Where do the AAAA & AAA Minnesota girls basketball champions live in the four class era?

One county outshines them all. Perhaps it is because it is the most populous county in the state: Hennepin.

Of the 44 championships won since 1997 (the start of the four class era) Hennepin county teams have won 26. That is a 59 % clip. AAA the ratio is even more pronounced with 15 of 22 titles (68%). Of the outlying counties Dakota has the second most titles with 5, all in AAAA; Ramsey 3; Sherburne 2; with Anoka, Scott, Washington and Wright each claiming one. Carver has been shut out entirely, but at the AAAA level Anoka, Scott and Wright have never won a title.

Outstate teams have four titles, with only one belonging to AAAA—that would be the very first year of the four class system with Olmstead County’s Rochester Mayo taking the title. That year all four champions came from outside of the metro area, the only time that has happened. But the last time a non-metro team won in AAA came in 2002 (Marshall)—–which is ancient history to a senior in 2019.

Getting back to the AAA level the last metro team NOT from Hennepin County to win the title came in 2009 (ten years ago) when St. Michael-Albertville (then in AAA) beat Minneapolis North for the crown. The class of 2019 would have been in second grade then.

Has there ever been a year where all four of the champs were metro based? Yes: 1998 & 2012.

1998:
A: Christ’s Household of Faith
AA: Blake
AAA: Minneapolis North
AAAA: Bloomington Jefferson

And all four came from Hennepin County in 2012:
A: Maranatha
AA: Providence
AAA: DeLaSalle
AAAA: Hopkins