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Northview Reclassifed By FHSAA; Number Of Games May Be Reduced
March 4, 2009
Northview High School has dropped one class under reclassifications released Tuesday by the Florida High School Athletic Association, joining Jay in Class 2A. And another big change is coming to non-football sports in Florida, with new limitations on the number of games that can be played proposed by the FHSAA.
In boys and girls basketball, Northview will be in Class 2A District 1 with Jay, Baker, Freeport, Pensacola Christian and Ponce De Leon. The same class for girls volleyball will include the same schools, minus Ponce De Leon.
Under the reclassification originally proposed by the FHSAA, Northview was in Class 3A, a class that includes schools with a 2008 fall population of 522-1305 . Northview had 544 students during the October week used by the FHSAA to determine the new classifications, but schools in the lower 10% of the population breakdown of each classification have the option of playing down one classification if it is deemed more suitable for district travel reasons.
Class 1A is for schools with 521 or fewer students, plus those that “play down” like Northview.
In preliminary district alignments released in December for football, Northview remained in District 1-2B. Under the “play down” rule, the Chiefs requested a move down one district to District 1-1A, also the same district as the Jay Royals.
Contest Limits
The FHSAA has proposed reducing the number of games in a number of Florida high school sports. (See graphic at bottom of page.)
Under the proposed rules, the number of proposed varsity boys and girls basketball games would drop from the current 25 to 20. For junior varsity teams, that number would drop to 15.
The same drop would be imposed for high school baseball and softball in Florida. Instead of the current 25 games, varsity teams would play 20 baseball games and junior varsity teams would play 15.
Volleyball would face the same major cuts, from the current 25 games to 20 for varisty and 15 for junior varsity teams.
Junior varsity football would drop from eight games per season to six.
The contest limits would be dropped under the proposal for other sports as well. For cross country teams, the current allowed 13 meets would drop to 11 for varsity and 8 for JV.
Golf would decrease from 14 matches per year to 13 for varsity and nine for junior varsity.
Pictured below: This graphic shows the changes proposed by the Florida High School Athletic Association.
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One Response to “Northview Reclassifed By FHSAA; Number Of Games May Be Reduced”
Why doesn’t FHSAA reduce the fees that they impose on everyone. They get 25% right off the top from district tournaments, playoff games, and kickoff classics. In return we get their dictator type leadership and sucking up to the private schools. If they wanted to help they would do this first (reduce all fees).