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H-TOWN SLANT: 5 Takeways from UIL Realignment
It’s UIL Realignment Day for the State of Texas as schools learned their fate for the next two years.
The Who’s Who of coaches and administrators were at the Region 4 building as the 9 am hour marked the unveiling of the new districts.
So, what happened?
THE BIGGEST CHANGES
Conroe ISD has New Company
Two years ago, District 13-6A was delegated to being a six-team district. Not any more as the Conroe ISD school (Including move-up Caney Creek) joins Willis and move-ups New Caney and Cleveland.
“Well, I’m not looking for many games this year,” Highlander coach Jim Rapp laughed.
Rapp confirmed The Woodlands will be playing North Shore and Lamar this upcoming season.
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Up with Big Boys
Caney Creek, New Caney and Cleveland move up to District 13-6A, but so does Waller (District 15-6A), Katy Jordan and Katy Paetow (District 19-6A). Hightower comes up to District 20-6A along with Beaumont United into District 21-6A.
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Region II?
District 8-5A DI was thrown a curve ball, moving to Region II. The home of Crosby, Barbers Hill, Kingwood Park, Goose Creek CISD schools, Porter and Port Arthur Memorial will now face District 7 in postseason with the likes of Lufkin, Forney, Longview, McKinney North, Tyler and the Mesquite schools.
“It was not expected but we are ready for the challenge,” Lee Martinez, Goose Creek CISD AD said. “Looking at travel in the playoffs will be interesting.”
Martinez will be replacing the GCM HFC coaching job as Shannon Carter, who took a job at Abilene Christian. The Sterling OC Jeremy Moses has taken the RB assistant coaching job at Colorado State.
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SEC of H-Town
District 10-5A DI will be a blood bath. It kind of has been for a while. How about this for a lineup? Angleton, Friendswood, Foster, Magnolia, Mag West and Manvel? Throw in Terry, and up and coming Fulshear and Kempner and Foster coach Shaun McDowell calls it the, “SEC of Class 5A”.
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The Buffs in a Better District
The Fort Bend Marshall Buffs move out of HISD and into a district with PNG, Texas City, Nederland, Galena Park, Willowridge and Dayton. Warm up the busses. It will better prepare them for the postseason, however.
BREAKING: UIL Releases Conference Cutoff Numbers for Reclassification and Realignment, and what this means
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) posted their official release on Twitter Wednesday morning to announce the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 UIL Reclassification and Realignment Conference Cutoff Numbers and Preliminary Enrollment Figures. With the realignment, it's possible that you may see a shift for some of your favorite Texas high school sports teams. The numbers for the realignment and reclassification are listed below:
Enrollment Figures and Division Breaks
⚠️ OFFICIAL RELEASE ⚠️
Football Conference and Division Cutoff Numbers for the 2022-2023 & 2023-2024 UIL Reclassification & Realignment
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— Texas UIL (@uiltexas) December 8, 2021
Class 6A: 2225 and up
Class 5A: 1300-2224
Class 4A: 545-1299
Class 3A: 250-544
Class 2A: 105-249
Class 1A: 104.9 and below
With these numbers, the division breaks within the classifications are:
5A-D1: 1925-2224
5A-D2: 1300-1924
4A-D1: 880-1299
4A-D2: 545-879
3A-D1: 360-544
3A-D2: 250-359
2A-D1: 164.5-249
2A-D2: 105-165.4
1A-D1:59.5-104.9
1A-D2: 59.4 and below
What This Means:
For some schools, this means some shifting around. A look at some of the changes that comes with these numbers would include:
Manor heads back to 6A
Harker Heights becomes the only Killeen ISD school in 6A
Royse City and North Forney will move to 6A
El Paso Hanks, Parkland, Crosby, Aledo, and Ysleta move to 5A-D1
Lubbock High, Argyle, Melissa, Austin LBJ, and Amarillo Palo Duro to 5A-D2
San Antonio ISD schools are all 5A-D2
El Paso Austin, Bowie, and Irving move to 4A-D1
There will likely be more to dive into over the coming weeks. VYPE will keep a close eye on realignments and reclassifications.