Winners:
1. Deming, Alamogordo, Moriarty and Bernalillo. Those schools get to give up battling schools much larger than them and suddenly find themselves the big boys, at least as far as enrollment is concerned.
2. Highland. Goodbye Eldorado, La Cueva, Sandia and Manzano; hello weaker valley-area schools.
3. Valencia County schools. The long trips down I-25 are gone for Belen, Los Lunas and Valencia, as they get placed in a district with Grants and St. Pius. Same good news for Santa Teresa and Chapparal, as they won't have to make the long trips north.
4. St. Pius. Speaking of the Sartans, they move out of a district with Academy and find themselves in a district in which they should be district favorites in nearly every sport.
Losers:
1. Fans of long-standing district rivalries: Hobbs-Clovis, Hobbs-Carlsbad, Carlsbad-Clovis, Farmington-Piedra Vista, St. Pius-Academy, Sandia Prep-Hope.
2. Valley. The Vikings don't have anywhere close to the numbers to reach the cutoff for 6A, but will stay there regardless. Of course, they have no one to blame but themselves, because the petitioned to play up.
3. All of 4-5A (Clovis, Carlsbad and Hobbs). Alamogordo moves to 5A, leaving these three stranded. Because the NMAA won't do three-team districts (and those SE schools don't want them), they had to find these schools a new home. So they have to hit the road, and lose decades-long district rivalries in the process. And Clovis moves into a monster district with Eldorado, La Cueva, Sandia and Manzano. If the NMAA would permit Clovis, Carlsbad and Hobbs to have their own district, a lot of these other dominoes wouldn't have to fall.
4. Piedra Vista. Some of the Panther teams (baseball, wrestling) will probably look forward to competing in 6A. But overall, PV just lost two natural district rivals in Farmington and Aztec, and its travel time just rose dramatically.
5. Capital, Del Norte, Espanola Valley and Los Alamos. This district lost its weakest member (Bernalillo) and added Academy, a juggernaut in nearly every sport.
6. Hope Christian: They are moved out from their two closest and natural rivals (Bosque and Sandia Prep) and get moved southeast with Moriarty, NMMI, Portales and Roswell. Seems like those four could be one district with Hope being put in a six-team district 5.
1. Deming, Alamogordo, Moriarty and Bernalillo. Those schools get to give up battling schools much larger than them and suddenly find themselves the big boys, at least as far as enrollment is concerned.
2. Highland. Goodbye Eldorado, La Cueva, Sandia and Manzano; hello weaker valley-area schools.
3. Valencia County schools. The long trips down I-25 are gone for Belen, Los Lunas and Valencia, as they get placed in a district with Grants and St. Pius. Same good news for Santa Teresa and Chapparal, as they won't have to make the long trips north.
4. St. Pius. Speaking of the Sartans, they move out of a district with Academy and find themselves in a district in which they should be district favorites in nearly every sport.
Losers:
1. Fans of long-standing district rivalries: Hobbs-Clovis, Hobbs-Carlsbad, Carlsbad-Clovis, Farmington-Piedra Vista, St. Pius-Academy, Sandia Prep-Hope.
2. Valley. The Vikings don't have anywhere close to the numbers to reach the cutoff for 6A, but will stay there regardless. Of course, they have no one to blame but themselves, because the petitioned to play up.
3. All of 4-5A (Clovis, Carlsbad and Hobbs). Alamogordo moves to 5A, leaving these three stranded. Because the NMAA won't do three-team districts (and those SE schools don't want them), they had to find these schools a new home. So they have to hit the road, and lose decades-long district rivalries in the process. And Clovis moves into a monster district with Eldorado, La Cueva, Sandia and Manzano. If the NMAA would permit Clovis, Carlsbad and Hobbs to have their own district, a lot of these other dominoes wouldn't have to fall.
4. Piedra Vista. Some of the Panther teams (baseball, wrestling) will probably look forward to competing in 6A. But overall, PV just lost two natural district rivals in Farmington and Aztec, and its travel time just rose dramatically.
5. Capital, Del Norte, Espanola Valley and Los Alamos. This district lost its weakest member (Bernalillo) and added Academy, a juggernaut in nearly every sport.
6. Hope Christian: They are moved out from their two closest and natural rivals (Bosque and Sandia Prep) and get moved southeast with Moriarty, NMMI, Portales and Roswell. Seems like those four could be one district with Hope being put in a six-team district 5.
