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Jim Wieners’ Sports Roundup: MSHSAA News
MSHSAA To Replace 1.35 Multiplier
With Points System For 2020-‘21
By Jim Wieners
After nearly two decades of using a multiplier of 1.35 for enrollments of private and charter high schools the Missouri State High School Activities Association decided to drop it in favor of a points system for sports and activities classification that will be in effect on July 1, 2020.
All nonpublic high schools will still use the multiplier for the 2018-19 school year. In 2020-21 all schools except single gender (all boys or all girls) will use their actual enrollment figures. Single gender schools will still have their actual enrollments doubled.
MSHSAA member schools voted 294-133 in results listed on mshsaa.org to eliminate the multiplier and replace it with a points system (Proposal 10). According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the points system, which is not revealed yet, will be used on sport-by-sport bases instead of the entire private or charter school’s athletic program(s) and will be used over a six year period. In addition, MSHSAA members voted 376-51 to restructure sports and activities districts and state championships beginning July 1, 2020 (Proposal 9) and could make basketball, according to the Post-Dispatch, a six-class sport
The multiplier went into effect in the 2002-03 school year However; the multiplier did not go into effect for Football until 2004-2005 because the Football district assignments, for the round-robin end of the year schedules for 2002 and 2003, were set before the multiplier passed 266-186 in May 2002.
Since the Multiplier went into effect Incarnate Word Academy won 15 of the schools 30 titles. Nine of those titles were in Girls Basketball between 2006 and last March 2019. IWA won three consecutive Girls Volleyball titles 2003-2005) and three Girls Soccer titles (2004-2008-2009). Those three sports teams in general and Basketball in particular will likely be subjective to the points system.
Trinity Catholic began its existence in the second year of the multiplier (2003-04). It was last school year (2018-19) that Trinity won the first three state titles (Football-Dec. 1, 2018, Boys Track And Field-May 25, Girls Track And Field-May 25), All in Class Three. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch named Trinity Small Schools Program of the Year on June 30.
Lutheran North so far, has 14 state titles, most by any Lutheran High School in Missouri. However, since the multiplier went into effect LHSN won only one state title and that is in 2005 Boys Basketball, which won in 2002 before passage of the multiplier.
The multiplier or the to-be-installed points system does not affect North County Christian unless they decide to become full-time MSHSAA embers. Currently NCCS is an affiliate-registered school by the MSHSAA so they can compete against MSHSAA members but NCCS cannot compete in MSHSAA district, sectional or state championships.
ILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION currently uses a 1.65 enrollment multiplier for private, charter, lab, magnet or residential schools or a public school that does not accept students from a fixed portion of the district. It also includes any public school that charges less than the school rate according to the Illinois School Code.
The multiplier is on a sport-by-sport basis and determination is by success. The multiplier does not automatically mean moving up a class but if a school’s sport(s) goes deep into the state tournaments (and win state) the success adjustment replaces the multiplier and will automatically move up a class. Schools can get automatic waivers on the non-multiplier-affected sport(s) and schools can also request moving up a class one or more sports for two years but could cancel that request after a year.
A case in point is Alton’s Marquette Catholic High School, which is closest to the Florissant Valley area. Last year Marquette was to the multiplier in Boys Golf, Boys and Girls Soccer and Music. Boys Golf and Girls Soccer was under the multiplier the last two years while Boys Soccer was on waiver in 2017-18 but not 2018-19. This year and next under a newly passed two-year classification policy (17) Marquette Catholic Boys Soccer is a subject of the 1.65 multiplier but will not move up a class (currently 1A).
The IHSA also uses a 1.33 multiplier for schools that have only three grades. If the MSHSAA kept the 1.35 multiplier and added a 1.33 three-year school multiplier it would have included North Technical (Sophomores-Seniors) but North Tech’s enrollment is for full-time students.
