New classifications released
Sept. 27, 2007 @ 4:51 p.m. by JoannaThe Kansas State High School Activities Association released its new classifications for the 2007-08 school year. Click here for those classifications. There’s not a whole lot new locally for this year’s classifications.
But the football classifications, which are for the 2008 and 2009 football seasons, are interesting, particularly because Hutchinson does move down from 6A to 5A as was expected. Hutch, the three-time defending 6A champ, will still be in 6A this year — and probably win it all again — but next year it will take over 5A.
It was also interesting to see that Wichita Trinity will be a 4A school in its first year of 11-man football. Trinity has been a club, 8-man team for the past five years. It won’t be an easy road for Trinity, but at least the Knights now have football.
Now I can’t wait until districts come out — that should be released next week.
— Joanna
September 27th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
The new classes look pretty interesting. Since I am procrastinating on my research paper, I figured that I would weigh in on the issue. As far as non-football classes go, I was a bit surprised to see Trinity Academy sticking in 3A (albeit the largest school in the class). To see Wichita-Independent gaining a great amount of size was astonishing. I rally had no idea that they have grown that over the past 1-2 years. Looking down the road a bit, 3A hoops should be pretty interesting once again … I believe that TA returns Lindley and Graddy to a squad that lost to eventual state champion Collegiate. As for Independent, it may be best for them to be in 3A. A new men’s coach (Merle Shoffner) with a bunch of seniors should provide for some quality wins for WI.
Oh well. Back to “work.”
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:41 am
Aren’t the 6A districts for the western part of the state pretty clear?
Dodge City, Garden City, Maize, Goddard
Northwest, North, South, Campus (pretty easy group for the Grizzlies!)
East, Derby, Heights, Southeast
Could you explain this? Is there another way the teams could be grouped according to KSHSAA policies? Having exactly 12 teams in the western area will help City League provide more league games too, since Heights will have two CL district foes (rather than none).