Dunbar

[novaunicorn]

This may have been discussed so I apologize if I missed it...why is Dunbar competing in 2A in the MPSSAA basketball playoffs?

 

[RedPride97]

This may have been discussed so I apologize if I missed it...why is Dunbar competing in 2A in the MPSSAA basketball playoffs?

Interesting

 

[OneRing]

This has happened with local schools in other sports. I think one of the Mtn Ridge soccer teams was in a different class than the other sports for a few years.

IIRC, Maryland tries to split the number of schools in each class evenly in each sport.
Because some schools dont have football teams or dont have the students to support multiple sports in one season (some small schools downstate play field hockey and might not have girls soccer or volleyball for instance, while there is no field hockey at all up here) I think some teams along the class threshold can get bumped up or down to even out the classes.

I know West Virginia does it a little differently. For instance, they just combined class A and AA for the wrestling state tournament.

 

[LHSlancerFAN]

This has happened with local schools in other sports. I think one of the Mtn Ridge soccer teams was in a different class than the other sports for a few years.

IIRC, Maryland tries to split the number of schools in each class evenly in each sport.
Because some schools dont have football teams or dont have the students to support multiple sports in one season (some small schools downstate play field hockey and might not have girls soccer or volleyball for instance, while there is no field hockey at all up here) I think some teams along the class threshold can get bumped up or down to even out the classes.

I know West Virginia does it a little differently. For instance, they just combined class A and AA for the wrestling state tournament.

You are right, prior to this classification cycle, they split the classes up evenly based on the enrollment of every school in the state, regardless of what sports they played (I believe there were even some schools that did not participate in any sports that were counted). Now, they do each sport individually so only the schools playing each sport are used when dividing the classes. Linganore plays most of its sports in 3A but we do play field hockey, lacrosse and golf in 2A.