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WHSAA Visits Reclassification
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February 6, 2008, 02:02 a.m. EST
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The Wyoming High School Activities association looked at a couple of different reclassification proposals Tuesday in Casper.

One, looked at changing how many schools were in each class of sports, minus football and soccer. Commissioner Ron Laird said that board members were loosening up their feelings on the set 12, 16, 20, and so on in the four classes currently.

The other plan has another football division for schools wishing to play six man football. Ten Sleep and Meeteetse already play six man, but, they do so in a Montana League. Other towns near borders of other states have suggested they may do the same if a division wasn’t created in Wyoming. Others that play 11 man currently said that six man football would help them be able to keep their programs.

Riverton Activities director and reclass committee member Keith Bauder said the first proposal would actually raise the number of 4A teams to 12 to 14 meaning Jackson and Cody would move up. 3A would bump to 16 and put Thermopolis and Mountain View back up to the class they were in last year.

Bauder had a plan formulated for revamping the divisions after Riverton drew the state's attention last fall. Evanston and Green River said they would opt up to the big school division no matter where they were classified. That effectively took his plan out of action leaving too few schools in the 3A division.

The board did give approval to the restart of 6 Man football, preliminarily. Like any other sport, they would need six teams to get it sanctioned by the state and to get another vote passed to actually play.

Bauder did say that a plan for football would see the top 10 teams in 4A, the next 12 in 3A, 16 in 2A and the remaining schools in either 1A 11 man football or six man.

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