News: VHSL to Meet Aug. 8 to Develop District and Conference Alignment Plans for 2013-15 Cycle

(Aug. 7, 2012) - The Virginia High School League R&R Committee will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday Aug. 8 to develop its initial district alignment plan for schools using March 31, 2012 ADM figures. The plan would be effective for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years.

The Ad Hoc Interim Conference Committee will meet at 11 a.m. on Wednesday to develop its initial conference alignment plan using March 31 figures for the same 2013-14 and 2014-15 period.


No actual presentations will be heard on August 8. All work will be based on written proposals and committee guidelines. After the initial plans are developed, schools may appeal assignments to the respective committees which will meet to consider appeals on Tuesday, September 11.

The final recommended plan will be submitted to the Executive Committee for final approval at its September 19 meeting. A school may appeal its R&R/Conference Committee’s assignment to the Executive Committee. No hearing will be conducted on any such appeal. Instead, the Executive Committee’s decision will be based on the written record provided in each case.

One of the change requests comes from the Loudoun 4A proposed schools. In the initial conference model, Woodgrove, Loudoun County, Dominion, Heritage and Park View are grouped in 4A North's Conference 21 along with Sherando, James Wood, Handley and Millbrook. That 9-team conference is larger than the recommended max size of eight schools.

Loudoun schools propose a Loudoun-only Conference 22 with the five schools. In order to achieve that, it is proposed that Harrisonburg of Conference 23, Eastern View, Fauquier and Liberty all in Conference 22 move into Conference 21 to create an 8-team conference with the four Winchester schools.

Conference 23 would then include Amherst County, Chancellor, Courtland, Charlottesville, Fluvanna and Lousia County while Conference 24 would include E.C. Glass, Jefferson Forest, Pulaski County, Salem, GW-Danville, Carroll County, Bassett and William Fleming.

The conference placements affect only postseason play. Under the new VHSL model, schools would have a district placement for regular-season play and then a conference placement for post-season play that would start their journey towards the sectional (regional) and state tournament.

Summary of R&R (District) Change Requests
R&R Change Requests
Ad Hoc Interim Conference Change Requests