LATHAM, NY - The New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) held its quarterly meeting of the Executive Committee on Wednesday, February 1st at the Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs. The committee voted on several key proposals important to the Association’s 787-member schools.

The Executive Committee approved the following state championship venue locations for 2024-26, Arlington High School (Field Hockey), Sportime Schenectady (Girls Individual Tennis), Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex (Indoor Track and Field), Binghamton area (Baseball).

The sport of boys wrestling had four proposals approved by the Executive Committee. The sport will follow the NFHS 1.5% weight loss plan starting the 2023-24 season. Also, honor weigh-ins will be eliminated beginning in 2023-24 and boys wrestling was additionally approved to use the NFHS weight classes plus a NYSPHSAA lower weight beginning in the 2023-24 season. The final proposal approved was for wrestling to become a variation sport with division cut-off numbers being 600 and above for division 1 and 599 and below for division 2. The wrestling proposals can be found starting on page 75 of the agenda.

On the 37^th annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day, the sport of girls flag football had three proposals approved including hosting a girls flag football state championship starting in spring 2024. The sport was also approved to follow the NFHS playing rules along with the NYSPHSAA high school sports standards found on page 86 of the agenda. Over the last two years, NYSPHSAA has received support from the New York Jets, New York Giants and Buffalo Bills to help grow the sport of flag football in New York.

The Executive Committee approved the league placement sub-committee recommendation to place the following section VI Charter Schools accordingly:

    -Tapestry Charter School to ECIC League
    -Global Concepts Charter School to ECIC League
    -Health Sciences Charter School to BPS League

The complete meeting agenda can be found here.

The meeting was called to order by Vice President Tim Mullins at 9:00 am and concluded at 12:05pm The next meeting of the NYSPHSAA Executive Committee will be held Wednesday, May 3rd at Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs.
   
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The New York State Public High School Athletic Association Inc. is a non-profit, voluntary, educational service organization composed of public, parochial, and private schools dedicated to providing equitable and safe competition for the students of its member schools. The organization conducts 32 championship events and governs the rules and regulations of high school athletics in New York State. Membership is open to secondary schools providing interschool athletic activities for boys and girls in grades 7-12.