GPB Basketball Game of the Week
Tuesday, February 9, 6:00 / 7:30 pm - Decatur vs Buford, Boys/Girls Doubleheader. Live on GHSA.tv

The 2009-2010 GHSA State Diving Championships will be held February 10-11, 2010 at Marist Schools in Atlanta, Georgia.

Location
3790 Ashford Dunwoody Rd NE
Atlanta, GA
Map and Directions

Meet Schedule - Diving

The following documents are NOT the dive orders just the lists that were submitted on or prior to February 1. Any changes made after that date will not be reflected on these lists.

Girls AAAAA
Girls AAAA/AAA/AA/A
Boys AAAAA
Boys AAAA/AAA/AA/A

Admission
$7.00 per day
(for admission to diving only - no admission to swimming)

Warmup Schedule

Due to the number of divers entered into the meet, warm-up times have been split into flights. To ensure enough board time to all competitors, we will strictly adhere to the times allotted for each school.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Open Warm-Up--4:30-6 p.m.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

OPEN 12-12:30 p.m.
Girls Only 12:30-12:50 p.m.

Open Warm-up for 4A will begin immediately following the conclusion of the 5A meet at approximately 5:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

OPEN 12-12:30 p.m.
Girls Only 12:30-12:50 p.m.

The 2009-2010 GHSA State Swimming Championships will be held February 11-13, 2010 at The Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia.

Location
1424 W. Paces Ferry Rd.NW
Atlanta, GA
Map and Directions

Meet Schedule - Swimming

Admission
$7.00 per day
(for admission to swimming only - no admission to diving)

Streaming Video
GHSA.tv will video stream a “condensed” meet with all final races and dives on Monday, February 15, 2010.

• The deadline for the Baseball clinic has been extended until Wednesday (02/10).

• Clinic Schedule for Spring Sports

  Baseball	January 11 - February 10, 2010
  Lacrosse	January 19 - February 8, 2010
  Soccer	January 8 - February 5, 2010
  Track and Field	February 1 - 22, 2010

• Coaches and Officials - In order to receive clinic credit in a particular sport, you must complete the clinic for that sport by the date listed. For credit to be recorded, you must watch the entire presentation and fill out an attendence form that will be presented at the end of the presentation. However, after the clinic deadline has passed, the attendance form will no longer appear.

• If you are having trouble viewing the clinic presentations, try these troubleshooting tips.

• We have had many clinic confirmation emails bounce back to us due to incorrect email addresses or spam filters. There are also some email providers that are routing certain emails from our email server to Spam folders. If you did not receive a confirmation email, please check your Spam folder. You can also send an email to clinics@ghsa.net and we will resend the confirmation or route it to another address.

• Please retain your confirmation email as this is your proof that you completed the clinic.

• The following online rules clinics are available - click on the clinic title to start the presentation.

Atlanta, GA – January 4, 2010 – The GHSA Digital Sports Network, a partnership between PlayON! Sports and the Georgia High School Association, announces a new initiative with Comcast for On Demand distribution of Georgia high school sports. Coverage of a variety of regular season games, playoffs, and GHSA championships, beginning in January 2010, will be made available to fans in the Comcast service area. Spotlighting over 80 games and championships around the state of Georgia, the features will be up-close and personal short-form productions of the games spotlighting the teams, schools, fans, and of course, highlights of all of the action.

Click here for more information

AAAAA - Collins Hill	AAAA - Loganville
AAA - Gilmer	AA - Jefferson
A - Bremen
Photos courtesy of Richard Schrader

For complete match-by-match results please visit:  www.trackwrestling.com

The GHSA Executive Committee believes that it is impractical and unfair to have a region comprised of 25 schools. Therefore, there will be a modification of playoff structure in certain sports for Regions 5-8 in Class A for 2010-2012.

The following sports are aligned by Areas (or they are Open Competitions); thus there are no region ramifications to the current reclassification plan:

The following sports will be played with all teams in Region 5 playing together as the region decides:

Track and Field has a peculiar set of circumstances. The state meet is not set up to handle 9 regions and cannot be easily modified to accommodate the change. Therefore, Region 5 will have 2 sub-region track meets, and the top four finishers in each event will advance to the region meet. The top two finishers at the region track meet will advance to the state meet.

The following sports need to have a ninth region added, and there should be little difficulty adding another region. Subregion 5-B will become Region 9

The following sports will need to have a bracket modification for the state playoffs in order to handle nine regions:

The brackets for Regions 5-9 in Class A in these sports will be modified as follows:

1. All of the #4 seeds in Regions 5-9 and some of the #3 seeds will have games preliminary to the first round of the playoffs to shrink the field from 20 teams to 16 teams.
2. These preliminary contests will be considered to be “Playoff Events” with the normal financial procedures.
3. The brackets will be modified so that there would be a clear cut “Regions 1-4” and “Regions 5-9” delineation at least through the quarterfinals – as is already occurring in Basketball and Tennis.
4. Precise bracket pairings will be published in the spring.
5. Calendar adjustments will be necessary to accommodate this change.

Governance issues will be as follows:

1. There will be a single representative on the Executive Committee from Region 5
2. Both sub-divisions of Region 5 will have a Region Secretary, and those individuals will need to work out the division of labor for sports in which there is no “Region 9”.
3. All other leadership positions will be determined by the schools in the region.

The GHSA Executive Committee approved the following items:

Upheld the appeal of Glascock County to return to Subregion 7-A.

Amended By-Law 4-21 to reduce the reclassification cycle from 4 years to 2.

Approved the alignments from the Reclassification Committee as amended by the appeal of Glascock County.

Approved a proposal from the GHSA to amend the playoff brackets of Regions 5-8 in Class A for the sports of Softball, Baseball, Basketball and Tennis. A complete explanation of this proposal will be on the web site in a day or two.

Click here to download the GHSA Region Alignments for 2010 as of 1/12/2010.

In keeping with By-Law 2.69(c), the "Dead Week" for the summer of 2010 will extend from Sunday, July 4th through Saturday, July 10th.

During the “dead week” no school teams may conduct conditioning drills, practices, or be involved in competitions on or off the school’s campus. This means that weight training, running drills, passing league games in football, school-based summer league games in baseball, team camps in a variety of sports may not occur during this week. Violations of this rule will be handled similarly to out-of-season practices.

Non-school programs organized by such groups as AAU, JO, ASA, etc., are not covered by this rule.

Click here to download the GHSA Region Alignments for 2010 as of 12/16/2009.

The GHSA Reclassification Committee met at the GHSA office in Thomaston, Georgia, on December 16, 2009, and made the following decisions in regard to appeals by schools to lateral transfer to another region:

Class AAAAA
Berkmar approved to move to Region 8
Newton denied to go to Region 8

Class AAAA
Harris County approved to move to Region 3-B
Griffin moved from Region 3-B to Region 3-A

Class AAA
Cedartown approved to move to Region 7-B

Class AA
Jackson County withdrew its appeal
Screven County denied to go to Region 2
Southeast Bulloch denied to go to Region 2
Toombs County approved to move to Region 2
Vidalia approved to move to Region 2

Notes for Class AA

1. The Committee voted to impose By-law 4.22(f4) on Region 3. There will be a mandatory subdivision in all sports except Football, and cross-over games will not be required in those sports.
2. The Committee sub-divided Region 2 because of the addition of two schools. That subdivision is included in the list of regions.

Class A
Chattahoochee County denied to go to Region 1
Johnson County approved to move to Region 3-B
Metter moved from Region 3-B to Region 3-A
Glascock County moved from Region 7-A to 7-B
Washington-Wilkes denied to go to Region 8

Notes for Class A

1. The Committee changed the Region numbers for Regions 5 and 7 to correspond to traditional numbering for those schools. (See the list of regions)

MISCELLANEOUS
The Committee discussed issues with the Executive Director about playoff brackets in certain sports for Class A (Regions 5-8) due to the large number of schools involved in Region 5. The Reclassification Committee agreed to support a GHSA plan at the January meeting.

FINAL RATIFICATION MEETING
The entire GHSA Executive Committee will meet on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, to vote on the proposals coming from the Reclassification Committee. The meeting will be held at the Ramada Inn Conference Center (formerly the Holiday Inn) in Forsyth, Georgia, at 10:00am.

AGENDA

1. Appeals from schools denied at the meeting on December 16, 2009.
2. Proposal from the Reclassification Committee to amend By-law 4.21 in order to reduce the reclassification cycle to two years instead of four years.
3. Proposal from the Reclassification Committee to accept the list of regions as approved at meetings on December 2nd and December 16th.
4. Proposal from the GHSA to modify playoff brackets in certain sports for Class A (Regions 5-8)