Sports 17 March 2021

Chickasaws to head west for football

New Hampton’s football team is headed west for the next two years after the Iowa High School Athletic Association announced new districts for the sport that will see plenty of changes in 2021.

The Chickasaws were placed in Class 2A, District 3 that also includes Clear Lake, Crestwood, Forest City, Garner-Hayfield-Ventura and Osage — all teams that have been in the same district as New Hampton at times since the Chickasaws dropped from 3A to 2A in 2010.
The IHSAA released the districts on Friday, a day after the association’s Board of Control approved them.
The 2021 football season will be the first with a new seventh classification (Class 5A), approved in January by the Board of Control to reduce the disparity in enrollment in the IHSAA’s largest class of football. 
Following the one-year assignments in 2020, districts and Class 5A groups are effective for a two-year cycle.
Turkey Valley, meanwhile, will see many of the same district opponents it had a year ago as the Trojans were placed in Eight-Man, District 3.
The district includes Clarksville, Janesville, Riceville, Rockford, Tripoli, West Central, and only West Central was not in Turkey Valley's district a year ago.
 
             — For more on this story, see the March 16 Tribune
 

 

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