4A athletic directors endorse reclassification plan.Byline: Steve Mims The Register-Guard The five-classification proposal drawn up by Marshfield athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Greg Mulkey is gaining steam. Mulkey's proposal - which includes two divisions for the top 5A class - got a favorable fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. reaction from athletic directors last week at the Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. Athletic Directors Association conference in Sunriver. The Oregon School Activities Association Classification and Districting Committee held its latest meeting on April 25 in conjunction with the OADA OADA Oklahoma Automobile Dealers Association OADA Operator Assistance Directory Assistance (telecommunications) OADA offense-attrition, defense-attrition (military science) meeting. The committee meets every four years to consider changes to the classification sizes and league alignments in high school sports, and the next series of changes will begin in the 2006-07 school year. Mulkey presented his proposal to the committee earlier in the month, and the committee forwarded it to schools for consideration along with a six-classification proposal it received. The committee has said it hopes to narrow discussion to just one proposal when it meets in executive session Monday. Mulkey's original proposal included eight leagues at the 5A level and some schools would have changed leagues, but it was later modified to keep all nine leagues the same as they are now. Class 4A athletic directors voted 61-3 last week in support of the proposal and Mulkey and Willamette athletic director Barry Bokn presented those results to the committee. The proposal lists the cutoff point Cutoff point The lowest rate of return acceptable on investments. for the 5A classification at 900 or more students, which is the same as the current 4A cutoff point. The biggest change comes by splitting the schools into Division I and Division II to provide separate playoffs for the larger schools and the smaller schools in football, soccer, basketball, volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. , baseball and softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' . Other sports would retain the same postseason plan currently in place. Mulkey's proposal calls for schools with an enrollment of 1,400 and above to be Division I and schools with 901-1,399 students to be in Division II. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest figures, 42 teams would be in Division I and 41 would be in Division II under that plan. In the Midwestern League, South Eugene, Sheldon, Thurston, Springfield and Willamette would all be Division I schools while Churchill, Lebanon, North Eugene, and Marshfield would be Division II. There would be no change in the regular season as all nine teams would play each other with one league champion crowned. However, Division I schools would move to one playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. and Division II schools would be in a separate one for the six sports affected by this proposal. The proposal is set up to address concerns that smaller 4A schools are currently struggling to be competitive in the playoffs, particularly in team sports, against larger schools. "It sure makes things better for a lot of the smaller schools, and I can include us in that," Mulkey said, referring to Marshfield's enrollment of 1,162. "We've been competitive in football and I think we'd still be competitive in the league, but when you look at Marshfield, we have not gone to the state basketball tournament since 1981. In volleyball we are competitive, but are we ever going to have a good chance to win the state title? Probably not in the current system. This will help schools and alumni create more excitement." Mulkey presented figures to show the struggles of smaller schools in the six team sports. Over the past two years, 31 percent of the spots in the playoffs were taken by Division II schools. That number dropped as the playoffs continued with 18 percent of spots in the semifinals taken by Division II schools and 10 percent of the finals participants coming from smaller schools. "We're at a point now with the enrollment of schools in the state in 4A that we need a new classification," Springfield athletic director Matt Binkerd said. "When you have David Douglas
David Douglas (June 25, 1799 – 1834) was a Scottish botanist. with 2,400 kids and Westview at 2,200, and then other schools with 900 or 1,000, it is not a competitive field. We're at the point now where we need to break that up. This proposal does that but still keeps intact the history of leagues. It creates more opportunities for smaller schools to get in the playoffs and have a chance to win." Mulkey cites North Bend North Bend is the name of several places in the United States of America:
"A perfect example of this is North Bend, which was the smallest school in the Midwestern League for years," Mulkey said. "The kids knew it and the community knew it. Were they going to win a state title? Maybe once every 30 years. Now look what happened. They won a basketball state title and three league championships in football in a row. I look at them as a neighbor, and it has totally changed the whole outlook of the school." North Bend athletic director Boyd Bjorkquist, who serves on the districting and classification committee, said the playoff successes have been beneficial to students at the school. "Any time you have an opportunity to be successful, that enhances self-esteem and you feel better about what's happening at your school," Bjorkquist said. Schools put in Division II would have the option of playing up to Division I, and Jesuit, Central Catholic, Lakeridge, Lake Oswego Lake Os·we·go A city of northwest Oregon, a residential suburb of Portland. Population: 35,800. , Jefferson and West Salem West Salem may refer to:
"We would petition to be a Division I school in all probability," Churchill athletic director Tim Carmichael said. "I'm talking I'm Talking was a 1980s Australian funk-pop rock band, noted for launching vocalist Kate Ceberano. History After the break-up of the Melbourne-based experimental funk band Essendon Airport in 1983, members Robert Goodge (guitar), Ian Cox (saxophone) and Barbara Hogarth to our coaches about it, but Churchill has had a strong athletic program in all team sports and we would certainly want to compete at the highest level." There is still plenty of discussion to come before the classification and districting committee makes its recommendations to the board in October. The committee has one more public meeting, on Sept. 26. One ongoing debate centers around the cutoff points for 5A. There has been some discussion about lowering it to 800 to include schools like Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). , Sherwood and Molalla in Division II. That could also result in raising the cutoff point between Division I and Division II up to 1,500. Also, the number of playoff teams is still up for debate. Mulkey said the athletic directors made it clear they would like to have 32 teams in the Division I playoffs and 24 in the Division II playoffs. The lower classifications are not affected as much by the 5A proposal. The cutoff point for 1A remains the same at 115, while most of the 2A schools would be split into 2A and 3A. Most of the current 3A schools would become 4A with the exceptions of the smallest schools, such as Creswell and Coquille co·quille n. A scallop-shaped dish or a scallop shell in which various seafood dishes are browned and served. [French, from Latin conch , which would remain in 3A. The six-classification idea is similar to Mulkey's proposal but instead of cutting the top classification into two divisions, it breaks those schools up into their own classifications. Thus, schools with an enrollment of 1,400 or more are in 6A, while those from 800 to 1,399 are in 5A. A NEW ALIGNMENT How area leagues would look under the OSAA's new enrollment plan CLASS 5A District 5 Division I School Enrollment South Eugene 1,624 Sheldon 1,544 Thurston 1,448 Springfield 1,444 Willamette 1,434 Division II Churchill 1,378 Lebanon 1,244 North Eugene 1,166 Marshfield 1,162 CLASS 4A District 3 North Bend 716 South Umpqua 567 Brookings 551 Siuslaw 523 Douglas 494 Sutherlin 486 District 5 Cottage Grove 858 Junction City Junction City, city (1990 pop. 20,604), seat of Geary co., NE Kans., at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers; inc. 1859. The rail, trade, and processing center of an agricultural and dairy area, it grew as the supply point for nearby Fort Riley, 610 Marist 517 Elmira 513 La Pine 494 Pleasant Hill 427 CLASS 3A District 3 Creswell 343 Chemawa 310 Santiam Christian 287 Waldport 269 Jefferson 269 Scio 241 Harrisburg 225 District 4 Coquille 340 Reedsport 288 Glide See Glide Effortless and Glide PhotoShare. 283 Bandon 275 Myrtle Point 271 Cascade A connected series of devices or images. It often implies that the second and subsequent device takes over after the previous one is used up. For example, cascading tapes in a dual-tape backup system means the second tape is written after the first one is full. Christian 229 Gold Beach 228 CLASS 2A District 2 Oakridge 219 Oakland 197 Central Linn linn n. Scots 1. A waterfall. 2. A steep ravine. [Scottish Gaelic linne, pool, waterfall.] 189 Monroe 137 Pacific 124 Yoncalla 121 North Douglas 121 CLASS 1A District 3 Mohawk 115 Lowell 114 Crow 105 McKenzie 90 Mapleton 88 Alsea 54 Triangle Lake 47 Eddyville 45 Lifegate Christian 43 Oak Hill 29 Fairview Christian 27 |
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