| LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR CHANGE IN NSAA RULES AND REGULATIONS | ||||
| Title: | Increase Individual State Cross Country Medalists to 20 | |||
| Author: | Mandy Hochstein | |||
| School: | Hartington-Newcastle | |||
| NSAA District: | 3 | |||
| Proposal for: | Activities Manual | |||
| Classes Affected: | All | |||
| Activities Affected: | Boys Cross-Country Girls Cross-Country | |||
| This proposal: | WILL NOT increase costs to the school WILL increase costs to the NSAA WILL NOT increase travel for participating schools WILL NOT decrease a student's or coach's instruction time | |||
| Implementation date: | 2024-08-01 | |||
| Sections affected in Activities Manual: | Page p.17 | Article | Section Individual Honors | |
| Summary: | This proposal would increase the number of individual medalists at the state cross country meet to 20. | |||
| Rationale: | The number of individual medals earned in cross country, considering the number of participants per race is far less than other sports. The average number of participants per state race is 80 in the larger classes up to 150 in the smaller classes with only 15 medaling. Currently Cross Country awards fifteen medals per Class - plus 1 All Class Gold. Comparison of Awards by Sport: Cross country - 15 Medals + 6 Team Championship members Girls Golf - 15 Medals + 4 Team Championship members Volleyball - 56 Medals for Champion and Runner-up Teams (C1 & C2) Football - 220 Medals for Champion and Runner-up Teams (C1 & C2) Basketball - 56 Medals for Champion and Runner-up Teams (C1 & C2) Wrestling - 84 Medals for 14 Weight Divisions Bowling - 12 medals for team Champion and Runner-up and 8 individual Track - 128 Medals plus Team Medals -16 Events : 24 Qualify minimum in each event and 8 get medals. 33% of Athletes that qualify receive medals. The following information represents the percentage of Cross Country Athletes who received medals using 2021 data. BOYS Class A -95 finishing runners(15.8% receive medals), Class B - 87 runners (17.2% receive medals) Class C - 119 runners (12.6% receive medals) Class D- 132 runners (11.4% receive medals) GIRLS Class A- 93 runners (16.1% receive medals) Class B- 88 runners (17% receive medals) Class C- 118 runners (12.7% receive medals) Class D- 126 runners (11.9% receive medals) | |||
| Pros: | Allow more athletes to earn state medals. Add an additional 5 medals and the percentage of athletes that could receive medals becomes closer to that of other sports. Athletes will have a better chance to medal and this would encourage more participation and more three-sport athletes. | |||
| Cons: | ||||