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Girls Basketball Tournament Seeding & Pairings Show to Air Sunday

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association will release the 2025 Girls Basketball Tournament Series seeds and pairings during a one-hour program on WIAA State Television Network stations Sunday, Feb. 16 at 11 a.m.

Task Force Modifies 11-Player Football & Lacrosse Realignment Plans

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Conference Realignment Task Force convened Thursday to hear appeals of the previously modified solutions and finalize plans for 11-player football and lacrosse conference realignment. 

Shafranski Retires; Whitford to Join WIAA as Interim Assistant Director

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association has named Tim Whitford as interim assistant director on the executive staff beginning Monday, Feb. 10 following the retirement of Tom Shafranski today. Whitford will serve in the position until Shafranski’s successor joins the staff this summer.

Board Approves Football Qualifying & Seeding Changes and Other Fall Sports Changes

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control approved recommendations by the fall coaches’ advisory committees, including a plan that replaces the 11-player and 8-player football playoff qualifying and seeding system, at its February meeting today.

NFHS 2025-26 Volleyball Rule Changes

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Multiple contacts by one player attempting to play the ball will now be allowed on second contact if the next contact is by a teammate on the same side of the net. This elimination of a judgment call by officials highlights the 2025-26 high school volleyball rules changes.

Task Force Conducts Appeals and Amends Football & Lacrosse Realignment Plans

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Conference Realignment Task Force convened Thursday to hear appeals of the preliminary solutions for the football and lacrosse realignment requests reviewed in December.

Wisconsin Cross Country Coaches Receive National Honor

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – Kevin Hopp, boys co-head coach at Stevens Point Area Senior High and Terrence Krall, girls co-head coach at Slinger High School were two of 24 recipients of the 2023-24 National Coaches of the Year by the National Federation of High School Associations.

Peggy Seegers-Braun named Green Bay Packers Athletic Director of the Year

The Green Bay Packers, in conjunction with the WIAA and the InSideOut Initiative, have announced that Peggy Seegers-Braun of Divine Savior Holy Angels High School in Milwaukee, Wis., has been named the first-ever recipient of the Green Bay Packers Athletic Director of the Year award.

Shafranski Announces Retirement from Assistant Director Position

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – Assistant Director Tom Shafranski announced his retirement from the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association to the executive staff Thursday to be effective Feb. 7, 2025.   

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