The Tri-Metro Conference is a

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-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

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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

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, 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 Metro Alliance Conference, along with Mahtomedi High School,

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, and Orono High School; Farmington High School, which joined the

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, also departed at the same time. For the 1998-99 school year, St. Paul Academy,

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, and

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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),

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(girls and boys),

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, cross country (girls and boys),

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(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 events ...

(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 St. Croix Lutheran High School boys track & field team won the

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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 *

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Fridley High School Fridley High School is one of the high schools in Fridley, Minnesota. The high school itself is part of Minnesota School District 14, though much of Fridley falls into other districts. The high school shares a street corner with Fridley Middle Sch ...

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* Convent of the Visitation School * Richfield High School *

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Former members

* The Blake School *

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* Golden Valley *

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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 th ...

Mahtomedi Mahtomedi ( ) is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 7,676 at the 2010 census. Mahtomedi is considered to be a suburb of St. Paul, and is located between St. Paul and Stillwater. Geography Mahtomedi i ...

* Orono High School (Long Lake, MN) * Providence Academy * St. Croix Lutheran High School * 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