory preK–12 school in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. It was founded in 1886 and is affiliated with the Episcopal Church. The school includes a ''Lower School'' consisting of g ...

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Marshall-University High School Marshall-University High School was a public junior high and high school serving grades 6–12 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school was founded in 1968 through a merger between John Marshall High School (a Minneapolis public school) and Unive ...

Minnehaha Academy Minnehaha Academy (often abbreviated MA) is a Christian private school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, for students in preschool through 12th grade, and established in 1913. There are two campuses, the South Campus for preschool thr ...

* Mahtomedi * Mounds Park Academy *

Orono High School (Long Lake, MN) Orono High School may refer to: *Orono High School (Maine) Orono High School is a high school in Orono, Maine, United States. Founded in 1915, it is the only high school in Regional School Unit 26. History The first class graduated from Orono ...

* Providence Academy *

* St. Francis * St. Paul Academy & Summit School * Concordia Academy * Saint Agnes High School * St. Bernard’s High School

External links

Tri Metro Conference Home

References

{{Tri-Metro Conference Teams Minnesota high school sports conferences