sportsfan #1 said:
Being from MD and attending a suburban white school, the schools in Baltimore City owned us in football, basketball, and track (sprinting and jumping events). Sad but true.
Don Wassall, I don't know if you are speaking from opinion or fact, but most of the championships in football, basketball, and track are won by mostly black schools. Urbana in Frederick Co. is pretty much all-white and they won a title or two a few years back.
Football is huge in MD, lots of white kids play, they also play lacrosse or baseball in the spring seasons. Soccer is big too, but womens soccer is the draw here.
Col Reb you forgot Corey Jackson starting fullback. He is white.
I happen to know my share about MD high school athletics. What you say about mostly black schools winning most of the state championships in football, track, and basketball is not exactly true
Mostly black schools do win their share, but not that many teams from Baltimore City have actually won football or track championships.
I know that Dunbar is pretty good in football, but most of the other 24 high schools are pretty bad, some of them don't field a team. Your high school may have gotten owned, but usually its the Baltimore City teams that are getting owned by teams from the County.
This past fall of the 4 state football championships, 3 were won by mostly white schools. Quince Orchard from Montgomery County won 4A, the biggest division. Damascus wich is more than 90% white, also from Montgomery, won the next biggest division 3A. The 2A was won by River Hill from Howard County. Dunbar was the only majority black school to win a state title, winning 1A, the smallest division.
In 2006, majority black schools swept the state championships. Suitland and Friendly won from Prince George's County won 4A, and 3A respectively, and Edmondson and Dunbar from Baltimore City won the 2A and 1A.
In 2005 it was Damascus 4A, Gwynn Park 3A (majority black), Potomac 2A (majority black), and Allegany 1A (majority white).
In 2004 4 majority black schools swept the state championships. In 2003 4 majority white schools swept it.
So in MD football in the last five years, 9 mostly white schools have won state titles, and 11 mostly black schools have won it. 6 from Prince George's County, 5 from Montgomery County, 4 from Baltimore City, 2 from Hartford County, and 1 each from Allegany, Frederick, and Howard Counties (there are 24 counties in MD).
So in football, it is a lot more evenly mixed than you stated. This is aside from the fact that, as I said in an earlier post, football is NOT all the big in MD, and a substantial number of white kids play other sports. From my experience most lacrosse kids don't play football.
