Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:13:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Meg Miller
Subject: Thanks for the NW sports updates!!
Wow! Northwood is producing some amazing wins this spring season. Add that to the 2nd place State title the boys basketball won and the other victories in the fall and winter sports and Northwood has had quite a year so far.
Makes it even harder to understand why the NCHSAA would choose to move NW into such a weak conference for the next five years. NW is losing every school that even challenged them (Cardinal Gibbones, Graham, Orange, Cummings). We are also getting another non tradition school (River Mill Academy) that doesn’t even have a football team, volleyball team, or soccer teams??? That’s disappointing. Add that to NCSSM, that only has Varsity teams b/c it only school jr. and srs. DSA also has no high school football team to field, I think?
Northwood is growing and so is it’s talented pool of athletes. Nothing can be done to change the NCHSAA decision. But it sure is a hard one to understand.
By time these divisions are realigned in 2014, there’s no telling how big Northwood will be. We’re sure to be pushing 3A status. (Unless someone still thinks it’s a good idea to build another high school in the next five years, my opinion is still that Northwood should expand and go 3A) Maybe this decision was based this on the idea that there was to be a new high school and our number would be more like 6-700. I’m not sure exactly what they were thinking.
And sorry, and I know this wont’ be popular, but Charter schools that cannot field major sports teams like football and soccer should not be included in the division, imo. That should be a requirement.
Weak divisions do not challenge the players and often the teams lose early in the playoffs. With good coaching, strategic scheduling of challenging non conference games by the AD and coaches alike and players who play some sports year round, hopefully, the Chargers can rise to the top beyond this conference, in spite of the NCHSAA’s decision.
Meg