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Newest OSAA proposal leaves Far West League unchanged
By Staff Reports
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | No comments posted.
It doesn’t appear likely that the Far West League will be split up to create a new league with North Bend playing schools in Newport and Lincoln City.
The newest proposal by the Classification and Districting Committee of the Oregon School Activities Association leans toward Class 4A keeping most schools in their current leagues after a proposal to eliminate the Sky-Em League and create a new Sky-Co League did not have much support.
The committee has forwarded a concept that includes several smaller five-school leagues, but maintains the history of those leagues.
The Far West League would remain unchanged, but the Sky-Em, Cowapa and Val-Co Leagues all would have just five teams, losing schools that would either move up or down at the start of the next four-year time block in the fall of 2010.
After an earlier proposal included Sweet Home High School in the Sky-Em League, officials in that district had forwarded a proposal that would join five schools on the east side of the Cascades — La Pine, Sisters, Henley, Mazama and Klamath Union — in one league so no teams would have to travel over passes during the winter.
That had little support from those five schools. The committee’s new proposal leaves Sweet Home in the Val-Co League.
Other changes in the proposal do not impact the South Coast schools. The only schools likely to see a major change in 2010 are Marshfield, which would be part of the Midwestern League hybrid that also includes Class 6A Sheldon and South Eugene; and Pacific, which would move up from Class 1A to Class 2A because enrollment hasn’t dropped as had been projected prior to the current time block.
After its last public meeting of the current school year last week, the committee spent extensive time in its closed session on two areas.
First, the group came to a consensus, though not unanimous, that Hermiston and Pendleton would remain grouped with schools in Central Oregon instead of with schools to the east of Portland, as had been proposed by the two districts isolated from other 5A schools along the Interstate-84 corridor.
The group also asked OSAA staff to forward the concept of a play-down request form to member schools, in case the OSAA General Assembly supports that idea. Schools that can show that, among other things, they have had little athletic success and have a low participation in activities by students, could apply to be placed in a lower classification for the next time block.
Schools have until July 1 to submit requests to play down.
The Classification and Districting Committee will forward its final request to the OSAA Executive Board for approval in October.
The committee will have at least one more public meeting in September before making its final proposal. That meeting has not been scheduled and will not be held until the committee and schools have access to 2008-09 average daily membership (enrollment) figures from the Oregon Department of Education. OSAA uses the ADM figures to determine what classifications schools are placed in.
The current and previous committee proposals can be seen online at www.osaa.org.
The newest proposal by the Classification and Districting Committee of the Oregon School Activities Association leans toward Class 4A keeping most schools in their current leagues after a proposal to eliminate the Sky-Em League and create a new Sky-Co League did not have much support.
The committee has forwarded a concept that includes several smaller five-school leagues, but maintains the history of those leagues.
The Far West League would remain unchanged, but the Sky-Em, Cowapa and Val-Co Leagues all would have just five teams, losing schools that would either move up or down at the start of the next four-year time block in the fall of 2010.
After an earlier proposal included Sweet Home High School in the Sky-Em League, officials in that district had forwarded a proposal that would join five schools on the east side of the Cascades — La Pine, Sisters, Henley, Mazama and Klamath Union — in one league so no teams would have to travel over passes during the winter.
That had little support from those five schools. The committee’s new proposal leaves Sweet Home in the Val-Co League.
Other changes in the proposal do not impact the South Coast schools. The only schools likely to see a major change in 2010 are Marshfield, which would be part of the Midwestern League hybrid that also includes Class 6A Sheldon and South Eugene; and Pacific, which would move up from Class 1A to Class 2A because enrollment hasn’t dropped as had been projected prior to the current time block.
After its last public meeting of the current school year last week, the committee spent extensive time in its closed session on two areas.
First, the group came to a consensus, though not unanimous, that Hermiston and Pendleton would remain grouped with schools in Central Oregon instead of with schools to the east of Portland, as had been proposed by the two districts isolated from other 5A schools along the Interstate-84 corridor.
The group also asked OSAA staff to forward the concept of a play-down request form to member schools, in case the OSAA General Assembly supports that idea. Schools that can show that, among other things, they have had little athletic success and have a low participation in activities by students, could apply to be placed in a lower classification for the next time block.
Schools have until July 1 to submit requests to play down.
The Classification and Districting Committee will forward its final request to the OSAA Executive Board for approval in October.
The committee will have at least one more public meeting in September before making its final proposal. That meeting has not been scheduled and will not be held until the committee and schools have access to 2008-09 average daily membership (enrollment) figures from the Oregon Department of Education. OSAA uses the ADM figures to determine what classifications schools are placed in.
The current and previous committee proposals can be seen online at www.osaa.org.
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