Guthrie athletics have become familiar with Midwest City Carl Albert over the years, but could the Jays becoming familiar with their cross town friends?
The Del City Eagles, a perennial 6A school, appear to be coming down from Class 6A to Class 5A for the upcoming year in all sports other than football. The football team will be in 5A for the 2012-13 seasons.
Del City’s spot as the smallest 6A school was taken over by Tulsa Washington, which won the last two Class 5A state championships in boys basketball and last season’s 5A football crown.
Tulsa Edison would moved up to 6A, while Claremore moved back down to 5A.
Classifications based on the numbers released last week are not yet official. The Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activity Association releases the numbers for its member institutions to check against their own data, allowing time for the OSSAA to correct any discrepancies before the Aug. 10 board meeting to approve the final numbers.
The OSSAA is working quickly to finalize the attendance numbers for those schools affected by the change.
And for those of you who aren’t absolute data junkies who love to look this type of stuff up — Guthrie is so smack-dab in the middle of the 5A numbers we’ll never go anywhere else (for the large sports.) Booker T can recruit or whatever, but we are in a spot that will never move even if we recruited or kicked droves of people out!