District Guidelines:
Depending on the sport and how many teams are in each district, each district must determine its number one team to advance to the region tournament by any method the district selects. District tournaments are allowed, but not required. Prior to the start of the season in that sport, district coaches and administrators should have a meeting involving all schools in a district to determine how the district's top team will be determined. If a district tournament is held and the schools in the district cannot agree on a seeding method for the tournament, the
following seeding criteria should be used:
1-winning percentage against schools in the district
2-winning percentage against schools in the same classification
3-overall winning percentage
Weather Policy:
In the event school closings from weather prevent the entire district tournament from being
completed by the deadline, districts can choose to have teams play more than one game in a day.
If that is not possible, then only the top 4 teams from the above seeding criteria will continue to
participate in order to determine which teams advance to sectionals. If the tournament is not
able to be held at all, the above seeding criteria will be used to advance teams to the sectionals.
Region & Sectional Guidelines:
Once the top team in each district is determined, teams will advance through the region and section based on the following brackets for 2025-2026. If there are byes in the bracket, they will rotate each year.
Volleyball -
Class A & AA District champion must be determined before Thursday, October 2
Girls Soccer -
Class A District champion must be determined before Monday, September 29
Class AA District champion must be determined before Thursday, October 2
Basketball -
Class A District champion must be determined by Monday, February 2
Class AA District champion must be determined by Monday, February 2
Class AAA District champion must be determined by Thursday, February 5
Baseball, Softball, Boys' Soccer -
Class A District champion must be determined by Monday, May 4
Class AA District champion must be determined by Thursday, May 7
Postseason Brackets -