The Catholic High School League (CHSL) is a school athletic conference based in Detroit, Michigan, led by director Victor Michaels. Most member schools are also members of the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA), the governing body for Michigan scholastic sports, except for the five schools from Toledo, which are members of the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Unlike many similar leagues, the CHSL governs secondary, middle, and elementary sports for most of the parochial schools in the Detroit area. Most league schools are Catholic, but there are other religious denominations as well. Every school in the CHSL is a private school. In 2019, the CHSL council voted to rename the AB/ Division I/II championship to the Bishop division championship, and the CD/ Division III/IV championship to the Cardinal Division championship.
Member schools
Sports
At the high school level, the league supports sixteen girls sports and fourteen boys sports.
Girls Sports: basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross -country, field hockey, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, pom-pon, ski, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and volleyball.
Boys Sports: baseball, basketball, bowling, cross-country, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, ski, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and wrestling.
Girls CHSL Divisions
Divisional alignments may vary from sport to sport, depending upon the number of schools participating in the sport and the enrollment of those participating schools. Listed below are typical divisional alignments for a common sport, in this case girls basketball (as of April, 2015).
Central Division
Bloomfield Hills Marian
Dearborn Divine Child
Farmington Hills Mercy
Warren Regina
AA Division
Allen Park Cabrini
Ann Arbor Father Gabriel Richard
Macomb Lutheran North
Pontiac Notre Dame Preparatory
Riverview Gabriel Richard
East Division
Clarkston Everest Collegiate
Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
Madison Heights Bishop Foley Catholic
Marine City Cardinal Mooney Catholic
Royal Oak Shrine Catholic
Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes
Wixom St. Catherine of Siena Academy
West Division
Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart
Detroit Cristo Rey
Macomb Austin Catholic
West Bloomfield Frankel Jewish Academy
Boys CHSL Divisions
Divisional alignments may vary from sport to sport, depending upon the number of schools participating in the sport and the enrollment of those participating schools. Listed below are typical divisional alignments for a common sport, in this case boys basketball (as of April, 2015).
Central Division
Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice
Detroit Catholic Central
University of Detroit Jesuit
Orchard Lake St. Mary's Preparatory
Warren De La Salle Collegiate
AA Division
Ann Arbor Father Gabriel Richard
Dearborn Divine Child
Detroit Loyola
Macomb Lutheran North
Jackson Lumen Christi
Intersectional 1 Division
Allen Park Cabrini
Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
Madison Heights Bishop Foley Catholic
Royal Oak Shrine Catholic
Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes
Intersectional 2 Division
Clarkston Everest Catholic
Detroit Cristo Rey
Macomb Austin Catholic
Marine City Cardinal Mooney Catholic
Riverview Gabriel Richard
West Bloomfield Frankel Jewish Academy
Former League Members (closed schools)
Footnotes:
Monroe County
Catholic Central High School, Monroe (opened in 1944), and St. Mary Academy, Monroe (opened in 1846), became St. Mary Catholic Central High School in 1986 when the two schools merged.
Washtenaw County
Ann Arbor St. Thomas High School became Father Gabriel Richard High School in 1978.
Wayne County
Detroit Cristo Rey High School occupies the former Detroit Holy Redeemer High School building.
Our Lady of Mercy High School in Detroit moved to Farmington in 1965 and changed its name to Mercy High School that same year.
Redford St. Agatha High School became St. Katharine Drexel High School in 2003.
Redford Bishop Borgess High School closed in 2005 and became Redford Covenant High School which closed in 2009.
Accomplishments
Since its founding in 1926, CHSL member schools have won nearly 300 state titles (through 2015).