The Kansas Helmet Project is helping to fill the "no sports" void by conducting a contest to determine the best football helmet design in Kansas!
Vote to help your school advance in the Best Helmet in Kansas Bracket presented by the Kansas Helmet Project!
Sweet 16 Round
REGIONAL 1 -
No. 16 - Atchison County Tigers -- 54.2% (614)
No. 5 - Haysville Campus Colts -- 47.6% (557)
No. 6 - Labette County Grizzlies -- 66.3% (714)
No. 10 - St. James Academy Thunder -- 33.7% (363)
REGIONAL 2 -
No. 1 - Lyons Lions -- 61% (864)
No. 12 - Concordia Panthers -- 39% (553)
No. 6 - Wellsville Eagles -- 63.6% (865)
No. 15 - Hartford Jaguars -- 36.4% (495)
REGIONAL 3 -
No. 1 - Hesston Swathers -- 50.2% (542)
No. 4 - Beloit Trojans -- 49.0% (537)
No. 3 - Prairie View Buffaloes -- 55.9% (681)
No. 15 - Central Heights Vikings -- 44.1% (537)
REGIONAL 4 -
No. 16 - Humboldt Cubs -- 54.9% (645)
No. 5 - Hutchinson Salthawks -- 45.1% (530)
No. 3 - Pratt Greenbacks -- 53.3% (682)
No. 2 - Emporia Spartans -- 46.7% (598)
ABOUT THE CONTEST
The Selection Committee chose 15 schools each from the following groups:
- Group 1 - 8-Man, Class 1A, Class 2A
- Group 2 - Class 3A, Class 4A
- Group 3 - Class 5A, Class 6A
Total votes then decided the seeding. In the end, there was a tie between 23 schools for the final four spots in the bracket. Those were placed in a "play-in" vote which decided the final four helmets.
Most seeds were randomly assigned and the region in which each school was placed in was also selected at random.
The seeds are as follows:
- No. 1 Seeds: Lawrence, Maize South, Hesston, Lyons
- No. 2 Seeds: KC Piper, Basehor-Linwood, Gardner-Edgerton, Emporia
- No. 3 Seeds: Garden City, Blue Valley Northwest, Pratt, Prairie View
- No. 4 Seeds: Spring Hill, Belle Plaine, Beloit, Great Bend
- No. 5 Seeds: Haysville-Campus, Fredonia, Holcomb, Hutchinson
- No. 6 Seeds: Labette County, Wellsville, Ark City, Blue Valley Southwest
- No. 7 Seeds: Chapman, Southeast-Cherokee, Eureka, Lawrence Free State
- No. 8 Seeds: Towanda-Circle, Hays, Lansing, Lyndon
- No. 9 Seeds: Columbus, Erie, Inman, Topeka High
- No. 10 Seeds: St. James Academy, Sterling, Uniontown, Bishop Carroll
- No. 11 Seeds: Andover Central, Clifton-Clyde, Eisenhower, Ell-Saline
- No. 12 Seeds: Cheney, Concordia, Herington, Leavenworth
- No. 13 Seeds: Louisburg, Olathe East, Sedgwick, Thunder Ridge
- No. 14 Seeds: Olathe North, Olathe Northwest, KC Sumner Academy, Valley Heights
- No. 15 Seeds: Topeka Seaman, Central Heights, Hartford, Shawnee Heights
- No. 16 Seeds: Humboldt, St. Mary's Colgan, Sublette, Atchison County
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