{"id":175887,"date":"2024-02-15T10:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=175887"},"modified":"2024-02-15T10:42:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:42:47","slug":"ohsaa-votes-to-expand-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/02\/15\/ohsaa-votes-to-expand-postseason\/","title":{"rendered":"OHSAA votes to expand postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLUMBUS \u2013 After months of discussion and meetings around the state to gather feedback, the nine-member Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Directors unanimously approved a proposal Thursday morning to expand the postseason in a number of sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The change will result in girls and boys soccer now having five divisions, while girls volleyball, girls and boys basketball, softball and baseball will all have seven divisions. In those sports, Division I and Division II will only include 64 schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new divisions will go into effect in the fall of 2024. The board will continue to discuss additional sports, noting several recent meetings regarding track and field. There are no changes to the number of football divisions, which is already at seven. In addition, any changes to the current deployment of the Competitive Balance process would need to be voted upon by OHSAA member schools during the annual referendum voting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doug Ute, OHSAA Executive Director, a proponent of expansion, praised the board\u2019s decision as a step toward to level the playing field of OHSAA tournaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the right thing to do for the student-athletes who have been competing at this disadvantage,\u201d Ute said. \u201cFor too long, the largest schools in our divisions have been so much larger than the smaller schools in the same division, which has resulted in many schools accepting that they realistically have little chance at making a run in the tournament. In some of our sports, there have been more than 200 schools competing for a state title in that division, which is significantly more than what most other states do, and what we do in many of our own sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know that there is a lot of work to do in the coming months to prepare for additional divisions this fall,\u201d he added. \u201cWe have already started working on the details to accomplish this, but one thing we know for sure is that having two or three more state champions in these sports doesn\u2019t water them down or diminish winning a state title. And we anticipate that this new format will be revenue neutral, since every school makes the tournament already.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year, the Board of Directors will still have final authority in determining how many divisions to be used that school year, but the proposal calls for the following scale to be used to guide the board\u2019s decision on the number of divisions for girls volleyball, football, soccer, basketball, softball and baseball, however note that the sports of lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey and boys volleyball would not change from their current division numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

199 or fewer teams: 1 Division
200 to 299 teams: 2 Divisions
300 to 399 teams: 3 Divisions
400 to 499 teams: 4 Divisions
500 to 599 teams: 5 Divisions
600 to 699 teams: 6 Divisions
700 and more teams: 7 Divisions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For girls volleyball, soccer, basketball, softball and baseball, the largest 64 schools would be placed into Division I. The next largest 64 schools would be placed into Division II. The remaining schools would be divided as evenly as possible into the remaining divisions. The OHSAA already does something similar to this in football, in which the largest 10 percent of schools are placed into Division I and the remaining schools are divided evenly in Divisions II through VII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposal does not call for a change to the formula that the OHSAA uses for individual sports to determine the number of student-athletes required for team designation, which includes five in bowling, five in cross country (who score for their team at the district tournament), four in golf, three in girls gymnastics, seven in swimming and diving, four in tennis, nine in track and field and seven in wrestling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposal calls for the following number of divisions to be used for individual sports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

200 or fewer teams: 1 Division
201 to 450 teams: 2 Divisions
451 to 700 teams: 3 Divisions
701 and more teams: 4 Divisions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The OHSAA will announce structural and dates changes for future state tournaments at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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