ballbasher30

I am also a girls soccer coach, and was never sent any thing about nominating girls or even when the game was until I read this post. I have been a paying member of THSSCA for 15 years, and like the previous post, I am never contacted or receive any emails about things such as the senior all star game or all state nominations.

after the meeting last week, it looks like soccer is going to stay with three classes in division 1 and divide it up having equal numbers of teams in each class like they did the previous cycle.  we should see some schools shifted up and down, and could make the new alignments interesting. it is also for 2 years instead of 4 like the normal cycle goes.

I know with the covid situation and spring sports being cancelled, this may have been put on the back burner in people's minds.  Has anyone heard any more information about what the classification plans might be and what they may look like?

I think the TSSAA would stay with 16 districts and keep the postseason format the same as it currently is. they are not going to give up a round of tournaments because they lose money for the district tournaments not being played. i am guessing that you have a few district with 6 to 7 teams and a few with 4 or 5 and it stays the same format.

they are talking about splitting Division I into four classes and leaving Division II as is with two classes. it would look like:

Division I:

Class A
Class AA
Class AAA
Class AAAA

Division II:

Class A
Class AA

In the fall, the new classification cycle will be voted on for the next four years. Word going around is that the TSSAA is wanting to go to 4 classes in all sports except football. What are your thought on 4 classes in girls soccer and how it might look as far as numbers in each class and movement of schools might be.

Do you know when the division 1 AA and A teams will be announced?

Does anyone know when the TSWA releases their 2018 girls soccer all state teams?

Page HS is in the top 4 in AA this year, most thought they would be a AAA school this year but they stayed in AA. Don't know what they have coming back, but they are always solid.

Saw that the TSSAA has an item on the June board of control agenda to discuss a mercy rule for soccer. Does any one have information. On what the rule might be that they are discussing?

the all state class A/AA is as you say picking 15- girls which is less than 1% of the players in the state in the classification, what you did not mention is that if a coach is not a member of the THSSCA, their players are not eligible to be picked. So in reality that automatically eliminates a chunk of players from selection, especially at the smaller schools whose coaches may not be members.

Also, the last few years before this year, as i was told by a local coach, 14 of the spots were reserved for players of teams that make the state tournament with the last  spots going to players on teams not at the state tournament. so 14 players from 8 teams are chosen, and roughly 4-8 players from the reaming 142 schools were picked. so if you lost in the first round of state you got 1 guarantee player on the team, semifinal losers got 2 spots, and you got 3 if you made the final. the remaining 4-8 spots could also come from those teams but not guaranteed.

This year she said that a list of nominated players was sent out for member coaches to vote on, but she was not sent anything about nominating players from her team even though she was a member of the coaches association.

it seems like a small group of coaches running the coaches association set up the all state team to benefit their teams chances of getting players on it.

Where did you hear Page was moving to AAA? I thought they were set in AA in the district you listed above.

according to the pitch count rule sheet on the TSSAA website it says:

This is what I came up with for the middle of the state in AA for next year. changes or suggestion as to how this will shake out? i see it as 2 districts with 6 teams and 2 districts with 7.

District 9

White House- 874

White House Heritage-673

Greenbrier-833

Springfield-1081

Portland-1089

Beech-1139

District 10

Cheatham County- 682

Sycamore-760

Montgomery Central-1077

Kenwood-1163

Fairview-710

Creek Wood-986

District 11

STEM Prep- 418

Stratford-668

East Nashville-750

Hume Fogg-889

Maplewood-919

MLK-961

Hillwood-1103

District 12

Nolensville-942

Page-1123

Spring Hill-1053

Marshall County-902

Giles County-820

Lawrence County-1082

Tullahoma-1042

if that is true about the amendment, it would affect the class A in this way according to the TSSAA approved co-ops:

School             New enrollment with multiplier       old number        coop with

CSAS               809                                              446                    STEM Chattanooga

Chucky Doak   1112                                             618                    North Greene

Madison Ac.     842                                              468                    Jackson Cen. Merry

Marion Co.       931                                              517                    South Pittsburgh

Rockwood        783                                             435                     MIdway

Smith Co.         1089                                           605                     Gordonsville

West Greene   1118                                            621                     South Greene

there are also some in class AA that would move up as well.

collinwood- doesn't offer girls or boys soccer, they coop and play at wayne county

STEM prep- only played a jv schedule this year, will add varsity next fall

trezevant- doesn't offer girls or boys soccer

memphis middle college- didnt offer soccer this year

most of the other ones you listed as not finding a schedule offer boys soccer but not girls soccer are below

Memphis School of Excellence

Memphis Academy of Health science

Memphis Science and Engineering

Decatur-Riverside

Westmoreland

Hillcrest

Union City

Oakhaven

Hampton

of the 86 schools that are listed in class A, the following do not have a girls soccer team:

1. Day Spring Academy
2. Lookout Valley
3. Memphis Business Academy
4. Memphis School of Excellence
5. Memphis Science and Engineering
6. Collinwood
7. Freedom Prep
8. Fredrick Douglas
9. Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy
10. Memphis Middle College
11. Hillcrest
12. Middleton
13. Oakhaven
14. Hampton
15. Union City
16. Westmoreland
17. Trezevant

That leaves 69 schools is class A, 86 in class AA and 86 in class AAA for girls soccer. not exactly the even split we were told we would get for girls soccer.

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it definitely was done different than people were told.

looking at it closer, some schools are listed but they coop meaning they don't offer the sport but the kids go to another school.

my question is if they want an even split of teams in each class, if you look at the first 30 schools in class A, 12 don't offer girls soccer. that is going to really skew the numbers in each class of they stay this way.

which 9 do you think will be A, and which 14 do you think will be AA?

This sums everything up...instead of working harder ask for a handout.

so i had to laugh a little when i read this....same old argument. if a public schools says something about not playing a private school it is whining and complaining and they are told to work harder, but when a private school has to play other private schools it is not fair to private schools and they can't compete and it is not an even playing field.

we should all agree that whining is whining whether a public school is doing it or a private school is doing it and not act like it is any different.

Sorry the previous post with the breakdown didn't show up before I posted for some reason.

Now that enrollments are in, where do you think the break between A and AA and between AA and AAA will be?

this shows you how evenly matched this district is. in the opening round, the 3 and 4 seeds lost, and in round two the 2 seed lost big. here is where this district stands now.

Monday:

Loser Brackets games:

2 seed Franklin vs. 4 seed Centennial at 430pm

3 seed Brentwood vs. 5 seed Independence at 730pm

Tuesday:

winners from monday play at 430

1 seed Summit vs. 6 seed Ravenwood at 730

Wednesday:

winner of the first game tuesday vs. loser of the second game from tuesday at 430

winner of the above game vs. winner of the second game from Tuesday in Championship at 730

Thursday:

if necessary game for championship

Final Standings:

1. Summit  15-2 (automatic region bid and host the tournament)

2. Brentwood  10-8

3. Centennial 10-8

4. Franklin 10-8

5. Independence 9-9

6. Ravenwood 7-10 (didn't see a final score from last night, but it doesn't matter in the standings)

7. Dickson County 1-17

how does the tiebreaker for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th work?

Brentwood was 2-1 vs Centennial and 1-2 was Franklin

Centeniial was 2-1 vs Franklin and 1-2 vs Brentwood

Franklin was 2-1 vs Brentwood and 1-2 vs Centennial