Walk into any gym in Maine and look up. The banners are the first thing you see and the last thing anyone takes down. A school can repaint the lobby, replace the bleachers, and rename the snack bar, but nobody touches the banners. They are the town's permanent record.
We built a room for all of them.
The Gold Room is one page holding every state championship ever won in Maine, in every sport we cover, from every year it happened. Pick a year and see who hung a banner. Pick a school and, soon, see every banner they have ever hung.
Right now, 24 banners are lit. Every one of them is a verified 2026 champion, from Portland winning the Class A basketball final by 16 to Cheverus taking two titles in one school year, both of them against Hampden Academy, by a combined three points. Somebody at Hampden deserves a long, quiet summer.
Here is the honest part
Twenty four banners is a start. It is also, and we want to be straight with you, a very small fraction of the story. Maine has been crowning state champions for the better part of a century. That is thousands of banners. We have one year lit.
Scroll the years in the Gold Room and you will see exactly what we mean. The rafters for 2025 are dark. So are the 1990s. So is the decade your uncle will not stop talking about at Thanksgiving.
This is not a gap we can close alone, and honestly, we would not want to. The record of Maine high school sports does not live in one place. It lives in yearbooks, in shoeboxes of clippings, in the framed photo behind the counter at the diner, and in the memory of everyone who was in the building that night. That is where you come in.
How you restore a banner
Every dark spot in the Gold Room has a button on it: Restore it. Here is the whole process.
Tell us the banner. The year, the sport, the class, and the school that won it. That alone is a banner. If you have the final score, wonderful. If you do not, the banner still hangs. Scores are engravings we add later when proof arrives.
Show us the receipt, if you have one. A newspaper clipping, a yearbook page, a photo of the actual banner hanging in the gym, or a link. Proof is optional, but it moves your banner to the front of the line. Either way, nothing prints on faith. Every submission gets checked before it hangs.
We hang it, with your name on it. Approved banners go up looking exactly like every other banner in the room, plus one detail: a small brass plaque underneath. Restored by D. Ouellette, Fort Kent, class of 1989. That credit is permanent. Your name, on Maine history, for as long as the room stands.
And when a restored banner goes up, it goes up properly. The light comes on. We will also be highlighting restorers as the room fills in, because frankly, the person who digs a 1987 program out of the attic to settle the historical record is exactly the kind of person this site was built for.
What it costs you
A free account. That is the entire tollbooth. No credit card, no trial clock, nothing to cancel. The account exists so the plaque has a real name on it and so we can tell you when your banner is up.
The Gold Room itself is free for everyone, forever. Championship history should not sit behind a paywall, and the room only fills up if every fan in Maine can see the holes in it.
Your assignment
Go to The Gold Room and find your year. The year you played, the year your kid played, the year your school shocked everybody. If the banner is lit, enjoy it. If it is dark, you know what to do.
Somewhere in Maine there is a shoebox with the proof in it. Go get the shoebox.