The Indiana High School Athletic Association announced today the new classifications for IHSAA member schools in the sports of basketball, football, soccer, and volleyball for the next two school years.
The Indiana High School Athletic Association announced today the new classifications for IHSAA member schools in the sports of basketball, football, soccer, and volleyball for the next two school years.
The enrollment figures, the total of boys and girls in grades 9‐12, were submitted by the schools to the Indiana Department of Education last fall and are used to determine the classifications in all team sports. Sectional groupings for each sport (except for softball and baseball) will be announced in early May following approval of the IHSAA Executive Committee. Softball and baseball sectional groupings will be released in August following the committee’s first meeting of the new school year. Four schools that have joined the IHSAA membership in the last four years become eligible for state tournament participation - pending Executive Committee approval - during the two-year period. Dugger Union and Evansville Christian would be eligible beginning in 2022-23 with MTI School of Knowledge and Purdue Polytechnic beginning in 2023-24.
Also, per IHSAA By‐Law, C‐2‐3c, any school has the option to play up one or more classes in any sport they choose for the two‐year classification period by notifying the Association Office. Tournament Success Factor points will be accumulated in softball and baseball in June at the conclusion of those respective state tournaments. Additionally, with the pandemic delaying reclassification for a year but the Tournament Success Factor still being applied, discussion continued on what to do with schools playing in a higher classification. The IHSAA Executive Committee has determined that the eight schools who earned at least one point this school year (2021-22) to continue playing in a higher classification due to the Tournament Success Factor, will be reevaluated after the 2022-23 school year and adjusted accordingly. Schools who failed to earn a point during the 2021-22 school year while playing in a higher class were returned to the next lower class for the next two years. This was to prevent schools from playing three consecutive years in a higher classification when their tournament results do not merit that placement.