District 9 or ''District IX'' of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) is an interscholastic athletic association in the North Central Mountain Region of

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. The district consists of the 6 counties of Cameron,

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, McKean and

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. As of the 2014–15 and 2015-16 school years, District 9 will have 35 member high schools competing in various fall, winter and spring sports. 10 of the 35 schools are located outside of the district from

Butler A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some a ...

, Clearfield,

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, Venango and

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counties, but compete in District 9 sports competitions. The district is located in a very

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of northern Pennsylvania, mostly made up of fields, forests, hills and mountains.

Sports

Fall Sports

;''Boys'' :* Cross Country :*

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

;''Girls'' :*Cross Country :*Golf :*Soccer :*

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

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 ...

Winter Sports

;''Boys'' :*

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

:*Swimming & Diving :*

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

;''Girls'' :*Basketball :*

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:*Swimming & Diving

Spring Sports

;''Boys'' :*

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

:*Tennis :*

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 events ...

:*Volleyball ;''Girls'' :*

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 ...

:*Track and Field

Member Schools

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State Champions

;''Boys'' :*''Baseball'' (DuBois Central Catholic 2001 (A), Johnsonburg 2013 (A) and Punxsutawney 2007 (AAA)) :*''Basketball'' (Elk County Catholic 2006 (A) and Kane 1949 (AA)) :*''Cross Country'' (Oswayo Valley 1984 (AA) and Punxsutawney 1977 (AAA)) :*''Track & Field'' (Clarion 2000 & 2001 (AA)) :*''Wrestling'' (''team championships'' - Clearfield 1986 (AAA) and Brookville 1999 (AA) - ''individual championships are numerous, however the most state individual state titles belong to Clearfield with 40 since 1938.) ;''Girls'' :*''Basketball'' (Cranberry 1992, 1993 & 1994 (AA) - ''member of District 10'', Karns City 2000 (AA) and Venango Catholic 1980 (A) - ''member of District 10'') :*''Cross Country'' (Brookville 1995 & 1996 (AA)) :*''Softball'' (Curwensville 2007 & 2009 (A)) :*''Track & Field'' (Bradford 2006 (AAA)) :*''Volleyball'' (Clarion 2012 (A))

Member Schools outside of District IX

10 of the 35 District IX member schools are located outside of the counties within the district. * Clearfield (''Clearfield County'') * Cranberry (''Venango County'') * Curwensville (''Clearfield County'') * DuBois (''Clearfield County'') * DuBois Central Catholic (''Clearfield County'') * Karns City (''Butler County'') * Moniteau (''Butler County'') * Sheffield (''Warren County'') * Venango Catholic (''Venango County'')

References

High school sports associations in the United States Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association