Bryant Roche
The NCHSAA tabled proposals to create separate classifications for charter and non-boarding parochial schools and to sanction girls flag football during its 2024 winter meetings held earlier this week.
At the meeting in Chapel Hill, the board decided to continue the plan of transitioning from four to eight classifications starting with the 2025-26 academic year in the manner that had already been in place and was underway. It's expected that conference re-alignment drafts will be presented to the realignment committee in the coming weeks.
The growth of girls flag football's growth throughout the state prompted consideration for an application as a new sport to be sanctioned by the NCHSAA. However, that idea also was tabled as the association said that current participation data reported by schools doesn't match data from other sources.
Commissioner Que Tucker stated that the association isn't opposed to girls flag football and that she firmly believes that it will eventually be sanctioned. Leagues not operated by the association have been in existence, including one involving schools from the Triad.
Among other actions taken by the board of directors was approval of tne 2024-25 annual operating budget. The board approved requiring a minimum of three calendar days between football games and amended the ejection policy so that student-athletes may remain in the team area for supervision after a disqualification or ejection, effective immediately
Also, the board established full-game fee payment to officials when they arrive for a game and it is delayed one hour past the original start time and the game is not played, effective for the spring 2025 season. It clarified language that any person under 18 or still in high school cannot be assigned to officiate NCHSAA contests, effective Jan. 1.
The association will now allow four team members in boys golf to score as a team in regionals if they qualified to the regionals as individuals; it will begin to track yellow and red cards in soccer through DragonFly, effective next spring; cap the number of girls wrestling regular-season matches at 55, effective immediately.
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