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High School Newswatch: SI names St. Ignatius Ohio's top athletic program - cleveland.com

by Plain Dealer staff
Tuesday July 21, 2009, 11:22 PM

Winning the Division I football and boys soccer state championships aren't the only laurels St. Ignatius captured the past school year.

Sports Illustrated has named the all-boys parochial school on Cleveland's near West Side the state's top athletic program.

The results were based on "sifting through state tournament results for the 2008-09 school year, contacting athletic directors from top programs, examining all-around success rates as well as weighing the importance of producing star athletes and teams that excelled on the national level," according to Sports Illustrated's Web site.

The Wildcats also placed third at the state golf tournament, fourth at the state wrestling tournament and were a final four qualifier in baseball.

Meanwhile, University School won the Ohio High Cup, which is presented by Ohio High magazine. The Ohio High Cup is patterned after the Directors' Cup for colleges, with schools accumulating points by finishing in the top four at Ohio High School Athletic Association state team championships.

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