The top 200 performers and their best mark in each event, and the top 10 performers in the junior, sophomore, and freshman class.
Beginning in 1987, Tim Miles and I (Bill Miles) began to compile much deeper lists.
Newspapers published annual best performance lists of the top five to ten marks in each event since the 1960s. They were assembled through coaches calling in outstanding performances and the sports writers culling results from meets.
There are essentially four categories of "State" Meets in Minnesota Prep Track History.
The earliest were meets sponsored by the University of Minnesota and named the Interscholastic State Meet from 1907 to 1922.
In 1923 The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) took over sponsorship of the meet and it continues to today as the MSHSL State Meet.
Prior to the fall of 1974, non-public schools were not allowed to compete in MSHSL State Meets. Thus, Catholic schools had their own Catholic State Meet from 1946 to 1968 and non- Catholic private schools (the Minnesota Independent School League) had their own MISL State Meet from 1947 to 1968. From 1969 thru 1974 the non-public schools joined together for a Private School State Meet or Minnesota State Independent School Meet.
Since 1987 the High School Track Coaches Association began sponsoring a True Team State Meet. The True Team State Meet advances teams from Sectionals to the State Meet and is intended to determine the best team in the State by scoring each teams top two (three in the largest class) entries in each event.
Each State Meet had/has its own means of qualifying individuals to their State Meet. If qualification occurred in a single meet it has been called a Regional or Sectional Meet. In some MSHSL State Meets qualifying occurs through two meets. The first meet is a District Meet and that qualifies athletes for the second meet, a Regional (from 1929 to 1991) or Sectional (since 1992).
Most schools in Minnesota belong to conferences. Many conferences sponsor annual Conference Meets to determine their Conference Champion. Some conferences determine their champions through dual meets. Some conferences have switched back and forth between the two methods, thus not all conferences have meets for all years. Regardless, performances in Conference Meets has never had any influence on advancing to State Meets or State Qualifiers.
There are certain invitationals and other resources that I judge to warrant inclusion on this site.