Carmel was announced as the winner of the MaxPreps Cup on Wednesday, winning the honor of best all-around high school sports program by the website MaxPreps.com.
The Greyhounds received the honor on the strength of their four state championships during the school year, which was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Carmel won boys tennis and football in the fall, then swept girls swimming and boys swimming in the winter. In addition, the Greyhounds finished as state runner-up in girls soccer (which placed seventh in the national rankings) and boys cross country.
This is the ninth edition of the MaxPreps Cup, which began in 2012. Carmel has finished in the top 10 in eight of those nine years, but this is the first time the Greyhounds have been on top.
The Cup is determined by points awarded to schools who win state championships and also earn state runner-up finishes, as well as other factors such as a sport’s popularity, a state’s size, enrollment divisions and the number of schools in each enrollment division, and national rankings. Carmel finished with 1,490 points, well ahead of second-place Champlain Valley Union in Hinesburg, Vt., which earned 1,338 points.
