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OHSAA craziness at the North Royalton Regional

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Not crazy - 3 of the 4 districts are the same as usual and come out of Northeast Ohio, both boys and girls

Crazy is that the 4th district on the boys side is come from Northwest district while the Girls 4th district is coming from Central District.

Why would they have different districts coming for boys and girls? Most schools share coaches at theses smaller schools. A coach from Collins Western Reserve (just an example) will have to decide which regional to go to because heir kids are participating in two different places on the same day.
 
 
Why? Because the distribution of boys and girls teams for Division III in Ohio meant the Central district got an extra girls district and the NW got an extra boys district. Those districts have to compete at regionals somewhere. It makes sense to send them to the same regional and let the other three be comprised of the same number of districts from each DAB.

Yes, the coaches will have to be split up. I find it unlikely the CWR coach is the only coach for both genders, even for a small school. They will make the best decision regarding their athletes' needs. The small schools on the east and south side of the NWDAB should be used to this by now. It happens nearly every year in some manner.

Yes, sometimes siblings will be competing at separate sites and parents will also have to split up to support both. It's unfortunate. It's hardly "craziness."
 
I am a coach that is affected by this. We have three coaches that will be split if we qualify girls to Fostoria and Boys to North Royalton. The NW district has the most D3 schools in it by far (25+ teams) on the boys' side. While I wish our staff was not split it is what happens, especially at the district that we are in. We are the closest to the Northeast and Central. What I am thankful for is that I do not have to drive 2.5 hours this year as we had to do a few years ago.
 
Some very significant changes from last year across all divisions. It's interesting, considering that it will all need to be revamped for next year's addition of two new divisions.
 
We had to do this for 2 years---they sent our girls to Piqua and boys to Lexington - Both Division 2 those 2 years. It definitely stunk having to split up our coaches, and for me, as the Head Coach, I hated having to choose. The only advice I can give since it's the Regional is you'll know who your qualifiers are, and split up coaches based on that as best you can. And make sure you have an assistant that's ready to act as the head coach for whichver one the head coach doesn't go to.
 
Altor said:
Why? Because the distribution of boys and girls teams for Division III in Ohio meant the Central district got an extra girls district and the NW got an extra boys district. Those districts have to compete at regionals somewhere. It makes sense to send them to the same regional and let the other three be comprised of the same number of districts from each DAB.

Yes, the coaches will have to be split up. I find it unlikely the CWR coach is the only coach for both genders, even for a small school. They will make the best decision regarding their athletes' needs. The small schools on the east and south side of the NWDAB should be used to this by now. It happens nearly every year in some manner.

Yes, sometimes siblings will be competing at separate sites and parents will also have to split up to support both. It's unfortunate. It's hardly "craziness."
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That would make sense if thats what happened. They just split up the district at Colonel Crawford.

Colonel Crawford High School, 2303 State Route 602, North Robinson, OH 44856

Jake Bruner, Manager, Cell:419-569-2037, Email: bruner.jake@cck12.org

Athletic Director: Jake Bruner Weds., May 21, and Fri., May 23

Wednesday: 4:00 Field Events, 5:30 Running, Friday: 4:00 Field Events, 5:30 Running

Boys’ Teams: Buckeye Central (New Washington), Bucyrus, Colonel Crawford (North Robinson), Crestline, Crestview (Ashland), Lucas, Mansfield Christian, Mohawk (Sycamore),Monroeville, New London, Plymouth, St. Paul (Norwalk), St. Peter’s (Mansfield), Seneca East (Attica), South Central (Greenwich), Western Reserve (Collins), Wynford (Bucyrus) (17)

Top 4 boys in each event will qualify to the Regional in North Royalton

Girls’ Teams: Buckeye Central (New Washington), Bucyrus, Colonel Crawford (North Robinson), Crestline, Crestview (Ashland), Lucas, Mansfield Christian, Mohawk (Sycamore), Monroeville, New London, Plymouth, St. Paul (Norwalk), St. Peter’s (Mansfield), Seneca East (Attica), South Central (Greenwich), Western Reserve (Collins), Wynford (Bucyrus) (17)

Top 4 girls in each event will qualify to the Regional in Fostoria
 
Its a regionals. It has nothing to do with balance 4 districts come in, top 4 from each, 16 competitors. Why split it up like that. Makes NO sense
 
The "issue" is that the central girls got an extra "district" (4 regional advancers) compared to the boys.

BD3 - C 1, E 1, NE 3, NW 6, SE 2, SW 3
GD3 - C 2, E 1, NE 3, NW 5, SE 2, SW 3

It looks like in BD3 - you have C/E/SE as a regional, NW 1 + SW 3 as a regional, NW 1 + NE 3 as a regional, and a self-contained NW regional
However, in GD3 - you have C 1/E 1/SE 2 as a regional, NW 1 + SW 3 as a regional, C 1 + NE 3 as a regional, and a self-contained NW regional

Evidently the NW is choosing to have 5 districts for both boys and girls, with some sites having more advancers than others. The southern most site in the NW is feeding to the SW mixed regional for both genders (4 advancers each gender), three of the sites are feeding to the all-NW regional in both genders (4 advancing each in girls and 5-5-6 for boys) , while one site is advancing to the NE in boys (4) and NW in girls (4).

Given the difference in regional bids between boys and girls, it's either have an extra district for one of the genders and split teams at that level, as well as at the regional level ... or you do what the NW did. If symmetrical regionals is the desire, you can have scenarios of asymmetrical representation. If you want to 1000% avoid splitting the genders, the choice might be having uneven regionals (i.e. some advance 3, some advance 5, etc.)
 
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