For those that tend to forget Fairview has played in District 11AA for years. They were taken out of that district 4 years ago by the TSSAA. Here is the article from 2008.
The Ashland City Times
Cheatham County, Sycamore and Harpeth will play several new opponents over the next four years after the TSSAA set districts last week for the 2009-2013 school years.
The new districting plan approved last summer eliminates football regions in all but three instances in Class A where it was needed for a lack ofaEUR participants. Now schools will compete in the same district for baseball, basketball, football, softball and volleyball. Teams will be separated intoaEUR six classes for the football postseason.
The TSSAA voted to put Cheatham County and Harpeth in District 11-AA and Sycamore in District 9-AA.
"I would have liked for Cheatham County and Sycamore to be in the same district," said Sycamore head coach Gary Halstead. "We are going to have to play each other anyway, but it would have been nice if it was a district game."
School officials agreed in October that Cheatham County and Sycamore would play each other in football regardless of the new districts, while those two schools would only have to play Harpeth if they were in the same district.
That means Harpeth and Sycamore won't play each other next season for the first time in 10 years, Halstead said. Harpeth won the first two games, while Sycamore has won the past eight.
Even though the War Eagles aren't in the same district as Cheatham County and Harpeth, Halstead said he's pleased with the results.
"To get to the playoffs, we'll still have to beat the teams we've always had to beat," Halstead said.
In football, Sycamore will continue to play Greenbrier, Macon County and White Hosue in district play. The team's new district opponents are Goodpasture and Westmoreland.
For Cheatham County, the football team will play several new teams. Gone are defending Class AAA champion David Lipscomb, Giles County, Marshall County, Page and Spring Hill.
Instead, the Cubs will be playing teams to the west (including Camden, Waverly and Stewart County) instead of south. And that has head coach Cody Finley pretty happy.
"This will give us a chance to be competitive every week," Finley said. "We could compete with Lipscomb once every five or six years. With us being a county school, we have our ups and downs."
The biggest surprise in the district was the addition of Camden, which is in Benton County in West Tennessee. That will be a long road trip as Camden is nearly a two-hour drive from Ashland City.
Camden has seen some success on the gridiron over the past several years.
Fairview was expected to be included in District 11-AA, but the TSSAA moved the Yellow Jackets to District 12-AA.
Longtime Cheatham County girls basketball coach Phil Carr said he was pleased with the new districts.
The only change is that the TSSAA dropped Sycamore and Fairview from the current District 11-AA and added Camden.
