The South High boys soccer team won their first state championship in 2005, the year the school opened its doors and they have been blazing a trail ever since. They would go on to win 3 straight championships out of the gate, and have won 7 titles (see below) and finished as the runner up three times in total! The Wolverines have also won the team GPA award three times. Dozens of players have received individual accolades, and many have gone on to play in college. Mike Montgomery was head coach of the team from 2005 – 2018. Brad Horton has been the Wolverines’ head coach since 2019.
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STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS
2021: Service 1 – Dimond 0
2020: Season canceled due to COVID-19
2019: Colony 2 – West 0
2018: Dimond 1 – Colony 0
2017: South 1 (champ) – West Valley 1
2016: South 3 – Kenai 1
2015: Dimond 1 – South 0
2014: Colony 3 (2OT) – Dimond 2
2013: South 3 – Colony 0
2012: Dimond 1 – Juneau 0
2011: Juneau 1 (champ) – South 1
2010: Juneau 2 – Dimond 1
2009: South 3 – West 0
2008: Juneau 2 – South 0
2007: South 2 – Juneau 1
2006: South 3 – Juneau 2
2005: South 2 – Colony 1
– South High School Established in 2005
2004: Service def. Juneau
2003: Juneau def. Service
2002: Dimond def. Juneau
2001: Juneau def. Dimond
2000: Colony def. Juneau
– Official ASAA State Tournament Established in 2000. Tournament was an Invitational prior to 2000
1999: Dimond def. East
1998: Service def. Chugiak
1997: Chugiak def. Palmer
1996: Dimond def. Service
1995: Palmer def. Dimond
1994: Chugiak def. Dimond
1993: West def. Chugiak
1992: Chugiak def. West
1991: Bartlett def. Chugiak
1990: West def. Chugiak
1989: Service def. West
1988: West def. Bartlett
1987: West def. Service
1986: Service def. Dimond
1985: Chugiak def. East
1984: Chugiak def. West
For more information view ASAA Soccer Page
HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER IN ALASKA
Prior to 2000, there was no ASAA sanctioned state soccer championship. Only schools in the Anchorage, Mat-Su, and Juneau school districts played soccer in the spring. Fairbanks schools played fall soccer. Starting in 1982, the Anchorage School District started hosting a State Invitational in which they invited other schools, which had good winning records to an end-of -the-season tournament.
By the end of the 1990, all the schools on the Kenai Peninsula had started high school soccer programs along with Grace Christian in Anchorage. The growth of the interscholastic soccer programs to 20 schools in three regions warranted a state level culminating activity. In 2000, ASAA sanctioned an eight -team boys and girls state championship. Three berths were allotted to Region 3 (Kenai, Mat-Su, Grace), one berth to Region 5 (Southeast), and four berths to Region 4 (Anchorage). Starting in 2006, the Fairbanks high schools moved their soccer season from the fall to the spring. The received one state berth leaving Anchorage with three berths.
The inaugural ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Soccer State Championships was held at two adjoining fields at Skyview High School in May 2000. Anchorage hosted the 2001 tournaments, and then Wasilla hosted the next three years. After its turn in the valley, the tournament moved back to Anchorage with use of the Anchorage Football Stadium. In 2010 for the first time the tournament was held off the road system in Juneau.