Future District Meets for Mason, Ross, & New Richmond districts

JAVMAN83

JAVMAN83

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While much is unknown at this time with regard to what teams will go into which of the 5 new divisions, I've heard that Division I will more than likely only have a super-regional qualifier with no district meet. Also, I am also sure that site locations for the 4 meets very well may change. I know that more schools are interested in hosting, and the whole issue of enough officials at sites will necessarily be an issue.

What is known, however, with a certainty at this point is that the current 3-division format is now RETIRED. Next year's district meets may or may not recognize current district records. All that has to be determined yet. There may be voices that say start with a clean set of records, and there may be voices arguing for keeping past records alive by migrating those records into the new divisions according to the the school owning the mark in a particular event of the previous division being assigned as the new mark in the new division. That would be in keeping with how OHSAA handled record progressions from the 2-class system of 1921-70 into the 3-class system in 1971.

In any case, Lord willing, I will be here to document it all and bring clarity out of chaos as we move forward.

With that, I wish all coaches and athletes much success in the next 2 weeks.
 
 
What about Districts that move? In 2015 there was a D1 District in Tiffin that fed into the Amherst Region. I don't see the records from that District reflected in Clay, Findlay, Brunswick, or Avon so it seems when the District moved, the records were wiped clean?
 
KevinL said:
What about Districts that move? In 2015 there was a D1 District in Tiffin that fed into the Amherst Region. I don't see the records from that District reflected in Clay, Findlay, Brunswick, or Avon so it seems when the District moved, the records were wiped clean?
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I appreciate the districts that have been run at essentially the same site with essentially the same schools for 50+ years and have record sheets that date back that far. It's fun to hear names from the 90s or even earlier and say "I remember her! She was pretty good."

But, this is a reasonable question. A lot of districts are broken up and reconstituted every couple of years as the divisional breakdown shifts within the DAB.

I work one district that doesn't keep district records for that reason. The records weren't sent to them when they started hosting about 10 years ago. And since the DAB often oscillates between having two or three district sites for that division, how would you break them up or combine them each year? Who is the keeper of the records? It didn't make any sense. So they don't bother.

The other district has been at the same site for over 50 years with the exception of a couple years where a nearby school hosted essentially the same area schools. Those records were transferred to that school and then back a couple years later, giving them a rich history that can be reasonably traced in the moves.

Both are reasonable for their circumstances.
 
KevinL said:
What about Districts that move? In 2015 there was a D1 District in Tiffin that fed into the Amherst Region. I don't see the records from that District reflected in Clay, Findlay, Brunswick, or Avon so it seems when the District moved, the records were wiped clean?
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As far as I know Findlay didn't keep track of any district records. The meet program only listed stadium and state records. The Findlay district along will all NW D1 is no more so doesn't matter any longer.
 
That's interesting about Findlay. I know that district records throughout the Cincinnati area meets have been kept since 1971, and those records directly inherited records from the old two-class system dating to the original SW Ohio district meets starting at Oxford in 1923. While record-keeping during those years was sketchy, I was able to piece together a reasonable progress over the seasons based on newspaper reports. I would suggest two (2) ways going forward next year. I invite feedback on the following:

1) Completely new records. No continuity with past records.

2) Distribution of previous D1, D2, and D3 records among the new D2-D5 divisions similar to that done with the transition done in 1971. Given that there appears to be a new "super" division 1 that will only have regionals, it would appear that old D1-D2 records could be distributed between the new D2 & D3 meets, and likewise, the previous D3 meet records would find their way into the new D4 & D5 meets. This is a generalization. Each previous meet record would find its way into the new division according to the school migration itself that "owns" the record. For those D1 records where the school ended up in the new super D1, those records would not migrate to the new D2.


Food for thought.
 
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