The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) has crowned team champions in boys’ cross country since 1939. Each classification champion and additional schools from the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) have qualified for the PIAA Championships since its inception, with PIAA District VII claiming a total of 52 state team champions in the sport.
The WPIAL has produced multiple PIAA boys’ cross country team champions five times, doing so in 1969, 1970, 1972, 2014, and 2018. A total of six different WPIAL schools have won multiple PIAA team titles, with North Allegheny’s 16 being the most in league history. The other schools who have won two or more are: Mt. Lebanon (12), Neshannock (4), Winchester Thurston (4), Gateway (2), and Penn Hills (2).
A full list of team champions by year and classification can be found below.
| Year |
School |
Class |
Results |
| 2024 |
Winchester Thurston |
1A |
89 points; def. runner-up Riverview by 16 points |
| 2023 |
Hampton |
2A |
66 points; def. runner-up Grove City by 23 points |
| 2022 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
85 points; def. runner-up La Salle College by 76 points |
| 2021 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
63 points; def. runner-up La Salle College by 62 points |
| 2020 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
49 points; def. 2 runners-up by 27 points each |
| 2019 |
Winchester Thurston |
1A |
113 points; def. runner-up Riverview by 19 points |
| 2018 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
90 points; def. runner-up La Salle College by 22 points |
| |
Greensburg Salem |
2A |
63 points; def. runner-up Indiana by 37 points |
| 2016 |
Winchester Thurston |
1A |
62 points; def. runner-up Elk County Catholic by 48 points |
| 2014 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
72 points; def. runner-up Conestoga by 47 points |
| |
Winchester Thurston |
1A |
65 points; def. runner-up Sewickley Academy by 46 points |
| 2011 |
Quaker Valley |
2A |
90 points; def. runner-up North East by 91 points |
| 2010 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
124 points; def. runner-up West Chester Henderson by 22 points |
| 1998 |
Mt. Lebanon |
3A |
117 points; def. runner-up Central Bucks East by 9 points |
| 1997 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
105 points; def. runner-up West Chester Henderson by 38 points |
| 1990 |
Central Catholic |
3A |
208 points; def. runner-up Hempfield by 41 points |
| 1985 |
Bethel Park |
3A |
164 points; def. runner-up State College by 70 points |
| 1983 |
Seneca Valley |
3A |
150 points; def. runner-up State College by 176 points |
| 1982 |
Gateway |
3A |
137 points; def. runner-up Abington Heights by 106 points |
| 1980 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
142 points; def. runner-up North Penn by 16 points |
| 1979 |
North Hills |
3A |
118 points; def. runner-up State College by 80 points |
| 1976 |
Neshannock |
2A |
123 points; def. runner-up Blue Mountain by 47 points |
| 1975 |
Neshannock |
2A |
94 points |
| 1974 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
84 points |
| 1973 |
Norwin |
3A |
101 points |
| 1972 |
Penn Hills |
3A |
76 points |
| |
Bellevue * |
2A |
132 points |
| 1971 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
44 points |
| 1970 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
85 points |
| |
Neshannock |
2A |
104 points |
| 1969 |
Penn Hills |
3A |
58 points |
| |
Neshannock |
2A |
78 points |
| 1968 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
75 points |
| 1967 |
Gateway |
3A |
110 points |
| 1965 |
North Allegheny |
3A |
70 points |
| 1964 |
Baldwin |
3A |
144 points |
| 1962 |
North Allegheny |
|
100 points |
| 1961 |
North Allegheny |
|
61 points |
| 1960 |
North Allegheny |
|
61 points |
| 1959 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
53 points |
| 1958 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
40 points |
| 1957 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
47 points |
| 1956 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
47 points |
| 1953 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
37 points |
| 1952 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
60 points |
| 1950 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
69 points |
| 1949 |
Ambridge |
|
77 points |
| 1946 |
Aliquippa |
|
33 points |
| 1945 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
68 points |
| 1944 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
27 points |
| 1943 |
Mt. Lebanon |
|
38 points |
| 1941 |
Mt. Lebanon * |
|
50 points |
* – Denotes PIAA co-champion.