MEDIA INFORMATION

February 23, 2009

2009, 2010 FOOTBALL CLASSIFICATIONS ANNOUNCED

Following approval by the IHSAA Executive Committee at its meeting last Friday, Commissioner Blake Ress has announced the enrollment figures and classifications for each football-playing member school for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years.

The enrollment figures, the total of boys and girls in grades 9-12, were submitted by the member schools to the Indiana Department of Education and are used to determine which schools play in each of the five classifications. Football is reclassified every two years while the sports of baseball, basketball, softball and volleyball are currently in the second of a four-year cycle.

A total of 27 schools will play in a different classification than they had in the previous two-year cycle. Sectional assignments will be announced this spring once they are determined by members of the football realignment committee.

Per IHSAA By-Law, C-2-3c, a school may opt to play up one or more classes in a specific sport for that classification period by notifying the Association Office.

> Five Class Alignment

Schools Changing Classification in Football

Moving from 4A to 5A (5)

Columbus East, East Chicago Central, Westfield, Whiteland, Zionsville.

Moving from 5A to 4A (5)

Anderson, Anderson Highland, Fort Wayne South Side, Indianapolis Arlington, South Bend Riley.

Moving from 3A to 4A (2)

Angola, Gary Roosevelt.

Moving from 4A to 3A (1)

Frankfort.

Moving from 2A to 3A (4)

Harding, Indian Creek, Jimtown, Rochester.

Moving from 3A to 2A (2)

Crawford County, Greencastle.

Moving from A to 2A

Eastern (Greentown), Indianapolis Cardinal Ritter, Park Tudor, River Forest.

Moving from 2A to A (4)

Eastern Greene, Knightstown, North Knox, Winamac.

IHSAA Football Realignment Committee

District I	Class A	Debb Stevens, Caston HS
	Class AA	Bruce Jennings, Bremen HS
	Class AAA	Brian Williamson, New Prairie HS
	Class AAAA	Geoff Penrod, Columbia City HS
	Class AAAAA	Janis Qualizza, Merrillville HS
District II	Class A	Gary St. Clair, Indianapolis Lutheran HS
	Class AA	Jim Diagostino, Tri-West Hendricks HS
	Class AAA	Eric Morgan, Norwell HS
	Class AAAA	Kevin Horrigan, Greenfield-Central HS
	Class AAAAA	Steve Goeglein, Lawrence North HS
District III	Class A	Jed Jerrels, North Daviess HS
	Class AA	Virgil Ferguson, North Posey HS
	Class AAA	Kelly Simpson, North Harrison HS
	Class AAAA	Kim Simonson, Franklin County HS
	Class AAAAA	John Evers, Castle HS

RESULTS OF THREE CLASS PRINCIPALS SURVEY ANNOUNCED

At its monthly meeting last Friday, the IHSAA Executive Committee decided to drop a proposal from the Indiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (IIAAA) that would have reduced all sports with a four-class format to a three-class format.

After surveying the 410 IHSAA member school principals in recent weeks, results show that nearly 58 percent of respondents favored the current four-class system.

The proposal from the IIAAA would have affected the sports of baseball, basketball, softball and volleyball. Football, which is played in five classes, would not have been affected.

IHSAA Principals Survey
		For 3 Classes	For 4 Classes	Did Not Vote
Class A Schools		12	65	32
	% of voting schools	15.6%	84.4%
	% of all schools	11.0%	59.6%	29.4%
Class AA Schools		34	54	13
	% of voting schools	38.6%	61.4%
	% of all schools	33.7%	53.5%	12.9%
Class AAA Schools		36	48	18
	% of voting schools	42.9%	57.1%
	% of all schools	35.3%	47.1%	17.6%
Class AAAA Schools		56	21	21
	% of voting schools	72.7%	27.3%
	% of all schools	57.1%	21.4%	21.4%
Totals for all Schools		138	188	84
		42.3%	57.7%
		33.7%	45.9%	20.5%

IHSAA 08-09/26