National Federation / NJSIAA

News & Issues

1) NJSIAA Conference Realignment

2) Passaic County Schools by Group and Enrollment

3) NJSIAA goes back to old transfer rule

4) Important State Legislation re: Athletic Trainers

5) New proposal for Track & Field State Meet

6) New proposal for Boys Volleyball Sectionals

Additional news from NJSIAA and National Federation will be posted on this page during the school year.

1) NJSIAA adopts realignment plan:

News Articles: (Arranged in order by most recent)

Big North Alignment Appears Set (and other issues) Saturday, February 13, 2010 BY GREGORY SCHUTTA, The Record STAFF WRITER

Big North likely to separate non-public schools Thursday, September 24, 2009 BY GREGORY SCHUTTA, The Record STAFF WRITER

Gregory Schutta, : NJSIAA adds new twist to realignment Wednesday, May 27, 2009

As news is released about the North conferences for 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, we will post those news articles here as we did last year.

This page was last updated: April 15, 2010

2) PASSAIC COUNTY SCHOOLS  BY GROUP AND ENROLLMENT

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

NORTH JERSEY, SECTION 1

GROUP 4

Clifton   2,367

Passaic   1,555

Passaic County Tech   2,228

Paterson Kennedy   1,224

GROUP 3

Lakeland   847

Passaic Valley   957

Paterson Eastside   1,055 (Change from Group 4 for 2009)

Wayne Hills   1,056

Wayne Valley   1,044

West Milford   1,032

GROUP 2

Hawthorne   522

Manchester   513

Pompton Lakes   508

NON -PUBLIC SCHOOLS

NORTH A

De Paul Catholic   674

NORTH B

Eastern Christian   271

Hawthorne Christian   124

Mary Help of Christians   340 (actual enrollment of 170 is doubled due to all-girls school)

Paterson Catholic   288

4)  Young athletes at risk (NJ legislator will introduce a bill requiring all high schools with athletic programs to provide a trainer.) Monday, September 21st, BY JEFF ROBERTS, The Record STAFF WRITER

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3) NJSIAA calls a reverse, goes back to old transfer rule

Thursday April 15

BY GREGORY SCHUTTA

The Record

STAFF WRITER

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5) A proposal to establish a sectional non-public meet was approved at the first reading on October 7.  The final reading on November 9 changed the way the state structures the outdoor championship program.  From the NJSIAA website:

"Rationale:

The number of non-public teams and the size of these teams have been steadily increasing over the years to the point that the State Group Meet level of competition has become cumbersome to handle for the site that hosts the non-public groups. With 40+ competitors in each event, the meet hosting these groups are running several hours longer than its counterpart. In addition, many in the track and field community for several years have felt that it is inherently unfair for some athletes to go through two qualifying meets to reach the Meet of Champions, while others have to go through one meet."

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6) A proposal has been introduced to divide the state's approximately 110 boys volleyball teams into four equal sections based on northing (latitude) only, not school size. This proposal, too, was discussed and voted upon on November 9th.

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