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Alaska State Records Page
Highest Nationals Ranking: 9th (2024 and 2022, Lathrop; and 2007, West Valley)
Most Recent State Champion: Lathrop High School, Coach Chris Benshoof
Previous National Wins: None




State Champions

In the Alaska state competition, it is convention to label the divisions backwards: Division III is large schools, etc. On the state results pages here, this is changed so that they conform to the national standard.


Year State Champion State Score Rank at Nationals Score at Nationals Coaching
2024 Lathrop High School 42,531.1 9th of 60 teams 40,167.9 Chris Benshoof
2023 Lathrop High School 40,054 15th of 55 teams 38,270.8 Chris Benshoof
2022 Lathrop High School 42,590 9th of 45 teams 39,423.9 Chris Benshoof
2021 Lathrop High School 40,075.2 11th of 41 teams 39,966.8 Chris Benshoof
2020 Lathrop High School 40,524.7 TBD TBD Chris Benshoof
2019 Lathrop High School 43,493.9 15th of 73 teams 42,697.0 Chris Benshoof
2018 Ketchikan High School 42,398.3 24th of 72 teams 40,623.4 Peter Stanton and Kris Blasingame
2017 Lathrop High School 38,856.9 18th of 51 teams 38,558.4 Chris Benshoof
2016 IDEA (Interior Distance Education of Alaska) 37,108.9 21st of 48 teams 38,648.6 Scott Gingrich and Lori Zulliger
2015 West Valley High School 42,211.2 11th of 46 teams 41,934.9 Coby Haas and Thomas McClelland
2014 Lathrop High School 38,786.2 27th of 47 teams 36,483.0 Chris Benshoof and Robin Feinman
2013 West Valley High School 36,557.2 26th of 53 teams 34,998.7 Coby Haas and Thomas McClelland
2012 Lathrop High School 38,025.7 18th of 32 teams 37,732.2 Chris Benshoof and Kathleen Gerdes
2011 West Valley High School 38,064.1 29th of 36 teams 28,761.51 Robin Feinman and Coby Haas
2010 Lathrop High School 38,470.7 16th of 36 teams 38,371.1 Chris Benshoof and Kathleen Gerdes
2009 Lathrop High School 37,251.9 23rd of 37 teams 36,724 Chris Benshoof and Kathleen Gerdes
2008 West Valley High School 39,384.9 21st of 41 teams 39,254.4 Joy and Hannibal Grubis
2007 West Valley High School 42,892.2 9th of 39 teams 43,768.9 Joy and Hannibal Grubis
2006 Lathrop High School 37,967.4 23rd of 39 teams 36,586.5 Chris Benshoof and JoAnn Murphy
2005 West Valley High School 38,213.3 20th of 39 teams 37,944.0 Joy and Hannibal Grubis
2004 Lathrop High School 40,687.3 17th of 41 teams 39,887.6 Chris Benshoof and JoAnn Murphy
2003 Lathrop High School 38,136.6 17th of 38 teams 38,008.7 Chris Benshoof and JoAnn Murphy
2002 Valdez High School Unknown Unknown Unknown Adam Sharrai
2001 Lathrop High School2 36,000 33rd of 55 teams 33,585 JoAnn Murphy
2000 Lathrop High School 40,086 25th of ? teams 37,510 JoAnn Murphy
1999 West Valley High School 38,044 Unknown Unknown Joy Grubis
1998 Valdez High School 42,491 19th of 38 teams 41,723 Kim Mackey
1997 Valdez High School 42,790 10th of 37 teams 43,590 Kim Mackey
1996 West Valley High School 39,459 Unknown Unknown Marsha Burnside
1995 Valdez High School 40,090 Unknown Unknown Kim Mackey
1994 Valdez High School 35,546 Unknown Unknown Kim Mackey
1993 West Valley High School Unknown Unknown Unknown Marsha Burnside
1992 West Valley High School Unknown Unknown Unknown Marsha Burnside
1991 West Valley High School Unknown Unknown Unknown Marsha Burnside
1990 Monroe Catholic High School Unknown Unknown Unknown Mary Williams
1989 Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 39,778 Unknown Unknown Martha Burnside
1988 Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Unknown Unknown Unknown Marsha Burnside
1987 Kenai Central High School Unknown 32rd of 38 teams 32,997 Unknown
1986 Soldotna High School Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown

Total State Titles

School Name Number of Titles Years Won
Lathrop High School 16 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
West Valley High School 11 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015
Valdez High School 5 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002
Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 2 1988, 1989
Ketchikan High School 1 2018
IDEA (Interior Distance Education of Alaska) 1 2016
Monroe Catholic High School 1 1990
Kenai Central High School 1 1987
Soldotna High School 1 1986

1This score is out of 8 events because the team did not conduct the online Essay and Art tests.

2Valdez High School was the B team and placed 40th at Nationals with 31,816 points.

Record Board

Overall Team: 2007 Nationals - 43,768.9 - West Valley High School

Overall State Team Score: 2019 State - 43,493.9 - Lathrop High School

Honors: Will Bishop, 2008 Nationals - 8,991.1 - West Valley High School

Scholastic: Patricia Gerdes, 2010 Nationals - 8,247.8 - Lathrop High School

Varsity: Benjamin Pilon, 2022 State - 7,724.7 - Lathrop High School