At the first meeting of the CHSAA Legislative Council, the classification splits were passed and the committee reports were overwhelmingly approved, although a few amendments within those reports failed.

After the CLOC committee worked through the fall and winter to establish the preliminary classification splits, the council voted 56-15-1 to pass the CLOC report and make those splits official for the 2026-28 cycle.

There was an amendment to change the basketball enrollment splits, but that vote went 41-27-3 against. Haxtun also requested an on-the-spot amendment to the council to change their basketball classification from Class 2A to 1A, but that vote also fell 44-22-6.

The CLOC report was the most significant piece of legislation in what turned out to be an uneventful gathering of the LC at the Douglas County School District Legacy Campus.

Each sport committee report passed with the two most significant being baseball and soccer. The baseball report changed the format – but not the number of games – to the 5A, 4A, 3A and 2A tournaments. There will be two true double-elimination brackets with the winners advancing to the final weekend to play in a best 2-of-3 series.

The girls soccer season in the spring was extended by a week via a passage of CR 24a, the only amendment of any kind to pass through the committee. This doesn’t change the number of games for girls soccer, but the season will conclude a week later than normal.

As it stands right now, the girls season ends this year on May 19 and 20, which would make next year May 25 and 26. The 2025 state championship games were played at Weidner Field in Colorado Springs.

A proposed amendment to the golf report that would bring back a form of regional/state qualifier play fell despite a plea from Doherty athletic director Jon Shub that a competitive entry into the state tournament sticks within the spirit of high school golf.

Golf committee chair Adam Baumgartner stressed that the system of ranking the top 84 players in iWanamaker had the intended effect of bringing the most competitive fields to the state tournaments, although it should be noted that since schools are capped at four players, several kids inside the top 84 were bumped out of the state tournament field.

The other significant item to fall in a vote was ADM-9, a proposal from the Western Slope league that would have capped postseason fields at 50% of the number of schools competing within that classification.

While there are several sports that stay within reason of that mark (football and soccer are fairly consistent) there are those such as basketball, hockey and lacrosse that give the vast majority of the teams competing direct entry into state tournaments. Class 5A hockey, for example, has 16 teams competing with 12 advancing to the state tournament.

The second meeting of the Legislative Council will take place at on April 22.