New XC/Track 2008 Class Alignment

[Rebel]

The KHSAA has released the proposed new alignment to be used starting next school year. There will still be the standard three classes (A, AA, AAA.)

 

 

 

Alot of teams shifting around for Cross Country & Track. Boyle & Bell in the same region? :confused:

 

http://www.khsaa.org/track/2007realignmentdraft.pdf

[Bear78]

I don't get the logic. 10-11 teams per region, with no apparent regard for dividing up private all girls or all boys schools.

 

I guess there are two ways of looking at it. 1) you get better competition for the girls when you have more than one all girls school in the region with the same being said of the boys. 2) The girls team may not always have an easy path out of the region if the region is girl school heavy (same for the boys).

 

It seems there would be a pairing of a private girls with a private boys (of similar size) to keep form overloading a region.

[Jim Schue]

How do you justify Caverna being tossed in there with a bunch of Louisville schools? Especially considering they would have to cross through another region just to go to the region meet? Wonder if that region meet will ever be held in Horse Cave?

[bigblueinsanity]

Mason Co. not helped any on the boys side with Covington Catholic and Harrison County moving in and Russell and Rowan Co. moving out.

[bigblueinsanity]

Some of these Regions wont have many runners for XC...as most schools dont have many runners.

[Jim Schue]

Some of these Regions wont have many runners for XC...as most schools dont have many runners.

 

So, what you're saying is it's OK to put one more big obstacle in front of the kids at those schools, where they probably don't get a great deal of administration support anyway?

[Bear78]

Some of these Regions wont have many runners for XC...as most schools dont have many runners.

 

I thought it was about the number of boys / girls attending a school not necessarily the number participating in the sport. If the region placement is based on enrollment and some teams don't have as many runners, then good for the ones that do. Theoretically a team only needs seven with the top five scores counted. :confused:

[bigblueinsanity]

The Regions will have 2-4 Teams going to State. If they Region has say more than 10 Teams then 4 would go. If it has 5 teams then 2 would go. If it has say 7 then three would go. That is complete teams. The Individual Qualfiers would be differnt too and bases on the size of the Region.