For the past year, most of the realignment talks in Nevada have centered around schools in Division I and I-A. That fight has been about how many teams should be in the Division I South and I-A South and moving a school down from the Division I North to the Division I-A North.
After the latest realignment committee meeting on May 20, in Las Vegas, it appears just about all of those issues are taken care of.
However, there may be some slight changes to the Division III North at the start of the 2016-17 school year.
White Pine, who has bounced between a member of the South and the North for the past few years, will likely move back to the Division III North, if the NIAA Board of Control accepts the recommendation from the realignment focus committee.
That would provide the Division III North with nine teams for boys and eight for girls. Those include White Pine (Ely), West Wendover, Battle Mountain, Pershing County (Lovelock), Yerington, Silver Stage (Silver Springs), Incline, North Tahoe (Tahoe City, Calif.) and Rite of Passage (Yerington). Rite of Passage is a boys only school.
There could also be some changes in store for the Division III South that could change as well at the next NIAA Board of Control meeting.
Faith Lutheran, a member of Division I-A, will move up to Division I based on the number of points it has scored in the rubric system as well as the 2.0 private school enrollment multiplier.
The Crusaders moving up is a given, but The Meadows — a Division III member — may take their place in Division I-A as part of the 2.0 multiplier system.
Laughlin has asked to drop from Division III to Division IV based on its enrollment numbers and the Division III South could add Quest Prep or Somerset for the 2016-17 school year.
After realignment is voted upon and set, it will come back every four years for consideration. In addition, after going to divisions for realignment, the system will go back to its old ways of 4A (Division I), 3A (Division I-A), 2A (Division III) and 1A (Division IV).
