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New Online
Requirements For All Sports
POSTING SCHEDULES
Schools must go online
to the AHSAA website Member Section and enter season
schedules for all sports by the deadline dates
listed below for sports in each quarter. Failure to
do so will result in a fine of $100 assessed to the
school. Schools should go online and make any
changes immediately as they occur.
Deadlines for entering schedules:
January 15th - Spring Sports (baseball, softball,
outdoor track, soccer, golf and tennis)
POSTING SCORES
Schools are also required to post scores of contests
ONLINE immediately following all contests in the
regular season (and within 24 hours after regular
season tournaments). Results must be posted no later
than 30 minutes following a regular season contests.
Failure to do so will result in a fine of $25
assessed to the school. In the post-season playoffs,
failure to report scores in the same manner will
result in a $100 fine assessed to the school.
Instructions will be posted on the AHSAA website
Member Section.
Note: There is
a bug in the AHSAA system that does not allow tie
games to be posted. AHSAA is working to remedy
the problem.
New AHSAA Proposals
are out
The new AHSAA proposals are out (14 in all). 1 of
them is very soccer specific. 2 others relate to the
same point brought up in the soccer proposal, and 1
other affects soccer as well as other sports. The
Principal must vote by Feb 22nd. Please don’t let
him vote without your having some input with him on
these items.
Soccer – proposed by Robby Parker of Bob Jones
To change soccer sections to areas with the top 2
teams in each area advancing to the state playoffs
Rationale: Currently some sections have 8 teams.
With the new classification in 2009-2009, some
sections will have 9 teams. This will require some
teams to play 16 section games, leaving only 4 games
for other opponents. In addition, limiting the areas
to 4 or 5 teams will cut down on travel that some
teams must do to reach section opponents. Also this
format will increase the teams in the playoffs,
which will increase revenue from the sport. The
extra round of playoffs can be held on the Saturday
prior to the current 1st round, thus no additional
loss of school time will be involved.
7. Football – proposed by Lynda Hall (not sure
what school)
We propose to change classes 1A through 3A back to
Area play in football beginning in 2010.
Without boring you with the rationale, it is similar
to what is listed above in that people want more
flexibility with scheduling due to 9 team sections.
9. Use of Athletic fields – proposed by Robby
Parker of Bob Jones
To amend rule III, section 12, paragraph 3 of the
AHSAA handbook, which currently states; During the
school year, exclusive of allowable date, school
gymnasiums and other facilities may not be open
after school for practice and no balls or equipment
of the game may be used to develop skills
The thing is that right now we can be fined if our
kids use a field after school without our knowledge.
This is ludicrous and needs to be changed.
10. Area Play for Football – proposed by Vic
Wilson of Homewood HS
Proposal to return to Area play for football for the
next reclassification.
Rationale: Area play will allow more flexibility for
coaches when scheduling. With Region play,
(especially unequal region play) coaches are locked
into eight dates and opponents. This does not allow
freedom to schedule a rivalry game. Also baseball
and basketball are currently in area play, and
moving football to the same format will add
continuity and consistency across sports.
Please talk to your Principals before they vote on
these ideas. #10 works hand in hand with #1 and
suggests Area Play for all sports.
Joe Webb
AHSSCA President
Pre-Season Rankings Due!
Feb 4, 2008 - OK, it’s about that time again. Please
take a moment and send in your votes for the
pre-season poll for 2008. You are welcome to vote
for as many categories as you feel comfortable. If
you know of a coach that is not on the list so far,
please let me or
Ken Gamble know. Send ballot to Joe Webb
at
WEBBJ@mtnbrook.k12.al.us
The format for your vote should be like this: Boys
or Girls (indicate which gender), 1-4A, 5A, 6A
(indicate which classification). The final rankings
for 2007 are
available
here.
AHSAA Soccer Proposal
Jan 28th, 2008 -
We have posted a new proposal to the AHSAA from Bob
Jones High School to split soccer sections in half
into areas to allow more teams to make the playoffs
and allow more teams a flexibility in scheduling
area opponents. The complete
proposal is on-line here.
Jan 28, 2008 - We have added
several requests for games on the
Need Games Page and
also added two more tournaments to the
Tournament Page.
How to Get a List of
Games
The easiest way is to get schedules is to go to
the
EurosportScoreboard. Click on the
State map of Alabama. That will put you
here.
From that point you can build a game listing for
any particular school or a list of games for any
particular date. You can list any
classification such as 6A (Alabama’s largest),
5A or 4A schools. If you want you can pull only
those games involving ranked teams from the
database. The easiest thing to do is pick
a date and tell it you want a list of all girls
or all boys games.
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