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January 24, 2000

Board Approves Fall Series Terms and Conditions Changes

BLOOMINGTON -- The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors acted on recommendations from eight Advisory Committees Monday at its regular January meeting. Following is a recap of Board action regarding each of the committee reports and Terms and Conditions recommendations:

Boys/Girls Cross Country
1) Approved a recommendation to increase the team roster for the state series to up to 12 runners, from which seven (7) will participate at each level in the state series, and other recommendations to incorporate the concept into the Terms and Conditions.

2) Tabled a recommendation to increase the number of medallions awarded to the placing teams in the state final meet from seven (7) to twelve (12).

3) Approved as an administrative recommendation that local managers consider travel of the teams participating in the meet as a factor in determining the starting time for the meet.

4) Approved a recommendation that a licensed track and field official be used as the starter of races in the state series.

5) Did not approve a recommendation to increase the number of sectionals in the state series to five (5) for Class A and six (6) for Class AA.

Boys Football
1) Did not approve a recommendation to revise the starting time for Saturday playoff games when teams travel farther than 150 miles to a block between 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

2) Did not approve a recommendation to change the playoff title game starting times each day to 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

3) Did not approve a recommendation to determine a school's classification in the following manner: Public schools would use their actual enrollment. Non-public schools would use the greater of their actual enrollment or the average enrollment of their opponents (excluding the largest and smallest opponent enrollments in the computation of opponent average enrollment).

Boys/Girls Golf
1) Approved a recommendation in boys golf to conduct the Class A series and the Class AA series with the same number of regionals and sectionals. In Class A, there would be an increase of three regionals and one sectional. Each would have 15 regionals and five sectionals. The top three finishing teams in the Class A sectionals will advance to the state final.

2) Approved a recommendation in girls golf to conduct the series with an increase of three regionals and one sectional. There would be 15 regionals and five sectionals. The top three finishing teams and top eight individuals not of qualifying teams in the sectionals will advance to the state final. This reduces the number of teams advancing from the sectional to the state final by one.

3) Approved a recommendation to change the penalty procedures in boys and girls golf, and add the dress code requirements to misconduct.

Officials
1) The Board received the report of the committee's Oct. 5, 1999, meeting. There were no recommendations for consideration by the Board of Directors at Monday's meeting.

Sportsmanship/Ethics
1) Approved a recommendation that the IHSA and the Illinois Elementary School Association (IESA) continue to sponsor a series of three Leadership/Sportsmanship Summits for junior high and high school students during the 2000-01 school term.

2) Approved a recommendation that IHSA and IESA develop Parent/Fan Sportsmanship Summits.

3) Approved a recommendation that a session at the Summer Officials Conference cover sportsmanship.

Sports Medicine

1) The Board received the report of the committee's Dec. 9, 1999, meeting. There were no recommendations for consideration by the Board of Directors at Monday's meeting.

Boys/Girls Tennis
1) Approved a recommendation in boys and girls tennis to advance the top four places in singles and the top four places in doubles from the sectional to the state final.

2) Approved recommendations for boys and girls tennis to revise the Code of Conduct to include "lateness in being ready" and injury time-out.

3) Approved a recommendation in boys tennis to clarify that play will consist of three tiebreak sets.

4) Did not approve a recommendation in boys and girls tennis to allow substitution for a singles player in the State Final.

Boys/Girls Volleyball
1) Approved a recommendation in Class A girls volleyball for seeding of the sectional complex. The top 16 teams would be seeded with the top four seeds being placed in separate regionals. The remaining teams will then be placed geographically in each of the four correlated regionals. Teams will be paired in each regional based upon their overall seed in the sectional complex. Unseeded teams in the sectional complex shall be placed in the bracket by blind draw.

2) Did not approve a recommendation that the Class AA girls volleyball regional semifinal and final matches be played on Wednesday of Week 17 and Friday of Week 17, respectively.

Other Action
1) The Board received the annual audit from Clifton Gunderson, L.L.C.

2) The Board approved meeting dates for the 2000-01 school term. Those dates will be: July 16-18 (annual summer meeting), Aug. 14, Sept. 11, Oct. 16, Dec. 4, Jan. 16, Feb. 26, March 17, May 1 and June 14.

3) The Board approved tentative plans to implement an additional scholarship series through the Illinois High School Activities Foundation beginning in the 2000-01 school term.

Discussion Items
At each meeting of the Board of Directors, there are certain agenda items which the Board discusses but upon which it takes no action. Following is a report of those on the January, 2000, agenda:

By-law Illustrations and Applications: The Board spent considerable time in discussion of possible interpretations of the series of by-law changes approved by the membership in the annual fall referendum. The series of changes impact students during their sport season(s) and during the summer. In general, the approved by-law changes restrict student non-school participation during the season, and expand involvement of coaches and their students during the summer. They are scheduled to go into effect May 1, 2000.

Boys/Girls Basketball Series: The Board heard a report regarding administrative changes and assignment of host schools and participating teams in the girls and boys state series.

March Madness Celebration: The Board heard a status report of first-time plans for the banquets, brunches honoring members of past championship teams, and the interactive basketball venues to be operating in Horton Fieldhouse in conjunction with the Class A and Class AA Girls State Basketball Tournaments at Redbird Arena on the campus of Illinois State University. The two-week series of events is called the March Madness Celebration of Girls Basketball. (See March Madness in www.ihsa.org or Illinois.ihigh.com for details.)

March Madness Experience: the Board heard a status report of plans for the operation of and the activities to be held in conjunction with the fifth March Madness Experience being conducted in the Exhibit Hall of the Peoria Civic Center, where the Class A and Class AA Boys State Tournaments are held. (See March Madness in www.ihsa.org or Illinois.ihigh.com for details.)

Title IX Committee: The Board heard a status report on the work of the Title IX Committee involving IHSA, the Illinois Elementary School Association (IESA), and the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). The committee is assisting the ISBE Equity Function Team to assist in the promotion and education of equity in athletics and activities for grades 5-12.

IHSA Equity Committee: the Board heard a report from the IHSA Equity Committee on the procedures it will use to evaluate the equity assessments completed by the IHSA sports/activity advisory committees.