Revised Plan For Region 5-A
Submitted by webmaster on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 12:49pm
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:
| Volleyball | Gymnastics | |
| Debate | Soccer (Boys and Girls) | |
| Swimming and Diving (Boys and Girls) | Lacrosse (Boys and Girls) | |
| Wrestling |
The following sports will be played with all teams in Region 5 playing together as the region decides:
| Football (13 schools) | |
| Cheerleading (11 schools) | |
| Literary (4 schools) |
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
| Cross Country (Boys and Girls) | |
| Golf (Boys and Girls) |
The following sports will need to have a bracket modification for the state playoffs in order to handle nine regions:
| Softball | Tennis (Boys and Girls) | |
| Basketball (Boys and Girls) | Baseball (Boys and Girls) |
The brackets for Regions 5-9 in Class A in these sports will be modified as follows:
- 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.
- These preliminary contests will be considered to be “Playoff Events” with the normal financial procedures.
- 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.
- Precise bracket pairings will be published in the spring.
- Calendar adjustments will be necessary to accommodate this change.
Governance issues will be as follows:
- There will be a single representative on the Executive Committee from Region 5
- 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”.
- All other leadership positions will be determined by the schools in the region.