Changes For the 2024 Wyoming High School Football Season

The 2024 high school football season is just over two weeks away. There are plenty of differences that need to be highlighted. Between coaching changes and the new reclassification structure by the Wyoming High School Activities Association leading to schools in different classes, WyoPreps has a football-only breakdown ahead of the new season.

WYOMING HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL CHANGES IN 2024

Four schools have switched classes after the new structure for classification breakdown was approved by the WHSAA based on enrollment. Defending 2A state champion Torrington moves up to Class 3A this year and is in the 3A East Conference. Worland drops down to Class 2A after being in 3A (or 4A when 5A was the top class from 2001-2008) since 1983. The Warriors will be in the 2A West Conference. Moorcroft is back in 11-man football, as the Wolves are in Class 2A this season. They will be in the 2A East Conference. Lastly, Riverside drops from Class 1A 9-man to Class 1A 6-man. The Rebels will play in the 6-man North Conference.

The Upton-Sundance football co-op continues to have the Patriots in Class 2A. Five other schools continue to opt up in classification for football. Those are Cokeville (2A), Guernsey-Sunrise (9-man), Lusk (9-man), Saratoga (9-man), and Southeast (9-man).

Overall, for the 2024 season, there are 10 teams still in 4A. Class 3A is 12 teams. Class 2A has 16 teams. There are 13 teams in Class 1A 9-man, and 13 in Class 1A 6-man. St. Stephens will not have football this year.

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New Head Coaches Around the State

There are 13 programs across all five levels in the state with a new head coach. Here are the new coaches broken down by classification.

1A 6-Man = Dan O’Brien at Dubois and Corey Rice at Ten Sleep.

1A 9-Man = Jared Mason at Saratoga and Shawn Burkhart at Southeast.

2A = Cameron Braden at Moorcroft, Jesse Lake at Pinedale, and Marty Wrage at Worland.

3A = Ross Walker at Buffalo, Drew Hodgs at Douglas, and Keith Johnson at Jackson.

4A = Randy Roden at Kelly Walsh, Jake Chick at Laramie, and Kasey Koepplin at Rock Springs.

The 2024 season will kick off on Aug. 30-31.

Wyoming High School Football State Championships

The state championships are at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie on Nov. 15-16, 2024. Class 2A (noon) and Class 3A (3 p.m.) are on Friday, Nov. 15. Class 1A 6-man (10 a.m.), Class 1A 9-man (1 p.m.), and Class 4A (4 p.m.) are on Saturday, Nov. 16.