11/05/15 – Cross Country, Soccer and Volleyball Champions Decided This Weekend

November 5, 2015 2015-2016 News Releases

Print

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 5, 2015

Championship trophies will be awarded to nine teams this weekend as the 2015 KHSAA Soccer and Volleyball State Tournaments, and the KHSAA Cross Country State Meet are conducted in Lexington and Louisville. Saturday morning will see six state champions crowned in cross country at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, followed by the boys’ and girls’ soccer state championships that evening at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. The 2015 KHSAA Volleyball State Tournament begins Friday morning with first round matches at Valley High School in Louisville, and concludes with the championship match on Sunday at 2 p.m.

KHSAA.tv will produce live webcasts of the championship games of the KHSAA State Soccer Tournament, as well as the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals of the KHSAA State Volleyball Tournament. A highlight package of the 2015 KHSAA Cross Country State Meet will be available at KHSAA.tv following the event. A free live audio feed of the soccer and volleyball matches will be available at http://khsaa.net/

All KHSAA.tv productions will be a part of the NFHS Network this season, which is a subscription based service. Subscription plans for the NFHS Network include a day pass ($9.95), a monthly pass ($14.95) and an annual pass ($119.95). These passes, with the daily pass priced less than the cost of admission to state championship contests, not only entitle the users to Kentucky broadcasts, but all of the broadcasts from the more than 40 participating state associations. To subscribe to the NFHS Network, visit: http://www.nfhsnetwork.com/subscribe/retail

The 2015 KHSAA Volleyball State Tournament begins will first round action Friday morning at 9:30 a.m. as Southwestern takes on South Laurel. The last match of the opening day between Raceland and Henderson County is slated for 8 p.m. Quarterfinal action picks up Saturday morning at 10 a.m., with the semifinals starting at 7 p.m. that night. Sunday’s championship match is set for a 2 p.m. start time.

Live stats will be available for all matches of the KHSAA Volleyball State Tournament at KHSAA.org on the volleyball homepage under “2015 KHSAA State Results/Stats”. The volleyball state tournament bracket is available at: http://khsaa.org/volleyball/2015/statebracket.pdf

The 2015 KHSAA Cross Country State Meet begins Saturday at 9:30 a.m. with the Class 1A Girls’ race, followed by the Class 1A Boys at 10:15 a.m. The Class 2A meet is scheduled to begin with the girls at 11:30 a.m., with the Class 3A meet slated to start at 1:30 p.m. A full state meet schedule is available at:
http://khsaa.org/cross_country/2015/statemeettimetable.pdf

A complete list of entries for the state cross country meet can be viewed at:
http://khsaa.org/Publications/Programs/20152016/XC/2015xcentries.pdf

The KHSAA State Soccer Tournament concludes Saturday evening at Paul Laurence Dunbar with the boys’ championship game at 5 p.m., followed by the girls’ title match at 7 p.m. Both games will be live streamed at KHSAA.tv.

To view the championship programs for each sport, visit the following links:

Soccer – http://goo.gl/hazHs3
Volleyball – http://goo.gl/wkAkHA
Cross Country – http://goo.gl/8zth5g

-KHSAA-

About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 277 member schools both public and private. The KHSAA sanctions 43 state championships in 13 sports and 4 sport-activities, licenses and trains over 4,000 officials, provides catastrophic insurance for its more than 70,000 member school student-athletes, as well as overseeing coaching education and sports safety programs.

Print