01/28/15 – Board of Control Approves Revised Archery Competition Rules and Alignment for 2015

January 28, 2015 2014-2015 News Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 28, 2015

The KHSAA Board of Control finalized competition rules and a new alignment for the sport-activity of Archery in a meeting at the Association’s headquarters on Wednesday morning. After extensive review, the newly approved competition rules for Archery, which include the elimination of charging competitors to compete at tournaments and the desire to conduct an autonomous state championship, will go into effect this season.

Updated competition rules and a revised alignment for Archery can be found at the following link:
http://khsaa.org/handbook/competitionrules/arcompetitionrules.pdf

The 2015 KHSAA Archery State Championship will be held Thursday, April 23rd at the Kentucky Basketball Academy in Lexington.

In other action taken on Wednesday, the Board of Control:

• Accepted a recommendation from staff to modify the field size requirements for hosting regional soccer tournaments. Following the Board’s acceptance, the minimum field width requirement to host a regional soccer tournament will be reduced to a range of 60-to-80 yards (the previous required range was 65-to-80 yards wide).

• Approved a policy recommendation banning the use of drones at KHSAA events. Until additional regulations are adopted by the FAA, the KHSAA shall operate congruently with the FAA regulations on model aircraft as of August 20, 2010, irrespective of a facility’s seating capacity (TFR 14 CFR 91.145 and Special Notes FDC 9/5151), and not allow the use of drones for any reason at KHSAA sanctioned events.

• Continued discussion of a realignment in swimming, and will review the matter at a future meeting following further examination by KHSAA staff into regional availability of suitable host facilities for regional championship meets.

– KHSAA –

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The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 277 member schools both public and private. The KHSAA sanctions 43 state championships in 13 sports and 4 sport-activities, licenses and trains over 4,000 officials, provides catastrophic insurance for its more than 70,000 member school student-athletes, as well as overseeing coaching education and sports safety programs.