MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE
To provide educational opportunities for Minnesota high school students through interscholastic athletics, fine arts and other activities, and to provide leadership and support for member schools.
About MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE
The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) is a voluntary, nonprofit association that governs interscholastic athletics and fine arts competition for Minnesota high schools. It provides rules, championships, and programming designed to advance the educational value of extracurricular activities for member schools. The League serves nearly 500 member schools and hundreds of thousands of Minnesota students each year, administering postseason tournaments, section and state-level competitions, and programs including adapted athletics, music, speech and debate, and one-act plays. MSHSL also operates ongoing training, eligibility and classification systems for schools and officials. In recent years the League has continued operational partnerships and program updates (for example, a 2025 partnership to adopt new bracketing systems for wrestling) while also being the focus of federal Title IX review and related litigation regarding its participation policy for transgender student-athletes; those legal and compliance matters were active in 2024–2026 and are part of the League’s current governance and public policy context.
Notable achievements
Longstanding statewide governance
Founded in 1916 and operating for more than a century, the League organizes section and state championships and establishes rules and standards used by nearly 500 member schools across Minnesota.
Comprehensive state championships
Runs postseason state tournaments and championships across dozens of athletic and fine arts activities each school year, making it the primary organizer of interscholastic competition in Minnesota.
Adapted Athletics program
Maintains and promotes Adapted Athletics and inclusive competitive opportunities that provide organized sport and activity options for students with disabilities, including state-level events.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $2.5M
- Annual revenue
- $7.9M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity (supporting organization)
- EIN
- 36-3518485
- Location
- Brooklyn Ctr, MN
- Website
- www.mshsl.org
- On Mahalo since
- September 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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