The Girls Greater Cincinnati League (abb. GGCL) is a high school

High school

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 sports league

Sports league

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 composed of 13 member schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Their mission is to provide and promote a Christian atmosphere for the development of young ladies through interscholastic competition. Good sportsmanship and respect is of the utmost importance and school spirit will always be encouraged. The GGCL athletic activities are organized and supervised in harmony with policies of the member schools and the Ohio High School Athletic Association

Ohio High School Athletic Association

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. The boys from the co-ed member schools compete in the GCL.

Teams

Scarlet Division - This division contains all of the single-sex schools in the league.

• McAuley High School
  McAuley High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
  McAuley High School is an all-girls private, Catholic high school in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati. It is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas.-Background:...
  
  
• Mother of Mercy High School
  Mother of Mercy High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
  Mother of Mercy High School is an all-girls Catholic, private high school in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is one of almost forty Sisters of Mercy secondary schools in the United States. This school is also a Blue Ribbon School...
  
  
• Mount Notre Dame High School
  Mount Notre Dame High School
  Mount Notre Dame High School is a private, all-female, college-preparatory high school in Reading, a city in Hamilton County, Ohio north of Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1860, Mt. Notre Dame originally was a boarding school known for its excellence in education...
  
  
• St. Ursula Academy
  St. Ursula Academy (Cincinnati, Ohio)
  St. Ursula Academy, located in the East Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a Catholic college-preparatory high school for young women that offers an intensive four-year program in the fields of English, mathematics, science, social studies, French, Spanish, Latin, and religion. An...
  
  
• Seton High School
  Seton High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
  Seton High School is a parochial all-female, college-preparatory high school in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.-History:Seton was founded as Mount St. Vincent Academy in 1854. It was also known as Cedar Grove...
  
  
• Ursuline Academy
  Ursuline Academy (Cincinnati, Ohio)
  Ursuline Academy is a four-year college-preparatory private girls’ Catholic high school founded by the Ursuline sisters of Brown County, Ohio in 1896...
  
  

Grey Division - This division contains all of the co-ed schools in the league.

• Archbishop Alter High School
  Archbishop Alter High School
  Archbishop Alter High School, also known as Alter High School, is a Catholic high school in Kettering, Ohio, United States. It is operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and is named after Archbishop Karl Joseph Alter.-History:...
  
  
• Stephen T. Badin High School
• Carroll High School
  Carroll High School (Dayton, Ohio)
  Carroll High School is a private, coeducational high school located in Dayton, Ohio. It is run by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati...
  
  
• Chaminade-Julienne High School
  Chaminade-Julienne High School
  Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School is a private, co-educational, center-city, Catholic high school located in downtown Dayton, Ohio, operated by the Society of Mary and the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. It is named after Blessed William Joseph Chaminade and St...
  
  
• Bishop Fenwick High School
  Bishop Fenwick High School (Franklin, Ohio)
  Bishop Fenwick High School is a parochial high school in Middletown, Ohio, USA. While it is in the city limits of Middletown, it has a Franklin mailing address.-History:...
  
  
• Archbishop McNicholas High School
  Archbishop McNicholas High School
  Archbishop McNicholas High School is a parochial high school in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. The school was opened in 1951 and named in honor of John T. McNicholas, fifth bishop and third Archbishop of Cincinnati....
  
  
• Purcell Marian High School
  Purcell Marian High School
  Purcell Marian High School is a parochial high school in the East Walnut Hills neighborhood Cincinnati, Ohio, United States based in the Marianist Tradition...
  
  
• Roger Bacon High School
  Roger Bacon High School
  Roger Bacon High School is a high school in St. Bernard, Ohio, USA based in the Franciscan Tradition.This high school was dedicated in 1928, and was under the administration of and staffed by the Brothers and Priests of the Order of Friars Minor, and lay men and women...
  
  

History

In 1966 the first league competition began among a group of girls' Catholic high schools in the area. Extramural games in basketball

Basketball

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 and volleyball

Volleyball

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 were played among the schools in the next couple of years. Few records were kept and the league was loosely organized by some coaches and students.

This was not the first competition for these schools. Most had participated in play days and games for quite a few years. Prior to league competition, emphasis was placed on the social aspect of sport. The refreshments and social hour after the game were as important or more important than the game. Rivalries were friendly and the game scores incidental.

In the first years schools were represented at league meetings by interested teachers and often students were delegated to attend. At first, some educators resisted the formation of a structured league. As new people entered the schools and assumed responsibility for sports programs changes occurred in the league.

Structure was added to the league, rules and policies were made to meet the needs of the emerging girl athlete. Regular meetings were held and slowly the emphasis shifted from cookies and punch to skill development and highly contested games. League championships were held and many regular season games were well attended.

With the onset of State sponsored tournaments for girls in 1975-1976 it became obvious that the league was one of the strongest in the city and state. In the first state volleyball tournament Seton was AAA Runner Up and Ursuline AA Champions. Since then the league has usually been represented in State Tournaments in most sports.

The publicity and excellent play the League has fostered has meant opportunities for member students to receive athletic scholarships. College

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coaches look to this League for skilled athletics and Christian sportswomen to complement their programs.

As years go by additional sports have become League sports. All-League athletes are honored each year in all League sports. Each year the League takes on new challenges to improve girls' sports.

State championships

Year	School	Sport
2009	Ursuline	Volleyball
2009	Mt. Notre Dame	Basketball
2008	St. Ursula	Soccer
2008	Fenwick	Soccer
2008	Alter	Basketball
2008	Mt. Notre Dame	Basketball
2007	Alter	Cross Country
2007	St. Ursula	Soccer
2007	Mercy	Volleyball
2007	Mt. Notre Dame	Basketball
2006	St. Ursula	Cross Country
2006	Mt. Notre Dame	Volleyball
2006	Alter	Volleyball
2006	Mt. Notre Dame	Basketball
2005	Badin	Soccer
2005	Roger Bacon	Volleyball
2005	Seton	Volleyball
2005	Chaminade-Julienne	Basketball
2004	Roger Bacon	Volleyball
2004	Mt. Notre Dame	Basketball
2003	Mt. Notre Dame	Golf
2003	Alter	Volleyball
2003	St. Ursula	Volleyball
2002	Mt. Notre Dame	Golf
2002	Ursuline	Volleyball
2002	Alter	Volleyball
2002	Ursuline	Swimming
2001	Roger Bacon	Volleyball
2001	St. Ursula	Volleyball
2001	Ursuline	Swimming
2001	McNicholas	Basketball
2000	Mt. Notre Dame	Volleyball
2000	Ursuline	Swimming
1999	Ursuline	Golf
1999	Mt. Notre Dame	Volleyball
1999	Badin	Basketball
1998	Mt. Notre Dame	Volleyball
1998	St. Ursula	Volleyball
1997	St. Ursula	Golf
1997	St. Ursula	Volleyball
1996	St. Ursula	Volleyball
1996	Seton	Volleyball
1996	Mt. Notre Dame	Track
1995	St. Ursula	Volleyball
1995	Mt. Notre Dame	Volleyball
1995	St. Ursula	Swimming
1995	Roger Bacon	Basketball
1994	St. Ursula	Golf
1994	St. Ursula	Volleyball
1994	St. Ursula	Swimming
1993	St. Ursula	Soccer
1993	St. Ursula	Volleyball
1993	St. Ursula	Swimming
1993	Fenwick	Track
1991	St. Ursula	Soccer
1991	Ursuline	Swimming
1988	Seton	Volleyball
1986	Seton	Volleyball
1985	Seton	Volleyball
1984	Seton	Volleyball
1982	Mercy	Volleyball
1980	Mercy	Volleyball
1977	Mercy	Volleyball
1975	Ursuline	Volleyball