state-champion

The three of us were valedictorians and state-champion athletes; we got scholarships and were the first to raise our hands in class.

Are We There Yet? 2010

Palin: Wasilla High School, captain of the state-champion basketball team.

Palin Church Speech Shows Intertwining Of Politics And Religion 2009

By diligent effort, constant practice, and a mean jump shot, he made the second string of the state-champion basketball team in his senior year, earning a slot that might have gone to a younger, more promising player.

Raising Obama Purdum, Todd 2008

He was a football star and a class president at Natrona County High School, where he dated the state-champion baton twirler, Lynne Vincent.

Close-Up: Young Rumsfeld 2003

He was a football star and a class president at Natrona County High School, where he dated the state-champion baton twirler, Lynne Vincent.

Close-Up: Young Rumsfeld 2003

You most likely have to have state-champion material, one really good player to win it.

The Seattle Times 2011

Lechler was not only a state-champion quarterback in high school, but he weighed 240 pounds and was recruited as a fullback by Texas.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Chronicle vtafur@sfchronicle.com (Vittorio Tafur 2011

Oregon State O-line recruit is state-champion wrestler.

The Seattle Times 2011

It didn't help that American treasury and central-bank officials, who months earlier had been lecturing China on the need to decrease state involvement in the financial sector, found themselves feverishly doing just what Chinese officials were doing-funneling money to state-champion companies, hectoring large banks to cut profits and lend more-but with less success.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2011

Holy Names: Johnson, a senior, set a 3A state-tournament record for rebounds with 65 and was named to the all-tourney team for the state-champion Cougars.

The Seattle Times 2011