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Total Champions by State

National Championships By State

The following includes all non-adult national championships through 2022.

STATE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP MOST RECENT
Michigan 169 1940 2022
Massachusetts 127 1940 2022
Minnesota 66 1949 2022
New York 58 1939 2022
Illinois 45 1962 2022
Connecticut 30 1949 2019
California 29 1977 2019
Missouri 22 2004 2022
Pennsylvania 19 1938 2022
Colorado 16 1982 2022
New Jersey 15 1941 2022
Texas 14 2004 2022
Iowa 12 1951 2018
Alaska 11 1983 2021
Georgia 10 2009 2021
Maine 11 1950 2022
Wisconsin 8 1962 2021
Washington 8 1945 2016
Rhode Island 9 1948 2022
New Hampshire 7 1954 2012
Ohio 6 1948 2019
North Carolina 6 2000 2019
Florida 6 1989 2016
Virginia 6 2011 2022
North Dakota 5 1993 2011
Vermont 5 2005 2022
South Dakota 5 2012 2022
Delaware 3 2010 2018
Oregon 3 2015 2017
Montana 3 1954 2014
Oklahoma 4 2010 2022
Indiana 3 2011 2011
Nebraska 3 2001 2010
Nevada 2 2010 2019
Wyoming 2 2016 2016
Tennessee 2 2012 2014
Arizona 3 2001 2022
South Carolina 1 2021 2021
Idaho 1 2012 2016

More states produce champions as years go by

The growth of hockey in the United States can be charted in a small way by the number of non-adult national champions hailing from new states as the years progress.

Between 1949 and 1972, all of the national champions hailed from either Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan or Minnesota. The 1970s saw Illinois, New York, California and Washington join the list (the 1977 Los Angeles Junior Kings won the AHAUS Junior B title, becoming the first team west of the Rocky Mountains to win a non-adult national championship) and then New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island and Wisconsin won their first titles in the 1980s.

From 1990 to 2008, ten new states joined the champions list. Alaska, California, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Pennsylvania had teams win titles in the '90s and then Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Texas and Vermont won championships since 2000.

The 2010 tournament was a boom year for states winning their first titles. Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada and Oklahoma brought home championships that year to add their states to the list.

In 2011, Maine won its first and second ever national titles and was joined by Virginia as states breaking through on the national stage. In 2012, Idaho, Tennessee and South Dakota brought home the first national championship in state history. North Carolina burst on to the scene in 2013 with its first two national titles.

In 2015, the club of national champions added Oregon to the list. In 2016, Wyoming joined the club with a pair of national championships.

While the longtime hockey hotbeds continue to shine on the national stage, the surge of hockey's popularity in emerging markets is producing new champions.