Everyone can identify the Heisman Trophy, the NBA Championship trophy, the Super Bowl trophy. But what do high school state champions take home?
For a lucky percentage of high school football teams, the best gift they could ever ask for already sits underneath their metaphorical tree, in the form of a piece of memorabilia that will live forever in the histories of their schools.
Now that the dust has settled on the high school football season, it can now begin to form on the actual, tangible reward for a state title-winning season: The championship trophy.
Much anticipated during the season but rarely discussed once it's achieved, the championship hardware appears on the field at state championship games around the country but is hardly ever seen afterward.
MaxPreps documents the actual, physical award that allows teams to call themselves "champions" and ranks the Top 10 trophies handed out around the country.
No. 10: New York Public School State Champion Trophy
NYSPHSAA trophy
Photo by Mike Janes
NYSPHSAA
Date of Finals: Nov. 25-27
Location Awarded: Carrier Dome, Syracuse, N.Y.
Number of Awardees: 5
Description: This trophy, awarded to champion teams in New York that don't belong to the PSAL, CHSFL and several other individual sections, bears a bronze seal of the state's governing body that loosely hugs the outline of the Empire State.
