How Last Fall's Champions Are Faring in 2017

With half of last year's high school cross country championship teams winning at least a second consecutive title Saturday, Patch decided to take a look at the possible repeat champions in field hockey, football, boys and girls soccer and girls volleyball.

At least three divisions will have a new titleholder due to the advancement in class of last year's winners: Class M football (Hillhouse), Class M boys soccer (Brookfield) and Class M girls soccer (co-champion Notre Dame-Fairfield).

Here are last fall's 22 champions or co-champions in those five sports, with record through Oct. 29, current seed and regular season games remaining. Click the class prefixes for up-to-date rankings.

FIELD HOCKEY
L - Darien (co) / 13-2-1 / 6th / 0
L - Staples (co) / 11-2-0-1 / 8th / 0
M - New Canaan / 9-7 / 8th / 0
S - Westbrook (co) / 8-3-5 / 8th / 0
S - Haddam-Killingworth (co) / 5-6-3-2 / 13th / 0

FOOTBALL
LL - Darien / 7-0 / 1st / 3
L - New Canaan / 5-2 / 8th / 3
M - Hillhouse / 5-2 / 10th (L) / 3
S - Ansonia / 7-0 / 1st / 3

BOYS SOCCER
LL - Farmington / 9-2-2 / 7th / 3
L - Daniel Hand / 11-3-2 / T-9th / 0
M - Brookfield / 7-6-3 / 20th (L) / 0
S - Coventry / 11-4 / 6th / 1

GIRLS SOCCER
LL - Glastonbury / 10-2-2 / 4th / 2
L - St. Joseph / 11-1-4 / 3rd / 0
M - Immaculate (co) / 15-1 / 2nd / 0
M - Notre Dame-Fairfield / 10-2-4 / T-7th (L) / 0
S - Old Lyme / 16-0 / 1st / 0

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
LL - Stamford / 12-8 / T-16th / 0
L - RHAM / 18-0 / 1st / 0
M - Seymour / 16-2 / 3rd / 0
S - Lyman Memorial / 18-2 / T-2nd / 0