District Names in NoVa

[DCCavalier]

Looking on VHSL website and it appears the schools of the old AAA Northern Region, aka Fairfax and Arlington Counties, and the city of Alexandria (TC Williams) are have their districts listed with a number instead of a name. When the transition was made four years ago from Districts to Conferences, the old District names, Concorde, Patriot, National, and Liberty, were kept as the district/conference groupings were pretty much the same. Does anyone know if these names have reverted back to the districts or are new names being planned?

 

[falcettik]

According to the VHSL master schedule the old district names remain, but IMO the district compositions are a shell of what they used to be given all the movement of teams.

 

[DCCavalier]

According to the VHSL master schedule the old district names remain, but IMO the district compositions are a shell of what they used to be given all the movement of teams.

I don't know about the rest of the state, but most of the groupings of districts/conferences in the old Northern Region are pretty much intact for the last 20 years. There have been some movements as back in the 90's the regions schools moved to a district grouping based on size over geography so you had AAA D6 schools (Concorde and Patriot) together over two districts, and AAA D5 schools (National and Liberty) in another. When transition was made to the conference setup, the names were kept but enrollment meant the Liberty moved up to the new 6A setup with the others and the National stayed 5A. Pretty much same thing now as NoVa is basically two of the 4 regions in the new Class 6. The old and maybe current National is Class 5. Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone knew about the names. Its hard to keep up with high school sports in Northern Virginia since its a one newspaper town (The Washington Post) which is more pro and college based for the most part and certainly there is no HS coverage provided like in the 7-5-7 or 8-0-4 areas.

 

[DinwiddieProud]

I hope the district numbers will be eventually be given a name. I like the fact that they would have an individual identity. I hate things like NY's school naming system. PS #21, etc.