Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League reshuffles
Sept. 29, 2009 @ 1:16 p.m. by JoannaThe Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League has reshuffled the schools in its four divisions in response to the league’s growth that includes three new schools over the next two years.
Maize South opened this fall but won’t have a league schedule until 2010, while Wichita Collegiate was assigned to the league by the Kansas State High School Activities Association starting in 2010. Goddard Eisenhower opens in 2011.
Kingman is in its final season with the AV-CTL and plans to join the fledgling Central Kansas League in 2010.
The AV-CTL started as a 24-team, four division league, but under the new agreement, finalized today, the new format will have 26 teams with seven teams in Divisions I and II.
“Our standard league arrangement has been 6-6-6-6, and now we’re adding two new schools in,” said Marc Haught, Maize athletic director, of the additions of Collegiate and Goddard Eisenhower. “So we had to have two divisions of six, two divisions of 7. Where were we going to put the divisions of seven?”
Campus principal Myron Regier, the president of the AV-CTL, said it was a possibility to put seven in Divisons I and II or Divisions III and IV or Divisions II and III.
The first two options were the most viable because Divisions I and II, and Divisions III and IV often schedule each other in non-league games.
Having Divisions I and II as the two seven-team divisions also worked best because Goddard Eisenhower won’t join the league until 2011.
If that is a six-team division, for one year they’d only have five,” Regier said. “That’s kind of an issue. That’s one of the reasons that I and II ended up with seven.”
The process of placing teams in the four divisions largely came down to size, geography and classification, Haught said.
Campus and Newton moved up from Division II to join Maize, Derby, Hutchinson, Salina South and Salina Central.
Goddard dropped down to Division II because when the school splits with Eisenhower, projections are they will both have about 600 students in 9-11th grades. Eisenhower will co-op with Goddard for the 2011 football season.
Andover and Andover Central moved up to Division II; both are now Class 5A schools. Rose Hill moves back up to Division III, while Winfield has moved down to Division III.
In Division IV, Collegiate and Maize South join Andale, Circle, Clearwater and Wellington
Division I
Campus
Derby
Hutchinson
Maize
Newton
Salina Central
Salina South
Division II
Andover
Andover Central
Arkansas City
Goddard
Goddard Eisenhower
McPherson
Valley Center
Division III
Augusta
Buhler
El Dorado
Mulvane
Rose Hill
Winfield
Division IV
Andale
Circle
Clearwater
Maize South
Wellington
Wichita Collegiate
long road trips says:
September 29th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
geographically, buhler is not a good mix for Div. 3 look at all the long road trips. All over an hour and most at least an hour and a quarter.
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TODDMAN says:
September 29th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
With so many teams in the divisions, this will cut down the # of schools they can play in Wichita.
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V says:
September 29th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Is Townada still in AV-CTL Division IV or did they switch leagues for the 2010 season?
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V says:
September 29th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Lol nevermind just figured it out.
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bucocatfan says:
September 29th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
“With so many teams in the divisions, this will cut down the # of schools they can play in Wichita.”
Since when did the AVCTL play schools from the City League on a regular basis?
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bulldog60 says:
September 29th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Geographically, I think switching Buhler and Ark City would be a better fit for both Divisions, but their enrollments are around 125 apart.
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mark says:
September 29th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
what happens with valley center dropping to 4A? will it stay with the larger schools in division II?
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census says:
September 29th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Valley is still larger than the schools in Div 3. They are 4A this year with 10-12 grades for all classifications, but will be 5A in football next year. Winfield is the school that is dropping in football classification for next year with their 9-11 enrollment moving down to 4A. Valley also has a bigger potential to grow than Winfield does.
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inthedark says:
September 29th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
This should make Mac happier with a more competitive division 2 now.
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travel says:
September 30th, 2009 at 8:10 am
long road trips says: geographically, buhler is not a good mix for Div. 3 look at all the long road trips. All over an hour and most at least an hour and a quarter.
long road trips, Where would you put them to make the travel shorter?
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long road trips says:
September 30th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Buhler is obviously where they need to be (as per their ) enrollment. Geographically, the closest towns in the league are Hutch, Mac, Newton, Valley Center, Andale, Maize, and Goddard. Andale would be the only school with a lower enrollment. In some sports, such as track, Buhler goes to some of the larger, closer towns in Div. 1 or 2.
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Geographic Reasoning says:
October 24th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Geographically speaking, it would make so much sense to swap Ark City and Buhler. You listed size as the first determining factor, I think distance trumps this as the closest school in that division to Buhler is over an hour to hour and quarter away, while the other five are relatively close.
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