2025-26 NSAA Cup Winners

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The Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) and the Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) are pleased to announce the final standings for the Buckle Up Phone Down Cup, the All-Activities Award for Nebraska high schools. The annual awards program began in the fall of 2006 to recognize the state’s most successful high school athletic and fine arts programs. Awards are presented to the Nebraska high schools that earn the most points during the school year by participating in NSAA education-based activity programs. This all-activities (fine arts and sports), all-school recognition platform recognizes the “Best of the Best” each year in NSAA programs. The Buckle Up Phone Down Cup will be presented to the winning schools in the four classes of the All-School Division, Girls Division, and Boys Division in the fall.

	ALL-SCHOOL DIVISION	GIRLS DIVISION	BOYS DIVISION
CLASS A	Omaha Westside	Omaha Marian	Omaha Creighton Prep Lincoln East
CLASS B	Elkhorn North	Elkhorn North	Elkhorn North Omaha Skutt
CLASS C	Yutan	Yutan	Fremont Bergan
CLASS D	McCool Junction	McCool Junction	McCool Junction

 

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Point System explained;

Each year the NSAA and the NDOT recognize the most successful activities programs in the state with the Buckle Up Phone Down Cup. Winners are determined by a point system based on performance in State Championship events within each division and class.

The Boys and Girls competition in each class features schools earning performance points from their respective activities. In the All-School Division, schools receive points for each of their NSAA registered programs for placing in NSAA Championship events.

Volleyball classifications are used to place schools in their classifications for this awards program.

All schools which finish in the top eight positions (plus any ties) in a State Championship event receive points. In activities’ Championships involving cooperative agreements, each of the schools in the cooperative will earn the points for that respective event providing they have at least one
student participating on the cooperative varsity team.

In Playoff events involving teams in a split classification, the same top eight positions in that event’s class (ex. D1 and D2) will earn full points for their class competition. If there are fewer than eight schools from a classification in the event, only those schools represented receive points.

Championship performance points are awarded as follows:

PLACING	POINTS
1st	50
2nd	45
3rd	40
4th	35
5th	30
6th	25
7th	20
8th	15

If a tie for place exists, points will be split evenly between all teams tied for a specific place. For example, the non-advancing quarterfinals teams in an eight-team, single elimination Championship bracket will split the 5th through 8th place points. (30 + 25 + 20 + 15 = 90 ÷4 = 22.5 points each)

In boys wrestling, Buckle Up Phone Down Cup points will be awarded based on a school’s highest finish at either the Individual Boys Wrestling Championship or the Dual Wrestling Championships. For example: If a school places 4th at the Boys Individual Championships and places 3rd at the Dual Championships, that school would receive the 40 points earned for the 3rd place finish at the Dual Championships, instead of receiving points for both Championship events.

 

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NSAA CUP 2025-2026 FINAL STANDINGS

CLASS A

ALL SCHOOL DIVISION

1	Omaha Westside	597.5 pts
2	Lincoln Southwest	547.5
3	Lincoln East	502.5
4t	Millard North	437.5
4t	Papillion-LaVista South	437.5
6	Kearney	430
7	Omaha Creighton Prep	385
8	Omaha Marian	380
9	Millard West	332.5
10	Elkhorn South	310

BOYS

1t	Lincoln East	385
1t	Omaha Creighton Prep	385
3	Omaha Westside	312.5
4t	Millard North	285
4t	Papillion-LaVista South	285
6	Lincoln Southwest	275
7	Millard West	200
8	Fremont	167.5
9t	Kearney	165
9t	Millard South	165

GIRLS

1	Omaha Marian	380 pts
2	Lincoln Southwest	330
3	Omaha Westside	305
4	Kearney	265
5	Millard North	247.5
6t	Elkhorn South	210
6t	Millard West	210
8	Lincoln East	207.5
9	Papillion-LaVista South	187.5
10	Norfolk	167.5

 

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NSAA CUP 2025-2026 FINAL STANDINGS

CLASS B

ALL SCHOOL DIVISION

1	Elkhorn North	627.5 pts
2	Lincoln Pius X	527.5
3	Omaha Skutt	515
4	Gretna East	397.5
5	Norris	330
6	Gretna	317.5
7	Bennington	315
8	Waverly	312.5
9	York	260
10	Seward	232.5

BOYS

1t	Elkhorn North	325
1t	Omaha Skutt	325
3	Lincoln Pius X	322.5
4	York	245
5	Gretna East	240
6	Gretna	192.5
7t	Bennington	177.5
7t	Seward	177.5
9	Waverly	157.5
10	Elkhorn Mt. Michael	142.5

GIRLS

1	Elkhorn North	302.5
2	Gretna East	267.5
3	Lincoln Pius X	240
4	Omaha Skutt	235
5	Norris	217.5
6	Gretna	210
7	Elkhorn	167.5
8	York	165
9	Grand Island Northwest	160
10	Waverly	155

 

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NSAA CUP 2025-2026 FINAL STANDINGS

CLASS C

ALL SCHOOL DIVISION

1	Yutan	277.5 pts
2	Fremont Bergan	262.5
3	Gothenburg	252.5
4	Grand Island Central Catholic	237.5
5	Adams Central	227.5
6	Kearney Catholic	197.5
7	Freeman	182.5
8t	Ashland-Greenwood	167.5
8t	Auburn	167.5
10t	Columbus Scotus	157.5
10t	Wahoo Neumann	157.5

BOYS

1	Fremont Bergan	217.5
2	Gothenburg	182.5
3	Grand Island Central Catholic	162.5
4	Doniphan-Trumbull	155
5	Ashland-Greenwood	145
6	Yutan	135
7	Lincoln Christian	132.5
8	Wayne	127.5
9t	Freeman	115
9t	Syracuse	115

GIRLS

1	Yutan	192.5
2	Adams Central	182.5
3	Gothenburg	160
4	Columbus Scotus	157.5
5	Freeman	142.5
6	Milford	125
7t	Grand Island Central Catholic	120
7t	Kearney Catholic	120
7t	Malcolm	120
10	Auburn	105

 

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NSAA CUP 2025-2026 FINAL STANDINGS

CLASS D

ALL SCHOOL DIVISION

1	McCool Junction	272.5 pts
2	Dundy County-Stratton	207.5
3	Central Valley	177.5
4	O'Neill St. Mary's	175
5	Wynot	167.5
6	Howells-Dodge	155
7	Hartington Cedar Catholic	152.5
8	Amherst	147.5
9	Red Cloud	145
10	Wausa	140

BOYS

1	McCool Junction	182.5
2	O'Neill St. Mary's	175
3	Plainview	130
4	Central Valley	125
5	Hartington Cedar Catholic	117.5
6	Hartington-Newcastle	100
7t	Mead	95
7t	Wausa	95
9t	Howells-Dodge	87.5
9t	Pleasanton	87.5

GIRLS

1	McCool Junction	172.5
2	Wausa	140
3	Dundy County-Stratton	135
4	Amherst	122.5
5	Central Valley	110
6	Hartington-Newcastle	100
7	Wynot	95
8	O'Neill St. Mary's	90
9	Pawnee City	85
10	Chambers	80

 

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Point System explained;

Each year the NSAA and the NDOT recognize the most successful activities programs in the state with the Buckle Up Phone Down Cup. Winners are determined by a point system based on performance in State Championship events within each division and class.

The Boys and Girls competition in each class features schools earning performance points from their respective activities. In the All-School Division, schools receive points for each of their NSAA registered programs for placing in NSAA Championship events.

Volleyball classifications are used to place schools in their classifications for this awards program.

All schools which finish in the top eight positions (plus any ties) in a State Championship event receive points. In activities’ Championships involving cooperative agreements, each of the schools in the cooperative will earn the points for that respective event providing they have at least one
student participating on the cooperative varsity team.

In Playoff events involving teams in a split classification, the same top eight positions in that event’s class (ex. D1 and D2) will earn full points for their class competition. If there are fewer than eight schools from a classification in the event, only those schools represented receive points.

Championship performance points are awarded as follows:

PLACING	POINTS
1st	50
2nd	45
3rd	40
4th	35
5th	30
6th	25
7th	20
8th	15

If a tie for place exists, points will be split evenly between all teams tied for a specific place. For example, the non-advancing quarterfinals teams in an eight-team, single elimination Championship bracket will split the 5th through 8th place points. (30 + 25 + 20 + 15 = 90 ÷4 = 22.5 points each)

In boys wrestling, Buckle Up Phone Down Cup points will be awarded based on a school’s highest finish at either the Individual Boys Wrestling Championship or the Dual Wrestling Championships. For example: If a school places 4th at the Boys Individual Championships and places 3rd at the Dual Championships, that school would receive the 40 points earned for the 3rd place finish at the Dual Championships, instead of receiving points for both Championship events.

Do you know how this works for teams who split classes depending on sport? For example they are D in football and basketball but then go C in track and wrestling. Does that just kind of screw them from ever being considered for this?

 

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I believe they use the volleyball classifications for this for some reason. There are C-2 schools for football and boys basketball that are listed as class D

 

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I believe they use the volleyball classifications for this for some reason. There are C-2 schools for football and boys basketball that are listed as class D

This.

They use volleyball classifications.