SECTION I - Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester

Jennifer Simmons  So. Westchester BOCES  Center for Interscholastic Athletics  450 Mamaroneck Avenue  Harrison, NY 10528  Phone: 914.592.2526  Fax: 914.592.2940  jsimmons@swboces.org  www.swboces.org/Athletics

SECTION 2 - Capital District

Wayne Bertrand, Executive Director  PO Box 4430 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866  Phone: 518.306.4502  Fax: 518.306.4503 section2athletics@gmail.com www.section2athletics.org

SECTION III - Central New York

John Rathbun  4983 Brittonfield Pkwy Suite 201  E. Syracuse, NY 13057  Phone: 315.451.4588  Fax: 315.451.4728  jrathbun@section3.org  www.section3athletics.org

SECTION IV - Southern Tier

Ben Nelson  43 Pearl Street West, Suite 1  Sidney, NY 13838  Phone: 607.561.2347  Fax: 607.561.2344  bnsectionIV@stny.rr.com  sectioniv@stny.rr.com

SECTION V - Genesee Valley

Kathy Hoyt   131 Drumlin Court-Maple Building   Newark, NY 14513

Phone: 315.332.7324  Cell: 315.226.2097  khoyt@wflboces.org     www.sectionV.org

SECTION VI - Western NY

Timm Slade  355 Harlem Road  West Seneca, NY 14224  Phone: 716.821.7092  Fax: 716.821.7352  tslade@e1b.org 
http://www.section6.e1b.org/

SECTION VII - Champlain Area

Matt Walentuk
Champlain Valley Educational Services
14 Area Development Drive, Suite 100  
PO Box 455
Plattsburgh, NY  
Phone: 518.561.0111 x363     Fax: 518.561.0240
Walentuk_matt@cves.org

SECTION VIII - Nassau

Nina Van Erk Nassau BOCES Administrative Offices  71 Clinton Road PO Box 9195 Garden City, NY 11530-9195  Phone: 516.396.2488  Fax: 516.997.2916  nvanerk@nasboces.org http://www.nassauboces.org/athletics

SECTION IX - Orange, Sullivan, Ulster

Greg Ransom, Executive Director  Orange-Ulster BOCES PO Box 656 Goshen, NY 10924 Phone: 845.294.5799 http://www.sectionixathletics.org/ gransom1@hvc.rr.com

SECTION X - St. Lawrence Area

Carl Normandin  Section 10 Office  40 West Main Street  Canton, NY 13617  Phone: 315.386.4504  Fax: 315.386.2722  cnormandin@sllboces.org

SECTION XI - Suffolk

Don Webster Section 11 Office  180 E. Main Street, Suite 302  Smithtown, NY 11787  Phone: 631.366.4900 (0700)  Fax: 631.366.4334  dwebster@sectionxi.org http://www.sectionXI.org

Lawrence Light, Treasurer  Stony Brook, NY 11790  Phone: 631.751.5134  suptlight@aol.com

NYSPHSAA SECTIONS

The Association serves as a central organization through which its member high schools in the state may cooperate to:

• Encourage as many pupils as possible to participate in athletic games
• Promote sportsmanlike conduct in all athletic contests
• Maintain essential minimum standards of eligibility
• Provide means to settle disputed athletic contests amicably and authoritatively
• Conduct appropriate athletic meets and tournaments
• Cooperate with the State Education Department in fostering educationally sound athletic programs
• Adapt rules governing sports contests to the particular conditions governing high school competition
• Continually seek data to support rule changes leading to greater safety for high school athletes